Chief Executive Officer Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith of Top Dawg Entertainment has denounced Suge Knight’s Criticism Of TDE’s Aftermath Deal!
CelebNMusic247.com has learned that Tiffith has fired back at Suge saying he’ll sell TDE to Knight for $1 if the former Death Row Records CEO can prove Interscope Records gets paid off Top Dawg Ent. tours.
During an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show Suge Knight SLAMMED TDE’s deal with Game and Kendrick Lamar back in February.
“The deals are still messed up.”
“I think it’s unfair if you really look at it, if you look at Interscope, the two guys from Compton—Game, Kendrick Lamar—got two of the worst deals in the industry. And when you look at it, it’s not so much the production company fault, but what people don’t realize is that if you’re on Universal, it’s the ship. Then Interscope get they cut, then Aftermath get they cut, then G-Unit get they cut. Then the guy who really has Game signed, it was another production company, then it came to Game. The reality is there’s more slavery now than ever.”
Adding more salt to TDE’s K-Dot deal, Suge clarified his remarks towards TDE saying:
“I was on Arsenio Hall—by the way, Arsenio Hall is a friend of mine, I think he got one of the best shows out.”
“One of the things I said, not to put the artist down, it was to put the company down, saying, ‘Why is you treating my people like slaves?’ Now, at the time these artists were signed to Interscope and they pretty much are signed to Interscope. So, we know it’s not Game making decisions over there. We know it’s not [the person] who Game signed to his production company. We know it’s not [Dr. Dre] who don’t know what goes on at Aftermath. We all know it’s Interscope and Universal. The person who’s dictating what’s going on at Interscope is Jimmy Iovine.”
He continued:
“Even when I said with Kendrick Lamar, well, if it’s Universal there’s the guy who really bring the deal over to Jimmy Iovine which is Mike.”
“Then there’s Interscope, then there’s Aftermath, then there’s Top Dawg productions or whatever, then there’s Kendrick. And not only do these companies get the royalties and publishing, if they do a show [and] $100,000 comes in, the manager of those guys get 20 percent. Now it’s eighty grand. Kendrick get half, the record company get half. Which is ridiculous because the artist should be able to live off their tours. If you can’t live off your tour money, how can you survive by being a slave? Prince was able to survive by being a slave because he was able to tour. If Prince had a deal like these new guys’ deals—it’s that the record company get half of your tour money—Prince would have been fucked…It’s not fair for the two niggas in Compton to be getting fucked. It’s not good for me to have knowledge and don’t pass it onto them. It wasn’t about embarrassing anybody. It wasn’t about putting them as men or as artists down. It was about putting the person who’s in control down. Saying, ‘How is you fucking over these dudes from Compton when they making the difference for your company?”
Check what Suge had to say about TDE:
When it comes to Suge Knight’s recent comments regarding the status of Kendrick Lamar‘s deal with TDE/Aftermath Records, Tiffith had some words for the former Death Row Records leader. Notice their in Caps, so he is yelling at Suge.
Anthony YELLS in Text form:
What we find interesting is NOT only has Suge Knight called out Top Dawg, Schoolboy Q admitted that he wasn’t too happy with his major label status.
He said in a recent interview with Hartford’s Hot 93.7 that he wished he NEVER signed to a major label [Top Dawg Entertainment].
“I already did wrong by signing a rap contract.”
“I’m not talking about TDE, but how we ventured off with the majors. I wish we would have still stayed indie, I don’t care about being on like 1,000 radios. I love Interscope, but I wish I could have just stayed with TDE.”
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