L.A. Reid Reveals Why He Won’t Pay Bobby Shmurda’s Bail!!!
CelebNMusic247.com has the 411 on why L.A. Reid Won’t Pay Bobby Shmurda’s Bail. Reid recently spoke with Rap Radar podcast (via Vibe) recently, saying that Shmurda is NOT like Snoop Dogg. Shmurda is NOT coming from a hot album like Murder Was The Case and music today is not like music in the 90’s.
Ackquille Jean Pollard aka Bobby Shmurda has one hit, which is NOTHING to stand on for a rapper these days. Hip Hop remembers the 2014 track “Hot N-gga” but like most songs these days they fade quickly.
Recently Shmurda was denied bail. He is currently behind bars and awaiting a gun and drug charges since his December 2014 arrest.
Epic Records has come under fire in recent months for their refusal to pay the $2 million bail for Bobby Shmurda. Epic CEO L.A. Reid is speaking out on Why He Won’t Pay Bobby Shmurda’s Bail, CelebNMusic247.com has learned.
Reid tells the Rap Radar podcast (via Vibe):
“It made me feel like people don’t know anything about my business. It’s really not their business. That’s the truth about it. We’re not elected officials here, and we’re not at liberty to disclose how we do business.”
Reid admitted:
“I’m crazy about that kid [Shmurda] and I think about him often,” but the state of the music industry doesn’t make it financially possible or practical for Epic to bail out the Shmoney Dance creator. “We seriously don’t make the money we used to make. That’s a fact of life,”
“Bobby Shmurda is not the same as Snoop Dogg and Murder Was The Case, who’s coming off The Chronic and his first album. It’s a different era, ya know? And, we’re a publicly held corporation. We just aren’t in the same position we were in back in those days. So, it’s a different day.”
If you remember Shmurda thought because he was a rapper with a wrap sheet he was gonna get a hand slap and the label would bail him out.
Bobby told New York Times:
“When I got locked up, I thought they were going to come for me, but they never came.”
Then Shmurda’s lawyer Matthew Middleton sounded off blaming the label for not bailing out their artist, saying:
“These companies for years have capitalized and made millions and millions of dollars from kids in the inner city portraying their plight to the rest of the world. To take advantage of that and exploit it from a business standpoint and then turn your back is disingenuous, to say the least.”
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Here are a few reasons why Shmurda remains behind bars.
He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, multiple weapons possession and reckless endangerment as part of a 15-person, 69-count indictment which alleged that the Brooklyn rapper who was the ringleader of a Crips offshoot known as GS9 (also the name of Shmurda’s crew). The rapper pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Reid’s comments are reminiscent of those made by Sha Money XL, the EVP of Urban A&R for Epic Records. In July, 50 Cent blamed Sha Money for Shmurda’s continued incarceration, with the rapper adding that he bailed out the rappers signed to G-Unit Records.
Sha Money said (via MTV):
“With 50, he bailed out [Young] Buck and helped [Tony] Yayo all the time.”
“Those are the boutique labels, where you got that brother that’s there that feels compassion and could do things that’s not as corporate. It’s not like a social worker. They’re not here to worry about what happens in your private life. Those are the choices you make in your private life.”
The other aspect Sha Money left out is that both Buck and Yayo are a vital part of the G Unit family with a catalog of hit songs the can prove their value and worth if they’re out making music instead of being locked up.
CelebNMusic247.com will always refer back to Sean Combs statement:
“You can take the rapper out the hood, but sometimes you can’t get the hood out the rapper.”
That statement says a lot. And in Shmurda’s case, he is still too hood to appreciate being in the music industry off the streets and making music. He threw it way with street life.
