Clarifying comments he made about Game and Kendrick Lamar’s record deals on The Arsenio Hall Show in February, Suge Knight explained not wanting to put either of the artists down in an interview with BET.
“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,” he said. “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.”
Suge Knight went on to reiterate his
perspective on the trickle-down effect of the artists’ relationships
with their respective labels.
“So when I turned around and said, ‘Wait a
minute...Kendrick Lamar the best artist today, he from Compton. And Game
was the best artist over there at Interscope and he from Compton.’ And I
said, ‘Why is it they got the worst fucking deals over there?’ I broke
it down and said that Game is signed. Universal get their money.
Interscope get their money. Aftermath get their money. G-Unit
get their money. And then the production company get their money. And
then there’s Game. It’s not that much money moving around in the pot.
"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," Knight said. "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%. 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?”
In February, Suge Knight detailed his view that Game and Kendrick Lamar have "two of the worst deals in the industry."
“The deals are still messed up,” Suge said during an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. “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.”
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