Over the past few weeks, Suge Knight has voiced his opinions about the record deals of popular West Coast rappers Kendrick Lamar and Game.
After an interview with BET this week, Knight clarified his claims and states that Interscope Records receives revenue from Kendrick Lamar.
"Not only do these companies get the royalties and the publishing, if [the artist] do a show and $100,000 come in, the manager gets 20 percent, now it's $80,000," he said. "Kendrick gets half, the record company gets half, which is ridiculous."
T.D.E. CEO Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith fired back at Knight's claims via Twitter on Wednesday (April 16) offering his label for a dollar if Knight can provide proof of his claims.
"TELL SUGE I SAID IF HE KAN SHOW ME 1 CHECK WE PAID 2 INTERSCOPE OFF OF R TOUING..ILL SELL HIM TDE 4 $1, NOBODY GETS SH*T OFF OUR TOURS. #TOP" he tweeted.
Suge also added in his interview that rappers like Game and K. Dot get sketchy deals regardless of their influence in the community.
"[All I was saying was] it's not fair for two n****s from Compton to be gettin' f****d, and it's not good for me to have knowledge and not pass it on to them," he said. "It wasn't about putting them as men down or as artists down, it was about putting the person who's in control down, saying 'How are you f****ng over these dudes from Compton when they're making a difference for your company?"'
Source: rapradar.com
