Hitmaka recently spoke about his woes in the world of music publishing, reflecting on a moment when he had to figure out a situation with producer Mustard over a Meek Mill track.
While on Angela Yee’s ‘Way Up With Angela Yee,’ Hitmaka said, “That happened to me one time, just being transparent. I was working under DJ Mustard at some point in my career early in my career and I did a record and I gave it to Mustard; and me and Mustard ended up not working with each other anymore. But he went and re-produced the record, and it was a sample. So it was able for him to take my idea and hook and sell it to Meek Mill, which turned into ‘Whatever You Need’ featuring Chris Brown and Ty Dolla $ign.”
The producer continued, “But I didn’t have no leverage at the time, and I’m assuming that Tiffany [Red] probably felt like she didn’t have leverage in those situations. But I continued to work hard, and I’ll never forget it but we at the ASCAP Awards and I win for Meek Mill ‘Dangerous,’ and they’re like, ‘Meek, come back up here again. Whatever you need, we gotta give you this one.’ But at that point, I had the leverage so I just called Roc Nation and we ended up working it out.” Watch above.
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