Aubrey O’Day has gone into nice element to elucidate why in her opinion the advantages of Diddy giving Dangerous Boy artists their publishing rights again belies its optics.
The 39-year-old singer bought her begin within the music enterprise as a member of the lady group, Danity Kane. Puff put the unit collectively as a part of his present, Making the Band, however was additionally chargeable for pushing O’Day trip of the image as soon as she started fostering her personal solo stardom.
The group generated tens of millions of {dollars} throughout their heyday and its members are actually eligible for the mogul’s grand gesture, however the San Francisco native has stated that she’s not falling for it.
Throughout an Solely Stans look on Thursday (September 14), O’Day supplied a remarkably articulate and succinct breakdown of Diddy’s exploits, bolstered by alleged receipts to substantiate her factors.
Whereas bringing consideration to how the group was barely compensated throughout their most profitable part, she revealed that the brand new deal solely pays them royalties for streaming from the previous few years — which she claims solely quantities to a couple hundred {dollars}.
“With a view to get that,” she started, referring to the proposal on her smartphone. “I’ve to launch [Diddy] for any claims or wrongdoings or actions. Previous to the date of the discharge, I’ve to signal an NDA that I’ll by no means disparage Puff, Dangerous Boy, Janice Combs or Justin Combs’ music or EMI or Sony ever in public.”
She continued: “What’s taking place is artists — a few of them; not all of them — are being given ‘streaming royalties’ and possession again over our publishing on songs that we wrote at a time when, you recognize, it’s a must to stream a tune 1,000,000 occasions to make a cent.”
She then lower straight to the purpose and stated: “Diddy is simply actually referred to as the man that doesn’t pay his artists, and it’s humorous and you then transfer on and you want one thing that he did on TikTok ’trigger he’s humorous.”
O’Day summed up the provide, describing it as “a couple of hundred {dollars} to signal away my rights to ever inform the story of what I went via once more.”
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To her data, solely two members of Danity Kane have turned down the deal despite the fact that she has been reaching out and advising others to reject it as nicely.
“This isn’t the cash that we made once we launched the albums,” she defined. “This isn’t the $48million that two platinum albums bought any individual. That is just a few measly streaming cash with the intention to keep hushed on Puff.”
She concluded: “I simply want that Puff would do what he’s saying he’s doing. I want he would pay us what we deserved for all of the work that we did, and I want he would make proper his wrongs and I want these headlines may very well be actual.”
