*Aubrey O’Day is speaking out about specifics in Diddy’s deal with Bad Boy artists as it pertains to returning publishing rights.
According to Revolt TV, Combs decided to “reassign the label’s publishing rights” to artists such as Faith Evans, Ma$e, The LOX, 112 and Biggie Small’s estate.” But former Bad Boy rapper Mark Curry is not impressed.
“What’s it worth now?” Curry previously said in a video posted to social media. “He gave me mine back a long time ago … That’s disrespectful — I said why don’t you just keep it and pay me? I don’t want the publishing; I want the money.”
Meanwhile, on a recent episode of the Only Stans podcast, O’Day voiced concerns about Diddy’s publishing deal with her group Danity Kane.
“I have to release him for any claims or wrongdoings or actions prior to the date of the release,” said O’Day during the conversation as she reads off the details of the agreement from her phone to host Glenny Balls, per Complex. “I have to sign an NDA that I will never disparage Puff, Bad Boy, Janice Combs, Justin Combs Music, EMI, or Sony ever in public.”
Dainty Kane’s deal “would only earn her roughly of $800-900 in royalties compared to the estimated $48 million the group’s two platinum albums under Bad Boy generated,” Complex writes.
“This is just some measly streaming money in order to stay hushed on Puff,” O’Day said.
“This is the honest-to-God agreement of what I’m being offered: a few hundred dollars to sign away my rights to ever tell the story of what I went through ever again,” she added.
O’Day also slammed MTV’s parent company’s streaming platform Paramount+ for failing to air re-runs of the reality show “Making the Band” featuring the formation of Danity Kane.
“They don’t play [Making the Band] in reruns, so we can’t even get the hype of ‘Oh hey, I remember this. They’re cult classics, let me hire them for something,’” she said on the podcast.
According to O’Day, two of the five members refused to sign Diddy’s publishing agreement.
“At the end of the day, we’re all just willing to turn a blind eye. Diddy is just literally known as a guy that doesn’t pay his artists, and it’s funny and then you move on and you like something that he did on TikTok ’cause he’s funny. But for people that worked for six years of their life and an entered an industry where somebody made, what, 48 million dollars and we didn’t even see a penny of that? We were in thongs and five inch heels for years of our lives on stage, and not not any of it did we see,” she explained.
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