M.E.D. claims Stones Throw has only paid him $500 for his verse on Madvillainy
thefader.comM.E.D., an Oxnard, California-based rapper with a verse on Madvillainy, one of the most acclaimed hip-hop albums ever, has claimed in a tweet that Stones Throw, the label behind the project, has only paid him $500 since the album’s release in 2004.
M.E.D. can be heard on “Raid,” the album’s fourth track; Madvillainy was the first and only studio album released from MF DOOM and Madlib.
In his post, shared on Tuesday (March 14), M.E.D wrote that Stones Throw and its co-founder Peanut Butter Wolf “lied and tricked me out of royalties and publishing.” The statement is written over a text message conversation with the title “Madvillan Record Sales” with purported sales of 342,648 physical LPs and 59,562 digital sales (it’s unclear if these unconfirmed numbers refer solely to the Madvillainy album or Madvillain’s entire catalog).
The pursuit for fair payment has been ongoing for over a decade, M.E.D. claimed. During this time, he says that he learned that Daedalus, a musician who was sampled on the Madvillany song “Accordion,” was compensated. “After 15 years of trying to get it back w no success I found out the[y] Gave @daedelus his.” See the post below..
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