Snoop Dogg Supports Striking Artists In Fight For Streaming Residuals: “Where’s The Money?”

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Snoop Dogg is sharing his thoughts over streaming residuals and asking where the money is at as the writers’ and actors’ strikes have brought Hollywood to a standstill.

WGA and SAG-AFTRA are standing up to the studios and Snoop Dogg understands their fight as he delivered a passionate speech during an event at the Milken Institute this week. “The streaming gotta get their shit together because I don’t understand how the f**k you get paid off of that shit,” the rapper said. “I mean, can someone explain to me how you can get a billion streams and not get a million dollars?

That shit don’t make sense to me. I don’t know who the f**k is running the streaming industry, if you’re in here or not, but you need to give us some information on how the f**k to track this money down ’cause one plus one ain’t adding up to two.” Snoop said that the “main gripe” of artists that are hitting big numbers on streaming services are not seeing monetary results.

The rapper recalled that when he started in the industry, it was much easier to calculate how much money he would get as it was all based on selling physical copies. “If you sold a million copies, that means 999, $9 million, you get this percentage, that’s what it is,” he added. “So if I sell how many streams, how much money do I get?