Ex Bad Boy Mark Curry Airs Out 50 Cent Diddy Doc Grievances – $69
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Before ya’ll start acting crazy. Mark Curry is somebody of note and he’s got a legacy in this game. This is one of my faves he was involved in…
Mark Curry. Rest In Peace, Black Rob. Now, let’s get into it.
Mark Curry says $69, a missing production credit and an Emmy have convinced him that staying quiet about 50 Cent’s “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” is no longer an option.
Yes. Sixty nine dollars.
That is what the former Bad Boy rapper says he made from “Come With Me,” the 1998 “Godzilla” soundtrack record discussed during the Netflix documentary.
“Man, I made $69 off of that song cuz they didn’t have a sync license on it,” Curry said. “They they they said that just because I was speaking about it that they didn’t have to get a sink license for it.”
Curry claims the documentary was viewed more than 50 million times and says he believed a synchronization license would be secured for the song.
But the money is only one piece of his grievance.
Curry says he was promised a production credit after helping assemble talent for the documentary.
“So, when we first did this documentary, I was supposed to get a production credit,” he said.
Curry claims his involvement was substantial enough that many people discussed in his memoir, “Dancing With the Devil,” subsequently appeared in the documentary.
“I was promised a production credit and the production credit said that even if the documentary was sold, I would be grandfathered into the deal because I helped produce that whole documentary.”
That promised credit, Curry says, never materialized.
His comparison is brutal considering his history with Sean “Diddy” Combs and Bad Boy Records.
“You talk about a deal with Puff, this is a worse deal than the worst deal.”
Ouch.
Curry also says his book sales dwindled after the Netflix documentary premiered because audiences may have believed they already heard the important parts of his story. In other words, Curry believes a documentary he says he helped build wound up competing with the intellectual property he actually owns.
He also claims repeated attempts to develop additional literary and documentary projects with 50 Cent’s operation went nowhere.
Meanwhile, “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” received three Emmy nominations and won Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program for the episode “Blink Again.”
Curry clearly noticed.
“like how in the world can you get an award for another man’s story? I just don’t get it.”
He also questioned 50 Cent’s previous statements regarding proceeds benefiting victims, saying he has yet to see what became of that idea. He maintains he, too, is a victim.
Curry says almost a year has passed and whatever expectations he once had have largely evaporated.
“None of the things that I expected to happen on that documentary came about,” Curry said. “So, um, again, sometimes I say, you know, it wasn’t, was it even worth doing?”
His answer?
“Probably not, but it’s done now.”
Neither 50 Cent nor Netflix has publicly responded to Curry’s allegations.
And there is a wicked bit of irony hovering over this whole situation.
A documentary examining accusations of exploitation surrounding the Bad Boy empire is now facing accusations from a former Bad Boy artist who says his own contribution was undervalued.
The music business, y’all, the business…is ruthless.