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Easy Mo Bee has claimed he was 'blackballed' in the music industry for confrontation Didi over credit production.
Veteran Producer Easy Mo Bee claims he's been shunned in the music industry for a while since confronting Diddy for production credits on one of Bad Boy Records' biggest hits. He shared the story while a guest on The Sample Lounge when he talked about working on the remix to Craig Mack's iconic 1994 track “Flava in Ya Ear.” Easy Mo Bee had created the original while working extensively with Bad Boy in the early 1990s, beginning with the production of “Party and Bulls-t”, the first single for The Notorious BIG.
“I remember we were going to do the remix [of ‘Flava in Ya Ear’]”, the producer recalls. “He had the idea to drop LL[Cool J]Bust [Rhymes], Rampage there. Dope! When I saw the record and it said, in that order: “Mixed by Sean 'Puffy' Combs, Chucky Thompson and Easy Mo Bee,” I cracked up. Somehow I escaped.” Easy Mo Bee continued: “I was like, 'Wait a minute, you didn't do anything on the record! And Chucky Thompson, he kind of sat there and saw me do the remix at Sound on Sound Studios… Because I didn't do well with the management thing, now I'm getting credit?''
The Grammy Award winner then opened up about how he confronted the mogul about the situation. “I went there with my manager and talked to him about it,” he said. “I told him, 'Do me a favor, man. Do not do it again. I do not like this “. From that point on, I think that's when the relationship changed there,” Mo Bee said. “My relationships, period, started to change. I noticed that some people wouldn't engage with me. I had heard of blackballing.” It left Easy Mo Bee stunned.
But looking back, the producer maintains that he felt he handled the situation correctly. “I'm a man. I'm a certain kind of man. That man, up to that point in my career, I had no problem with that,” he said. “I'd do the same today. I'm a man of principle. If blackballing is what they say it, then so be it,” said Mo Bee.
The claim comes as Diddy finds himself in a whirlwind of accusations over his behaviour, having recently been hit with a lawsuit from a producer who claimed he sexually abused him.
