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Snoop Dogg, the rap legend, is inspired by the writers fighting for fair pay in Hollywood. The rapper slammed streaming methods while the Writers Guild of America remains on strike over poor pay.
Snoop Dogg voiced his bewilderment over how musicians earn so little in exchange for a billion streams at a panel discussion at the Milken Institutes' Global Conference.
"[Artists] need to figure it out the same way writers are figuring it out," Snoop said on a panel alongside Variety's executive music editor Shirley Halperin and Gamma's Larry Jackson, his co-panelist and business partner, on Wednesday.
"The writers are on strike because they are not being paid because of streaming." Because it's not like the box office when it's on the platform."
"I don't understand how the expletive gets paid off of that expletive," he said. Someone someone explain to me how you may acquire a billion streams but not a million bucks... That's the fundamental complaint of many of us artists: we do big numbers... yet they don't add up to money. "Like, where the hell is the money?"
Gamma's investment in Vydia, a digital distribution arm founded in Africa in 2017 that is scheduled to rebrand as Gamma Distribution, was also highlighted on the panel.
The authors Guild of America is a cooperation of two labour unions in the United States that advocate for authors' rights and interests in many types of media, including cinema, television, radio, and digital platforms.
