Diplo

If you are a songwriter, it's hard to make money because you're just one person that they pay out after the master's paid and then the royalties are paid and you're like one out of 10 people.

Yeah, it's hard and you don't get that money for years.

You have to go through your collection and ask at BMI or your publishing company.

There's a lot of hurdles to get there, but people do charge for... When you're a bigger producer, you can just charge.

Benny, at one point, was probably charging, I'm going to step in the studio for 100... My song is $100,000 to start.

Like a producing fee?

Yeah.

You can do that when you have leverage.

I never really had that.

I think now I do that with remixes, but I've always been on the road.

I've always been making money at shows, so I'm never really...

I never really had to bow down to the songwriting gods and make cheesy records.

I made some cheesy records though, but I never had to survive.

Man, what's that girl group?

that isn't spice girls from england it's like a ginger in it i forget the name of this group i made it like a palm the floor remake for this one girl from that band i gotta look it up that's pretty bad i mean you can look at my discography man like there's probably some cheese balls in there somewhere it's like you know i looked at that muse app i have like 70 000 credits so i was like there's a lot of cheese in there that's not good for sure

It is.

But there's also so many collection services now.

Like there's money you don't know that you have in China.

Like there's all kinds of ways to collect your money that some young people don't know.

I was really lucky.