Billboard's Ray Waddell chatted with Matt Galle from Paradigm Artists, which handles booking for both Monae and Mars (Galle is assigned to Mars). It's an interesting read. Galle mentions that, despite Mars selling many more records, Monae has earned co-billing because she is more of a touring veteran and they needed to "give her respectful billing."
Soul Train: So you have entirely different desire for women in the recording industry?
Janelle Monae: My thing is I just wish as women, female recording artists, we would stand up for what we believe in. Stand up for our core values; the things we were taught by other powerful and strong women. I think if we all stood up and said we’re not trying to sell sex, we’re trying to be the voice for the next generation, and do something positive or inspiring or creative instead of sexy, I think we could go so much further in life. I’m not trying to knock any other artist; to each his own. Hopefully I can be a light for somebody else who may define success in another way. They’ll see they don’t have to talk about sex or talk about things that are not worth talking about to be successful. Once they see that in another artist, that’ll inspire them to get away from whoever is telling them to go this route in the music industry.
Last month, Diddy jumped on stage at the Philadelphia stop on Rick Ross' "I Am Still Music" tour. He performed his verse from Waka Flocka Flame's "O Let's Do It (Remix)" and remained on stage while DJ Khaled came out to perform "All I Do is Win." Watch the performance in the clip below. It also features Diddy providing his "co-sign" to Meek Mill.
The producer of the remix, Dirty Money, chatted with MTV about how it all came together, Diddy's reaction and reaction to the song in general.
He said that after he produced the remix for Interscope, he received a call from Diddy who told him that he loved the track and wanted to add some vocals to it, which he did. Watch below.
Why? Well, check out the two clips below. One of Tiesto playing the record and another of Dirty South playing it. Of the first clip, Dirty South told MTV News that he had "never seen a response like that in my whole life. I had to take a video of it. It was insane!"
MTV is asking people to vote from a selection of six tracks, to determine what the biggest song was. Unfortunately, at press time, "Coming Home (Dirty South Remix)" finds in fifth place with 5.16%.
