![]() ![]() And from there, it can be up to a year until you actually get paid. From there, it’s a wait to see if you make the album. Artists take a long time, if ever, to decide if they want to use one of the dozens of beats they often receive. King’s story gets to the heart of the problem with being a producer, even one who appears successful to the outside world: you’re often strapped for cash. “I show up to the register, like, ‘Hey, man, this is my name.’ He’s like, ‘Okay, sure dude.’” “I couldn’t afford the magazine,” King tells Complex. But when he got to the counter, there was a problem. To celebrate, he went to a liquor store near his Southern California home and grabbed a copy of the magazine. On top of that, XXL was writing about him. The producer, after working with successful rappers like Ab-Soul, had just placed a beat with two artists on Young Money. In 2011, Curtiss King should have been on top of the world.
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