DJ Ready Red
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Salsoul Records Joe Bataan East River Park Aug. 6 Priceless I got down with my mentors Instant Funk The Funk Was On pic.twitter.com/YbNujWo8qI
— Collins Leysath (@DjReadyRed) August 8, 2014
Ready Red was once the fourth member of the group up until their fourth album in 1991, when he left the group. He revealed his reason for leaving back in 2013 saying:
“I’ma keep it real,” Red began to tell Prezident Bejda’s Murder Master Music Show this week, “I was an artist and a producer on [Rap-A-Lot Records]. In the beginning, we all got paid evenly split four ways. When I came back, I was offered to do shows for like $100-$200. I was thinking, ‘Y’all must be crazy because I started this thing, and y’all are trying to do me like that,’ because I would never do y’all like that. I left [the group] because I got tired of the B.S. that was going on; and they just wanna pay me a small fee when we started clockin’ the bigger dough. I’m not doing it. We were equal members and we should have all been paid equally,” said Ready Red, whose group participation predated both emcees Willie D and Scarface (f/k/a Akshun).
“I stood my ground on that one and I have no regrets all these years later because I see that nothing has been accomplished. [J. Prince] still has all the money,” he said of Rap-A-Lot’s founder, who often appeared on Geto Boys albums. “Everybody has been through something dealing with this record company and nobody has anything. I’m glad I got out.”
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