Music Biz: WTF?!? ODB “Got Your Money” Becomes Family-Friendly “Got Your Laundry” Jingle In New LG Ad

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ODB’s “Got Your Money” Becomes Family-Friendly “Got Your Laundry” Jingle In New LG Ad
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“Got Your Money” now soundtracks an LG commercial selling its latest item — the WashTower.
LG is using “Got Your Money,” one of Ol’ Dirty Bastard‘s most well-known songs, to promote its latest item.
In a new advertisement from the electronics company, ODB’s classic hit song “Got Your Money” soundtracks different clips of people using LG’s WashTower. But it’s not exactly the original version being played, instead being replaced with a family-friendly version called “Baby, I Got Your Laundry.”

Judging by the comments on the ad’s YouTube page, some people are mixed about it, while others have wondered why LG didn’t go with Outkast’s “So Fresh, So Clean” instead. In related news, ODB made an appearance on Busta Rhymes’ recently-released Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God album. The late Wu-Tang Clan rapper appears on the track “Slow Flow.”

Earlier this year, Amazon Music released a mini-documentary on ODB titled Unique: Return to the 36 Chambers 25 Years Later.
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The documentary features never-before-seen freestyles and footage. Additionally, friends like RZA and Raekwon take part in extensive interviews. ODB’s widow, Icelene Jones, as well as his son Barsun Unique Jones, also appear. In the documentary, RZA recounted how another classic of ODB’s — “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” — came to fruition.

“[Shimmy Shimmy Ya] was recorded before he had a deal,” RZA said. “It was basically done in my bedroom that in the daytime it was a studio, at nighttime I would roll this mat on the floor and me and my family would sleep on the floor…it’s ironic. It was the last poverty recording.”

 
Good for his estate, I suppose.

yeah after the shock and dismay

that is the point I wound up at.

You are MUCH better equipped to comment on this than me

but I think in the grand scheme of things

for the damn near a century that music companies have pimped artists?

If in 2020 an ODB song like THAT can actually FEED his VERY large family?

then I'm good.

Now I don't know the "artistic merits" of that and if that even MATTERS anymore...

but we have heard some CLASSIC 90s records get used as of late and the artists who actually got paid seem VERY happy

and there are a SWARM of white artists that do this all the time with like NO backlash

and NEW artists who would give a song for FREE just for the exposure...

I just don't know.
 
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yeah after the shock and dismay

that is the point I wound up at.

You are MUCH better equipped to comment on this than me

but I think in the grand scheme of things

for the damn near a century that music companies have pimped artists?

If in 2020 an ODB song like THAT can actually FEED his VERY large family?

then I'm good.

Now I don't know the "artistic merits" of hat and if that even MATTERS anymore...

but we have heard some CLASSIC 90s records get used as of late and the artists who actually got paid seem VERY happy

and I they SWARM of white artists that do this all the time with like NO backlash

and NEW artists who would give a song for FREE just for the exposure...

I just don't know.
Artist are not really being pimped because the artist does not own anything. It is no different than having a title on a house or car. Record labels paid for the studio time, writers, A&R reps, mixing, engineering and producers so they own the actual record (Masters) because they paid for it.

The label put up the equity and the artist did not. Essentially, an artist is just leasing their song
 
RZA sold part of the Wu-Tang catalog, so I suspect that is why the song is being used in the commercial. And I doubt ODB is getting anything from that stupid commerical.

This is why you need to control your shit.

Prince tried to educated mofos on this back in the 1990's.


And Lil' Wayne sold his shit recently for pennies on the dollar.


You gotta maintain control of your art for your legacy and your family.
 
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