I mean yeah, he's been running Mad Decent with Paul Devro & DJA since 2005. I got to applaud the dude for managing to juggle running a label, djing with Major Lazer, Jack U, and still doing solo sets, touring around the world, cranking out original material while doing remixes and production work for other artists. And promoting other artists whether small or big time.
But to the the really invested fan, or former, like myself....this shyt is painfully obvious that he vultured himself to get to that spot. I'm not the only one that it kind of rubs the wrong way. How is it that somehow this guy who's managed to create this new style of mixing and acceptance of different musical styles is now one of the only to profit from it while the creators and prominent artists of those styles can't even share a tiny fraction of the same success?
People don't even want to address it which is why these criticisms end up like this. Even Diplo knows it and said in interviews that he don't like when people use the race card in regards to his music cause that goes against what he does as an artists and a musician and a producer and a DJ.
every time i see him putting out some new world music shyt from wherever the sound du jour is hes trying to bring mainstream. he has alot of artists he works with and has put on tho, and i dont know the deep details of his shyt, but no one has really called him out on shyt.
