Hudson Mohawke has clarified that recent comments he made claiming to have not been paid for beats produced for Kanye West and Drake were not meant as personal criticism to the rappers involved.
The Scottish producer – real name Ross Birchard – briefly threatened to leak a ZIP file of unreleased Kanye West and Drake tracks after allegedly not being paid for them.
“Literally about to release zip of Kanye and Drake songs that I got [0 emoji] for,” he posted on Twitter before swiftly deleting the tweet. He also said his advice for upcoming producers was that “mainstream rappers have less business sense than [your] mum”.
Now Hud Mo has taken to Twitter to thank fellow producers for their support over the matter. He said: “I really appreciate everyone hitting me on mail and DM saying thank god someone said this publicly”.
The producer then went on to claim that he has “absolutely no personal issue” with West and that his issue is with “lawyers who weren’t in the room on their side”.
See Hudson Mohawke’s latest tweets below.
https://twitter.com/HudMo/status/709767471604109313
https://twitter.com/HudMo/status/709769141180342272
N this is no shots at Kanye it's shots at lawyers who weren't in the room on their side. Myself and Ye have absolutely no personal issue
— Hudson Mohawke (@HudMo) March 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/HudMo/status/709780408993452033
Hudson Mohawke is signed to Kanye West’s GOOD Music label. He is credited as a co-producer on five tracks from West’s ‘The Life Of Pablo’ album. He also worked with West on his ‘Yeezus’ LP and co-produced the track ‘Connect’ from Drake’s 2013 album ‘Nothing Was The Same’.