As a comment on the KrucialKeys blog, after a number of their supporters took my not-really-trying to be a hater, as being a hater, Krucial took the high road, and clarified some things:
“In Reference to Manny Faces, Its All Good, Homie Stated his Oppinion everyone has a right to. He Took it personal, I never heard his remix, I know Salamm Remi, well, He’s also been ask to do the remix by AK’s A&R. Alot of his oppinion was assumptions. If anyone want to attack me for my statements so be it, But It wasn’t that deep. Remixes helps Promote the record, reguardless the original writers gets the publishing. I aint mad at anyone givin their own interpretation of the song, But there are non DJ’s and Producers who will F*%k up a song, and scream out “this is the official remix” and get it played on the radio in their region by themselves or a DJ friend. which can be misleading. If it hot its hot, if it aint it aint. No Need for yall to attack Manny either. Yall will be fighting millions on the net, who have negative comments about people or who are looking to take things negative from what we say. Thats what makes the world go ’round. You have to know what you dont like to know what you like sometimes. Ask me what i feel and I’ll tell you , you won’t have to assume. - Krucial”
Krucial -
Fair enough. No disrepect was really ever intended (believe me, I’d like few things more than to be at the level you all are at, and again, I am a huge fan of Alicia and you and the entire camp and your achievements). I personally have never added “official” to any of my reworkings, and I guess it was also the reaction by some of the blog supporters to your comments that caused me to take notice. Because there are surely those who do perpetrate to be more official than others, but I don’t want the public to look down on what I do, which I pretty much do simply because people tend to like it, just because there are those who are less than honorable. Your comments seemed to diminish all of us who do this sort of thing, and I thought you were unfairly casting a pretty wide net. I’m sure that many in the industry frown upon those of us who do this sort of thing, but haven’t ‘made it’ yet, like myself, so I felt it important to state my view. No disrepect Krucial, I appreciate the clarification as well as the response, albeit indirect, and I continue to tip my hat to you and your crew. Again, though I wasn’t feeling this particular remix (and again, I even feel that my own was not my best work), I am a huge fan of the majority of the Krucial/Keys catalog, and continue to wish you all nothing but the best.
-Manny Faces