This is an article from Gelf Magazine... Props to Nah right for the article... Its amazing how many ghostwriters there are... check this out...
Hip-Hop's Ghostwriters
Is it fair for big-shot rappers to pay up-and-comers for their lyrics, but then give them no songwriting credit?
Adam Conner-Simons
Music consumers readily accept that the singer of a catchy pop song may not have written it. But they may not know that this practice extends to other seemingly more authentic musical genres like hip-hop, which Chuck D of Public Enemy famously referred to as CNN for black people. "We hold rappers to a different standard than pop singers," says Chuck Creekmur, co-founder of AllHipHop.com. "With hip-hop we want to have that personal connection. We want them to tell us how they feel." More here
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