The official YouTube account of Kxng Crooked’s creative company, the one that recently provided the community with brilliant interviews with Eminem, Rakim and Black Thought and was about to drop a “Bendin’ Corners” episode about Griselda, is closed.
The reason, as Kxng revealed in his Instagram video, is suspicions in violating copyright law – after his own interview with Eminem was repurposed by a big media company. Without going into details YouTube just shut the account down, making inaccessible all the content that Crook produced:
Clearly upset but in great control of his tone and emotions Crook explained the situation:
Check this crazy shit out. YouTube terminated our Hitmaker channel. If you go and try at any “Crook’s Corner” interview, any “Bendin’ Corners” – it’s all terminated. It’s gone. You can’t even watch it. Finito. Let me tell you what happened. Apparently a big content company decided to use a clip from one of my interviews. The Eminem interview, to be specific. That’s fine, people repurpose clips all the time. especially if people are saying something newsworthy and if somebody is as popular as Eminem is. No problem. The bigger company decides to use the clip from our interview and YouTube decides, hey, since this company is bigger than our company is, this company must own the footage. And we must be stealing the footage. So YouTube decides to terminate our channel, Hitmaker channel. With all – Crook’s Corner, clips, “Life of a Bandana”, “Bendin’ Corners”, etc. They decided to terminate the whole channel. Because they feel like we are stealing from a bigger company. Decided to do it to independent guys. Now I have a Griselda ep about a drop today and I cannot even drop it on a platform because the whole platform is been terminated. Because we stole our own fucking interview. You can’t make this type of shit up. You know, we gotta do an appeal, try to prove that we own what we own. And even then I’m not sure I’m gonna get all our views back, our subscribers we were building over there. It’s just crazy. But YouTube, GlueTube, I -don’t give a fuck who-Tube, we’re not gonna lose. We’re gonna win. Crook’s Corner. We’re gonna keep curating some of the hottest, flyest hip-hop media shit. They are not gonna stop us. The setback is nothing comparing to motherfucking comeback. That’s real. I’ll be there. I’ll see you in a minute.
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