Some people may not know but Chicago DJ, DJ Slugo, was appointed the musical supervisor for the Original Soundtrack for the movie Chiraq. Directed by Spike Lee the movie had come under fire for using the name Chiraq as well as from local artists looking to have only Chicago artists for the musical soundtrack. In response, Spike Lee and his team hired DJ Slugo to put his ear to the streets and submit the musical selections in order to keep the integrity of the Chicago sound.
Just today we are getting word that Slugo has now been fired after Lee and his team were notified that Slugo was charging artists simply to submit their music for the movie. The news of the "pay-to-play" scheme wasn't well recieved by Lee or other people in the music scene in Chicago.
This is the Official Statement from DJ Slugo following his departure from the Chiraq movie:
“Hello unfortunately I may have lost my submission privileges for making a very bad decision in trying to charge Chicago artist for an opportunity to submit music for this film… This is not the way Spike Lee nor his team operates and I take full responsibility for my bad decision. I am doing everything in my power to fix this problem with Mr Lee and his team so that the artist submissions that I have in my email are not punished for my wrong doings… Please forgive me for my actions and I hope that I can fix this and somehow get your submission to their staff. Again I ask that you forgive my poor decision making!!! Please hold me and only me responsible for this issue what I did was in no way professional and whatever punishment Mr Lee wants to hand down to me I will accept it and ask him to please not hold it against any Chicago artist period!!!
I will keep all of you guys emails and songs stored and turn them over to him if he allows me too!!!
-Slugo”
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