Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 263 Is this my song?

 “Link Baker!”

 At around eleven o'clock in the evening, the Grammy party ended.

In the Staples Center parking lot, Linkla opened the door and was about to get in the car when he heard a shout from behind him.

He stopped at the back door of the business car and looked back. He saw a dark crowd, including 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, Kanye, Drake, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Chris Brown. , Eminem, Justin Bieber, Usher and other twenty or thirty people.

 In fact, Link envied them. They made music together, drank together, and had a group of people no matter what they did.

“Link, we not only want to beat you at the Grammy Awards, but we also want to beat you on the album charts in March and April. Just wait and see!”

  50 Cent shouted.

"No one can beat me, no matter boxing or music. If you dare to challenge me, what awaits you will only be the next failure."

Link smiled faintly, waved to Eminem, turned around and walked into the car.

 “Fake! This kid is so crazy, I really want to kill him with a gun.”

said Fifty Cent angrily.

"are you sure?"

Eminem took out his cell phone from his pocket, dialed 911 and said, "Hello, is this the Los Angeles Police Department? I want to report a crime. The famous rapper 50 Cent is preparing to assassinate."

 “Huge gift crab special!”

50 Cents thought he was pretending, but suddenly saw that the call was actually connected. He rushed over, snatched his phone away, hung up, glared at Eminem and said,

 “Damn, I’m just kidding, did you really call the police?”

Eminem shrugged his shoulders, grabbed his phone back and said, "I am a good law-abiding citizen. I cannot ignore it when a crime is about to happen, otherwise I will become your criminal partner."

 “Fake! Amu, you **** is definitely a spy planted by Link in our camp.”

 50 cents cursed.

Eminem shrugged nonchalantly. He is a white rapper who works closely with East Coast rap gangs and has close interests with both parties, so he doesn’t care what 50 cents says.

 “Shut up! Don’t say that about Eminem.”

Beyoncé held up her brown coat and glanced sideways at 50 Cent.

"Amu is right. To deal with a **** **** like Link, physical elimination is not appropriate. It is best to defeat him where he is most proud, such as boxing and music. Defeat him and see him lying on the ground. He was crying on the ground, admitting his mistake, and begging for mercy. We refused to let him go, but insisted on catching him, continuing to torture him, and punishing him severely. Don't you think it would be more pleasurable? "

Beyoncé clenched her fists, pursed her plump lower lip, her face was cold, and a flash of crazy joy flashed in her eyes.

 “Beyoncé is right!”

 Kanye, Lear, and Drake nodded repeatedly.

 “My dear, I’m glad you said that.”

Jay-Z hugged Beyoncé’s waist and praised.

 “Hey, are you serious, Beyoncé.”

Eminem looked at her in surprise and said, "You want Link to lie on the ground crying and begging for mercy? How is this possible? That is world boxing champion Link Baker, the most powerful man in the world."

 “This is a metaphor.”

Beyoncé rolled her eyes at him, held Rihanna's shoulders and said, "Eminem, I know you have some affection for Link and even admire him, but he is now our opponent and enemy. I hope you can follow We stand on the same front and deal with him together.”

 “What if I don’t agree?”

Eminem asked with a frown.

 “You are still our friend.”

Beyoncé said calmly.

 “Okay, I understand, bye!”

Eminem turned around and left, cursed "Fake" a few times in the distance, and drove away with a rumble in his car.

 “Honey, you shouldn’t say that, Eminem is our friend.”

Jay-Z frowned and said.

Beyoncé shook her head, "No matter what, Eminem is a white man. He and Link have a good personal relationship. If we want to defeat Link, we must be completely united. With Eminem in the middle, many things are inconvenient to discuss. Also, since we are competing with Link, it would be difficult for Eminem to be in the middle, so this is more appropriate now.”

 “Beyoncé, you’re right.”

　　50 cents said loudly, "I just joked that if I want to kill Link, Eminem will call the police. If we tell other things, he will definitely inform."

 Other blacks nodded in agreement with the 50 cent statement.

 Jay-Z thought about it and felt that this was not a bad idea.

“Don’t worry, after we defeat Link, I will personally apologize to Eminem, and he will understand us.”

Beyoncé said calmly.

Jay-Z looked at her blushing face, hugged her and said, "Honey, I find you seem to be more beautiful."

“Hey, Jess, we’re all here, why not?” “We’re going to make out and go home, and we don’t want to eat dog food.”

 Kanye, Lear and others started joking loudly, and the atmosphere was full of joy.

 Beyoncé took the opportunity to smile and push Jay-Z's arm away, brushing the curly hair around her ears. She looked up and saw Link's business car slowly disappearing into the charming night of Los Angeles.

  —

"What did you say?!"

 In the driving business car, Link looked at Graeme in surprise. The party just ended and Graeme followed him and said he had an important matter to discuss with him.

Graeme told him that around January, eight production assistants and tuners under Link Music changed jobs.

Link Music was founded less than a year and a half ago, and it only had 28 musicians, eight of whom left at once. This was a severe blow to Link Music, and could even paralyze the work of the recording studio.

“Why are you telling me now? Okay, I understand. I was on tour before and was too busy. You don’t want me to be distracted.”

  “That’s not the reason either.”

Graeme adjusted his glasses frame and said, "Link, the main reason is that this matter has little impact. There was no need to tell you before. I am telling you now because I am reporting to you."

“Isn’t it a big impact? One-third of the staff in our recording studio has been poached. Isn’t this a big impact?”

Link looked at him doubtfully, and when he saw the oil on Graeme's forehead, he took out a wet wipe and gave it to him to wipe.

Graeme took it over to express his thanks, and said while wiping his sweat: "Our company started at the end of 2008. At that time, we were relatively short of people, and the people we recruited were very average. In the past, I only produced your album, which was barely usable. Now we have more people. Work is getting busier and busier, and inefficient employees will not be able to keep up.

 Originally, President Iwaka and I discussed recruiting a group of new people at the beginning of the year.

Now that Link Music has become a first-class music label in the music industry, many outstanding musicians have come to submit their resumes and want to join us. We have no shortage of people at all.

 After they left, we recruited about a dozen more capable musicians, so there was almost no impact. "

Link twitched his lips when he heard this. There is indeed no negative impact in this way. On the contrary, it has advantages. Do you want to thank those who poached people?

“But we can’t be careless. Someone is poaching our company’s employees, which means someone wants to deal with us. Have you found out who did it?”

“Preliminary investigation is related to SBProjects management company and Epic Records. SBProjects is Justin’s management company. Epic Records has cooperative relationships with Jay-Z, Kanye and others. We suspect that they planned in advance to bring down Link Music.

However, President Iwaka believes that this matter has something to do with Atlantic Records and even the five major records. Link Music is now a golden chicken laying eggs, and many people want to annex us. "

Graeme said slowly.

Link nodded, a little helpless.

After becoming a billionaire, he really doesn’t want to conflict with others, and would rather be harmonious and make money. However, when things get bigger, there are too many interests involved, and many things are often out of his control.

Graeme also told him that many people have recently been inquiring about the song demos of his third album. Some people spent one million US dollars to acquire the third album's audio tapes on the black market, trying to destroy the album in this way.

Link frowned. Although 50 Cent had just proposed to compete with him for the ranking today, in fact, the opponent had already taken action. The situation was more severe than he expected, and the competition within the music industry was also fiercer than imagined.

 “Link, there’s one more thing.”

Graeme took his mobile phone and clicked on the player. Justin's singing voice came from the speaker. It was the crappy song "Baby" that he had been listening to recently and almost made him vomit.

 “Graeme, do you like this kind of song?”

Link picked his ears and looked at him strangely, finding it difficult to agree with his taste.

Graeme looked at him even more strangely.

 “Link, don’t you think this song is familiar to you?”

"familiar?"

"Have you forgotten? At the end of 2008, you wrote more than ten songs for me to read, and one of them was highly similar to this one. I read it again and thought the song was too **** and not suitable for you, so I gave up on it. "

 “What?!”

“I suspect that a traitor plagiarized this song and sold it to the management company behind Justin. I thought you had heard it and were thinking of some tactics to deal with Justin, but you seem to have forgotten.”

Graeme said in surprise.

Link touched his forehead and felt something.

When he and Mandy went to the music studio to record songs for the first time at the end of 2008, they did bring several semi-finished songs and asked Graeme to choose suitable songs to add to the first album. Among them were two songs by Justin, "Neversaynever" and "Neversaynever". baby".

Since the first album was an inspirational album, Graeme felt that Neversaynever was barely suitable and gave up Baby.

　　Although I gave up, the score of "baby" is still in the link music library.

Now Graeme thinks that the group of producers behind Justin plagiarized the song.

Link asked him what he should do if such a thing happened?

Graeme said that he had reported the matter to Ivaca, who said that she would wait until Justin's album was released.

He came to see Link today because Link had never mentioned this matter. He wanted to ask Link what his plan was to avoid any conflicts, but Link completely forgot about it.

Link nodded and said nothing more.

The car drove into the city, put down Graeme, and slowly started again, entering Santa Monica Boulevard and becoming a bit of neon in this city that never sleeps.

 (End of this chapter)