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Didn't MC say they don't do contracts for Girl/Chocolate?
Yeah he said Lakai had contracts but Chocolate didn't and if memory serves that's why Carroll was able to kick MJ off through an interview.
I would think that after that whole debacle, they may have wised up and put people on contract to avoid such nightmares in the future. At least the pros, maybe not ams.
MJ's situation was a debacle because they had a whole bunch of shoes under his name they had to unload, which is why Lakai and shoe companies in general always have contracts. The reason it blew up was because Crailtap thought they could get one last run out of the shoes and let Marc leave quietly (after continually dropping his pay). Then Adidas offered Marc a deal and asked him to be in their new video. Marc was inbetween a rock and a hard place, partially due to unreasonable asks by crail. Simply put, Adidas was going to be his new check and he felt obligated to do it, which makes sense. He probably could have been more upfront about it with Crailtap, but how he was treated in regards to getting continually smaller paychecks and basically told he should find a new deal.
Its a shitty situation seeing Crailtap fall apart like that, but after hearing both sides of the story, I tend to side with Marc on this one. Crail's demands seemed a bit unreasonable. Plus, Koston going on record that he never planned to ever leave Girl and start a new company at 40 (which seems related to what happened with Altamont/Fourstar) and Guy leaving, makes me think there was a lot of desperation in the Crail camp, and MJ leaving like that put a vulnerable company in an even riskier situation. It may have been a dick move by MJ, but I think what they were asking of him in the first place was unreasonable and was out of desperation.
Boards can always be rescreened, its not like selling a shoe with someones name on it. Shops tend to get fucked over more in regards to getting boards that are hard to sell due to team changes, which is why people try to be respectful about it.
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