Aubrey O’Day Claims Diddy Is Silencing Artists With NDAs If They Want To Receive Publishing

DeMicia Inman
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Aubrey O’Day shared the stipulations regarding receiving the publishing rights to Danity Kane’s music catalog from Diddy. As a guest on the Only Stans podcast, the singer discussed the terms and conditions offered to make the deal.

“I have to release him for any claims or wrongdoings or actions prior to the date of the release,” detailed O’Day. “I have to sign an NDA that I will never disparage Puff, Bad Boy, Janice Combs, Justin Combs Music, EMI, or Sony ever in public.”

She continued, “This is the honest-to-God agreement of what I’m being offered: a few hundred dollars to sign away my rights to ever tell the story of what I went through ever again.”

The 39-year-old detailed how having the publishing rights did not translate to earning a large amount of money.

“At the end of the day, we’re all just willing to turn a blind eye. Diddy is just literally known as a guy that doesn’t pay his artists, and it’s funny and then you move on and you like something that he did on TikTok ’cause he’s funny. But for people that worked for six years of their life and entered an industry where somebody made, what, 48 million dollars and we didn’t even see a penny of that? We were in thongs and five-inch heels for years of our lives on stage, and not any of it did we see.”

Diddy and Danty Kane
Diddy poses for a photo with (L-R) Dawn Richard, Aubrey O’Day, Shannon Bex, Aundrea Fimbres, and D. Woods of Danity Kane backstage during MTV’s “Making The Band 4” finale at the MTV Times Square Studios August 26, 2007 in New York City.

Earlier this month, the Bad Boy Records founder shared he was in the process of giving back the music publishing rights to various artists. This not only includes Danity Kane, but also The Notorious B.I.G.’s estate, Ma$e, Faith Evans, The LOX, and 112.

“I decided to reassign publishing rights to the whole catalog in May or June 2021,” the 53-year-old explained. “The news is just now coming out because it took time to finalize everything. But this was during the time that I was holding the Grammys to task. I was also getting major offers for the catalog during the [acquisition] frenzy back then.”

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