Squiggles123 wrote:imo Em fucked skyler over by not keeping her for this track. I get why he got rihanna but tbh I think the song would be respected more if skyler was on it. Would have helped her career a fair bit. Not to mention it would sound better.....
EM & RIhanna gave Skylar a career doing this. Unfortunately at the time Skylar had the song, she was nowhere near to match Em's status, esp. if we talk about a video single so they just bought her song. That's why in the past when EM's had that kinda artists featured on his songs, they never even gave them credits on the tracklists... Dina & Liz in that matter.
I've said it before, when EM has feats on his albums they look for a little bit more exposure that more or less would add to his own status 'cuz most of the time artists just take that away from him been featured on his albums. Rihanna was by any means the best choice they could do, period.
Basically what happened was totally normal... Skylar was like a C or even a D artist who gave her song to not one but two major A artists which worked incredibly good for them but gave her a deal & a career too. Your point would be totally valid if she was an established artist by the time that happened though. On another note I do agree Skylar's version was really powerful but Rihanna did her part on EM's version really well too.