I’ve been using stock.xchng for a few years now. It’s a great source of user-contributed free stock photography. I’ve found images there for several projects, including Badmouth. In fact, it’s where I got the picture of the creepy doll heads for the banner.
Because I’d mooched quite a few pictures from there over the years, I decided to give back to the system and upload some of my own photos. A few weeks after I did this, I got an e-mail from a woman at EMI Music saying they were going to use one of my photos for a CD’s liner notes and asking how I would like to be credited. I said “John Marcotte” would be fine, and I asked what CD would my picture appear in. She immediately stopped responding to my e-mails and I never heard from her again.
I told my wife that I would probably end up with the inside photo for “Bitches and Hos 3.” We laughed and forgot all about it. Then a few weeks ago I was Googling myself (which is nowhere near as dirty as it sounds), and I found out that I was credited with interior photography on the CD “The Best of Snoop Dogg .” They used my picture of a “Beware of Dog” sign. I can’t say I’m the worlds largest rap fan, but I know who Snoop is and I like some of his crossover stuff, so this was a pleasant surprise.
We figured that EMI didn’t want to tell us it was Snoop because they were afraid I’d demand to get paid. I can see that. But all I would have asked for was a free CD, maybe an autograph if I could get it. For me, it’s enough that I can say that I worked with Grammy Award-winning artist Snoop Dogg on a best-selling album…
…at least that’s how I’m putting it on my resume.
December 4th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Yo, Jizzle….you’re my hero, dog.
Foh-shizzle.
December 6th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Yeah, working with Snoop really took my back to my old days in the hood where I was a straight-up gangster.
Thank God, I’ve left that world behind.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:36 am
Hell I didn’t know we got a OG up in badmouth hahaha thumbs up!