America's Top Player

Chapter 25: The Ghost That Longs for Pain
Robbie untied his arms around Leon's neck, wiped his lips, gave a mysterious smirk, and walked straight into the hotel without looking back.

"Fuck this woman."

Li Ang realized that he had encountered a high-level player. He was about to take off his pants, but this happened?
My heart felt like it was on fire when I was teased, but he just turned around and walked away. Is there anything more disgusting than this?
At this moment, Robbie's back suddenly turned into the image of a rebellious girl with rainbow-colored twin ponytails, clown makeup and a baseball bat in Leon's perspective.

Immediately afterwards, her back shattered and distorted, and disturbing words such as "devil", "torture", and "fire" suddenly broke into Li Ang's mind.

A strange melody sounded in my mind.

I torture you~Take my hand through the flames
Feel my torture~ Let my hands feel the fire
I torture you~I'm a slave to your games
Feel my torture~ I have tamed your game and kneeled down

I'm just a sucker for pain!

This pain makes me addicted!
I wanna chain you up
I want you to never leave me again

I wanna tie you down
To tie you up tightly

I'm just a sucker for pain! !
I am a devil who craves pain!!

After listening to it only once, he had memorized everything from the lyrics to the arrangement.

I took out my phone and saw that today was the 11th, a day for refreshing inspiration.

The rebellious and cult atmosphere revealed between the lines of "Sucker For Pain" even surpasses his previous work.

However, although such works are ahead of their time, they are also the general trend. Under the tide of the new era, music works have become more and more diversified, stimulating and explicit.

Lady Gaga became so popular because of her avant-garde and bold MV shooting method and unique electronic music style.

When his first album was released, Li Ang was still at the bottom of society, struggling on the poverty line. Now that he has accumulated a certain amount of fame, it is foreseeable that this work will perform even better.

But his ambition goes beyond that. If he wants to become a real star singer, releasing an album is essential.

Even if it is purely for economic considerations, the revenue brought by the album is far beyond what a single CD can achieve.

A CD with ten songs can easily cost more than ten dollars, and a vinyl record is much more expensive than that.

In other words, if it can reach the level of a platinum record, the minimum sales volume is estimated to be more than 10 million US dollars.

This is the real way to make big money!
Li Ang was eager to find Phil to record the demo of this song tomorrow, but there was still a problem.

The lyrics of the song "Sucker For Pain" are filled with a lot of rap, which is much longer than the chorus.

He also thought about singing the chorus and rapping parts himself and presenting them in one go.

Anyway, rapping is not difficult, all you need is a mouth.

But after just one a cappella performance, he discovered the problem. If one person performed the entire song, the chorus would be so close to the rap part that he would not be able to keep up with the beat even if he sang until he died.

"Looks like I'll have to find someone to sing the Feat."

This seems to be the only solution at the moment.

Performing a song in a segmented collaborative way has become a trend, and this trend has become mainstream after the explosion of hip-hop music.

The feat between Eminem and Rihanna created the Billboard chart-topping single "Love the Way You Lie".

Feat has its advantages and disadvantages, of course. The disadvantage is that the singer has to share part of his profits with the cooperating singers.

Let Li Ang share the money with Ni Ge?

Are you singing a piece that you "composed" yourself?

This is something you don't even want to think about.

"Shxt, let's talk about it tomorrow."

Although Leon was still hungover from drinking with Robbie until late last night, he still insisted on getting up early.

After getting dressed, he headed to Black Panther Records on Chester Street. Today was the big day for Phil and T-ray to have a showdown, and Leon couldn't wait to see what kind of magic Phil would use to steal the spoils from these gun-toting thugs.

At the beginning, the atmosphere was normal. T-ray was still chatting about the upcoming commercial performance plan as usual, and occasionally interjecting a few dirty jokes with the secretary beside him.

The atmosphere immediately became cold until Phil said, "Bro, I want to ask you for someone."

T-ray was stunned for a moment, then half-jokingly said, "You can choose any girl you want. Sharing is the most important thing between us black people. As long as you don't want my wife."

As he said that, T-ray patted the girl next to him on the butt and motioned her to sit next to Phil.

Phil shook his head. "The person I want is Leon."

"Who the hell is Leon? How could there be a woman with that name?" T-ray giggled at first, then quickly realized something was wrong. "Bro, stop joking."

"I'm serious. Leon will have a brighter future if he works with me."

Having said that, even if T-ray was stupid, he understood it. He suddenly understood many things.

For example, since Leon appeared, Phil has been coming to Chester Street frequently to provide free professional music guidance.

Now T-ray understood the other party's true intentions.

There is no such thing as deep and damn love, it's all driven by damn interests.

But T-ray was not panicked at all, because he knew Phil's financial situation very well.

This is not the early 2000s, when Phil, as the general manager of Epic Records, stood by Avril and won numerous awards as an agent and producer.
In the entertainment industry, everything is based on ability. If it weren't for Phil's talent and rich experience in the industry, he would be no different from a homeless person on the street in T-ray's eyes.

"Just you?" T-ray lit a cigar and leaned back.

"Li Ang didn't sign any contract with you. According to the law, he is free to choose where he wants to develop his career."

"Law? Is that what you're talking about?" T-ray sneered and pulled out a shiny Glock pistol from his waist.

This is not a law, this is clearly the truth!

Li Ang remained silent all the time, just enjoying watching the fun.

But deep down he still hoped that Phil really had some backup plan. It was impossible for him to cooperate with these gangs for a long time. These guys were still running the record company with the concept of running a gang.

T-ray and the Bloods behind him had no idea that the golden age of true gangsta rap did not end in recent years.

Gangsta rap had been on the decline since the deaths of two big names, Tupac and Mr. Notorious, in 1997.

"Bro, I know you well enough. You can't scare me. I'll give you an excuse you can't refuse!"

Phil hit the nail on the head. T-ray was just playing with the gun and didn't even have the courage to point it at him. His cowardly nature was fully exposed.

Although Phil had almost never touched a gun, he had been in the cruel entertainment industry for many years and this little scene was not enough to scare him.

The cruelty there is no less than that in the slums, but there is no smoke and no gunshots.

T-ray gritted his teeth and said to Big Martin beside him, "Go to the club next door and call George over."

"You damn white trash, don't even think about leaving Chester Street today! I'm going to throw your body in the yard to feed T-ray's dog."

"This is really going to be troublesome." Li Ang muttered to himself.

George is not a wimp like T-ray. He is a Bloods gang leader who grew up from the chaotic streets of the 90s. Even under the impact of the rampant Mexican gangs today, he can still hold his territory firmly.

In Brownsville, even drug dealers tremble at the mention of George's name.

"Old Deng, what cards do you have? Throw them away!"

Le Ang was worried about Phil from the bottom of his heart. Even if you have two kings and four twos in your hand, what's the point if you still don't move when the farmers are about to enter the spring?
(End of this chapter)