Remember 2015’s most hoverboard-focused music video? Turns out the creator of that masterpiece, Saskatchewan-based and California-born rapper J Staxx, has beef with rapper and K.O. victim courtesy of The Game's manager, Stitches. And reasonably enough, he decided to drop a diss track called “Fuck Stitches.” Staxx, whose legal name is James Kokotailo, says that the feud started during a recent phone interview when he contacted Miami-based rapper Stitches via Instagram to record a hook and verse for a song in June 2015. Why anyone would want to record a song with Stitches, we're not sure. Stitches delivered his recording, J Staxx told us, but part of the $1,500 USD deal was to also produce a music video together.
According to Staxx, who had "been sitting on the best song I’d ever done for like four months already,” Stitches delayed shooting the video. Like a determined hoverboard rolling uphill, Staxx apparently made contact with Stitches again by phone in mid-October to which Stitches allegedly said he would only be in the video if Staxx paid to fly him out to Canada, to which Staxx agreed. Stitches then supposedly asked for additional payment—we assume because “fuck a job”—but Staxx refused. Eventually, Staxx settled to fly out to Miami and pay for his own accommodations for the shoot. He told us he wanted to film in-person for quality purposes and Stitches reportedly agreed to this arrangement.
Based on a text exchange provided by Staxx, Stitches supposedly demanded more money again—because double “fuck a job,” so Staxx called the deal off. Unable to refund all of the money for his Miami trip, Staxx claims the ordeal set him back around $3,000 total, or approximately $3 billion in Canadian money. J Staxx’s artistic campaign against Stitches even caught the attention of Cash Jones aka Wack 100, The Game’s manager who encouraged him on Instagram to “make this right.” And apparently for Staxx who was deeply unsatisfied with the whole transaction, making it right meant releasing “Fuck Stitches.” Featuring rare unreleased Stitches verses—that nobody wanted to hear—the video also includes a number of text communications and two Western Union receipts from Phillip Katsabanis—Stitches’ real name— that supposedly document the raw deal. Like an expert painter works a canvas, the hoverboard rapper also delivers one of his signature cum shots. And if for whatever reason you read this long-winded story your reward awaits below.
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