Music Thread #1 for 6/11/09: The Tragic Fall of Scott Starch

I was never a big fan of Scott Starch. His arrogance made a lot of people angry with him, topped off by calling himself the "Tough Jew" in midst of his senseless and downright dumb battle with mentor Timbaland. Some sort of humility you felt was going to hit hard on him at any time.

You may loathe Storch, but damn, this story from VH1's Shaheem Reid will make you never wish what has happened to him on anyone. And it is just another reminder of how drugs will ruin your life and everything around you.

It almost seems impossible, but it's tragically true. Scott Storch squandered $30 million. Not only that, he did it in less than six months.

[It was] unlike anything I've ever seen in my entire life," the producer's manager, Derek Jackson, told MTV News of his friend of almost two decade's monumental fall. "Historical! It was historical without question."

A prominent reason for all of this: The White Dusk

The abuse of the narcotic almost cost him his career — and his life. Earlier this year, he was arrested for grand theft auto for allegedly failing to return a Bentley he'd leased in 2006. And last year, Storch hit legal trouble after reportedly falling behind on both his child-support payments and his property taxes.

All of this leading to him blowing all of this in half a year

Literally. Storch got addicted to drugs and just stopped caring about his career.

"Scott, I have to be real because, once again, it's about a story that has to be told," Jackson said. "We made a lot of money — I mean a lot of money that year [2006]. And Scott — in all honesty — he was broke by January. It was the quickest [loss] of money that I've ever seen in my entire life."

There are just certain stories that leave you either speechless or say, "That's (expletive) up."

This, without a question, is one of them.