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 hi...