Underground artist Brooke Candy thought it would be a kick to have a “Real Housewives” star appear on one of her tracks. But she was left heartbroken when, she claims, the “Housewife” in question seemed to push her aside and take center stage after the track became part of the Oscar-sweeping success of “Anora.”
When Candy — who has forged a decade-plus career on the LA music scene, becoming a cult favorite and collaborator of Charli XCX, Lizzo, Grimes, Sia, Azalea Banks and others — put together her 2019 album “Sexorcism,” she asked the singer, actress and star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Erika Jayne to do the vocal on the chorus of the song “Drip.” (The album also featured Charli XCX and Azalea, among others).
Candy tells us she later personally hammered out a deal for “Drip” to appear in the indie movie, which went on to win five Oscars.
But when the gritty stripper flick began to get major award season buzz, Jayne was invited by the production company behind the movie, Neon, to host a screening for the movie at the AMC at the famed Grove shopping center in LA.
Now Candy tells Page Six that she was stunned to later discover that Jayne had fronted the event without telling it was happening — much less inviting her — and, Candy alleges, told her social media followers that the occasion was to celebrate “my song Drip.” (Emphasis ours).
The rapper claims that it was only after she texted Jayne about the oversight that the reality star amended her post to say that it was to celebrate “the song ‘Drip’ with myself and @brookecandy.” (Jayne did set the post so that the song played when the picture loaded, meaning that it automatically displayed the title “Drip by Brooke Candy… (feat. Erika Jayne.)”)
Making matters worse, Candy feels that Jayne — who has enjoyed some serious success as a musician, racking up nine number one tracks on the Billboard dance chart — whiffed on a chance to set things right.
The success of “Drip” also came up on the “RHOBH” reunion show on Tuesday and — while this time Jayne admitted she was just a featured artist on the track — Candy tells us she was disappointed that she didn’t take the chance to make up for the earlier omission by giving her a shout out. The rapper says that a name-check on the widely watched Bravo show could have been a huge boost for her.
“I’m basically a part of this article because I’d like to be a voice for all independent artists everywhere because we are so often overlooked, we’re so often stolen from, we’re so often unable to make a living for ourselves,” Candy told Page Six, “We have to take second, third jobs as artists to pay our bills. And it’s really sad that we have to fight for what’s ours and for things that we make when more often than not artists are beautiful compassionate people who just want the world to be more beautiful and inspiring.”
She added, “I feel that Erica Jayne is someone who is the antithesis of that. She is the antithesis of an empathetic compassionate artist just fighting to live and fighting to get by.”
Candy also told us, “I want to shoutout the amazing team that worked on this song: Oscar Scheller, Ashnikko, Sega Bodega, and Jesse Saint John who wrote, produced and… created this song.”
Addressing Candy’s complaint about artists having to take “second and third jobs,” a source close to Jayne claimed that, “Brooke is the only vocalist who gained from this project financially. Erika is a featured artist on the “Drip” record, not a background vocalist, yet she did not receive or ask for one cent from this project. In fact, Erika paid all her own expenses around her involvement in the project and was not even made aware that the song appeared in the film ‘Anora’ until its release.”
They added, “As for the screening with AMC, Erika was contacted directly with an invitation to host this event. She was invited, she said yes, and she showed up like a professional. Whether or not other talent are invited is at the discretion of the studio, Neon.”
Jayne won a legal battle in 2022 clearing her of taking part in her husband Tom Giradi’s massive fraud scheme.
As Page Six recently reported, Candy joined the steamy streaming site OnlyFans to duck the prudishness of the mainstream media.
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