Funnybone Collective

Pioneering a new wave of underground riddim dubstep inspired by the old school sound | Founded & Owned by @ilymidroll

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Hey everyone,

I would like to address some things that have been happening with me and @FunnyboneTM. I hope to clear up a lot of things that have been talked about both recently, and in some cases, within the past year or two. My aim is to be as transparent as possible with you guys, so that I can move on from my past mistakes as an artist and consumer, and in doing so, explain how we got to the point of where me & Funnybone is right now. This is going to be long, so I will be as clear as possible with everything I want to bring up. There is a lot to talk about, so the timeline of events might be a little scuffed at points, but I will do my best to touch on everything that should be talked about. I would appreciate it if you took the time to read this to understand fully.

For reference, here is another doc of evidence to support and better illustrate what I say in here: https://t.co/7frcQLlOsJ
As many of you know, I am the owner of a collective/label called Funnybone Collective. With it, my goal was to create a space for people inspired by og riddim to gather and create together, and to release our tunes on a platform that didn’t really exist anymore. There weren’t any labels for the style I was passionate about, so I sought out to create one. I started with the help of some of my good friends, including Blvckhound, the one who came up with the name for the group.
We gathered many artists together, mainly through searching recent tracks tagged with #riddim on SoundCloud. Our members (for at least one point in time) included each of these people: Aiser, Beanie God, Blvckhound, Euro, Gresiv, Gudmuv, Hacki, HappyDubz, Hoofy, Jexxe, Jinsul, Kfu, Koh, Krompus, Kurat, Lambda, Leankxz, M4IZ, Mxrly, Nobuo, Pryzd, Remorse, Roi*, Sakuro, Tw!sty, Wobadub, Woockez, Xenosis, & Yogs. It is to each and every one of these people and more that I would like to issue an apology. Through actions I have made in the past as a part of this scene, regretfully, I have managed to tarnish the reputation of Funnybone Collective to the point where a lot of you no longer felt comfortable being a part of it. I respect and understand all of your decisions to leave, and wish you all nothing but the best. I spoke to most of the former members one on one yesterday and during the night to talk things through, and to thank them for sticking with me during all the ups & downs that this group has had because of the reputation I had accumulated at that point. All of the former FB members are talented individuals that deserve better than to stick around with a collective that had been looked down upon by a lot of people in the riddim scene. I should have done a better job communicating with these people, and showing my interest in wanting to further our group. The way things had become was not fair to those who i represented through Funnybone.

The reasons why we got a bad rep were from before I knew better, about riddim etiquette and how things are run in the scene. As I was the one running this group, everyone in it suffered as a result, and that is not fair to them. Firstly I'd like to mention that, yes, I will be going over some beefs/drama that has been forgotten about or settled, but its important for me to recognize these events and actions in order to show that I want to move on from them.
A couple years ago, in the very early days of FB and the creation of its’ discord server, I had sent stems that I had bought from Subfiltronik in there, believing it to be okay to trade them, just as is normally done with specials. This, of course, is not the case. I was in a group of people that also did these things, and it led me to think that it was a normal part of the scene (see part 3 of google doc). I was still pretty new at this point, I had only been producing riddim as my fulltime passion for around maybe a year, only started getting into the scene really at about half that time. I have talked to Subfiltronik himself and apologized for this once I figured out my wrongdoing. I did not have malicious intent, and was simply oblivious to the fact that this wasn’t something anyone should be doing. I am of the belief that people should support artists through that artist only, and I now know from experience that I would not want this happening to myself, and it shouldn’t have ever happened in the first place. I would also like to state that Subfiltronik believed that I was the person that leaked these stems on the well-known subreddit r/xTrill. This is not true. The person who did this is sixtysevenriddim, not me (see part 1 of google doc). This misconception could have been avoided had I not engaged in stem trading earlier on though. I have paid Subfiltronik money in lost earnings from this, and another mishap I will mention below in the next paragraph. I believe the amount I sent him was $150-200 or so, back in 2022 when this took place.

This whole situation spawned something entirely new. CrySomeMore had made a post in the Facebook group, Riddim Dubstep Society, trying to essentially ‘cancel’ me for what had been going on. I have talked about this before publicly (https://t.co/KVEhb7VnjS), but feel it's important to touch on again in the context of this post (see part 2 of google doc). He mentions that I was selling remixes of tunes in my 600 follower dubpack without permission from the original artists, and without sharing profits. This is unfortunately true. Again, earlier on in my riddim career, I wasn’t fully let in on the specifics on what to do with stems and if I should, and/or how I would go about selling remixes/vips. In my head, I’d seen people selling their remixes and VIPs and I thought it was okay to simply sell them too, I didn’t know what was going on behind the scenes. I thought that since I had already bought the stems, the remixes were mine to sell. I was wrong here, and as mentioned earlier, I had paid Subfiltronik out for his lost earnings from these remix sales (in addition to extra when included with the stems I had traded). Jumping to his sixth point (since the ones in between I have already touched on), this again was from when I thought stem trading was okay. He mentions I bought R28D stems from Benzmixer, to which at this point, was after I had learned not to trade stems, and had never sent or traded them with anyone. At number 7, he said that I was offering specials of my bootleg of Grimer’s song, Hellraiser, after the stems to it had leaked. I personally do not remember this, but at this time I had not bought the project from Grimer as I have now and also did not have the stems. If this did happen, my version of the tune was a bootleg made from all of my own synths, the only elements of the original being the intro melody, and I must have felt comfortable offering specials, though I cannot recall this taking place myself. Number 8 I talked about previously as well as number 9. I compensated Subfiltronik for the money I owed him afterwards.
I would like to mention that me and @crysomemoredj are on good terms now. We have spoke since and there are no hard feelings between either of us. However, I have not spoken to Subfiltronik or asked to buy things from him since. I would take this time to formally apologize to him. I wish I knew the things I know now and what I would come to learn in the time following these incidents. If I could go back in time and stop myself from making these mistakes, I would, but I own up to them and have never denied that they took place. They were dumb accidents, fuelled by misinformation about the scene, and I take accountability for not getting the full picture before taking action on trading stems, selling remixes without permission and not paying him the money I owed him until provoked to do so.

Another issue I faced was with people saying that their music was getting leaked in the Funnybone discord. This is not true, but it did not help our reputation whatsoever. These accusations would have been caused by the bad press about us that we were receiving at the time due to what I stated before and how I conducted myself. @nexu555, @Mad_Dubz, and later on, @bawprod, were all under the belief that their music had been leaked in my server (see part 4 of google doc). I can't say I'd really fault them for thinking this way, but these accusations were just not true at all. I feel bad they were led to this conclusion, and frankly its embarrassing to think about. While I admit to not understanding the concept of stem exclusivity in the beginning, I at least knew, especially by this point, that dubplates were not meant to be shared. The dubplate seller, who went by Saul Goodman Plates, said that he got these songs from our discord. I do not know who this is or who it could have been. I believe this was used only to ruin the reputation of us or myself further. Our running theory at the time was that it was someone out to get us because of all the stuff that’d happened earlier that year mentioned above. https://t.co/s9xRVuF26v This is what he stated to Nexu5 via soundcloud DMs. If we were condoning this type of behavior, why would the person be banned after sending a link to it, if that had ever even occurred in the first place?

I want to give a big shout out to the FB members at the time, @mortdubz, @ZeroSpin_, @shrqdubs, and everyone else on our side during this time. They all vouched for us (see part 5 in google doc), and my only regret is that I wish I had been more vocal myself during this situation. These were my people, as a collective group being called out for leaking someone else’s hard work that they expect to get paid for. It was not fair to the members, but I am infinitely grateful for the support that we had during that hard time.

One of the last topics I need to explain fully is a situation in which I sold a dubpack that contained 70 tunes for $70. Before that though, I would like to mention (and I promise this comes back and makes sense) that Ayonikz and I hadn’t been on the best terms at this point. I had bought 4 specials from him on his patreon for 4 months in a row, and was ready to buy my fifth one, but when I messaged him for it, he told me that he wanted to have a ‘chat’ before he worked on it. I was going through a lot of stress at the time, both musically and personally. I was dealing with the stress of everything mentioned above, and Subfiltronik believing me to be the one to leak the stems to Spazzout on reddit and stating that he had his manager watching me in my own discord, etc. (see part 6 on google doc) and on top of that I was dealing with a breakup as well, so just overall not in a good headspace. Anyway, this led me to be sort of standoffish when it came to his proposal to have this chat. I used to and sometimes continue to have a bad time dealing with confrontation, and I did not want to discuss the drama that had been circulating as I had been hearing enough about it already. Mind you, at the time I wasn’t even entirely sure that this was what he wanted to talk about, it just scared me that another artist I looked up to was going to think and talk negatively of me, so I put it off. At this point in time, he already had my money in his account and I was still waiting for my special. He refused to work on it because we did not have that chat. Fast forward a little while, I had gone to the hospital for multiple brain scans as I thought I had a minor stroke or seizure. I’m still unsure to this day what happened, but anyway, the hospital bills were a bit much for me to deal with, so I devised that dubpack I mentioned before. For honesty’s sake, not all of the 70 tunes in it were of my own creation. I reasoned that the specials that were included in it were in there as bonuses, making each tune out to be a little over $1. The specials that Ayonikz had made for me were included in that, with my reasoning being because he did not make the new special that I had paid for. He caught wind of this and then promptly released them onto bandcamp where other people could pay for them. (https://t.co/JuEyI3OKng) The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th tracks in this bandcmap release were all exclusive specials I had paid for, amounting to ~$540. They were 130 each at the time. So in response to him putting them out as well, I put them up for free. He copyright struck my soundcloud account for each one of them, and your account is meant to be deleted after 3. Luckily that did not happen, but this resulted in me not being able to make any money off soundcloud or enable direct downloads for a long while. In hindsight, I would have gotten over myself and had that conversation, as it would have saved me so much headache that I would deal with to this day even.

Circling back to the dubpack again, there is another element to it that came to light as of yesterday, and brings me to the main reason why I am making this post. There was a tune that I had started back in June of last year (https://t.co/uGOnsIyDVd). I asked if anyone would be interested in collabing on it, and I said yes to Sevnn, and then later on, to Azabim. Me and Sevnn were both in FL Studio so we could work on the project to the song together, but since Azabim was in Ableton, so I had to render out stems for him. After a bit, me and Sevnn crafted an intro together, while the drop to the tune stayed as my idea. Azabim had not sent anything over from the stems he had. No one at this point had worked on the drop yet aside from me. I had used this as justification to pop it in that dubpack with the other tunes to have a little bit more content in there. In hindsight, I should have asked, or taken out tags and names from the title, and even work around the intro to make it more of my own. But as I said, at the time, my reasoning was that the drop was just mine. It was still named ‘Midroll & Seven & Azabim - Panik v3 (playable)’ and included their tags. The reason I did not remove them for the dubpack was because I thought it would be disingenuous to them if it was meant to be a collab, when in reality it was just disingenuous to include it without their permission, regardless of how much work anyone had done on it. I apologize to both of them for that, and would do things differently if I could. This is where the issue started, back last year sometime; the reason why it had taken so long for it to come out was because Space Yacht was interested in releasing this tune around a month or two ago. We were all for it originally, but as the tune started getting wrapped up, I realized that I wasn't comfortable releasing it as it didn’t match the vision I’d had for the tune. During this time, I admittedly had been very distant from those two, and hardly answered their messages or the emails from the label. I was overwhelmed and could not bring myself to interact. I unfortunately took a while getting the stems back to Azabim, and there were issues with the ones I sent at first so it took extra time way from the deadline we had. But I did not want to upset either of them with my decision not to release it, so i postponed telling them. But l finally I told them after a while, and they didn’t seem too upset at it but were just annoyed that I had been ghosting for so long, which I can understand. Azabim then asks what we should do with the tune now that we aren't label releasing it, and asks if we should keep it as a dubplate or self release it. They agreed on dubplate, but then later find out that it had been sold last year in that 70 for 70 dubpack I’d mentioned before. I think that they thought this was a recent endeavor, as if I were denying the label release because I wanted to sell the track behind their back, which was not the case at all. It wasn't even finished. The version of the tune that was in that dubpack was my version, with the intro that Sevnn had helped with. (see part 7 of google doc). While I admittedly didn’t deem it to be that big of an issue at the time, my friends had shown me that I was reacting poorly to the situation, and only causing more trouble for the reputation and drama involvement of Funnybone Collective. In hindsight, of course I would have done things differently. I do NOT like losing friends or fans. These are people that support and care about me and have been here for ages. It is not fair the way I’d put my own interests ahead of Sevnn, Azabim and the FB members. I have and will learn from this situation and all others listed above.

Lastly, and really quickly I’d like to touch on the specials people purchase from me. I take a while sometimes, and try to let every customer know this when they buy. Sometimes it takes me a while to get the motivation I need in order to complete one, in between making other tracks for releases, prepping for and playing out shows, and general life stuff. I understand it is unfair to the buyer, but I always compensate for the time it takes with extra things like other dubplates, stems or otherwise, so they do not feel taken advantage of. I want to make sure every special I make for someone is just that, something special. Unique, well-produced and something that we are both proud of. I have been improving the ways I communicate this to people as I never want someone to feel left in the dark. I always appreciate the support and patience my buyers have, and it means a lot to me that they want their own version of one of my tunes. I do not take that for granted. I make sure I keep a list of all the ones I owe at a time, so that no one is ever forgotten; as stated before though, sometimes the amount of orders, quality control of those orders and other outside factors lead to longer than expected delays, which i apologize and provide extra for.

To close, I will always be the first to admit that I’ve done some wrong things in this community. I have always tried to be open about that, because now I know how wrong some of my ways were. I traded stems, sold things I shouldn’t have and more; but in the end, this is my passion and I want nothing more than to be able to produce the music I love for the people I love. Once again, I would like to formally apologize to the former members of @FunnyboneTM, @SEVNNmusic, @AzabimFR, @SUBZMUSIK, @DJAyonikz, @crysomemoredj, members of Fight Club that I've had trouble with in the past, all of my followers that lost trust in me, and any other people that may have been affected by my actions.
I am committed to this scene, and committed to growing and improving myself, for myself and those around me. The riddim community is small and niche, and I don’t want to be seen as a villain in it. My environment is a product of myself, and I want that to be a good one. I’ve had rough patches but I want people to know that I will continue to be transparent about the things that have happened and work on ensuring that situations like these do not repeat in the future. I respect the people that hold myself accountable for the shady behavior I participated in, and helped me see the error of my ways; now it is time for growth. I accept my mistakes, and will move on from them, and I hope you see and acknowledge that as well. I hope this does not dissuade people from wanting to work with me in the future, as these actions are not something I stand by these days.

Thank you to everyone; all of my supporters, friends, and my amazing girlfriend. I am sorry I disappointed you guys, and things will be better and clearer from now on. I hope everything in here makes sense, but if there are any questions, please leave a reply or DM me about anything. I love & appreciate you all.

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