Scott Storch recently had some harsh words for The Roots. The super producer claimed the legendary group were “haters” after he began working with Dr. Dre.
Storch was a member of The Roots band from 1993 to 1995 and contributed to several albums after his departure Appearing on Patrick Bet-David’s podcast, he took aim the the Philadelphia rap legends,
“I started in The Roots and did a lot of the stuff for them, very underappreciated. I was the guy who, again, came up with a lot of the nucleus of what that shit was,” Storch recalled. “And I left the group and was told that I was, like, the Pete Best of The Roots. You know, Pete Best is the guy that quit The Beatles.”
“Even my girlfriend broke up with me and said, ‘Oh, you f**ked up’ and this and that. I was like, ‘No, I didn’t. I see bigger.’ I’m not gonna go on the road with a bunch of guys that don’t appreciate me and be like, ‘That’s the white guy who plays keys in The Roots.’ I’m the fucking guy coming up with all the sh*t,” he continued.
“In fact, they called me the white devil.”
Storch also shared he tried to help DMX kick his drug habit while he struggled with his own demons.
It was like the blind leading the blind. I’m a coke addict and he’s a crack addict, and I’m trying to help him. I’m like, ‘[Snorts coke] you really need to get clean, man.’ What the fuck? I’m like, ‘You need to go to rehab.’
“So I convinced him to avoid a jail sentence for a charge he had or whatever. He went to rehab and was getting his shit together at a place where I had gone, but it didn’t really work for me. I had him there, I really did care about him, I wanted him off that shit. That was a faster suicide than I was even on.”