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Actors nonetheless placing received an ally in Hip-Hop legend Kurtis Blow.

Noticed on Deadline, Hip Hop Alliance co-founder Kurtis Blow joined the actors on the picket line as SAG-AFTRA continues ongoing negotiations with studios to safe a good deal for the placing thespians.

Talking with the web site “The Breaks” crafter detailed how his SAG-AFTRA membership performed a big function in his choice to hitch the actors on the picket line.

As a result of he’s a member of the guild, the medical insurance was in a position to get a life-saving coronary heart transplant in December 2022.

Per Deadline:

I’m right here supporting all of the strikers, supporting SAG-AFTRA on this strike,” he instructed Deadline. “I believe it’s crucial that we present unity and solidarity. SAG-AFTRA is our companions, man. They’re our companions in Hip Hop Alliance. We love them a lot. As a matter of reality, the assets that we’ve got obtainable for all of our members is as a result of SAG-AFTRA cares about folks, particularly the SAG-AFTRA well being plan, which truly saved my life. I had a coronary heart transplant, and the SAG-AFTRA well being plan paid for all of it, over $8M, and I’m right here due to SAG-AFTRA. So, I thanks, I like you all. Please, let’s unite, let’s present solidarity, let’s stand robust, SAG-AFTRA robust child.

Kurtis Blow Understands Why The Actors Are Putting

The Hip Hop Alliance, which he based final 12 months with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Dougie Recent, fights for honest wages, honest royalties, and powerful retirement and well being advantages for artists within the Hip-Hop and R&B world. It additionally secured a cope with a SAG-AFTRA earlier this 12 months, so Blow feels the 2 entities are preventing the identical battle.

“It’s so crucial to the long run on this planet, the music that we make, so we’re preventing for honest wages, royalties, and the streaming, which is so crucial these days, everyone seems to be into A.I and streaming, and we’d like a good deal,” Blow added.

Salute to Kurtis Blow, and we nonetheless have our fingers crossed this strike ends, and the actors lastly get what they deserve from these studios.

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