It’s one thing to have a hit record, but if the song isn’t your own composition, your earnings from it are inevitably going to be limited. Such is the experience of Wyclef Jean, who’s been discussing how his band The Fugees’ version of Killing Me Softly With His Song, which was made famous by Roberta Flack, made “eight million dollars” for someone else, before he found himself on the other side of the financial fence when DJ Khaled sampled one of his songs.
Discussing Killing Me Softly, Jean told the 85 South Show: “We ain’t write it, but we performed it and it was amazing. And we made somebody eight million dollars, right? So that mean that, whoever was the composer who wrote it was literally sleeping in his bed, and he made eight million dollars like that [clicks fingers].”
