SKRIPPA BOWL
Quality Control (“QC”) is a record label owned by Pierre “Pee” Thomas. It kinda has everybody who is anybody in Atlanta right now – including Migos, Lil Yachty, Lil Baby, Marlo, City Girls, Trippie Red (who is signed to a management division of the label), and even Cardi B (who is signed under a management deal). QC hosted strippers and patrons at the Dome, located at 1700 NE Second Ave., Monday night as part of their second annual post-Super Bowl party called “The Stripper Bowl.” But unlike last year's event in. Atlanta, this shit was…apparently dead.
Imagine being a patron: being in attendance at a party that features a decadent 2020 lifestyle filled with Fashion Nova dresses, Gucci pumps, champagne towers, glamorous settings, and more ass than you have ever seen in your entire life – watching the strobe lights flash and the turn tables spin as each cheek bounces from left to right.
Now imagine being a dancer: working hard to keep your back arched and head in an upright position for over 10 hours while middle-aged married men and out-of-shape single fathers were trying to touch what the Lord gave you. Imagine being ankle deep in over a million dollars and only taking home…a stack? That’s the same amount of money that Remy Ma – nevermind.
Quality Control’s CEO “Pee” addressed the situation saying: “To all the dancers that was at the party last night please understand that we don’t own clubs or venues. We don’t control or make the rules of how many girls dance, who split or pay out, how much money get stolen. I personally know a lot of money was thrown between our camp and you all know this. We don’t do contracts with dancers. Sorry for any confusion that went on but that’s out of our control. We will get better control next time we do this fun event.” Cardi B, under management by QC, took to Instagram Live to voice her opinion, claiming essentially that the dancers were trash which made a lot of people want to keep their money in their pockets: “You all weren’t entertaining!” Cardi exclaimed. “... you got to shake your ass.”
This is how I think it went down
Random Stripper: “Yall got all this money and you are only about to pay us a rack?”
Cardi B: “Yall heaxus weren’t even shaking yall ass”
Pee: “See what had happened was – we don’t got control over who gets the money, so it’s not our fault.”
*Random strippers begin stealing all of the money*
*Another random stripper starts throwing hands*
*Bystanding strippers start hollering about thievery*
*Rest of the strippers are left with nothing and walking around barefoot at 7 am outside of the stripper bowl without money for gas home*
All of the rappers at QC: “Welp, we are rich so who cares, yall wanna hit the Audemars store and get some new Piguets?”
Okay, on a more serious note, my research has brought me to 4 possible conclusions: (1) QC did not have enough control over the event to dictate the payouts to the strippers; (2) the quality of the dancing was below par; (3) an excess of dancers/insufficient funds to pay each what they wanted; or (4) insufficient security so the money could have been potentially stolen. This is the tea: QC most certainly had enough control over the event to be able to disburse more money to the strippers. They had control over the number of dancers that were hired, and considering over a million dollars was thrown, there was most certainly not insufficient funds to pay the dancers. And even if there was insufficient security and even if a portion of the money was stolen, there were still ample profits to be able to give the strippers more than a rack. Moral of the story: REGARDLESS OF THE PERCEIVED QUALITY OF THE DANCERS, THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN PAID SIGNIFICANTLY MORE MONEY
Although it seems like women would be making rolls of cash, the amount of money a stripper makes on any given night is unpredictable and influenced by factors ranging from the weather, the economy, a dancer’s mood, her costume, whether the crowd is feeling her…etc. For many dancers, money made from stripping does not provide them with the much needed financial security they need. This is especially because most dancers don’t get paid by the club – they usually make the minimum wage which is $2.13 federally for people who make tips. These means that strippers rely on tips - which QC knows because they have female artists signed to their label who have previously been strippers - so I am absolutely not buying QC’s “control” argument. Not only this, the dancers are usually splitting the tips between the bouncers, DJ, and the bartenders – which QC also knows…so again, not buying any of their arguments.
The solution is simple. They should guarantee the strippers a certain amount of money upfront. Not only that, but they should have tryouts, but call the best strippers from all across the world to come. The publicity alone from doing this would make them enough money for them to cover the costs to pay the dancers. Also, it could turn into something that brands all of the best dancers in the country – essentially, anybody who is anybody, tries out for the Stripper Bowl. They can have Young Miami, JT, and Cardi B host the tryouts just like they did for the “Twerk” video.
I honeslty just need them to hire me. I actually have a playlist on my phone called “Skrippa Bowl” and it has all of the rump shaking songs of the century – “Back That Azz Up,” “Whistle While You Twerk,” “Bring It Back,” etc. Any song that you can think of that has to do with throwing money and gyration is on that playlist. If anyone wants to go toe to toe with me and challenge me for the best playlist, please comment and we can go to war.