Your talent was never a lie. I respect you guys hardcore. Nobody can take what you accomplished from you.

So the message from the music industry is - talent doesn't matter, brand is what matters.

They made their own songs, wrote their own lyrics...still true artists in my book. Nothing Milli Vanilli about that.

Drugs was the missing story character that explains the last part.

They were real rappers actually, just with a fake background story

I don’t get why they would be sued: their songs were theirs, where is the fraud? They just rewrote their biography... so what!  They were talented and they were selling.

It’s almost like Sony was just embarrassed from their gullibility, I don’t see any crime in what they did. Pure genius 👌👊

How is this a con game though? They still performed their own music, live, with their own voices. At most you can say they are posers but even that's a stretch. Plenty of UK artists sing with American accents, hell half the world has artists singing in English despite living in a country that uses another language.

Iggy Azalea comes from Australia and puts on an Atlanta Blaccent but these guys are von artists? Please!

Dude this could be a movie, or an amazing Netflix documentary at least. I'd watch it.

Do you think if I fake a Scottish accent, I could get my novel published?

I respect them for getting away with it as long as they did pre-social media.

I love how he said “i take one of the tracks and upload it in american” lmaoo

If they did this today it’d be all fine lmao 21 savage was from the UK sayin he was from here 😂

I remember watching a documentary about them a while ago. One of them is from my home town of Arbroath and the other one is from Dundee

If this is a called a con then probably 90% of the music artists are conman

What a long, strange trip it's been.

Buy the book "Straight outta Scotland". It's this story, but mucccch more.

This just shows that people do not care about true talent, but only believe in the perception that someone is talented.

This is fucking gold. These 2 should have been awarded not condemned, the only reason people got pissed off is because they realised how dumb they were for not working it out.