Matthew Koma SLAMS 'S**tty' Zedd For 'Abusive' Work Relationship!

Matthew Koma would “rather work at Starbucks and clean the toilets” than collaborate with Zedd ever again.
On Wednesday on social media, Hilary Duff‘s fiancé penned a lengthy statement regarding his relationship with the DJ, born Anton Zaslavski.
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The two worked on several songs, including 2012’s Spectrum, 2014’s Find You, and 2012’s Clarity, where Koma is listed as a songwriter.
The 32-year-old wrote:

“In response to years of: ‘What happened with you & Zedd.’ I want to finally be transparent about this…it’s a really sad truth because I’m extremely proud of the work he and I did together…unfortunately my good feelings toward those songs have all but disappeared as they were experienced alongside someone to toxic and self serving that it occupied the space where any happiness could exist.'”

He continued:

“It’s not that dramatic of a story and it comes down to something simple. S**tty people suck and when they’re successful, people are afraid to blow the whistle.”

Though the two met as “equals,” Koma wrote that the “blows started small.”
Allegedly, Zedd gave interviews about “the lyrics he wrote” without naming Koma, when Matthew insists he “wrote every word and melody.”
Additionally, the Russian-German musician allegedly produced a Koma-penned song called Suitcase, but disallowed Matthew from releasing it — allegedly insisting that the song by credited as “ZEDD” with “another featured singer or [Koma] couldn’t have it.”
Koma also claimed that Zedd did not want his voice featured on Find You, explaining:

“Writing Find You with him in Japan him and him actively telling me he didn’t want my voice on the song, but since it was recorded literally on Christmas to meet a deadline, maybe it was hard to find someone I guess? Mind you, this is after I wrote 3 of his four first singles and helped him have one of the biggest songs of that year.”

Matthew also said he was not invited to the 2014 Grammys — where Zedd won Best Dance Recording for Clarity — and was not interviewed or invited to the premiere for the producer’s documentary.
He added:

“[It] felt confusing because the millions of people who connected to Clarity and those other songs, seemed to connect to the lyrics / emotion / melodies I had written… For years I thought maybe it was me, but over time I’d run into other people who worked with him — other writers / singers / producers / DJ’s / People on his own team… and the sentiment was shared. He’s the worst.”

Overall:

“[I would] rather work at Starbucks and clean the toilets than ever experience that abusive dynamic again… Toxicity doesn’t breed happiness. Alexa, play Happy Now. Actually please don’t.”

Read the full statement (below):