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Kandi Burress says her former group, Xscape, had the same “sucky” record deal as TLC.

According to Kandi, that’s just the way things were in the recording industry at the time.

“To me, everybody got a bad deal in the beginning. Even now, people don’t get that great of a deal unless you build your own movement before you got signed.” Kandi told HipHollywood.com adding, “For us (Xscape) our deal sucked. We didn’t really get that much money on our first deal,” Kandi recalled. “I think we only had the same amount of points–like seven points off the deal. For a lot of people that was the same.”

Kandi admitted that she can understand why the deals may not have been set up to make artists rich right away.

“That’s what I expect because, in my mind, nobody’s going to go spend all this money and just give you all this money and you haven’t proven yourself yet,” Kandi said, explaining that there was always a chance to upgrade the deal you had. “Everybody went into deals at that time with a sucky deal and it was all about trying to renegotiate on your second time around or your third.”