Monday, December 14, 2015

Atlantic Records is "Suppressing" Hip Hop Artists

According to reports, Atlantic Records SUUUUUUCKS. Being an artist, obviously you should always be comfortable with who is going to be dealing around your music and how much exposure they will be trying to get you, because social media only goes so far (very incredibly immensely far nowadays, why not just stay independent anyways?). As an artist you have to be able to sell a song on the radio (have a single to push to the public), but the rest of the selling you'd think would be the label's job right?  Atlantic Records apparently does not do a very good job of giving their artists (ironically all hip hop artists, unsure if any other artists of other genres have problems) exposure. Here's 3 cases where rappers have made problems with Atlantic Records public.

Lupe Fiasco

Lupe had such issues with Atlantic Records at one point that for the release of his album Food & Liquor 2; The Great American Rap Album in 2012, Lupe used an all black album cover (above) without the stamps of the label on it to get back at Atlantic. Last year it was reported that Lupe "can't wait to get off Atlantic Records" because he "refused to sign a 360 deal." It'd be interesting to see what happens with Lupe if/when he gets off of Atlantic.

Waka Flocka

Waka Flocka has been having problems with Atlantic Records since the first half of this year, and it looks like they won't be slowing down anytime soon. Back in April, Flocka blamed Atlantic for delaying the release of his long awaited album Flockaveli 2. Reports were that Waka was getting so fed up with Atlantic that not only did he want them to buy out his contract, but Waka also sent out mass tweets telling fans to call Atlantic and demand his release from the company! Are we starting to see a trend here?

B.o.B

B.o.B is the latest rap artist to claim Atlantic Records is "suppressing" him. About a week ago (December 7th) Bob sent out some tweets ranting about Atlantic claiming that they (similar to Waka) don't attempt to get him any exposure. It makes sense seeing as B.o.B (as of late) has been talking about some conspiracy theories and using his music as a platform to question the government (normally big companies don't respond well to that kind of talk, who knows why).

So here's my question to Atlantic Records; why suppress successful artists with die hard fan bases?  How does that benefit you?  Wouldn't it make more sense to promote them more so you can make more money?  It doesn't make sense to me. If any other artists come out and boycott Atlantic, I can't say I'd be surprised at this point. Those corporate big wigs are up to some awfully fishy stuff...  


       
 




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