9th Wonder leaves Little Brother, then they get dropped from Atlantic

[7 Syns]

9th Wonder leaves Little Brother, want to leave Atlantic

http://www.hiphopgame.com/news.php3?id=1510
"First, I want to say that Little Brother has not been dropped from
Atlantic," Rapper Pooh told HipHopGame. "At this time we are in the
process of negotiating our release from the label due to a difference in
philosophies."

"We asked to be released," Manager Big Dho added. "I think we may just
put the album out on Asylum to close our deal, but it's definitely a
wrap for us at Atlantic. We weren't happy with how things were going and
we decided we wanted to leave and on their end, they decided that they
didn't want to deal with that either."

"It's no big deal though," Dho added. "Nobody on our end is mad or has
any ill feelings towards their company."

"It wasn't a situation where they decided to drop us due to lack of
sales," Pooh said. "If that was the case, they never would have opened
up the budget for us to record Getback ."

Getback, Little Brother's third album, is close to completion but has no
release date yet.

"We as a group just felt that it was not in our best interest to remain
in a situation where our needs were constantly being overlooked. We
didn't have an A&R for The Minstrel Show. We don't have any type of
relationship with our current A&R. There are just a lot of internal
issues that ended up working against us."

Pooh also addressed the rumors regarding producer 9th Wonder's
involvement, or lack thereof, in Little Brother's Getback. "Little
Brother has decided, in the best interest of the group, for Little
Brother and 9th Wonder to part ways. There are no hard feelings and no
beef. This is just a decision that had to be made so all three of us
could move forward and continue to provide the world with dope music.

Little Brother's latest mixtape, And Justus For All, mixed by DJ Mick
Boogie, will be available for download February 13. "The decision to
release And Justus For All via download was a decision made by us. After
the Drama situation, we felt it was in the best interest of all of us to
just give this mixtape away with the current climate of the mixtape
scene."

And Justus For All will be available for download February 13. More
details on where to download it will be given closer to the release
date.

damn, what a shame. hopefully it was not due to ego's and that the Get Back still manages to drop somewhere, somehow.

peace.

 

[linx]

I was gonna post this but.. man the news just upset me that much. I'm sure they'll do fine without 9th, but he's the man. It sure as hell won't be the same, no doubt about that. But they didn't get dropped from Atlantic.

 

[7 Syns]

I believe that they did get dropped, though I have no evidence to back it. Phonte seems like the type of dude who if he got dropped he'd dance around the truth and say they're negotiating a release rather then just saying we got dropped.

But they still have a few dudes they can work with for beats like Nicolay, Krysis etc

peace.

 

[S O F I]

I like Nicolay's and Khrysis' production better anyway.

 

[linx]

I like Nicolay's and Khrysis' production better anyway.

Well I don't know if I like them better than 9th, but I like them alot as well. So it's not exactly bad to see 9th go and see them work more with dudes like Nicolay and Khrysis.

 

[Tekneek]

Is there any info. on the new Foreign Exchange album?

 

[Pittsey]

9th Wonder's production always sounds very limited to me... The beats are far to similar... Does he still use Fruity Loops?

 

[Telekinesiz]

9th Wonder's production always sounds very limited to me... The beats are far to similar... Does he still use Fruity Loops?

Yep. he does...

I'm sure Phonte and Big Pooh will rise from this awful situation and put all their efforts to make the best album possible.

Oh yeah, Khrysis and Nicolay are dope producers too.

Good luck to 9th whatever he's gonna do now.

Keep it up, Little Brother!