Hot off of her win against the Iowa Hawkeyes, star LSU basketballer Flau’jae Johnson is now in talks to sign with Bu Thiam of Columbia Records. TMZ caught up with the EVP while at a local airport. On April 9th, TMZ caught up with former Def Jam Records Vice President Bu Thiam, who is now […]
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Juicy J has had some problems with Columbia records for some time now and has made his issues with his label very public.
On Saturday morning (Feb 29), Juicy J dropped a diss track entitled “Fuk Columbia Records,” where he vented out his frustrations with the label and compared Columbia to slave masters. The track’s cover art featured a picture of Prince with “SLAVE” written on his face, in reference to the issues Prince had with Warner Records. Prince’s speech at the 2000 Soul Train Awards was also sampled in the diss track. In his speech, Prince spoke out against the industry and encouraged up and coming artists not to sign to labels.
Prior to dropping the diss track, Juicy was airing out his frustrations with Columbia records on Twitter. “Fuk @ColumbiaRecords I’m gonna leak my whole album stay tuned,” Juicy J tweeted. “Finna drop a new songs called ‘FUK! @ColumbiaRecords’ stay tuned. I gave @ColumbiaRecords 20+ years of my life & they treat me like back wash.” He then teased the diss track with a video of him dancing along to it.
Later that evening, Juicy took the diss track down and tweeted, “Spoke to @ColumbiaRecords We are all good!”
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Tyga proved that he still had hits left in the chamber after his massive 2011 single “Rack City” with 2018’s “Taste” featuring Offset, and the release of his seventh studio album, Legendary. Now, the 29-year-old rapper is back in the major label fold after inking a multi-million dollar deal with Columbia Records.
As exclusively reported by Variety, Tyga, born Michael Ray Stevenson, signed with Columbia Records after the success of the aforementioned “Taste” and appearances on chart-topping hits from Iggy Azalea on “Kream” and “Go Loko” from YG. Tyga told the outlet that the pairing between him and Columbia is something he’s looking forward to.
From Variety:
Joining the Sony Music label was a decision made with a global view, Tyga tells Variety. “They definitely understand the global brand,” he says of the company. “I have a lot of fans worldwide — in places I’ve never been like South America, and in places I have been like Asia and Europe. They can help bring that to a larger scale. Doing it independently, you don’t really have those teams to help worldwide. Sony, if you look at the history from what they’ve done from Pharrell to Beyonce to Adele — then you look at Lil Nas X, one of their new artists that’s blown up this year — they’ve done a lot for artists globally, for their brand. That’s why I wanted to partner up with them.”
Congrats to Tyga!
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Last night’s staggering Episode 4 of the HBO hit series Game of Thrones officially solidified that this will go down as one of the greatest television shows of all time, with the final two episodes guaranteed to send fans into a collective state of shock. However, yesterday’s airing of “The Last of the Starks” wasn’t the only premiere to come from the fantastical series, as the GoT-themed music video for “Power Is Power” by SZA, The Weeknd and Travis Scott has officially dropped.
Arriving off For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones, “Power is Power” sees all three hitmakers channeling a key character going for the Iron Throne in the series. The Weeknd starts things off with a homage to Jon Snow/Aegon Targaryen, in addition to the ominous Night King. While we saw the latter meet his fate by way of fan-favorite Arya Stark — a moment that will seriously go down in small-screen history — there’s still a very good chance that Jon will accept his destiny as the rightful king and rise into his true calling. Abel croons “I rise from my scars / Nothing hurts me now / ‘Cause power is power / Now watch me burn it down,” and you cen’t help but think its foreshadowing to a series finale where a resurrected male heir to the Targaryen dynasty takes the Throne.
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— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) May 5, 2019
SZA comes in next, and we see her channeling two queens actually: Daenerys Targaryen, the series’ underdog that fans have been rooting for to claim the royal ranking perceived to be rightfully hers, and also Queen Akasha, the vampire queen played by R&B icon Aaliyah in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned. The latter might be a bit of a stretch, but seeing as the crown Solana wears is almost identical to the one Akasha rocks in the campy flick that would unfortunately be Baby Girl’s last in her lifetime, it could be a slightly-veiled homage from one popular female chanteuse to another that inspired her career. The ode to Dany is quite obvious though, especially through lyrics that might even foreshadow the fate of our former Khaleesi. As she sings, “You wouldn’t take my place / Put me away / I’d die lookin’ up at your face,” and ends her verse with “Only love could kill me,” it’s not hard to assume that a battle between two certain lovers may be the deciding factor on who actually comes out on top.
Travis closes the song with his signature ad-libs and digitized vocals, and he seems to be representing for Team Stark. Bars like “Lift the mask / They gon’ have to see what they can’t erase,” and “my lil baby, slay” are almost synonymous with Arya Stark, who killed the Night King during last week’s groundbreaking episode and also spent the better part of the series becoming a ruthless “masked” assassin known as the Faceless Men. At this point in the show, there’s no telling who will actually take the Throne, and after what has become of the Stark legacy it would be one amazing ending to give Ned, Catelyn and their entire lineage of loss family members a rightful form of vengeance.
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