<![CDATA[If A Hip-Hop Artist Leaves A Label, Will Either Make A Sound? - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[If A Hip-Hop Artist Leaves A Label, Will Either Make A Sound? - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:48:39 EDT Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:48:39 EDT http://idolator.com/396696/if-a-hip+hop-artist-leaves-a-label-will-either-make-a-sound <![CDATA[If A Hip-Hop Artist Leaves A Label, Will Either Make A Sound?]]> http://idolator.com/396696/if-a-hip+hop-artist-leaves-a-label-will-either-make-a-sound#c6561078 LL Cool J is playing a Tampa Bay Rays game this summer. Other artists playing Rays games include Loverboy and MC Hammer. 'Nuff said.

MrStarhead

]]> 33:396696:c6561078 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:48:39 EDT <![CDATA[If A Hip-Hop Artist Leaves A Label, Will Either Make A Sound?]]> http://idolator.com/396696/if-a-hip+hop-artist-leaves-a-label-will-either-make-a-sound#c6314505 If it results in rap albums being priced under fifteen dollars I'll consider it a win. For me.

Handsome Pete

]]> 33:396696:c6314505 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:54:25 EDT <![CDATA[If A Hip-Hop Artist Leaves A Label, Will Either Make A Sound?]]> http://idolator.com/396696/if-a-hip+hop-artist-leaves-a-label-will-either-make-a-sound#c6313587 Isn't the Jay-Z deal a little early to proclaim it as proving anything yet?

Also, glad to see I wasn't the first to think of Koch. How about LL, KRS and Marley teaming up?

Captain Wrong

]]> 33:396696:c6313587 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:34:53 EDT <![CDATA[If A Hip-Hop Artist Leaves A Label, Will Either Make A Sound?]]> http://idolator.com/396696/if-a-hip+hop-artist-leaves-a-label-will-either-make-a-sound#c6313114 @Al Shipley: I had an actual laugh out loud moment when I first read the article and Big Boi's manager was quoted as saying three Outkast projects would be out by early next year. It's possible planet Stankonia has a different calendar than we do, but if they're going on Earth years, it would be a pleasant surprise to see ONE release in that time period.

Dan Gibson

]]> 33:396696:c6313114 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:02:01 EDT <![CDATA[If A Hip-Hop Artist Leaves A Label, Will Either Make A Sound?]]> http://idolator.com/396696/if-a-hip+hop-artist-leaves-a-label-will-either-make-a-sound#c6311137 Billboard's whole premise is based on the shaky assumption that these artists' next albums will come out when scheduled and resolve their contracts very soon. Since when do major label rap albums come out on time? Before I Self Destruct was originally planned to come out before Curtis, then it was planned to come out in February on the 5th anniversary of GRODT, and now it's being pushed back for a G-Unit album, so I'll be very surprised if you see it anytime in 2008. And Big Boi is constantly promising Outkast and Outkast-related projects in interviews that either never materialize or only finally do 3 years later. By the time these guys are free agents, the landscape will probably have shifted again, and instead of LiveNation or Koch we'll be talking about some other alternative entirely.

Al Shipley

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