With his recent signing to Epic Records earlier this year, Namebrand is set to release his first official project since the milestone next week. Speaking with HipHopDX ahead of Monday’s release, Namebrand explains how support from Sha Money XL led to performing live in L.A. Reid’s office and an offer from the label less than an hour later.
“It’s a very rare situation at Epic because I got signed off talent,” he says in a clip that premiered in today’s DX Daily. “I didn’t have no fucking big Twitter following and a million views on YouTube. I went in there and performed. They flew me out to New York. I went into the office and performed for L.A. Reid live, like two three songs. ‘Suicide City,’ like giving him bars. And then, next thing I know, a half an hour later I had a deal on the table. That shit don’t happen nowadays. Now they want the whole thing. I know that he was in there before, reiterating to them like, ‘Fuck all that. He’s the next dude. I believe.’ That’s what made me want to make the decision, and I know he gon’ work the machine to do it. You know what I’m saying? It clears up a lot of the legwork doing it independent, ‘cause it’s a lot of legwork you gonna have to do independent. That takes away from your craft a lot of the time. As artists we don’t wanna deal with the business a lot of the times, we wanna just fucking get in there and pen and bar out. I think that’s what it was for me, the fact of the big homie believing in me and really putting me up on the forefront like, ‘You the next dude up.’ That’s what made me wanna make the decision.”
Namebrand’s The Great II mixtape is scheduled for release on Monday, November 24. His latest single “I Don’t Wanna Know” features BJ The Chicago Kid and is available to stream on HipHopDX here.
RELATED: Namebrand – “WHIPS”
Ask S.B.O.E. how Sha Money’s support led them to getting signed and dropped from Epic Records in the same year (2014) without dropping any music.
WHO’S S.B.O.E.???
exactly… LOL
Slow Bucks Over Everything is just some lame ass rap group from NY that thought they was gonna blow up… until they played around with 50 and he had one of them robbed on stage at summer jam, Slowbucks held a press conference with his lawyer and the rest is history.
50 fucked that up sboe my ass g unit
SO… WHO’S NAMEBRAND AGAIN???
Death grips were signed off talent by epic, simon cowel printed the contract and two years later were fired for dropping the album for free and having the cover be the drummers erect penis.
What an idiot!!! First off he signed a record deal… You already lose points for that!!! Then you sign a deal 30 minutes after you showcase? No attorney??? You take a quick check say 75k upfront for your record to be sold to McDonalds 20 years from today like how you see NFL did the Rob Base “It Takes Two” record, while you are watching this from your living room wondering if you got a check for that???? Hip Hop will be live again once people stop jumping up & down for record deals. Having a record deal is like celebrating your acceptance letter to a university, knowing you have Unsubsudized loans to repay.