XXXTENTACION reportedly signed a deal with Caroline, a subsidiary of Capitol Music Group, last week. But according to the controversial artist, the deal is no longer on the table.
On Wednesday (October 25), X posted on social media that he’s “not a ‘signed’ artist.”
“Terminating my deal with ‘capitol records,’ his post began. “I am not a ‘signed’ artist, and I will not be releasing music for a very long time, I’m tired of this shit.”
(The original version of this article was published on October 20, 2017 and can be found below.)
Despite XXXTENTACION’s recent legal woes, the polarizing rapper has reportedly just inked a deal with Caroline, a subsidiary of Capitol Music Group. An unidentified source told Billboard the deal is worth $6 million. It will reportedly cover future material from the “Look At Me!” artist.
X’s inaugural full-length album, 17, which was released by Bad Vibes Forever/EMPIRE Distribution, hit the Billboard 200 chart at #2 with 87,000 equivalent album units sold it in its first week. It was EMPIRE’s biggest debut in its history.
The 19-year-old Florida native’s short career has already been besieged by controversy. In October 2016, he was arrested following allegations that he’d domestically abused his then-pregnant girlfriend. Subsequently, he was charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment and witness tampering in connection with the allegations.
Last month, Pitchfork obtained a scathing 142-page deposition that went into graphic detail about the alleged abuse the victim suffered leading up to his arrest.
X is scheduled to appear in court December 11 to address the charges, which he brushed off in a series of explicit rants.
HipHopDX reached out to X’s publicist for a comment, but didn’t immediately hear back.
Dang they be giving money away to this dudes that wont be around in 5 yrs.lol
He’s gonna be a tax write-off, lmao
He won’t get 1% of this money. Most people have no idea how the music industry works. Here is 6 million- buy a couple cars, gold grillz, lace you friends up, get more face tattoos. Ok cool now let’s press you 8 album deal, ok here is 100k dollar beats. Move units, go on tour. Oh shit album flopped, ok now you owe us all the 4 million dollars you spent on all that garbage back. Now he’s broke, in debt, no credit, everything repossessed, face tattooed up so no decent career aside from art……..
Nah, all this twitter hype and money talk is smoke and mirrors. He is garbage and kinda a piece of shit in the real world as well. All these young xzan bar’d out little kids are gonna be hurting bad in their 30’s if they make it that far.
Nah homie real hiphop getting bags taking care off their families!
Keep telling yourself that
lol you have absolutely no clue what the fuck you’re talking about,,That’s not how business works regardless or the industry. You don’t just spend all the investment money on bullshit,, that’s what the advances are for. All money is allocated accordingly. They don’t write you a check for 6 million and then send you on your way, hoping you can make things happen lol Just replace “music business” with “roofing business” and ask yourself if that would make any sense. It’s funny how there are never any perceived success stories when it comes signing a deal. If it was honestly that bad, everyone would’ve stopped signing deals of any kind over three decades ago. Bad business practices and having a product nobody really wants has nothing to do with the business as a whole
Corny as hell for this. With all the allegations and his attitude about it all but confirming such allegations, I can’t understand why a label would enable this very sick kid.
Go to school dude, nothing’s been confirmed about the case. Fuck out of here. You’ve formed your own opinion…oh wait….you’ve copied and pasted the opinion of someone else on the internet.
And your a little teenage bitch whos daddy didnt make enough time for you after work or your mommy sucked and fucked any cock that walked in for rent money only type of fans this piece of shit has haha
So called ” Real hiphop” don’t get the bag like this on the way in the game. You dummies keep freestyling for free
While your bitch ass is still broke.
While your does lines off of my nut sack fukboi
While your MOMS erase that bitch
Controversy and mediocrity wins again.
Why would you invest 6 mill on someone who is going to be in prison?
Men are victims of Domestic Violence. A white male who is equally responsible for fighting with his girlfriend faces no jail time. Keep in mind females create a CRISIS by using a baby as a tool for extortion. Did you read Sports Illustrated with Dwight Howard who says he has a 700 acre farm but all 5 baby mothers getting child support and none of the kids live there? Michael Jordan INVESTED in him after these women sought to sully his character as they created a plot to not have to work using him. If you never experienced a female telling you she is taking her birth control so ” TRUST HER” but she was lying and then claimed you both planned this using ” we, us, and our” family that she per-meditated and conspired in her attempt to PREVENT other women from dating you in her schemed to aggressively control you then its best not to think you know how a man should act when clearly his trust and feeling were exploited with that female. I am not advocating beating women- yet my own mother did this 5 times to men she thought she could TRAIN or use their paycheck to supplement her welfare benefits as she sought to be a stay at home wife. Judges are wise and know this domestic violence on men disguised as love from females have a dark side that cost men not chicks
Sounds like dudes need to be better judges of character. Maybe reeveluate their relationship if there is such drama. You know, take responsibility for ones participation in it. Adult style. Just saying. If dudes wanna have baby mamas all over, they chose that life. For real. I understand that some women are shady but as a real man, you should be able to assess the situation and decide if its a good look for you. Relationships are a two way deal. If you stay in a bad one, no one to blame but self.
Good for him, but his shit is fake deep.
6 million that I’m sure he’s gonna blow on drugs and hookers. He’s already laughing at his depressed and emotional part time thugs by flashing his gold teeth and everything else, this guy isn’t suffering with you, he’s trying to find the next stunt
Must feel good to give millions of dollars to a piece of shit who beats and trys to sadisticly control a pregnant woman someone needs to offer this guy a deal and when he walks in the room do like what they did to tommy devito in goodfellas towards the end…except instead of the head and a quick death shoot him in the gut and leave him to bleed out for hours
We dont know his life…. He could be completly innocent
Then he should act like a man of charecter not go on about how hes gonna sodomize anybodies sisters who think hes a women beater dudes fucked in the head
???? U GOT PROBLEMS , WHO THE FUK CARES ABOUT THIS LOSER
And your dude who replies to a 6 day old comment…and i care because dipshits like this dude dont deserve a platform for the shit he preaches and what the courts are gonna uncover about him mentaly and physicaly abusing a pregnant woman who realized hes as fucked of an individual as i myself or anybody else with half a brain notices…
He got tired of being sodomized
Sadly he’s a victim twice…Men of color have females DISCONTINUING their birth control knowing full damn well THEY( female) are running to public aid when birth control was free. He got exploited just like Chief Keef- as both have no father to help them navigate emotions or anger. Look at Black Chyna, didnt she have a baby by Tyga after she saw his contracts, then she decided to take birth control until she did the same thing with Rob Kardashian ( Bigger pay day). Ths young man needs prayers because the music business and females both will have guys sitting in a jail cell when the guys need anger management and intense counseling for all the traumatic ish these snakes are putting him thru
Of course you will not be releasing music for a very long time, more like not be able to make a new one. Hope you enjoy your cell stupid.
It’s probably a play to get his contract renegotiated. HHDX didn’t post an additional post he made “If you can catch my alleged previous contract, and add free international travel & free international stay I would be happy to be in business with you.” Get this dude up outta here. There’s way too many talented cats in the game but like I said, controversy and mediocrity is winning.
Pardon me, Its called GRATUITY(present,gift, donation, tip) or “perks” and or appeasement to take that gig. XXXTentacion is asking ” what will this cost me?”NOT being unreasonable to request these conditions. The old music business structure ate up all an artist money and they didn’t negotiate up front with promoters or vendors in other countries to offer to pay free air travel or Hotel boarding, instead they lined their own pockets and took it out against the artist contract and that’s why so many artist go bankrupt. This young man seems quite educated to ask for these things because Major labels create fabricated ITEMIZED list of everything they claimed they paid for. Imagine this fact- XXtentacion is paying for security, tour buses and all these grown adults travel and hotel rooms all coming out of his contract? Do your homework. If the gig is not paying to cover your overhead and your feeding all these grown leeching music executives it don’t make sense or money and you will go bankrupt.