Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label has reportedly parted ways with Def Jam Recordings.
According to The New York Times, Ye’s label — home to artists like Pusha T, 070 Shake and Kanye himself — is no longer under Def Jam after more than a decade in business together.
The news comes after Kanye West departed Def Jam as a solo artist last year after releasing his final album on the label, Donda, in August 2021.
“He is no longer signed to Def Jam, his longtime record company; his contract expired with his 2021 album, Donda,” The New York Times reported. “And Ye’s own label, G.O.O.D. Music … is also no longer affiliated with Def Jam, according to a person briefed on the deals.”
It’s unclear whether G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam ended their relationship before or after Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic and “White Lives Matter” controversy. The last album to be released through G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam was 070 Shake’s You Can’t Kill Me on June 3.
Kanye West has come under heavy fire in recent weeks following repeated anti-Semitic comments and “White Lives Matter” shirt. Various other companies have since cut ties with the rap mogul, including adidas, Balenciaga and Vogue magazine.
Ye has also been dropped by his powerhouse booking agency, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), while film and television studio MRC shelved a completed documentary about him this week due to his anti-Semitic outbursts.
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G.O.O.D. Music officially joined forces with Island Def Jam in 2011 after signing an “exclusive long-term worldwide label agreement.”
Big Sean’s debut LP Finally Famous was the first album to be released as part of the deal, followed by high-profile projects like Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, Pusha T’s Daytona and G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer.
At the time of the announcement, Universal Motown Republic Group and Island Def Jam Music Group chairman and COO, Barry Weiss, said: “G.O.O.D. Music is an exciting new chapter in the long and successful association of Kanye West and Island Def Jam.
“As a recording artist and a producer over the past eight years, there is no one who has made a greater impression on the game than Kanye. We look forward to working closely with the new and established artists that he will be bringing to G.O.O.D. Music, which is already off to an impressive start with Big Sean.”
and adidas just dropped him how ironic a company founded by notzis well ye might be cra zy but hes bein proven right, next theyll ban him from seein his kids, and his fortunes about to take a huge hit least he can still sell out shows
I hope you’re no older than 13 with that type of logic and grammar
Ninja Turtles video game be like, “Who turned the lights off?”
FINALLY people are cancelling this clown.. When his kids are bullied and put through hell in school maybe then he will stop being a piece of shit.. But we all know it will be everyone else’s fault, not his or his perfect ex wife’s..
Can you imagine having to go to school and defend yourself from what your mother and father did?!
Get your popcorn ready, folks!
Or they could learn to seperate the art from the artist and move on with their lives
Exactly, only a fucking loser would want someone cancelled. You have the ability to pay attention to the things you want to, and ignore the things that you don’t care about or agree with.
Exactly – these sheep too trapped to see it – but he baiting these clowns into burning down their own credibility & integrity stock – dummies walking right off the cliff all on baseless passion
Hell no we ain’t. – I’m banging Ye at my son’s graduation party. If y’all can continue to respect current justice department & FBi that has brought zero additional charges against participants in the Epstein private island escapades – we can keep bumping Ye for despite some verbal opinions that got y’all all in a tizzy because you lack contextual intelligence.
So now we speaking about his kids getting bullied with GLEE??? Y’all people in general society like this are the true trash & clowns – lack maturity to separate a personal opinion from one’s art. And again you sheep along with theses various industry entities are just proving him right. Y’all been master chessed & dominoed in one swift swoop. In the spirit of Drake; “you getting out smarted by a mental ninja”
My response to G.O.O.D. Music no longer on Def Jam, GOOD!
So you are basically saying fuck pusha t then?
Only white nerds listen to Pusha T. Dude is 50 and still acts like he’s cooking and selling crack. The hood knows he’s faking that shit. Only corny white boys who want to be hard listen to that fake gangsta bullshit.
They parted ways a year ago lol
He hasn’t been on Def Jam for over a year. Y’all jumping on that hate narrative bullshit too? Fuck y’all fake ass “Hip Hop” site. Your trash site has been shit for years now. Y’all don’t rep the culture, y’all just some vultures.
They parted ways last year lol