A few eyebrows were raised following Atlantic Records’ decision to sign fouled-mouth teen Danielle Bregoli under her Bhad Bhabie moniker last month. Now, it looks like sought after Hip Hop producer Metro Boomin is calling out the label for “stealing souls” and several artists are backing him up, including Joe Budden.
Metro kicked off his lengthy Twitter tirade on Wednesday (October 18) with what he dubbed a public service announcement.
“PSA to producers everywhere, don’t let @AtlanticRecords steal your soul.”
The tweet was linked to a photo of a text message exchange between a consultant who goes by Noahxzark and an unidentified person asking him for a list of Atlanta producers to prepare for a meeting with an Atlantic A&R.
Metro clarified who was referring to in his initial tweet and named Warner Music Group’s Mike Caren and the Artist Publishing Group (APG) Division. He accused them of robbing talented artists.
“It is just so demeaning to take advantage of hungry artists/producers/writers who put their whole life into their music just 4 u to rob them,” he wrote.
The always outspoken Joe Budden threw in his two cents, writing via Twitter, “Still preparing my Mike Caren expose, he’s been trash for awhile now …….”
Fellow producers Mike Will Made It and London On Da Track also chimed in, backing up Metro Boomin’s tweet that APG “play by their own rules.”
“Factual, Caron looked 2012 Mike Will in the eyes after hearing my whole catalog and said you don’t have ANY hits but we can help u wit that,” Mike Will wrote.
Metro followed up with, “They basically just want to slave you and steal your music to make hits.”
London On Da Track replied, “That’s all they want to do.”
On October 10, Caren tweeted a link announcing a new social-media talent search. Subsequently, Metro retweeted Caren’s post and warned against it.
Metro also listed a few names of executives he feels are better suited for the job in an attempt to help those burgeoning artists.
“Dallas Martin, Orlando Wharton, and Lanre Gaba are good friends and black execs who do great business and wanna help us win,” he wrote.
HipHopDX attempted to reach out to Caren, but he was unavailable.
Check out the tweets above.
chairman and chief executive officer of Atlantic Records is Craig Kallman. remember when Lupe Fiasco called these very same people out for this shit he was labelled anti-semitic and his career was over. also at least one of the founders of Atlantic in 1947, Abramson, was also jevvish. what a coincidence, right. these (((people))) been pimpin both black and white artists since the beginning (jazz musicians a good example)
This is what happens when N****s think white is always right and say I don’t want to F*** with Tidal and sign with apple and then write post of being treated unfair from the same people you were warned about who do you blame, you out here making someone else house stronger and not trying to build with your own family, look at post Malone, Cardi was #1 and they found a way by boosting his fake numbers and make him #1 all N****s should be on Roc Nation and watch how they will start respecting N****s but black people are not strong enough to realize look at the NBA they stick together and now there getting contracts like never before look at all the male MC’s they all look like women and look at the women MC’s they harder than the men, Rap will become the women game
“CO-SIGNS EVERY WORD” STRAIGHT TRUTH! #TIDALFORALL
Funny…being that Cardi is signed to Atlantic lol oh the irony
Too bad they don’t listen
I’d rather make no money off my art than make Pennys on the dollar for something I created alone…..taking no losses for no one
the old tricks of the past practice by record labels is being exposed, Hollywood is crumbling , look around these female actress are coming out and when the men come out its over the pedophiles will be exposed in Music and Hollywood Game over !!!!!!!!!!!
and who runs Hollywood and music business? mainstream media and the entire entertainment industry? not white people, not black people. look at the names, facial features.. im sure you find a common denominator, a certain ethnicity/religion. these are facts you can’t deny. i must be a evil white suoremacist for speaking the truth aka hate speech.
THE WHITE MAN IS THE DEVIL.
Nothing to do with the white man…. look at guys like yo gotti who bring guys on like moneybagg yo and only offer a $200,000 advance vs the typical $1,000,000 and then has do his bidding like blacc youngstas crew shootin at dolph… its evil within HUMANITY look at africa today for instance your own kind sell eachother out for a mere $100 but atlantic is fucking retarded and gonna crumble everybody with them distribution deal or otherwise is gonna jump ship its an insult to be on a roster with someone like bhad babie when youve worked so hard just ti be next to a trash viral sensation its garbage
the white man has crippled and fucked over africa and fucked over every were he goes and fuck you
(((the “white” man)))
oh so he likes the “black execs” lol
In 2017? If anybody is getting their soul stolen or pimped in two thousand motherfucking 17, they deserve it. It’s like all these people talking about they’re turning people out to be gay in Hollywood and shit to get on. No they aren’t. They’re gay dudes who now have the power Harvey Winestein used to have over all of those women he fucked who you know he couldn’t get if he was just Harvey Smith unless he paid for it if they were willing to play ball when he tried them. Same difference. No cults. No voodoo. Human nature, and if you’re falling for that shit in this day and age when you don’t need a DJ to break your record, that’s your fault that you’re that wayward in your morals in order to get on.
I mean it’s dudes in places like Houston and the Bay who have been getting good money forever and a day who nobody outside of regionally know who they are. They monetized their talent, cut out the middle man because they weren’t thirsty for fame, and did their thing. These avenues are available more than ever to artists everywhere today, but too many of them want everybody to know their name overnight and want those endorsement deals and big name concert tickets instead of grinding.