Westside Gunn is preparing for the release of his major label debut through Shady Records, so it looks like it’s all love despite the shot he seemed to take at the label last month.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday (July 14), the Buffalo native revealed Who Made The Sunshine is already in the can and made sure to note it will be released through Eminem’s imprint alongside Griselda Records and Interscope.
“NOTHING in the HISTORY of @ShadyRecords sounds like ‘WHO MADE THE SUNSHINE’ absolutely NOTHING!!!” he wrote. “Y’all gonna say he did P4P (AOTY) then AwesomeGOD2 just for the Culture then his debut Major release that sounds like this YOUR WELCOME #FLYGOD #CULTURE #ART #BUFFALOKIDS. And YES the “WHO MADE THE SUNSHINE” ALBUM IS DONE and will be released thru GXFR/SHADY/INTERSCOPE.”
Gunn seemingly took a shot at Em’s label during the 2020 BET Awards on June 28, when he took to Twitter questioning whether Shady Records even knew Griselda had a nomination in the Best Group category.
“I wonder do @ShadyRecords know we’re nominated for a BET AWARD tonight,” he tweeted.
Who Made The Sunshine‘s announcement comes just over a week since the July 2 release of Gunn’s latest mixtape, Flygod Is An Awesome God 2. Features included fellow Griselda member Benny The Butcher as well as underground talents among the likes of Stove God Cook$ and Rome Streetz.
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In April of this year, Gunn released his Pray For Paris LP after being inspired during his trip to Paris Fashion Week. The 13-track album featured appearances from Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher, Freddie Gibbs, Roc Marciano, Joey Bada$$ and more. Revisit the project below.
I cops all “they” shit!
You already kno Bro, it’s so refreshin to hear dem cats do their thing, ✌
by new sound does he mean a new gun sound adlib on every track?
I can’t make it thru the first verse with these guys.
Hands down the most annoying rapper in the game. Voice is like nails on a chalk board.
You buggin, Griselda is jus wht da game needed right now, shits Beautiful, La-La-La, La-La-La!!
I agree, Griselda is what the game needed. It would be better if Westside did less rapping and more behind the scenes business and let Benny and Conway rip the tracks up.
When the fuck is Conway’s GDMM getting a release date on Shady? The first single “Bang” came out about a year ago now, Conway said the album was done at the end of the year and submitted to Shady, shit has just went silent over the last few months regarding GDMM, I’m starting to think think Shady has shelved that shit #triplewood
That comment went hard in da paint like a mofo u stupid for this homie like wtf c’mon u roasted these fools.
Bang was on WWCD…stay current
That was a remix of Bang that was on WWCD Dumbass!! The version of Bang that was released as a single only had Conway and Em on it
Yes, been waiting on that to drop. At least Conway gave us Lulu and NOMTW to hold us over.
That was a remix of Bang that was on WWCD Dumbass!! The version of Bang that was released as a single only had Conway and Em on it
I cringe having to imagine that Shady’s emblematic sound from the mid 2000’s (think Re-Up, Cheers, D12 World) will now be replaced by mentally challenged WSG aka Alvin the Canadian Chipmunk from Niagara Falls. AYO. AYO. AYO. BOOBOOBOOM. DOOTDOOTDOOT. BRRRRRR.
Lol all that research yet you ain’t tryna praise his lyricism. Goofball
I thought shady records was just for distribution and the label itself doesn’t “control” them.
If someone with actual information on that matter would reply that would be awesome. Thanks.
Shady Shady are not like your traditional record labels. However, they do pick and choose what they think are the best songs. You get more freedom at shady records in terms of being creative artistically. The problem with shady records is their ways of promoting their artists. That’s due the fact that Eminem is a mega star en his fan base generally only cares about em. They are not on point with their marketing campaigns. They use what I call cheap marketing strategies. Having Eminem featured on a song is not what grows an artist. It only makes 1 particularly song high viewed on YouTube or Spotify. Em decided to let go his ‘control’ and touch after being heavily criticized for ruing slaughterhouse sound. I was there too. The problem was Eminem did not force these guys to have commercial sounds, but they trusted Eminem too much and got him evolved too much during that process that Eminem was going by what was working for him with his commercial fan base. That’s how slaughterhouse 1st album flopped. Eminem is not the greatest business man and they aren’t marketing geniuses as people might think. Eminem had great moment during 2000-2005 and 50 cent was new and signed at shady records and he already had a huge street buz. That’s why at the time everything was perfect at the right moment and the right time. They were able to capitalize off that momentum that’s why artists like Obie Trice went platinum. Wasn’t necesarrily genius people’s work. It’s a long respond, but I hope you have an idea of how it goes at shady. Their biggest money income is Eminem and that’s the most important investment they count on. Shady is a business so it will never truly be only about distribution. Nobody runs a business for a loss as much as em tries to portray its only about the love of hip hop. P.s, I’ve worked with interscope and shady records people for years.
New sound for Shady? Well let’s see if Eminem approves of having loud annoying adlibs on every song that drops from his label.
From now on All Ems songs start with EYOOW PRRRR PRRRRR
WSG KING
WSG is the hype man of Griselda.
Normally hype men can’t drop lyrically fire bars so I can forgive his “boom boom boom” and “Hey Yo” adlibs considering even that is more finessed than the mumble trap rappers out there.
I want to like these dudes but I just cant. There is something absolutely cringe worthy about this guy.
…is they have some nice instrumentals. Raps are weak shit. The whole label is for lame trendfollowers that wanna spend half a day in line for some limited edition sneaker or t-shirt or some shit.
this just reminded me of that medusa / snakes line on the Moonman and Shady song, idk why
Hope he got, Obie Trice, Cashis and Stat Quo features! Shady got some dope rappers!
Yeah obie trice is probably the best rapper on shady!
Obie is in jail, he’s last album the fifth was real dope.
There not on shady anymore
So he gonna steal that Tekashi 69 flow?
same niggas complaining about wes Adlibs be the same niggas in the club gettin they nuts sweaty to Blueface. Just respect the lyricism and go on about your day why yall tryna put bro down for being confident in his craft
new sound means more money R&B features or pop features or watever you wanna call it maybe that Shady/Aftermath sound could work who knows then pple are gonna say they he has gone pop blah blah etc if its the Re-up type thing it could work
Like these guys music but getting pretty hard to stomach Gunn with all the God complex nonsense. “Who made the sunshine?” ALLAH made the sunshine.
Shady trying to make up for slaughter house and come out with out somthing real
Listen to dirt platoon
Thinks WSG voice is annoying but listens to Eminem. okay…