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Kanye's G.O.O.D. Music Is Dead

Friday, November 10, 2006
By: Claudio E. Cabrera


Kanye WestRumblings have been circulating across the web and the music industry that Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music imprint got dropped from its deal with Sony.

The news broke yesterday but there were conflicting views from an industry executive. Un-named sources close to G.O.O.D. and a top level executive in the industry confirmed that G.O.O.D Music has indeed been dropped from Sony and it happened close to a month ago. The label will still consist of John Legend, Common, Consequence, GLC, and Fonzworth Bentley. Other acts signed to the label have been dropped.




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Reality check for kanye.heard he trashed the europe awards set in europe or something cause he didnt win best video.kanye is so white(not that theres something wrong with it)
Posted by faitdubruit
That sucks, but honesty, kanye's the only dude on his own label worth dropping a record. Common's slipping, imo. He's like snoop for the backpackers: he's more of a pop symbol than a rapper. Everybody else is mediocre - sorry to tell ya.
Posted by wordup
He got the big head now put in his place & he wack
Posted by EASTBEAST
Too be honest kanye makes great music but he is a Bia'ch forreal!!! he crys like a little girl when he doenst win awards and he makes stupid comments on everything!!!! kanye stop crying like a Bia'ch and grow the F*ck up!!!!
Posted by K_Money
Kanye is actin like a Bia'ch thats a reality check
Posted by MDV_hotboy
It's amazing how people flock to rappers because their name was dropped by an even more popular rapper i.e. Because jay z put kanye on everything he put out is fire! what if styles p, jadakiss, or az put out jesus walks would it have got played? what if rhymefest, who actually wrote the song, put out jesus walks would it have got played? answer: of course not, because jay z didn't put them on via "namedropping." maybe sony made the connection that the jay z, kanye alliance isn't as tight as once thought and felt to cut their budget? fact or fiction? you decide!
Posted by 25th Hour
I totally disagree with wordup. Common is sick. I guess you are not a fan of great writing. You gotta "listen" to his last album...not "hear" it. Kanye is a little weird but i am sure j and def jam can make him confortable over there......
Posted by Dunny
Wtf is faitdubruit talking about?? kanye's so white??? like only white people get upset (and did you see that sh*tty video that actually won that award?)
Posted by Kanyeezy
I don't really care. At the end of the day i want to hear good music and that's what his crew puts out. Not music that makes you tense at the end of a hard days work. When some of you guys grow up have families, jobs and responsibilities you won't really care what the dude has to say or does. You'll be able to differentiate between what's important and what's garbage. He was making money before jay started dropping his name by the way. Brick city!!!
Posted by manywayz2
Hehehe yeah dude thats true i like pac but gad damn sometimes listening to his rebelious shyt will make you crazxy and try n fight the whole world man gad damn but this dude is so wack kanye needs to grow the F*ckshizzle up man he always cries not he has his head in his culu
Posted by Pablo
No doubt "dunny"..mon is one of the illest m.c's out and have always been!!..thats the problem with todays music .....and artist hip hop is a jingle.......a tight beat and a catchy hook and you selling units!!!..i like kanye ,but he is acting kinda childish.....and i bet u every body who's talking shyt about kanye!!! got that n*gga's album...tru story.............(common is fallin off.........youse a burger!!!)
Posted by Peedi from BROOKLYN
This is interesting and a shock i thought west was doing good over at sony. Because legends first album did 1.5mil and common did a mil. I guess the arrogance arose too much better luck at another label...
Posted by Black Congress
Tough luck sa-ra it sounds like yous were the only ones to lose out
Posted by stephen4
Kayne is a loudmouth c*cky bastard and dis will show him he is not dat n*gga he think he is
Posted by reppinqueenz
Man datz a whole bunch of bs dat dude kanye is da truth in hip hop..day gon try ta get him bak jus watch...i got mad love fa kanye
Posted by holliewood
(wordup) you have made two senseless statements already, how is common is slipping, because he got more exposure through proper marketing?? so are you saying anybody who breaks into platinum status and anyone who gets proper exposure is "pop". What are you smoking? but if an m.c. Stays broke he is hot? so really what you are saying is the artist shouldnt get paid for his hard labor!!! c'mon, lets use our brain here, i started not to make a comment but i just cant stay away from ignorant statements like this. I mean common is as close to reality as it can get, because he comes from a spiritual perspective from the streets. He talks about the consciousness of black people and our ignorance and our intelligence. I mean if he was to talk murda/murda/kill all day he would be hot to you huh? god come see about your children fa real!! we need a new mindstate, i pray for wordup!!
Posted by BigO
Lol this rumor has been proved false. Why the F*ck ns got this sh*t here?
Posted by me
I can believe it...shyt look at startrak...with pharrell doing stuff for err'body, pharrell and kanye are producers...they have good ideas, but i dont think it could be possible to put out albums with top notch material with just "one" producer pushing the sound. Like kanye is gonna wanna be a micro manager and have his hands on err'thing. Look at how long it takes dre to drop something of aftermath. It was so bad eminem was doing 90% of his own tracks on every cd he did except the first one. Only cat to pull it off was my 'round mannie friggidy fresh for cash money, oh and beats by the pound for no limit.....but they werent calling the shots so its easy to just pump out tracks when you aint pushing tha buttons. Whutevers wutever....i did want to hear sa-ra....someone to go along with the roots. That would have been nice. Glc? con? like game says.......uuuuugggghhhh!!
Posted by kalliope4eva
Wtf ya guys are doin in this statements?go watch some movie like save the last dance....that dude black is tryin to let us know that hiphop and be gangstering is not anymore goin to the endline....everybody will have a future...so lets give it up from rappin nd dissin nd actin like a hustla....dude try to undrestand my words....one day u will catch up my words and will loose everything soround u...i like rap....but im also doin my things beside that....ya guys things that rap is all just about politics>?hell nah...if u wanna fight wid ya words against ya gover ppl...u;ve gotta jump da F*ck up nd floppin ya goverment!!!thats how the country wil be succesed!!
Posted by hosa-ak
You guys are a bunch of stupid F*cks arguing about N*gg*rs. Thats pathetic. Haha. By guys. Or as you would say. "aight 1" haha
Posted by Rob
Kanye's label actually makes good music, thats wats sad.
Posted by epik
I'll keep it simple..... It's called "the mark of the beast" it will come a day when you won't be able to buy or sell unless you serve the beast. Now__ transfer that into corperate america.... All the mergers that went on in the last 5 years.... All entities are under 1 or 2 umbrellas....media, music, digital, film... Gadgetry and all communications.... So it's all being controlled by 1 or 2 people.... And if you don't do things the way the 1 or 2 people want it done.... They" the illuminati" that control this beast... Can just simply move you out the way. Now kanye is known for fighting against the sytem to an extent.... But he's also making alot of money for the machine, beast or system.... So it's a little tricky. What they'll have to do is find another kanye first... One they can have under a little more control.... Like 50 or jay z... You know "safe n*gga" someone whitey aint scared to give an arena or soft drink to. Someone they knoow wont really call out the president on national tv... Then kanye's completely done. Real talk yo... Whitey is something else... Hope i didn't lose yall. Righteous stand up!
Posted by Sair
Doesnt 2 grammys count for anything any more?
Posted by mac
Grammy???? milli vanilli??? bizznatch please!!! kanye is wack i heard him rambling. He's annoying and arrogant. He needs a lesson in humility and sell his jesus piece. Damn bastard! trust.
Posted by n166a
He"ll be on def jam by tomorrow...
Posted by K Smith
Sair is 100% on point for real i was thinking the same thing.
Posted by smokealot
Kanye, the dude is cool, i would love to hang wit that n*gga. He out his mind
Posted by gunit-
Damn sair you hit'em where it hurts there yo. You broke it down in simple terms and brought the ugly truth about this industry out man, nuff said.
Posted by MRDAVIS33
Im co-signing sair he is right all this b.s. Cause kanye dissed the prez and embarrased the powers that be and yall houe ni** wishing on his downfall eff yall haters chi-town stand up!!!!!!
Posted by chi-hop[
Kanye is a very intellegent producer and rapper. Yes he can be arrogant at times but you know everyone has their moments. Kanye is the only true n*gga out their to do it in everyone's face. Thats what you call a true n*gga. Everyone needs to just stop hatten on him. And let him do what he do, which is make great music. Kanye and his label will be fine...
Posted by telly1
Hahahahahahahahahahah. Reality truelly bites the hardest. Mennnnnnnnnnnn, if u really smart, act like how nas did and find another label. And come to think of it, maybe it was kanyeezys fault this all happened. When he will be Bia'ching about awards he doesn't win. Tough luck. Ohhhh and erhhhhhhhh, i don't john "past folk lore" legend sh*t is moving out of the stores as i expected. What a shame.
Posted by robinhood
Oh well? i'm sure another record company will scoop him up just as fast as he was dropped.
Posted by Ransom
Who cares get money!!!!!!!!
Posted by shiloh98
Common is still a beast
Posted by I wanna be jay-z
The label flopping has nothing to do with kanye as an artist. I am guessing he was not hands on enough at the label and trusted the financial decisions up to his c.o.o. And other execs who probably spent their budgets frivolously. You can't have a good artist (no pun intended) and poor management. Kanye should probably stick to making music on the creative end and leave the finances and marketing to real execs instead of hiring some homie from back home that he promised a job too.
Posted by keep it real
Ta curada la nueva canzion la neta si me pasa jajajaja
Posted by andres arturo gimenez ramirez
Man dat is some bull sh*t, i was lookin' forward to hearing kanye west and common (2 good rappers) on a trak together, but people bull sh*ting so i guess thats not going to happen. Well kenye and common have had some good muzik! and will good muzik in the future! 1 love from a east side chick, makaveli1princess
Posted by makaveli1princess
Yo man, legend and common are nice, but kanye on the other hand, is a wack rapper, who uses mundane, and childish ryhmes to get his point across, an as a producer, he is highly overrated, cause he jacks beats more than anything else, i bought his 1st album, and at first i though it was tight (when it came out), but then i gave it a good listen and i started to check the dudes interviews and realised that he is a black man lost. Kanye is not real, he is a suburban boy trying to get respect from his peers that come from the hood, which is why he tries to acts so hard. Its funny how its always the ones that have suffered the least that always have the most to complain about, kanye was obviously brought up as a spoilt child, and got what he wanted, cause he shows no growth/maturity as an adult. I will not call him a man cause a man knows when to speak and knows when to pick his battles! yeah so he blasted bush on tv so what! he is not doin that cause he conciouss, or cause he an activst to the cause!he a little bi.tch ni.gga who is lookin for attention!kanye is a sad case he should take full advantage of what he got an appreciate it, instead of being some loud mouth cat no one wants to hear cause errytime he open his mouf he got a complaint! that is why they dropped him, not cause he a defiant house nig.ga or a porch monkey, but because he got no class. Lui vuitton don my as.s! he will never amount to the level of greatness he is lookin 4, cause he is jus not that intrestin as a person, except 4 whe
Posted by Sonny Barstow
Except 4 when he complains, and that is not a positive thing.! i don't care 4 jigga or diddy(i think diddy is a clown), but htey have set themselves up so well that they don't have to take shi.t from any1 an can run ish as independents. Kanye should shut up an get to that level b4 he talks cause the corporates can ensure that no one else signs him, cats have lost careers for less. Kanye not invincible, he not big like that and the paper is not so paramount that the big corporates can't squash a nigg.a!
Posted by Sonny Barstow
Sair hit the nail on the head! go to: en.wikipedia/wiki/world_music _market i don't play all this coon music that these sell out negroes be doing for these corporate ass holes. I'm not fond of the fact the brown america has fell in love with the media matrix. Big everything is the order of the day. Real big and real hot! people, stop sweating kanye, look at the kingpins! he is right just not an effective voice. They laughing at him but he's right! he carries the weight of black america on his shoulders. He has paid dues!! i can just wish them all the best. Hard work always pays off! everyone stand by your values no matter what! don't support the bullsh*t!!!!
Posted by dj jamad
Well real talk, kanye's label was hot. Consequence is nice and common is sick. John legend is a different type of vocalist but he still has talent. And regardless of kanye's personality, he still makes good music. I liked the label and i'm sad to hear its been dropped, but hopefully they will recover from it and find a new home.
Posted by Syn
Peace to sair... Thanks for the real knowledege. If kanye was doing what all the other ignorant sell-outs in rap are doing (blaxploitation 2k6) then he'd probably win every award. The other cat who says common fell off is a custy of all these crack-rappers.
Posted by Mystory
Kanye west is a genius, no matter what anyone says, and common is one of the best rappers of our time! john legend has turned gospel church music into top quality music
Posted by thomas
Fonzworth bentley is one of the most talented people i've seen in the business for years. The depth and breath of his talents have yet to be seen. I'm a big fan of his unique style and flow!!! linda
Posted by Linda D.
Ok people kanye is not anything you guys say he is. He is an amazing artist... And rumors aren't always true so stop being so rude about everthing and give him a break... Thanx
Posted by Singer-fer-life-want-an-album
You know who is far more talented then kanye and his whole label combined? tool
Posted by LSumthing
Mate, he makes good music. End of story. Those who don't like it are just haters. Seriously. 'hater ni*gaz marry hater bi*ches and have hater kids'
Posted by k
He is a moron. He's his own worst enemy. Hopefully he will phase on out. Not that great anyway. Noone wants to hear his constant nagging and temper tantrums.
Posted by Fred
Kanye is a millionaire. He could hit brazilian dimes from behind for the rest of his life without making another album. This action by sony in the grand scheme of things means absolutely nothing as far a kanye's individual success. I find it hard to imagine that he gives a damn, especially when you consider that he'll be on def jam tomorrow.
Posted by kiss my azz brothaphucka
I'm sorry to tell everyone on this board, kanye' is thee best producer/rapper out there. Ya'll don't know anything about music or the industry there of. Hes real!!!
Posted by SimplyPut
I believe this have nothing to do with music... It is all about money...kayne had the nerve to get on national tv (live) and disrespect our president...think about it... All big time companys are politically related.... So the best way to hurt him is in his pockets...trust me ..def jam will think twice before they make that move... P.s. Where is arsenio hall... He did something similar...peace
Posted by BODY ROCK
Any body who is a true fan of yae can understand where im commin from. We all know that yae got his little temper tamtrum issues, but i give mad respect where it is due... Tha boy dot mad skills both lyrically and production wise. Its just F*cked up that this had to happen. I wonder what tha outcome is gonna be outta all of this. (aint it a coincidence that this happened after that incident happened with that d.j?)
Posted by janaya renae
Yeah, kanye is actually pretty gud sometimes, consequense is the illest rapper there, u heard his the good the bad the ugly, fire. But i never actually listened to common, ill check him out. The thing is kanye and his boys put out some real stuff. Bout real things, unlike other rappers who just rap about girls, money and cars. Ya gotta go with whats 4 real u kno?
Posted by Usaamah G.
Are you guys serious?....kanye's music is the mainstream garbage that is the ireason that the industry is in such bad shape today....let me get this straight...every song consists of some jacked beat, or is a( not just a sample) complete copy of a song someone else has done, and all kanye does is adds 808 drums to it, and this makes him a great producer?....get outta here with that!! yeah, your music is going to be " good music" when you are jacking material from earth, wind, & fire; teddy p, and any other successful artist from the past...kanye's garbage is why really "creative" producers like the neptunes don't get play.....wake up people, kanye has already sold out to get this far!!! that whole pres. Bush fiasco was a publicity stunt!!.... Kanye can somewhat rap, but he needs to leave producing alone!!
Posted by RealTalk1

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