It's May 25, 2024, 05:43:41 AM
HHDX: Now your signed with Aftermath, how come the album is coming out on Koch?JO: I have two albums coming out, I have two record deals right now. What happened was that I was in talks with Koch before Aftermath, but my management got a CD to Dr. Dre’s assistant out there in the west coast. He called back and was like “Yo Dre is really interested in flying you guys out A.S.A.P.”. He flew us out and I did dinner with the Aftermath staff and I meet him in the studio and he was like “Dude I really just flew you out to make sure you wasn’t a knucklehead getting involved in these rap beefs, you know I took a lot of losses on my grind.” I was like "You know what? I’m an honest dude and I’m just trying to do rap, I can rap really good and it would be an honor to work with someone like you.” With that being said, he said “Welcome to Aftermath”, don’t get it twisted I’m on Aftermath, but I was already talking to Koch with this album I got done already. He said we can do an independent venture before a major deal, I was like “I’m a man of my word and I made the commitment with producers and studio time so before I meet you that’s pretty much who I was in embedded with.” Dre said "just send me the album" and at six in the morning he called me the next day and was like “This is incredible, this is a great album!”, so that’s how it happened with getting two record deals.