Saigon Released From Atlantic Records

[Elano]

It seemed to be the album that would never see the light of day. Saigon and Atlantic Records have been caught up in a never ending soap opera that found Saigon going as far as saying "I Quit!" in an attempt to force Atlantic's hand to do something.

Finally, something has been done and Saigon is no longer a part of Atlantic.

"I am NO LONGER ON ATLANTIC RECORDS, thank you God," Sai says via his Myspace blog. "I took legal action and got my manager Chris, my lawyer Theo, my homies Gee Roberson and Just Blaze and we got the fuck up out of there... No, I didn't get dropped so you haters don't get excited, I fought these people very very hard to leave."

In his blog, Saigon cites what he calls "the three strikes" that got him to this point.

"Atlantic Records felt I needed a party song, or a sexual song or something like the other artist they have up there," he says of "Pain In My Life" not getting pushed hard as his single. "On one side of the token they're telling me they need to market me to the youth yet they want me to use adult content.. This didn't make sense to me. They wanted me to tell 12 and 13 year old kids that its cool to be strippers and gangbangers."

He also blames Atlantic for burying the buzz worthy "Come On Baby" and not giving him the proper funding for a video for either song.
The final strike, however, was when Just Blaze nailed down Jay-Z for the "Come On Baby" remix and Atlantic dropped the ball again. Saigon says that this is what forced him to take legal action to leave the label.

Just Blaze also chimed in on the situation from his Megatrondon blog.

"We have been quietly working to get released from Atlantic. Sometimes you need to do things without talking about them. And get what you want. We finally got that…With 100% ownership of the masters," Blaze states. He also makes mention that leaving the label and owning all the masters is a rarity.
"Thank you Atlantic for recognizing the situation for what it really was and doing the right thing," he continues. "There are already new situation(s) in the works."

[The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES]

KOCH baby!!!!

[Invincible]

At last. Now drop the album A.S.A.P.

[Lord Funk]

KOCH baby!!!!

The best thing dude could do, for himself and us, is go the Koch route.

[Lunatic]

^i agree, but he wont.

[Invincible]

^i agree, but he wont.

as long as he doesn't go to Interscope, everything should be alright.

[Lunatic]

^i agree, but he wont.

as long as he doesn't go to Interscope, everything should be alright.

hah true

[The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES]

He said he wants to go to a major as long as he's getting paper.

But he and we all know u dont get paper at a major.

He also said he had one other deal on the table from a company outside of the urban music biz.  Which could be a money train if he's looking at that kinda deal.

But basically indie is gonna get u the most if that dont work, and Koch is the number 1 indie for a reason.   Koch is a legitimate player for The Greatest Story Never Told.

[Lunatic]

Koch is a legitimate player for The Greatest Story Never Told.

did Sai say that?

[AnybodyKilla]

KOCH baby!!!!

The best thing dude could do, for himself and us, is go the Koch route.

[Javier]

He needs Turtle to be his manager again.

[Blood$]

I seen this coming, or him being dropped... I wish Saigon the best of luck though, he needs to get an album out already

I still remember in 2005 when XXL had his album under "Most Anticipated Albums" for that year 

[K.Dub]

At last. Now drop the album A.S.A.P.

[KURUPTION-81]

only said a couple of days ago he needs to get off atlantic, go indepedant and release the album

[Bch]

FUCK THE INDUSTRY IS FAILING SO HARD RIGHT NOW.. if 12 and 13 year olds are the target audience it actually makes alot of sense if you think about with all the simple air head shit on radio ala D4L, soulja boy , chicken noodle soup with a lil soda on the side , shoulda lean .. make up a dance for kids type of packages n all that going on right now..


wow .. the only way the buisness is going to survive is through independant companys like koch with less corporate suits around.. which is going to force paycuts all around because artist dont have the kind of money to put there own albums out 90% of the time especially up and coming artist