DROPPED!!! RAPPER TALIB KWELI IS REPORTEDLY RELEASED FROM WARNER MUSIC!!!

[GATMAN]

December 29, 2008. Rappers are getting dropped left and right at labels these days. MediaTakeOut.com just caught wind that rapper Talib Kweli was just RELEASED from his deal with Blacksmith/Warner Music. According to our snitch – it was a result of lackluster sales from his last two albums….

Getting dropped in the middle of a recession definitely AIN’T FUNNY … Hopefully Talib can get another deal elsewhere…

[es-jay]

...rapper Talib Kweli was just RELEASED from his deal with Blacksmith/Warner Music...

dropped from Blacksmith... doesn't he own that label?

[Meho]

After rumors recently hit the net that Talib Kweli was dropped from his label Warner Bros. Records, XXLmag.com caught up with the Brooklyn rapper to set the record straight and find out when fans can expect another release from Reflection Eternal.

While Kweli released his most commercially successful album on the label - 2007’s Eardrum debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 – he said that he will no longer be working with Warner. “In no way have I been dropped, I’ve never been dropped,” he clarified for XXL. “My joint venture with WBR, Blacksmith Music, will no longer be distributed by WBR because there was not a lot of support for it in that building. We are currently choosing between deals we have for distribution somewhere else.”

The MC wanted to also make clear to fans that even though he has parted ways with the label, he is still contractually inclined to record several albums for Warner, including the highly anticipated follow up disc to 2000’s Reflection Eternal album Train of Thought with producer DJ Hi Tek. “The deals that were in place before we made this decision still stand,” he said. “WBR/Blacksmith is still owed albums from myself, Talib Kweli and Reflection Eternal, Hi Tek and I. Reflection Eternal is next on the schedule and I am currently in Cincinnati recording that album.”

Not only is Kweli in the Natti with Tek making new music but the two will also be hosting and performing at a New Year’s Eve Bash at local club Celebertie’s. The event, which will also feature DJ Eque on the ones and twos, kicks off at 9 p.m.

As of press time there is no release date for the new Reflection Eternal disc. – Jesse Gissen

xxlmag.com

[Jaydc555]

 “In no way have I been dropped, I’ve never been dropped,”.Translation - I've been dropped.

[Chamillitary Click]

Talib is cool, unfortunate to hear.

[Jaydc555]

I guess no strong arm steady album once again..sigh

[Chamillitary Click]

I guess no strong arm steady album once again..sigh

i want that shit pretty fucking bad homeboy!

[2euce 7even]

im 99% sure he will get another (even better) deal soon!

[Elano]

“In no way have I been dropped, I’ve never been dropped,”.Translation - I've been dropped.

lol 

[G-Funk]

im 99% sure he will get another (even better) deal soon!

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

haha god damn shit was classssssssic str8 up!!!!

“In no way have I been dropped, I’ve never been dropped,”.Translation - I've been dropped.

[Invincible]

Damn i want that RE album. Last one was sick

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

fuck
sha money was on the sirius the other day, and he was sayin hes workin on the second kweli/tek album but dman i hope this doesnt fuck they plans up!!!!!
fuckin industry
record sales aside,
kweli has had one of the best records to surface I'd say in the last damn Im not tryna to push it, but decade (at least out the east, and im sayin one of the best and this is IMO
but his hostile shit was fuckin dope as fuck!!!!!!!!!!

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

I want Idle Warship. 

Talib taking his label somewhere else, but himself as an artist is still there..

No Idle Warship, no Strong Arm Steady, no Jean Grae (is she on Blacksmith?)

[Lunatic]

^was just about to say

Warner won't be distributing any artists signed to Blacksmith (Strong Arm Steady) and so on. Too bad Kweli still owes them albums and is therefore contractually obliged to drop more stuff on Warner.