SHOUT OUT @somuchpain for the thread idea

Made lupe fiasco release a cool pop rap album with some catchy radio hits instead of whatever snoozer he had planned

when the label gave Nothing On You & Airplanes away that was the best situation

I don't wanna live in a world where we didn’t grow up with Show Goes On

Exactly

Classic songs

we would have never gotten hell hath no fury by the clipse if it wasn’t for all the label drama/politics

the problem with this type of thread is it’s gonna be people who made good music in spite of label politics rather than cuz of it

Frank releasing Endless to get out his contract then immediately dropping Blonde

TDE putting SZA on the shelf and changing her image and sound before releasing CTRL. They were going for this free spirit, dirty Chucks, everyday woman image then scrapped it and went s***symbol.

The labels stopped Tribe Called Quest from going out like Sadat X in the 90s

Is this about that Georgie Porgie song

Yes

You’re so right then

I remember being so shocked when I learned about that song. That would’ve been such a stinky skid mark on their discog

Death Grips leaking NLDW out of frustration and getting out of their deal because of it

Kanye west at Donald trump

what’s this? describe

So the actual awesome “Show Business” song on Low End Theory is actually really them lowkey b****ing about the fact their label not letting them drop the lyrical venom of the “Georgie Porgie” with dope ass lyrics like… just check out this fire

listen up money or should i say honey

Date Rape highkey aged horribly but the production and Q Tip’s flow is so good niggas let it slide

its me im niggas

S*** like that is rare and label politics are usually worse for the artist.

Remember label politics is the reason this album got shelved

I bet Q tip himself is happy this never dropped

Probably looks back at it like “why did we do that s***”