Slim Thug Ready To Leave Interscope Records
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Ryan
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Posted on 2008-04-15
Houston All-Star
Slim
Thug is ready to leave Interscope Records. His debut album on Interscope
called ‘Already Platinum’ went gold after its initial release. Back in 1996,
Slim Thug told MTV "I thought it should have went way farther. I was an
independent artist that did all the work myself. Once I signed a major deal, I
kind of felt like, 'I'm signed to a major label, oh, they gonna do all the work
now.' "
Fast forward a few years later and the Houston MC sat down with MTV once again
to discuss his future with Interscope. According to Slim Thug, he plans to be
off of Star Trak/Geffen/Interscope by the end of the week, and plans to release
his next solo project independently. "If I'm supposed to be the
muthafucking boss, then I should be putting my [own] shit out," he said.
"I sat down with the general manager. Really, I just sat down and told
them, 'Y'all over here don't understand the type of music I do, and y'all hold
me back while y'all trying to get your situation together. I ain't really got
that time to sit on the sideline while you do this. Let me pay y'all. Y'all
gave me all this money. Listen, I'll give y'all some money off the new
album.'" He continued, "I just can't sit on the sideline while they
do their shit. He sat down with [Interscope Chairman] Jimmy [Iovine], and we
all came up with something we could all agree with. It ain't no hard
feelings."
With that said, he already has a title for his lastest album – ‘Boss of All
Bosses.’ "It's gonna be different. You gonna hear a lot more Houston
records," says Slim Thug of the new album. "The feedback I got from
my fans [about the] last album was that they wanted to hear a lot more Houston
records. So I worked with people out of Houston, a bunch of producers I came up
with. I did, like, 30 songs with these cats, so I really got the album done. I'm
gonna get, like, two from Pharrell
[Williams] and maybe work with a few other big producers, but keep it
Houston."
