I know this isn't REALLY rap news, but considering who Trent's worked with, (Puffy, Zach de la Rocha, El-P, Saul Williams, and NERD, among others), it seems to be pretty prevalent to everyone, everywhere, in music.
Trent Reznor, on NIN.com stated that, "I've waited a LONG time to be able to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent... it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit."
For those of you that pay attention to the world outside of rap, Radiohead has recently dropped their label and released a self-distributed album. Radiohead also lets fans name their own price for the album on their website.
Maybe if rap did the same thing, we'd get variation on the radio. :-)
So, here's my commentary portion: all the rich rappers who think they're so talented need to put their money where their mouth is and drop their labels, self-distribute, and lets see talent face off against the bullshit. Dig?
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