{"id":186722,"date":"2020-11-15T04:28:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/?p=186722"},"modified":"2020-11-15T04:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:29:54","slug":"westside-gunn-announces-departure-from-shady-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/westside-gunn-announces-departure-from-shady-records","title":{"rendered":"Westside Gunn Announces Departure from Shady Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dropping his major-label debut with the Interscope imprint just last month,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okayplayer.com\/tag\/westside-gunn\/amp\">Westside Gunn<\/a>\u00a0is already parting ways with Shady Records.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper announced his departure from the label on today\u2019s episode of\u00a0<em>The Joe Biden Podcast.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m off Shady. I\u2019m actually a free agent,\u201d the rapper told the show\u2019s host (who has his own history with the label.) And moments after the episode went live, Gunn committed the resignation to page. \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">I WANT TO THANK the SHADY staff for believing in me early S\/O to<\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">\u00a0[Mikael Herard]\u00a0<\/span>it was a journey &amp; a great learning experience and to Big [Paul Rosenberg] he\u2019s a man of his word,\u201d Gunn wrote on Twitter (see below.)<\/p>\n<p>Westside Gunn initially signed with Shady Records in 2017, releasing a run of mixtapes that solidified his position in rap\u2019s underground and Griselda as an immutable force. He released his debut proper with the imprint,\u00a0<em>WHO MADE THE SUNSHINE?<\/em>\u00a0in October, featuring Black Thought, Jadakiss, Slick Rick, and Busta Rhymes, as well as his Griselda comrades, Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, and Armani Caesar. And while it seems like an unexpectedly early split, fans sniffed out some tension late last month when Gunn appeared to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/westside-gunn-laughs-at-eminems-lack-of-wmts-promotion-news.120232.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laugh off some criticism of Eminem<\/a>\u00a0in a comment section after the Shady Records founder posted in support of Alchemist\u2019s new album,\u00a0<em>The Food Villain<\/em>, but not Gunn\u2019s debut with the label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dropping his major-label debut with the Interscope imprint just last month,\u00a0Westside Gunn\u00a0is already parting ways with Shady Records. The rapper announced his departure from the label on today\u2019s episode of\u00a0The Joe Biden Podcast.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m off Shady. I\u2019m actually a free agent,\u201d the rapper told the show\u2019s host (who has his own history with the label.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":186724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[28650],"class_list":["post-186722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-westside-gunn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186723,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186722\/revisions\/186723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}