Joell Ortiz dropped from Aftermath

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Was Brooklyn MC Joell Ortiz dropped from Hip Hop power label Aftermath?
According to label mate Bishop Lamont, he very well may have been. In a recent interview with HoodHype, Lamont said Ortiz might have been dropped after expressing his [Ortiz] grief with some of the label execs over the web and in interviews.

"From what I heard, I think he got dropped--don't quote me-- but I think dude got dropped because of the whole Interscope thing."

Last November, in an interview with XXL Mag, Joel said he didn't feel as if he was wanted at Interscope citing word of a possible release.

“First, Aftermath called and said that Jimmy Iovine doesn’t want me there…I don’t even know Jimmy Iovine. I never even met him. [They said] ‘I don’t know what’s going on with Aftermath. The word is that they thinkin’ ’bout letting you go.’ I’m like, ‘Let me go? I got all this buzz, putting out good records, I’ve got XXL covers on my own!’ This information was comin’ from within Aftermath,” Ortiz told XXL late last year.

"What he said wasn't wrong," said Bishop. "But what Joel didn't have a chance to experience coming in-- was the politics that go on in any label. He felt that it was something personal--that's business." Bishop continued.

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Ortiz was officially signed to Dr. Dre's Aftermath imprint in the Summer of 2006.

In 2003 Ortiz won the EA Sports Livestyle MC battle landing him a spot on the NBA Live 2005 soundtrack as well as a record deal with Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def. However, the So So Def deal never materialized.

In 2007, Joell released The Brick through Kotch Records. N

No official word has emerged regarding Ortiz's situation with Aftermath.

You can listen to the entire Bishop Lamont interview with HoodHype Below.








Source: Defsounds.com
 
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It might be good for him, I don't think we would see an album from him any time soon if he was still on Aftermath. I don't really understand why artists want to be on Aftermath these days, they haven't released anything remotely good in the last 5 years and most of those artists' albums will never come out, period
 
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Dre doesnt seem to back his artists up like he should.....Aftermath is Dre's label not Jimmy Iovine's right?!....At any rate i wish Joell Ortiz luck on searching for a new label, and i will continue to support his music by purchasing his releases (yes purchase an album....Some of us still do)
 
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It never ceases to amaze me that someone in a position that Dre is in cannot intelligently manage that label. Aftermath could be one of the biggest, most successful labels year in and year out, with some of the artists they have/had/could have, yet it's disappointment after disappointment, flop after flop...

And Detox? LOL
 
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I think it has to do with marketing the game don't understand us latin niggaz. They either want to you to be Mexican, white or black. I bet interscope looked at him and said, who can we market him too? Nobdody, goodbye.
 
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