Early this morning we received an email from an anonymous tipster who is claiming to be close friends with Shady/Aftermath artist Bishop Lamont, and word has it that labelmate Obie Trice (signed to Shady/Interscope) has been dropped off of the label for unknown reasons.
Obie was suppose to be releasing his third album Bottom’s Up this year.
Our source says that Obie will shortly be leaking a track confirming what has happened – we’ll keep you up to date if that actually happens.
Update: Yep, our source was correct; see here.
Update 2: Official statement from Shady
June 29th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
[...] what do you know… It turns out our anonymous tipster was right! As our source told us earlier this week, it appears that Obie Trice has been dropped from Shady/Interscope and is now a free [...]
July 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
[...] and manager of Eminem, made a brief statement regarding Obie’s departure following the news we broke a few days ago. “Shady Records has agreed to allow Obie Trice to pursue his craft in a [...]
November 28th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Noooooooooooooo!!! It can’t be true! Obey is so nice! Whyyyyy!?! Why God??!??! Take me instead! Aaaaaaaa!!!
January 16th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
[...] new here, you may want to subscribe to our free RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Two new tracks from shadyless Obie. We hear he’s dropping on his own newly formed label named Worldwide Hustle, as [...]