News: Fat Joe Hooks Up With Virgin Records
Fat Joe has signed with Virgin Records, less than a month after leaving his longtime home, Atlantic Records. The artist will crown the new deal tomorrow (Aug. 31) with a performance during a Virgin-hosted after-party for the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
Fat Joe had previously announced that he would release his next album, Me, Myself & I, independently on Oct. 17 via his own Terror Squad imprint, but it is unclear at deadline if the street date will be affected. A video was recently shot for first single "No Drama."
"I just started writing on my own and made the album I truly wanted to make," the artist told Billboard earlier this month, adding that the project was his "most in-depth album in terms of vulnerability and doing the music I love."
Me, Myself & I features collaborations with the Game and Lil Wayne and production from Scott Storch, the Runners and DJ Khaled, among others.
"No hard feelings, but they weren't feeling what I was asking for," Joe said of splitting with Atlantic. "I've always been an artist to them, and they didn't understand me asking for my own imprint. But one man's trash is another man's treasure."
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