XXL Assigns New Editor In Chief
After the abrupt firing of Elliot "YN Wilson" earlier this year, XXL Magazine will now be headed by King Magazine Editor In Chief, Datwon Thomas.
Thomas, a long-time employee of XXL's parent company, Harris Publications, will now serve as editorial director of King magazine, EIC of Rides magazine, and as EIC of XXL Magazine.
TVT Records Files For Bankruptcy
In other news, independent record label, TVT records, is getting ready to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as they terminated a majority of their employees yesterday, February 18th.
Started in 1985, TVT records housed such acts as Pitbull, Lil Jon, The Eastside Boyz, & the Ying Yang Twins.
In other news…
In addition to Hip-Hop music, the label released music by Nine Inch Nails and other influential Modern Rock, Electronica, Industrial and Nu-Metal bands.
They were also recognized as one of the top independent labels, earning Billboard’s Independent Record label of the year award 5 consecutive times in a row, the most recent in 2006.
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Started in 1985, TVT records housed such acts as Pitbull, Lil Jon, The Eastside Boyz, & the Ying Yang Twins.
no fuckin wonder why they went bankrupt
good point
Even though I always hated alla those acts
They did have a good run for like a year or two but I always knew dem niggas was a fuckin fad!!! Specially dem Ying Yang Niggas!
Ay dont say shit bout lil jon
damn...
The kid YN needs to sit in the Editor's chair again.
Damn..... Shyts all fucced up. I neva did like pitbull though only on that 305 anthem and that lil joint he had on lil jons cd on tha kings of crunk shyt. anyway though i'm not really worried bout it like that. i mean they was just club joints anyway and when i hit tha club we take ya mizzez or knocc bloccs off round there so tha dancin is 86 bruh.SCREAM AT ME,1.
XXL should hav NEVER fired Wilson....he made that magazine the #1 hip hop magazine and they fired him? thats fucked up.
Have you read the recent XXL with Nas on the cover? XXL was turning into G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath Monthly
I know right.... that shit str8 pissed me off... 50 signing to Shady/Aftermath is the greatest thing thats happened in hip-hop for the last 12 years.... BULLSHIT!!!
I know right.... that shit str8 pissed me off... 50 signing to Shady/Aftermath is the greatest thing thats happened in hip-hop for the last 12 years.... BULLSHIT!!!
pitbull da shyt ya stay haiting....music is music everybody not supposed 2 sound the same...hip hop aint dead...it lives in da south Bitches!!!!!!!
man pit bull sux unless u cuban... no1 wants to hear those fuckin beats that u cant flow to and that just sound like a buncha a racket with a bald headed white dude yellin arribba arribba!!!!
PitBull??? U cant be foreal Homie!!
Word Up...Ying Yang Twins without a label???? 2008 is already shaping up to be a good year..lol
I agree with that! It's not surprising anyway. Nobody has sold on TVT in the past few years. Didn't Pitbull's album flop?
Dats fucked up....Haaaaah!!!!!
XXL MAG IS THE ONLY MAGAZINE I READ DAMN I DONT THINK IT MIGHT BE THE SAME
Scrillstar, I couldn't agree with you more on that, all this shit that happened and 50 signing to Sahdy was #1, 50 cool but that was bullshit.
u known things were bad when Lumidee was on Cribs in a townhouse showing off her lip gloss
I DONT THINK TVT SHOULD FILE BANKRUPTCY..
IM SURE THEY CAN SWITCH UP THE WAY THEY PROMOT THEIR ARTSITS AND CONTROL SALES..
THEY JUST AINT KEEP'N UP WITH WATS GOIN ON..LAZY ASS PPLL
GET IT?
NOT??
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Dude yall gotta know one thing...Wilsons job was to move units. He had to put G-unit, and them guys on nearly every other cover, it wasn't cool but he had to. When SLim, Dre, and 50 blew in 2000-2005 they were the biggest selling ARTISTS, as a businessman why wouldn't you put the biuggest selling acts on teh cover of your mag?? If people are buying millions of G-unit/Shady?Interscope artists CD's, they would but the XXl with thier faces on the cover. But yeah that shit got played out, real quick. But who else was making news then??? The obvious ones like Jay, Nas, T.I. were making the covers. Unfortunately putting great mc's like Scarface, Lupe Fiasco, Common adn even Kanye probably wouldn't have sold nearly as well as G-unit. It's still a business at the end of the day.
Oh yeah TVT was destined to go broke...after investing money in Ying Yang Twins(another TVT act who looked broke ass fuck on Cribs), you knew it was bad. Putting money into crunk music is like taking One Million ones and lighting them on fire.