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Odd Future launch label under Sony/RED deal
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 28 April 2011
US hip hop group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All have signed a new deal with Sony Music’s RED Distribution, which will see them form their own label, Odd Future Records, their manager Chris Clancy confirmed yesterday.
Speaking to MTV, Clancy said: “They have creative control, they can call it Fuck Off Records by noon. We kinda joke that they signed to themselves, but it’s actually the truth. The way it’s working is Odd Future Records is an entity that will live on RED Distribution, which will be run and operated by Odd Future. That means in regards to releases, art, music, schedule, we’re not bound to quarters and that type of stuff”.
He added: “When it comes down to building this label within itself, it’s going to be all of us sitting down and doing it and building a schedule. Full creative control, it’s not just the creative control, it’s the business control. It’s both”.
As for the group’s first release under the new deal, Clancy said: “We’ll know soon, that’s a group decision and this is all kinda brand new. The next step will be to kinda figure that out and start laying the groundwork for a release schedule”.
Although some of Odd Future’s thirteen members have solo deals with other labels, it’s thought that eventually all solo and group output with be released through the new label too.
