Maintaining his confidence with the album's material, Jones stressed his remorse regarding the promotion and marketing of the LP.
"I'm a little bit disappointed in the way the album came out," Jones told hip-hop personality Miss Info. "I felt like the album was so dope, then you deal with some politics in the game that are way out of your control. When you deal with something so crazy sometimes you get disappointed -- I really really did not want to come out on April 5th...The album is super dope. This is why I am even more disappointed because if I had the chance to market and promote the album the way I needed to who knows what could have happened...Then you deal with a situation where your back is up against the wall. For the sake of the label's business, you sacrifice your art." (Miss Info TV)
Jones also briefly reflected on dropping his last album, 2009's Pray IV Reign, through Sony.
"My last album was at Sony," he added. "I got to spend a lot of money over there. I had a fun time over there. Shouts to Hip-Hop and Al Branch. They were working my album over there. But six weeks before my album was supposed to come out both of them quit. So the marketing strategy drastically changed. The amount of records I was promised by the label changed drastically. So with the so called 'consolidation"'the number [of records] I was promised would be shipped changed. With spending close to 8-million dollars or something close to that at Sony I figured I'm pretty much in debt for a very long time to a lot of grapes and high-class studios. Ask Chung King studios about me. I locked out like a rock star in there. We were spending close to $100,000 a month there. You might think Jim is now stuck paying this insane debt back, but... that's not the case..." (Miss Info TV)
No comments:
Post a Comment