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Kanye West’s GOOD Music joins Island Def Jam
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 28 June 2011
Island Def Jam has signed a new deal with Kanye West which will make the rapper’s label GOOD Music an imprint of the Universal subsidiary. GOOD releases have previously had different distribution partners for each record. The first release under the new deal is Big Sean’s debut album, ‘Finally Famous’, which is out today in the US.
Announcing the deal, Barry Weiss, the Universal exec who oversees IDJ, told reporters: “GOOD Music is an exciting new chapter in the long and successful association of Kanye West and Island Def Jam. As a recording artist and a producer over the past eight years, there is no one who has made a greater impression on the game than Kanye. We look forward to working closely with the new and established artists that he will be bringing to GOOD Music, which is already off to an impressive start with Big Sean”.
West has been signed to IDJ for his own music since his debut album, ‘The College Dropout’.
