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DJ Kay Slay has announced that Papoose has been released from JIVE Records. A year after signing a deal with a $1.5 million advance, Papoose was given his release papers.

“It was like a fucking year of hell,” DJ Kay Slay said. “They meant well, they believed in the project. Unfortunately we almost became victims of A&R hell. You can not put a 60-something year-old white man on a 20-something year-old black kid’s project from Brooklyn and think it’s going to pop. We wound up with records that we didn’t want to come out.”

“We’re popping champagne,” Kay Slay continued. “We got our release from Jive Records and we’re just moving on.”

DJ Kay Slay did not specify the next move for Papoose now that he is a free agent.

“We have our wings,” Kay Slay continued “We have our shackles off."