Tag: Def Jux

Q&A: Anticon’s Sole Leaves The Label He Founded, Label Manager Shaun Koplow Responds

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Bum. Out. First Def Jux goes on hiatus, and now Sole leaves Anticon to go his own way. Make no mistake, the label soldiers on, but it’s a bit nail-in-the-coffin for the good old Oakland days — which, granted, took place a full decade ago — when the collective was truly that, a group of fresh-faced outsider artists building themselves a plywood castle to shoot arrows from. Here, I share Sole’s parting message, and talk to label manager Shaun Koplow about the fallout.

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Q&A: RJD2 Does It All (And Then Some) In 2010

“If I was really trying to hold my ass tight for what I thought someone out there wanted, I wouldn’t be singing on this record. I would make Dead Ringer again. I don’t feel the need to be apologetic about [2007’s The Third Hand] or my singing.”

Read the entire interview here, in which Ramble John “RJD2” Krohn discusses going for dolo in a cutthroat industry, not to mention the various ways in which the talented man seems to generally not give a fuck.

(via The A.V. Club)