Burlington hip-hop collective 99 Neighbors have taken one step closer to the big time. As Complex reports, the group has entered a relationship with Chance the Rapper manager Pat Corcoran‘s entertainment group Nice Work, which has struck a deal with Warner Records. To celebrate the partnership, 99 Neighbors will release a new single and video, “Fake Pods,” on Tuesday, July 30, at noon EST. The track will premiere on Zane Lowe‘s Beats 1 Radio Program on Apple Music.
“Thanks to this new partnership, we have some new flexibility and resources,” said 99 Neighbors manager Cal Rawlings in a recent phone call. He noted that, despite signing with a major label, the group will retain full ownership of its music forever, as well as retain creative control of future work.
The arrival of the deal suggests the group may not be sticking around Burlington forever, though Rawlings did not confirm or deny if the group would be moving on.
“We’re all from here and have a strong attachment to this area,” said Rawlings. “We created all of the music here, [but] there’s probably some desire to move somewhere else.”
99 Neighbors first burst onto the local music scene in 2017, with producer Somba and rapper Sam Paulino’s debut EP, The South Cove. Since then, the group has grown into an eclectic ensemble, and has released three additional albums: Sam Paulino’s Collision, rapper Hanknative’s Problem Child, and the collective’s debut LP, Television. Listen below.
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Young Renegade + DJ Sonja Blade achieved national success two years ago all independently and they’re a Vermont act. Also we will always come to Vermont. There’s no moving on from Vermont. We got a huge World Tour coming starting October 2020 with a big Co-headliner we can’t tell the world yet (but she’s a former Pychopathic Records Artist), Then in Winter 2021 we got Three shows in Alaska with with a big Co-headliner we can’t tell the world yet, Then summer 2021 we do another UslS leg with a big Co-headliner we can’t tell the world yet (but he’s a former Funk Volume Artist) then in fall 2021 we head over to do two shows in New Zealand with a big Co-headliner we can’t tell the world yet, then we go to Australia with a big Co-headliner we can’t tell the world yet, then we go to Europe with a big Co-headliner we can’t tell the world yet, then we will host our second Treehouse Of Horrors show in Vermont on Halloween 2021, our first one is this year in Utah on our fall US Tour with MTL. & D Fuego. After Our Treehouse Of Horror 2021 show we end the tour with three shows in Hawaii!!!
But good for these guys.