{"id":17754,"date":"2016-09-13T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2016-09-13T02:52:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T06:52:05","slug":"travis-scott-inks-deal-with-universal-music-publishing-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=17754","title":{"rendered":"Travis Scott Inks Deal With Universal Music Publishing Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats go to Travis Scott. He has signed a worldwide deal with Grand Hustle Publishing\/Universal Music Publishing Group, UMPG chairman and CEO Jody Gerson has announced. This means Trav&#8217;s entire catalogue will be represented, including <strong>Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight,<\/strong> which holds the top spot on this week\u2019s Billboard 200 chart.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve been chasing Travis Scott for years. His talent and ambitions are limitless. He\u2019s a rock star, as well as being a brilliant writer\/producer,\u201d Gerson says.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper recently discussed his new album with Billboard, explaining the inspiration behind its title: \u201cIt all stemmed from me having that frustration of just like wanting to do creative s&#8212; and just not being able to do it. It took five months for my action figure to come out. It took eight months for the Hype Williams video to come out. I just felt like I was confined in a box. I couldn\u2019t do s&#8212; I wanted to do to help forward pop culture and music. It\u2019s like motherf&#8212;ers still tryna hold me back so that was the whole gist of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a published report, Universal shares, \u201cIt becomes a partnership and working relationship where the publisher represents the songwriters and helps support their career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Congrats go to Travis Scott. He has signed a worldwide deal with Grand Hustle Publishing\/Universal Music Publishing Group, UMPG chairman and CEO Jody Gerson has announced. This means Trav&#8217;s entire catalogue will be represented, including <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=17754\" title=\"Travis Scott Inks Deal With Universal Music Publishing Group\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[807,1304],"class_list":["post-17754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-matrix","tag-travis-scott"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-4Cm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/travis_scott_full_ohsodj.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17755,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions\/17755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}