Tim “Sole” Holland–an early member of the hip-hop collective anticon–announced today he is leaving after 11 years. Def Jux’s El-P announced similar news last week. The artist-run label was founded in 1998 by a group of collaborators, including pedestrian, jel, doseone and alias. Odd Nosdam and WHY? soon followed.
“I will continue to work with many of the [anticon.] artists and will always love them as brothers and consider them allies,” the MC said in a statement. “This is a decision to change the way my music will be exploited and adapt to shifting paradigms.”
Sole, back in the U.S. after a two-year stint in Spain, plans to release future work via his own Black Canyon Records and through his website.
“This is a decision to change the way my music will be exploited and adapt to shifting paradigms.” I wonder what he means by this