{"id":9987,"date":"2011-09-19T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2011-09-19T14:46:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:46:47","slug":"outkast-ciara-headed-for-l-a-reids-epic-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9987","title":{"rendered":"Outkast, Ciara Headed For L.A. Reid&#8217;s Epic Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since taking over Sony Music&#8217;s Epic Records in July, label chairman and X Factor judge, <strong>L.A. Reid<\/strong> has been busy erasing the company&#8217;s tarnished image and rebuilding its roster, which will soon include <strong>Outkast<\/strong> and <strong>Ciara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reid<\/strong> has a long history with both acts, who were originally signed to his LaFace Records (label home to a young <strong>Usher<\/strong>, <strong>Pink<\/strong> and<strong> TLC<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ciara<\/strong> came into the LaFace fold in 2004 with her first album, <em>Goodies<\/em>. It featured the hit song\u00a0<em>1, 2 Step<\/em> and has sold more than 2.5 million copies. Her most recent release, 2010&#8217;s <em>Basic Instinct<\/em>, came out via Jive Records. That label is being phased out due to recent consolidation and reshuffling among Sony&#8217;s labels, which also include Columbia and RCA, resulting in dozens of layoffs in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Other <strong>Reid<\/strong>-era Epic signings include Atlanta MC Future, whose reported first single <em>Tony Montana<\/em> features popular rapper <strong>Drake<\/strong>, and<strong> Karmin<\/strong>, the duo known for its quirky interpretations of popular hip-hop tracks like <strong>Chris Brown&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>Look At Me Now<\/em> and <strong>Lil Wayne&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>6 Foot 7 Foot<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since taking over Sony Music&#8217;s Epic Records in July, label chairman and X Factor judge, L.A. Reid has been busy erasing the company&#8217;s tarnished image and rebuilding its roster, which will soon include Outkast and Ciara. Reid has a long history with both acts, who were originally signed to his LaFace Records (label home to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}