Yeah, that's Q-Tip.Hip Hop Super Friendsies Kanye West and Q-Tip sent shockwaves through the internet yesterday when they announced that Q-Tip, longtime West collaborator and longer time amigo, has signed with West’s highly celebrated G.O.O.D. Music label. Q-Tip, last heard complaining infinitely about Beats, Rhymes And Life documentary director Michael Rapaport’s tyrannical editing practices, has production credits on both West’s Watch The Throne collaboration album with Jay-Z, and also what many consider West’s defining opus, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Though Q-Tip’s boom-bap fingerprints are all over The Throne’s ‘That’s My Bitch,” for MBDTF, it sounds like he could have just been chilling in the studio and greased his way into some production credit, Puff Daddy in the 90’s style.The Throne’s ‘That’s My Bitch" (co-produced by Q-Tip):While news of the signing should come as little surprise to fans of either artist, it may drum up some new and uncomfortable feelings with family, most specifically Q-Tip's cousin Consequence, who spent the better part of 2011 waging musical jihad on G.O.O.D. Music, the label he was once signed to. For all his interviews, press releases and diss tracks, however, it remains unclear what Consequence’s problem actually was.For Kanye West fans, though, 2012 has already brought a number of great things including West’s monumental admission, in song no less, about following in the footsteps of acclaimed R&B singer Ray J, Miami Dolphins running back Reggie Bush, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin, and New Jersey Nets power forward Kris Humphries in his courtship and eventual annexation of zillionaire temptress Kim Kardashian by way of “Theraflu.”Kanye West & DJ Khaled, “Theraflu”:Kanye would follow up “Theraflu” with “Mercy,” a stellar G.O.O.D. Music posse cut, whose standout verse appears courtesy of Atlanta upstart and recent Def Jam signee 2Chainz, who West recently accompanied to BET’s 106&Park.Kanye West f/ Big Sean, Pusha T & 2Chainz, “Mercy”:But what does this mean for West’s love life, you ask? That Kanye West is going to marry Kim Kardashian, obviously. He’s got something old (Q-Tip), something new (2Chainz), something borrowed (our attention) and something blue (Jay-Z is sad). Q-Tip’s G.O.O.D. Music debut, The Last Zulu, is tentatively set for release early 2013.
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