Dead Game Records

Dead Game Records
Parent company Dead Game Records
Founded 2002
Founder Travis Johnson, Tommy Jones
Distributor(s) Atlantic Records (Kevin Gates US)
Genre Hip hop, R&B, Down South, Gangsta
Country of origin United States
Location Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Official website You Know the Name

Dead Game Records, is a record label located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana founded by Tommy Jones and Travis "The Voice" Johnson.[1] The label was founded in 2002 when Jones noticed an opening and lapse in marketing by other local and regional labels.[2] The label has included such artist as Kevin Gates[3] and Max Minelli[4][5]

History

The labels Co-Founder Johnson would be a Middle School classmate with the most promising future Artist Kevin Gates at Kenilworth Middle School in Baton Rouge. Johnson noticed that the young and steadily improving Gates was naturally a lyricist and encouraged him to take rapping and his skills more seriously. In 2005 Gates officially signed to Dead Game Records as the labels main artist over half a decade.[6] With proper Financial Support and strategic marketing direction Gates would flourish.[7] Releasing 6 regionally acclaimed mixtape including features with nationally allcaimed Rapper Boosie Bad Azz who was from the same neighborhood as founders Johnson and Jones[8]

In the absence of Gates for 2 years Dead Game would partner with former koch Entertainment[9] artist Max Minelli to Release albums The Heart of a King and The Leak.[10] In 2011 Gates upon his release from an incarceration resumed his career with a new inspired style and an intense effort to release a multitude of projects in a short period of time. This would garner the notice of Artist Publishing Group APG who would enter into a Joint Venture Partnership with Dead Game allowing Gates to be distributed by Atlantic Records.

Dead Game Records today

With Kevin Gates day to day departure to future management full focus turned to up and coming artist lil one the Champ[11] Racked up Ready in 2013 and label executive Travis The Voice in 2016.

Current artists

Former Artist

Mixtapes

List of mixtapes, with year released
Title Album details
Kevin Gates - Its My Time
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
Kevin Gates -Pick of the Litter
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
Kevin Gates - All or Nuthing
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Plays 98,129 Downloads 54,054[14][15]
Kevin Gates - All In
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Plays 158,827 Downloads 89,329[16][17]
Kevin Gates - Behind Enemy Lines
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Streams 44,827[18]
Kevin Gates and Max Minelli - The Leak
[19]
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
Kevin Gates - I Don't Know What 2 Call it Vol1
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Plays 242,358 Downloads 115,929[20][21]
Kevin Gates - Make Em Believe
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Plays 748,991 Downloads 478,341[22][23]
Lil One The Champ - Loyalty
  • Released: 2015[24]
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
Lil One The Champ - Quida Mae
[25]
  • Released: 2015[26]
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download

Albums

List of Albums, with year released
Title Album details
Max Minelli -Heart of a King
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download
Kevin Gates -Islah (album)
  • Released: 2016
  • Label: Atlantic Records
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Sales 1,000,000 Streams 15 Million[27][28]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/_tha_voice/?hl=en
  2. ↑ http://www.louisianacorporates.com/corp/36126.html
  3. ↑ http://www.passionweiss.com/2013/02/07/question-in-the-form-of-an-answer-an-interview-with-kevin-gates/
  4. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Max-Minelli-Heart-Of-A-King/release/7511253
  5. ↑ http://hiphopwired.com/2010/09/28/max-minelli-returns-with-new-track-if-it-wasnt-for-love-audio/
  6. ↑ http://www.passionweiss.com/2013/02/07/question-in-the-form-of-an-answer-an-interview-with-kevin-gates/
  7. ↑ http://107jamz.com/erik-tee-talks-with-dead-game-records-about-kevin-gates-diss-nsfw-video/
  8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuydPKeDX0c
  9. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/max-minelli-mn0000396332/biography
  10. ↑ http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8576311
  11. ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/loyalty/id957002449
  12. ↑ http://theadvocate.com/news/acadiana/12737740-123/baton-rouge-rapper-killed-in
  13. ↑ https://www.reverbnation.com/artist_3718572/bio
  14. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/Kevin-Gates-All-Or-Nuthin-mixtape.44839.html
  15. ↑ http://crackmixtapes.com/mixtape/Kevin_Gates-All_Or_Nuthin
  16. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/Kevin-Gates-All-In-mixtape.44822.html
  17. ↑ https://spinrilla.com/mixtapes/kevin-gates-all-in
  18. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/Kevin-Gates-Behind-Enemy-Lines-mixtape.589485.html
  19. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/Kevin-Gates-The-Leak-mixtape.605063.html
  20. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/Kevin-Gates-I-Dont-Know-What-2-Call-It-Vol-1-mixtape.295631.html
  21. ↑ https://spinrilla.com/mixtapes/kevin-gates-i-don-t-know-what-to-call-it-vol-1
  22. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/Kevin-Gates-Make-Em-Believe-mixtape.339405.html
  23. ↑ https://spinrilla.com/mixtapes/kevin-gates-make-em-believe
  24. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/LiL-One-The-Champ-Loyalty-mixtape.681479.html
  25. ↑ http://mymixtapezwebplayer.vuziqsrv.com/PR5UdjmECcHyQSYcdKV62g==
  26. ↑ http://www.datpiff.com/LiL-One-The-Champ-Loyalty-mixtape.681479.html
  27. ↑ http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.37392/title.hip-hop-album-sales-rihanna-kevin-gates-g-eazy
  28. ↑ http://www.xxlmag.com/video/2016/09/kevin-gates-time-for-that-video-reveals-islah-platinum/

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