Bounty Killer Signs Global Publishing Deal With Creative Titans Ahead Of New Album
Dancehall’s Grung Gad Bounty Killer has signed a major publishing deal with Creative Titans, in partnership with Concord Music Publishing, ahead of his upcoming album, King of Kingston.
Bounty Killer, who hasn’t released an album in nineteen years, has affirmed that this deal will have a positive impact on his upcoming studio project, as he will be properly paid for his work when it is distributed.
Florida-based Creative Titans is a full-service entertainment company with specialties in talent management, music management, and music publishing. Their catalog includes renowned producer, Izy Beats, Jamaican deejay Bling Dawg, and Jamaican-American DJ, Walshy Fire, amongst others.
To announce the good news, a celebratory gathering was held at Janga’s Soundbar in Kingston, Jamaica on Friday (July 30), where CEO of Creative Titans, Ron André Elvis Telford, gifted Killer a black bucket hat to signify the newfound partnership, which he said was four months in the making.
“It’s a great moment…of a great venture; another stepping stone, forward in my career,” Bounty told the gathering.
In an interview with OnStage, Telford noted that “we [Creative Titans] have been responsible for about forty percent of the music that has been coming out of the Caribbean in the last three or four years.”
Bragging of their producers’ accomplishments, including their work on Koffee’s Toast, Beyonce’s Hold Up and Sorry, among others, Telford said that their goal was to ‘amplify the Caribbean sound.’
While the details of the deal were not fully disclosed, Bounty Killer briefly explained that it is a co-publishing agreement where Creative Titans will own half of his rights until they have recouped their expenditure. After which, the Warlord said, he will return to being the exclusive owner of his music rights.
Bounty Killer, who recently celebrated his 49th birthday, said that he was confident that the new global partnership with Creative would ensure that his music and name were protected and acclaimed worldwide.
“This is a good thing, I need people to go and administrate for my things. I have to have people searching for my things….Anywhere me name call right now, anything, any rights, any movie, any music, any sample, any feature, so they will be my vendor,” Bounty said.
Speaking on the impact the arrangement would have on the King of Kingston album, Bounty added that “it only can impact it positively, cause we will be properly paid for all the works when they are distributed. So it’s good to have a new publishing deal and a new album coming out.”
Creative Titans has a joint venture with Beverley Hills-based music company Concord Music Publishing, who recently acquired Downtown’s Music Publishing Copyrights for approximately $350 million USD, according to Billboard. “Concord now owns or controls music assets for over 600,000 songs, establishing it firmly as the sixth biggest music publisher,” Billboard reported in April.
Amongst the patrons gathered in support of Bounty Killer were CEO of Pop Style Music, Julian Griffiths-Jones, who claimed credit for making the connection that led to Bounty’s new partnership with Creative Titans. Singer-songwriters Blvk H3ro, Bling Dawg, and the woman behind several major Jamaican entertainment events, Sharon Burke were also present.
Though we don’t yet have a release date, Bounty has revealed the artwork for the upcoming album and has said that the project was ninety-five percent complete.
According to the Suspense deejay, the project will be a double album. “One like a Reggae album and one like a Dancehall ragga style, two sides,” he told American rapper Fat Joe a few weeks ago.
Based on numerous other teasers and hints over the last few months, the album is expected to feature R&B singer Mya, Vybz Kartel, Busy Signal, Trinidadian Bunji Garlin, and others, in addition to production work from DJ Khaled on at least one track.
The entire project will be executive produced by Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley.
Following the release of his first album Roots, Reality and Culture in 1994, Bounty Killer kept pushing out albums almost every year up to the release of Ghetto Dictionary: The Mystery in 2002. His other albums include Down in the Ghetto (1994), No Argument (1996), Ghetto Gramma (1997), Next Millennium (1998), and The 5th Element (1999).