Twitter suspends FADER & other hip hop twitters over a tracklist?
Twitter accounts for The FADER, Pigeons & Planes, 2DopeBoyz, and HipHop-N-More all appeared as suspended simultaneously today (6/27). Navjosh, editor of HipHop-N-More, explained that HHNM’s suspension was because Atlantic Records filed a complaint with Twitter after they posted the track list to Young Thug’s new album, Beautiful Thugger Girls, before its release on June 16. Read Navjosh’s tweets about the situation below.
UPDATE: Vice reports that the other suspensions were from posting BET Awards content:
Sources at multiple publications say that at least some of the takedowns were related to content from the BET Awards, and came at the behest of Viacom, BET’s parent company. The editor of one publication confirmed this to VICE News, and there’s evidence of Viacom’s request — including a specific takedown request from Viacom to Twitter that includes tweets from the FADER and Pigeons & Planes — on Lumen, a searchable database of DMCA-related actions.
Twitter is making is real difficult for us. Suspended the HHNM account over a complaint from a label over a tracklist. Yeah a tracklist!
— Navjosh (@Navjosh) June 16, 2017
It was Atlantic Recs who did it. Not responding to my emails. Guess they will hit me only when they need some promo for one of their artists
— Navjosh (@Navjosh) June 18, 2017
Yes and we even credited the site we got it from https://t.co/qdfHSlrz2t
— Navjosh (@Navjosh) June 27, 2017
We posted Young Thug's track list. Atlantic complained to twitter. They suspended us https://t.co/jATENGpZQj
— Navjosh (@Navjosh) June 27, 2017
Yo @Twitter how yall suspend The Fader, Pigeon and Planes and 2DopeBoyz but never Donald Trump? pic.twitter.com/Dbejym7D6v
— The Notorious ETC (@eh_kees) June 27, 2017
Soooo, Twitter will suspend the hell outta you for tweeting a Young Thug track list, but feel free to continue tweeting racist threats.
— Rusty Redenbacher (@rustymk2) June 27, 2017
Y'all what the fuck is happening! pic.twitter.com/op4nFmD6LA
— 🪶 (@LASTNAMELORDE) June 27, 2017
In other news, Young Thug added a last-minute release show happening at Terminal 5 this week.