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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Kenan Draughorne

Bobby Shmurda says his Epic Records deal 'feels like prison,' begs for release

Nearly one year after being released from prison, rapper Bobby Shmurda is still fighting to be released from his recording contract.

On Thursday, Shmurda expressed his pent-up frustrations toward Epic Records in an Instagram post he quickly deleted. He complained the label wouldn't release him from his contract or let him put out the album he says is ready to be unveiled.

"I got a 70 year old lady running my label and I lover her dearly but [she] doesn't want to let me go," he wrote, referring to Sylvia Rhone, 69, the chair and chief executive of Epic.

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