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Hacker collective Anonymous appear to have forced Atlantic Records to disclose the release date of Lupe Fiasco's new album.
The date of issue for the long awaited Tetsuo and Youth album was tweeted by the recorded company early this morning, pegging it 20 January 2015. Shortly after the much feared (by corporations) hacker group Anonymous issued a statement saying that they were responsible for the news.
"Citizens of the World and lovers of conscious music, We are Anonymous.
24 hours ago we released a short Twitter ultimatum. We called upon record label Atlantic Records, responsible for releasing conscious rap artist Lupe Fiasco's long awaited Album. We demanded a statement from the label within 24 hours to release a date or we would unleash the complete and utter fury of our collective on their company and executives. 21 hours later they released a short Tweet citing the album and it's release date.
At this time it can be concluded that we have proved our point. We wish music that is educating the masses to keep being released. We will fight for that. Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Common and others are the moving force behind conscious rap. This is music we will fight for.
Operation Atlantic, Operation Free Lupe; disengaged. Mission Accomplished.
We are Anonymous. Never cease to expect us."
Obviously the group are huge fans of Lupe Fiasco. If they could now do the same with new Tool album, Dr Dre's Detox and maybe get Rage Against The Machine back together that would be great. Thanks in advance.
