News just broke that chelate XXXtentacion had just negotiated and signed a $10 Million record deal with independent label Empire. Sources close the situation at the label confirmed that this was definitely one of the largest payouts for a 20-year-old artist.
Ghazi Shami, the founder of Empire, said that XXXTentacion — a prolific creator who started his career posting tracks by the dozen to the streaming site SoundCloud — had finished “a significant amount of material” for the new record, but there were no firm plans for its release. Read more not he story here