Pitchfork: Clipse Released From Jive Contract?

While Clipse's label troubles have become one of their defining attributes over the past few years, it was only a matter of time before Pusha T and Malice wrangled themselves free of their contract with Jive. I mean, you don't diss your label in the single from your album and expect (or want) everything to be hunky dory.

That time has come sooner than expected, however, as Toronto publication Eye Weekly reports that Clipse and Jive have indeed parted ways.

"Right now Clipse are free agents. There are a few labels that are interested," Malice says in an interview on Eye Weekly's website.

A Jive representative had no comment about the matter.

Thornton brothers, consider this your offer to be the flagship artists on my own Love Snow Can't Ski Records. You will receive couch space and high fives if, in return, you rap for me as I microwave Hot Pockets and watch baseball games on TV.

In the world of things that will actually happen, Clipse are still scheduled to play the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park on July 14. The rest of the Saturday lineup remains as follows: Yoko Ono, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Battles, Califone, the Twilight Sad, Fujiya & Miyagi, Oxford Collapse, Dan Deacon, Beach House, Professor Murder, and Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound.