A Rare Interview With Bladee, the Mystic Oracle of Internet Rap

With a court case between the label and its former artists ongoing, Reichwald can’t say much about the situation. “It just ended bad,” he reiterates politely. “A lot of stuff wasn’t what we thought it was, so we had to part ways. I don’t owe them my next five projects, so it is what it is.”

Emilio Fagone, the co-founder and artistic director at Year0001, felt the split was “coordinated and personal.” In an email, Fagone writes that he was “disappointed we couldn’t talk…