Jonny Craig Bought Out Contract With Rise Records

February 26th, 2013

Grant Trimboli

In a new interview with solo artist Jonny Craig, it was revealed that he actually bought out his own contract in order to leave Rise Records. The entire statement explaining Craig’s situation can be viewed below. We guess he won’t be collaborating with any of their artists in the near future.

“First off, you’ve fulfilled your contract with Rise Records. I have to ask, was there an offer to re-sign?

Actually, I was still obligated to do more CD’s, and I had to buy my own contract out, that is the actual legit story. There was a bunch of shit going around saying that they dropped me, but yeah, I had to buy my own contract out with Rise Records.

Are you still on good terms with all the guys over there at Rise?

To be honest, I’m not going to bad mouth them, but I don’t talk to them. Craig refused to talk to me for a long time, even after I apologized for all the stuff that went down. Real talk, he kept me out of jail, so I have a lot of respect for him, and I went to him after everything happened and I apologized, all of his money got paid back, but he still refused to have a relationship with me and that’s where my manager stepped in and was like “Hey, if you don’t want to continue to do this, we need to think of something else because we’re trying to move forward”, and he was holding us back a little bit. We had to work something out with him so he would get paid and he could let us go.”