Jay sean leaves Cash Money
Reinventing, Reconnecting and Reclaiming the R&B vibe…
More than a decade and 15 million singles sold later, the five times platinum selling artist is a household name, performing sold out shows across the globe and now he’s back in the UK.
Jay Sean, the UK’s most successful R&B export, last week announced that he has chosen to part ways with Cash Money Records and is preparing to release his latest body of work The Mistress II independently next month, in line with his long awaited return home to the UK.
The departure, announced exclusively in an interview on Billboard magazine, comes six years after Sean signed to the label, where he released two albums, All or Nothing, in 2009, featuring the Billboard number 1 and number 9 hits Downand Do You Remember, followed in 2013 with Neon, which spawned the R&B song Mars, which went to number 23 on the Rhythmic radio charts.
Sean admits that whilst the departure from Cash Money is amicable, there were artistic differences that lead to his decision: “I had and still maintain a great relationship with [Cash Money CEOs] Slim and Baby. They believed in me and my talent and our partnership obviously garnered a lot of pop success. But, it got to the point where I was chasing pop success and ‘the smash’ when really my heart wasn’t in it anymore,” he says. “That’s not why I got into this game.”
Moving forward independently, and returning to his true RnB roots, Jay Sean is now set to release his new mixtape, The Mistress II, with the video to the first single Tears in the Ocean.
