Ok, so if you read my blog you know I post my real hip hop shit on Chesing The Cool now. So I posted Lupe’s joint “Shining Down” ft Matthew Santos over there, only to have it removed with a threatening email sent from Google on the repercussions of copyright infringement. Whatever. So here’s what Lupe had to say about it via twitter and his blog:“I DONT LEAK MY OWN RECORDS!!! I’M NOT A FAN OF LEAKING RECORDS OR OF DOWNLOADING!!! My entire first album leaked and possibly cost me from going platinum my first time out as the final estimates of how many people actually downloaded that album illegally was well over half a million. So how do u think i feel that everytime i come to this site where my “fans” are i see you putting up links to download my records???…I dont care about the other sites. I care about where my real fans are supposed to be active. If you come across it and you like it and keep it to yourself thats all cool with me but to make it where as other people are able to download it in a public forum is honestly an insult to me. Especially because of how much i love you guys. that shit is kinda like a slap in the face….

Someone hacked my email. I was about to fire my entire staff and cut off relationships over shining down leaking last night. Bun B hit me and was like “the records dope” and i was like “what record?” nobody even has it. the only possible explanation is my email chain with the mix studio (which is air tight…the studio that is) was hacked and thats where the record came from.”

I can understand his whole first album got leaked blah blah blah, but this is 2009, that is the name of the game. Anyway, so in order to get “official leaks” you will have to go to his or nahright’s blog OR wait 2 minutes for me and every other music blog to repost them and get them from CMONGOOD. Makes lots of sense.

Don’t know if I’ll even waste my time, we’ll see.