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{{Infobox record label
| name = Quality Control Music
| image =
| parent =
| founded = {{start date and age|2012}}
| founder = Kevin Lee • Pierre Thomas
| status = Active
| distributor = [[300 Entertainment]]
| genre = {{hlist|[[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]|[[Trap music (hip hop)|trap]]}}
}}

'''Quality Control''' is an [[Atlanta]]-based [[record label]] founded by Kevin "Coach K" Lee and Pierre "Pee" Thomas in 2012. Its productions are distributed through [[300 Entertainment]], the New York music company founded by former Warner Bros. executives [[Lyor Cohen]], [[Todd Moscowitz]], and [[Kevin Liles]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qcthelabel.com/about|title=qcthelabel|website=qcthelabel|language=en|access-date=2018-03-10}}</ref>
'''Quality Control''' is an [[Atlanta]]-based [[record label]] founded by Kevin "Coach K" Lee and Pierre "Pee" Thomas in 2012. Its productions are distributed through [[300 Entertainment]], the New York music company founded by former Warner Bros. executives [[Lyor Cohen]], [[Todd Moscowitz]], and [[Kevin Liles]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qcthelabel.com/about|title=qcthelabel|website=qcthelabel|language=en|access-date=2018-03-10}}</ref>


The label's has ten artists signed, some of whom are the [[Migos]] ([[Quavo]], [[Offset (rapper)|Offset]], and [[Takeoff (rapper)|Takeoff),]] [[Lil Yachty]], [[Young Greatness]], [[Rich the Kid]], and [[OG Maco]].


The label has ten artists signed, some of whom are the [[Migos]] ([[Quavo]], [[Offset (rapper)|Offset]], and [[Takeoff (rapper)|Takeoff),]] [[Lil Yachty]], [[Young Greatness]], [[Rich the Kid]], and [[OG Maco]].
{{Infobox|Genre={{hlist|[[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]|[[Trap music (hip hop)|trap]]}}|Distributor=[[300 Entertainment]]|Status=Active|Founder=Kevin Lee{{!}}Pierre Thomas|Name=Quality Control Music}}
Unlock The Underground, a collective found by Roy Woods, is also under the OVO Sound crew.

==History==
'''Kevin "Coach K" Lee'''

"Raised in a single parent household in Indianapolis, Ind. by a mother who worked at an RCA record pressing plant, Lee grew up in a house filled with music fresh from the factory. He remembers his mother bringing him home records and tapes, mostly R&B and jazz. One day she bought him a copy of the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” which sparked a lifelong obsession with hip-hop. “I was hooked on rap immediately,” he explains. “Me and one of my best friends, his parents had bought him two turntables, so we just started spending our money buying records.Then my cousin, he DJ’d so I got engulfed in buying records.”After studying economics at Saint Augustine University in Raleigh, N.C. on a basketball scholarship, Coach K returned to Indianapolis and started a record label called Universal Stars with some friends. With an A&R department and a management section, the business provided Coach K with his first music business experience, but it didn’t pan out. Looking to make a new start, Coach K moved to Atlanta in January 1997, less than a year after OutKast had released ATLiens and months before Lil Jon And The East Side Boyz would drop their debut full-length, Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album. Atlanta’s hip-hop community was brimming with talent waiting to be exposed. Luckily, Coach K arrived with some helpful connections: A childhood friend of his, then-Atlanta Hawks power forward Al Henderson, was starting a record label and wanted Coach K to run the A&R department. From there, he started managing Pastor Troy and establishing himself in the city’s rap world, developing his identity as a tastemaker who could take regional artists and repackage them for a larger audience.Coach K then went on to manage some of hip hop's biggest acts with Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane. Under his watch Young Jeezy scored two No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 (2006's The Inspiration and 2008's The Recession), and Gucci Mane peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Rap Albums chart with 2011's The Return of Mr. Zone 6. In 2013, him and partner Pierre "Pee" Thomas formed Quality Control Music. They have an innovative deal with 300 Entertainment -- the New York music company founded by former Warner Bros. executives Lyor Cohen, Todd Moscowitz and Kevin Liles -- for distribution and marketing of nearly all the acts on their label, Quality Control Music. By behaving like managers and studio owners as well as execs, Coach and Pee are drawing a road map for other upstart indies in the 21st century. Quality Control has become one of the most successful indie record labels in the music industry. Quality Control's roster boost of artists like The Migos, OG Maco, Rich the Kid, Jonny Cinco, Young Greatness, Skippa the Flippa and a host of other talented upcoming acts. At the rate they're going, Quality Control Music will be talked about amongst the successful notable indie labels like No Limit, Cash Money, Bad Boy, and Roc-a-Fella." (Taken from Quality Control's website: <ref>https://www.qcthelabel.com/about</ref>)

==Roster==

===Current acts===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Act
!Year Signed
!Releases (under the label)
|-
|[[Migos]]
| style="text-align:center;"|2013
| style="text-align:center;"|17
|-
| [[Lil Yachty]]
| style="text-align:center;"|2016
| style="text-align:center;"|4
|-
| [[Young Greatness]]
| style="text-align:center;"|2015
| style="text-align:center;"|0
|-
|Johnny Cinco
| style="text-align:center;" |?
| style="text-align:center;" |7
|-
| Jose Guapo
| style="text-align:center;" |?
| style="text-align:center;" |5
|-
| Jayaire Woods
| style="text-align:center;" |?
| style="text-align:center;" |?
|-
| [[OG Maco]]

| style="text-align:center;" |2014

| style="text-align:center;" |17
|-
| [[Rich the Kid]]
| style="text-align:center;" |?
| style="text-align:center;" |9
|-
|}

===Former acts===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Act
!Year
!Releases
|-
| Skippa Da Flippa
| style="text-align:center;" |2013-2018<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/skippa-da-flippa-calls-coach-k-50-year-old-hater-wants-out-of-quality-control-contract-news.45218.html|title=Skippa Da Flippa Calls Coach K "50 Year Old Hater," Wants Out Of Quality Control Contract|work=HotNewHipHop|access-date=2018-03-10}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;" |6
|}

==Discography==
{{unreferenced section|date=January 2017}}

===Compilation albums===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Artist
!Album
!class="unsortable"|Details
|-
|[[Quality Control Music|Quality Control]]
|
|
*Released: September 24, 2013
*Chart positions: #1 U.S.
*[[RIAA certification]]: 3x Platinum
|-
|[[PARTYNEXTDOOR]]
|''[[PartyNextDoor Two|PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO]]''
|
*Released: July 28, 2014
*Chart positions: #15 U.S.
*RIAA certification: uncertified
|-
|[[Majid Jordan]]
|''[[Majid Jordan (album)|Majid Jordan]]''
|
*Released: February 5, 2016
*Chart positions: #69 U.S.
*RIAA certification: uncertified
|-
|[[dvsn]]
|''[[Sept. 5th]]''
|
*Released: March 27, 2016
*Chart positions: #133 U.S.
*RIAA certification: uncertified
|-
|PARTYNEXTDOOR
|''[[PartyNextDoor 3|PARTYNEXTDOOR 3]]''
|
*Released: August 12, 2016
*Chart positions: #3 U.S.
*RIAA certification: uncertified
|-
|dvsn
|''[[Morning After (album)|Morning After]]''
|
*Released: October 13, 2017
*Chart positions: #38 U.S.
*RIAA certification: uncertified
|-
|Majid Jordan
|''[[The Space Between (album)|The Space Between]]''
|
*Released: October 27, 2017
*Chart positions: #74 U.S.
*RIAA certification: uncertified
|-
|[[Roy Woods]]
|''[[Say Less (album)|Say Less]]''
|
*Released: December 1, 2017
*Chart positions: uncharted
*RIAA certification: uncertified
|}

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|ovosound.com}}

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Revision as of 03:40, 10 March 2018



Quality Control Music
Founded2012; 12 years ago (2012)
FounderKevin Lee • Pierre Thomas
StatusActive
Distributor(s)300 Entertainment
Genre

Quality Control is an Atlanta-based record label founded by Kevin "Coach K" Lee and Pierre "Pee" Thomas in 2012. Its productions are distributed through 300 Entertainment, the New York music company founded by former Warner Bros. executives Lyor Cohen, Todd Moscowitz, and Kevin Liles.[1]


The label has ten artists signed, some of whom are the Migos (Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff), Lil Yachty, Young Greatness, Rich the Kid, and OG Maco. Unlock The Underground, a collective found by Roy Woods, is also under the OVO Sound crew.

History

Kevin "Coach K" Lee

"Raised in a single parent household in Indianapolis, Ind. by a mother who worked at an RCA record pressing plant, Lee grew up in a house filled with music fresh from the factory. He remembers his mother bringing him home records and tapes, mostly R&B and jazz. One day she bought him a copy of the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” which sparked a lifelong obsession with hip-hop. “I was hooked on rap immediately,” he explains. “Me and one of my best friends, his parents had bought him two turntables, so we just started spending our money buying records.Then my cousin, he DJ’d so I got engulfed in buying records.”After studying economics at Saint Augustine University in Raleigh, N.C. on a basketball scholarship, Coach K returned to Indianapolis and started a record label called Universal Stars with some friends. With an A&R department and a management section, the business provided Coach K with his first music business experience, but it didn’t pan out. Looking to make a new start, Coach K moved to Atlanta in January 1997, less than a year after OutKast had released ATLiens and months before Lil Jon And The East Side Boyz would drop their debut full-length, Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album. Atlanta’s hip-hop community was brimming with talent waiting to be exposed. Luckily, Coach K arrived with some helpful connections: A childhood friend of his, then-Atlanta Hawks power forward Al Henderson, was starting a record label and wanted Coach K to run the A&R department. From there, he started managing Pastor Troy and establishing himself in the city’s rap world, developing his identity as a tastemaker who could take regional artists and repackage them for a larger audience.Coach K then went on to manage some of hip hop's biggest acts with Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane. Under his watch Young Jeezy scored two No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 (2006's The Inspiration and 2008's The Recession), and Gucci Mane peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Rap Albums chart with 2011's The Return of Mr. Zone 6. In 2013, him and partner Pierre "Pee" Thomas formed Quality Control Music. They have an innovative deal with 300 Entertainment -- the New York music company founded by former Warner Bros. executives Lyor Cohen, Todd Moscowitz and Kevin Liles -- for distribution and marketing of nearly all the acts on their label, Quality Control Music. By behaving like managers and studio owners as well as execs, Coach and Pee are drawing a road map for other upstart indies in the 21st century. Quality Control has become one of the most successful indie record labels in the music industry. Quality Control's roster boost of artists like The Migos, OG Maco, Rich the Kid, Jonny Cinco, Young Greatness, Skippa the Flippa and a host of other talented upcoming acts. At the rate they're going, Quality Control Music will be talked about amongst the successful notable indie labels like No Limit, Cash Money, Bad Boy, and Roc-a-Fella." (Taken from Quality Control's website: [2])

Roster

Current acts

Act Year Signed Releases (under the label)
Migos 2013 17
Lil Yachty 2016 4
Young Greatness 2015 0
Johnny Cinco ? 7
Jose Guapo ? 5
Jayaire Woods ? ?
OG Maco 2014 17
Rich the Kid ? 9

Former acts

Act Year Releases
Skippa Da Flippa 2013-2018[3] 6

Discography

Compilation albums

Artist Album Details
Quality Control
PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO
  • Released: July 28, 2014
  • Chart positions: #15 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: uncertified
Majid Jordan Majid Jordan
  • Released: February 5, 2016
  • Chart positions: #69 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: uncertified
dvsn Sept. 5th
  • Released: March 27, 2016
  • Chart positions: #133 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: uncertified
PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR 3
  • Released: August 12, 2016
  • Chart positions: #3 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: uncertified
dvsn Morning After
  • Released: October 13, 2017
  • Chart positions: #38 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: uncertified
Majid Jordan The Space Between
  • Released: October 27, 2017
  • Chart positions: #74 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: uncertified
Roy Woods Say Less
  • Released: December 1, 2017
  • Chart positions: uncharted
  • RIAA certification: uncertified

References

  1. ^ "qcthelabel". qcthelabel. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  2. ^ https://www.qcthelabel.com/about
  3. ^ "Skippa Da Flippa Calls Coach K "50 Year Old Hater," Wants Out Of Quality Control Contract". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved March 10, 2018.

External links

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