Labrinth Lashes Out at Music Industry in New Post: ‘Fake Ain’t a Good Business Plan’

Labrinth is posting to Instagram again, and he’s still not happy. In a new Notes app post shared to the platform on Tuesday (March 17), the “All for Us” singer aired his grievances with the music industry as a whole. “WE HOVER AROUND BIG STARS HOPING TO BE IN THEIR PLACE ONE DAY LIKE SNAKES,” Labrinth begins in all caps.

“WAITING TO EAT THEIR OWNERS.” The singer continues by saying that hopeful artists who enter the music industry are turned into “wolves of Wall Street” and that creatives in the business will discard meaningful relationships with one another in favor of bigger opportunities. Labrinth then asks a pointed question of the industry: “WHO THE F— SAID THIS IS NORMAL OR OK TO TURN WHAT I CALL GODS NOISE (our music) INTO BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS?” He closes his post out with a simple phrase “I DONT SUBSCRIBE.” In the caption, Labrinth expresses the desire to have “meaningful interactions” and not wanting to use or be used by anyone.

“Fake ain’t a good business plan,” he writes. While Labrinth may not subscribe to...