Battery Records is a hip-hop label started by

Neil Levine Neil Levine is an American music industry executive. He is best known as the founder of the hip-hop label Penalty Recordings, and is currently the CEO of its successor company, Penalty Entertainment. Levine helped to launch the careers of artist ...

under

Zomba Label Group RCA/Jive Label Group was a short-lived American record label group, owned by Sony Music Entertainment and representing the merger of the RCA Music Group and Jive Label Group. The umbrella group was formed in 2007 under the name BMG Label Group, ...

, which is currently owned by

Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainmen ...

. The label was launched mid-2008 by

Sony BMG Music Entertainment Sony BMG Music Entertainment was an American record company owned as a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann. The venture's successor, the revived Sony Music, is wholly owned by Sony, following their buyout ...

. The label primarily focuses on new talent, often overseeing early-stage development for acts that are destined for other labels such as

J Records J Records was an American record label owned and operated by Bertelsmann Music Group until it was transferred to Sony Music Entertainment when they acquired all of BMG’s record labels in late 2008. It was distributed through the RCA Music Gro ...

or Jive. However, it also serves established artists looking for non-traditional deals, such as releasing Q-Tip's long-awaited solo album '' Kamaal the Abstract'', which had been shelved nearly seven years prior.

Artists

*6 Tre G *Ace Valentine * Chalie Boy *D.C. Don Juan *

GS Boyz GS Boyz (explicitly G-Spot Boyz) are an American hip hop group from Arlington, Texas, formed in 2005. The group gained national popularity and sold over 1 million records under Sony Music, RCA Records, and MWN Music Group after nationally distr ...

*Li'l Goonie *Louisiana Ca$h *The Party Boyz * Q-Tip *Sir Will *Sunny Valentine *Velaté *V.I.C. *

Mickey Factz Mark Williams (born July 13, 1982), better known by his stage name Mickey Factz, is an American hip hop recording artist from the Bronx borough of New York City, New York. Early life Mickey Factz attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School, which is ...

*S Dub "The Greatest"

Discography

External links

Battery Records
official site

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Battery Records (Hip Hop) Record labels established in 2008 Hip hop record labels American record labels Sony Music Zomba Group of Companies subsidiaries

Artists

Discography

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See also

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