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Lil B, SwagSec, and the Gay Hacking Parade

3 July 2011

But some of this didn’t add up. ‘Gay hackers target Amy Winehouse’ still seemed too good a headline to be true.

Then I saw that Lil B was releasing his new album today. Apparantly his album ‘I’m Gay’ (named so in support of the LGBT community, though Lil B is himself a heterosexual) had been released without any notice.

Convenient? I later hear through the grapevine that Winehouse and Pritchard share the same PR guy. Would it be too cynical to imagine he has a new client in Lil B? Yes, it would. Until you see that Lil B had a ‘secret’ meeting with Universal staff back in March.

Does this smell even a tiny bit like a marketing campaign? Is it possible that the site owners and label did this purely for press coverage?

Pretty crazy if true. Pretty lousy marketing if it is.

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3 July 2011