HipHopDX.com is reporting that Atlantic Records has decided to drop it's support and distribution of Block Entertainment. Officially, it was under the Bad Boy Records umbrella, but as Bad Boy is distributed through Atlantic, so is Block Entertainment. They note, however, that this is an unconfirmed report and I've requested comment myself.

This would not be much of a surprise if not for the timing, seeing as it wasn't that long ago that "Back Up N Da Chevy", "Welcome to the Zoo" and "Hustlenomics" were released. Even if you were done releasing albums from them, you'd want to stick with them a little while longer, officially, while you tried to promote those somewhat recent releases, I would think. Besides those albums, the partnership also yielded the release of the debut albums of Boyz N Da Hood ("Boyz N Da Hood") in 2005 and Yung Joc ("Hustlenomics") in 2006. Big Gee has a solo deal with Bad Boy - as far as I have heard, it's a separate deal, outside of the Block Entertainment arrangements. I don't know how, if at all, a split with Block would affect that deal.