Pretty sure he doesn't like to speak on it, but he is blacklisted from all major labels(interscope, atlantic, etc etc) because of something he did at interscope. That's why he was just signed to CTE as an independent artist, not CTE/Def Jam. Dude would have been signed awhile back ago if that weren't the case, because he definitely has songs that could easily be played on the radio. Him signing to Jeezy could have possibly let up his bad luck when it comes to major labels because Jeezy is A&R at Atlantic and if he stayed out of trouble, but yeah he is gone so lol.
He'll make that independent money anyway.