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Subtitle has quit music. The L.A. rapper and Islands acolyte's MySpace now consists of a picture of skull and crossbones with the title "finished." above it. Its all-black interface makes the aforementioned title as well as just about everything else on the page totally unreadable, and, inexplicably, four female friends even more naked than usual for a MySpace friends list.

If you attempt to highlight the right-hand corner of the page, you'll see a link to Subtitle's blog, the most recent entry of which reads as follows:

"nothing witty here but quitting

yup I'm a quitter.
after 4 months of struggling like mad
and hoping a tour would save my sorry flesh,
said tour got cancelled, which means my money for the
next 2 months went with it. I hope whoever has my passport
is dead. I can't make a living in another country and my supergroup
randomizers is really a social club at this point. I hit up labels trying
to submit a DEMO for chrissakes! I've fallen pretty fall from grace, so it's
a wrap. thanks to all the fans and thanks to all the people who liked
my music. If I can hold on to my laptop, I'll make music for fun, but
otherwise fuck it, nothing is worth this much heartache. whatever happens to trunk bomb is news to me. I'm giving b.e.a.r. to nate and phil and..............."

Back in October, we reported that Subtitle would switch to the Giovanni Marks alias this year, but that blog entry sounds less like a repeat official statement of that previous announcement and more like a "Fuck it! I quit. FOREVER!!!" sort of thing.

Thanks to reader Matt Brown for the tip.

Good luck, Subtitle, and may the backpack be with you.