Labrinth says his Instagram posts blasting Euphoria were “out of character...

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...I’ve never done that in my career”

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Actually, the singer-songwriter-composer tells British GQ, he has nothing but respect for Euphoria creator Sam Levinson and Hans Zimmer, who succeeded him as composer for Season 3. The Instagram posts, the first of which he wrote “Double F*** Euphoria,” were in response to rumors he had been let go. “There were things getting sent through the grapevine that made me look like the crazy Black guy that just decided to go AWOL… like I just went ****ing crazy on everybody and decided I’m on some publicity stunt. (So my) thought process was like, I need to make it clear that I’m out. This has got nothing to do with me getting pushed out or thrown out. I’m going.” According to British GQ’s Frazier Tharpe, “Labrinth says he was still attached to the series when Zimmer entered the picture, although they never actually met. But he rejects the idea that his departure stems from him feeling slighted or sidelined, implying that if he hadn’t left, the show might have married his contributions with Zimmer’s more traditional score.” Labrinth adds with a shrug: “I don’t mind being disposable. That’s normal in this industry. That’s just a given. I don’t think my involvement was going to be as much as it was before, which I was fine with. That wasn’t a bother to me.” As for why he wanted to walk away, Labrinth says: “There was no expectation, in the first season. It was created through raw energy and Sam’s vision. And that I will always say with my chest, I never take that away from Sam.” But Labrinth says he and Levinson eventually lost their creative equilibrium, to a point where he no longer felt respected. “The industry in general plays (on) hierarchy, it plays (on) desperation, plays egos, it plays little man, big man, all this kind of stuff,” he says. “And I’m like, if we are creating, none of those words should be in our room.”