Can he still work with other artists outside of YMCMB or would that be frowned upon?
His label is joining with theirs. That doesn't limit him from working with anybody. He's the most sought over producer, he's not gonna be producing for a bunch of rappers.
honestly i don't see why everyone thinks this is such a random and out-of-the-blue occurrence. if you keep up to date with what's been going on, you'd already know that RedOne's already HUGELY close with YMCMB. That's why he introduced Porcelain to her managers, who manage other YMCMB artists & why she opened for Wayne on his tour. So whoever said "maybe this means we'll get Porcelain's album now", I don't think this deal will affect much of what's already happening with that.
^ ReDone and Lil Wayne have already done already done a song together on Porcelain's album aswell. I heard even Eminem has a song on that album.
And ReDone has recently worked with Nicki Minaj, Usher, Sean Kingston, Akon, Mary J Blige, Lil Jon, Nicole Scherzinger, Kelly Rowland, Ne-Yo, etc. It's clear that he wants to be involved in the urban scene tbh. But he's such an idiot, if he wants to be urban, all he has to do is make urban beats once in a while. It's not difficult...
He's so generic though. Definitely the most generic producer of the past 10 years.
Also, to a post above about Jay Sean, he IS urban. He's from my country, and he used to do banghra, R&B and hip hop music before he got signed.