Black Rob needs help.

[jilla82]

damn...he was signed to a bullshyt production deal before he met Puff...
...that guy introduced him to Puff

he aint talking too kindly about Puff in this video...
...basically saying Puff dropped him w/o a care.

 

[Vinny Lupton]

Rob signed with Diddy way before people think, too. He was sitting around for 5+ years before he actually dropped Life Story.

5+ years sounds like a reach. Life Story dropped in 2000, your timeline would have him being signed around the time Ready to Die came out.

at the beginning of the interview, he said when he got signed Mase, biggie, faith,Total were already there so had to be 96. Mase got signed in 96, and they always said a week after he signed he (Ma$e) was on the Only You remix so that had to be 96

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

what a joint!!

Rob was that man..from harlem..representing the Panamanians!

 

[FaTaL]

This nikka signed a 10 album deal for 450k?

Picard upset

• FaTaL
• Dec 27, 2017

 

[Mega]

Victory was allegedly the last song he recorded, so it was March of 97.

B.R. was signed in 96

 

[DontEemTry]

Man seeing Puff dancin all in that Whoa video hits different now

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

there were some really dope black rob joints on the dj kay slay tapes back in the 2000's or 1999.

 

[King Harlem]

People want to believe Puff was signing people to terrible record deals, and it isn't true
Bad Boy artists signed standard deals
Artists today would love those deals: Huge advances, you get to keep all your merchandise and all your tour money.
In 2020, where artists are splitting everything with record labels (merch, album sales, tour money), those bad boy deals look even better.

 

[Crumple]

nikkas wasnt as privy to contracts back in the day like they are now.



Cant do nothing but look back and laugh at how clueless we were

I disagree. Sorry.

Black Rob debuted in what? 1998?

Kool Keith was talking sbout bad contracts in 1995.

BDP signed bad contracts in around 1988.

Black Rob had at least 10 years - 3,650 whole days of rap bad contract history to be careful.

What he did do was get arrested in NYC with two handguns, high on MDMA, with drugs on him.

Alot of rappers are blessed. Its what they do with those blessings.

 

[360dagod]

People want to believe Puff was signing people to terrible record deals, and it isn't true
Bad Boy artists signed standard deals
Artists today would love those deals: Huge advances, you get to keep all your merchandise and all your tour money.
In 2020, where artists are splitting everything with record labels (merch, album sales, tour money), those bad boy deals look even better.

If he eating off your publishing, it's a terrible deal off rip

 

[360dagod]

I disagree. Sorry.

Black Rob debuted in what? 1998?

Kool Keith was talking sbout bad contracts in 1995.

BDP signed bad contracts in around 1988.

Black Rob had at least 10 years - 3,650 whole days of rap bad contract history to be careful.

What he did do was get arrested in NYC with two handguns, high on MDMA, with drugs on him.

Alot of rappers are blessed. Its what they do with those blessings.

These rappers come from fukked up positions...

These black CEOs push the family agenda while taking advantage of artists who come from treacherous conditions...

Yeah its buisness, but its fukked up buisness

 

[posterchild336]

This nikka signed a 10 album deal for 450k?

450 advance

 

[R=G]

LL Cool J said a long time ago that if you go platinum and you aint a millionaire, you got a terrible record deal and he started laughing immediately afterwards. Lol.

 

[King Harlem]

If he eating off your publishing, it's a terrible deal off rip

Usually royalties are broken down into two parts: (1) Writers share and (2) Publishing Share. It's not unusually for a record label to own 100% of an artists publishing rights.
But of course, we don't know any of this because we don't have Black Robs contract.

 

[Crumple]

These rappers come from fukked up positions...

These black CEOs push the family agenda while taking advantage of artists who come from treacherous conditions...

Yeah its buisness, but its fukked up buisness

You've got a point.

To be frank - the majors don't really want to sign the business saavy. It could threaten them.

I talk like Black Rob could have known about BDP's bad contracts etc.

but there's alot of hip hop artists who haven't studied Hip Hop history.

I still feel Black Rob was lucky.

The Like Woah video and track is classic to this day.

It was a club banger done right!

I wish him the best. I liked him when he came out.