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.
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.
when they get an audit threat...

Black Rob was blessed. Homie said he got a $450,000 advance and during his hayday he could pull $20K a show.
People just assuming he somehow got screwed by Puff (because that is the popular thing to believe).
you mean like how you continue to dikk suck eminem on this website despite the racist tapes?How folks still give this guy props baffles me
fixedSigning slave deals with Puff like whoa!
Puff still one of the notable industry people of all time![]()
the fact that Diddy still doing the get money shuffle beyond getting his face underneath a tire by now blows my damn mind.
Breh really is Lucifer in a Sean Jean Velour![]()
I hate people that defend giving bad deals in no way is it good to take the majority of profits from the artist split it fairly ,just because those contracts were standard doesn’t mean you can’t structure a deal that’s fair on both sidesPeople 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.
Puff has a pattern of singing artists to the worst deals ever; how can you defend 450k for 10 albums??? "Whoa" alone is worth more than that.fixed
that's all it is. having a name brand as a executive is apparently a terrible thing because he is now the scape goat of the industry aka the devil for uneducated buffoons.
embarrassing and stupid. he is just a business man...


Puff has a pattern of singing artists to the worst deals ever; how can you defend 450k for 10 albums??? "Whoa" alone is worth more than that.
all of his Bad Boy artists got fukked the same way and if Big had lived, they def wouldn’t be as close
"he’s just a business man"
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exactlyPeople 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.
He had a mild stroke a few years back if I remember correctlyBlack Rob aged terrible.