Blackball a artist....

ajnapoleon

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Is this a real thing? or its a case of people not working with someone because of a connection to the bigger artist or dont want to anger him or her

Ex#1 Jay-Z to Dame Dash or Jaz-O

Ex#2 50 Cent to Ja Rule
 

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Those are bigger names. Usually a bigger artist blackballs a smaller artist before they can even get name status i.e. Asap Rocky and Spaceghostpurrp

At the end of the day, talent overcomes being blackballed. 50 was blackballed after "How To Rob" and came back and put the game in a chokehold.
 

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With Hip-Hop being so much about networking and making connections to get your music out there, I can see blackballing being very real.
Any business that involves networking and making business relationships with people always has the potential for blackballing.
 

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**snorts 30secs***

Jive Records to Big Boi

Atlantic Records to every grand hustle member not named Ti or B.o.b

diddy to the lox

diddy to craig mack

Luda to Field Mob

Radio to Trae the truth

Beyonce to Latavia Roberson

Beyonce to Keri Hilson

Ti to Lil Flip



jay did it to camron
fat joe to cuban link
iovine is doing it to 50
no limit to paster troy



its very real

power and influence is everything


**snort 20seconds***

Pastor did not get blackballed by master p, he actually got a little distribution deal with mca, then got signed with universal the year after that.

Master P was already struggling to stay afloat and was on Koch by the time Troy dropped his final universal album, Troy's Universal run, No Limit was already shell shocked and reinventing himself and the label.
 

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* Adds Clipse to Jive Records list.


**snorts 3seconds***


I forgot Ugk(Pimp and Bun as solo artist too) as well(1996-2001), Jive played games with dirty money kept pushing and pushing the album back until they made a big pimpin pt 2, the album was suppose to have dropped in 1998, Ugk was orginally trying to drop every 2 yrs, if you go back check their album releases from too hard to swallow to rydin dirty you'd see every 2 yrs.

Every rapper signed to Jive around the boy band/bubble gum era suffered, Jive was more worried about the backstreet boys, nsync, aaron carter, brittney spears etc.

Only rapper who didnt suffer was Mystikal because he had a joint deal with Jive and No Limit, No Limit was guaranteed money to jive and they didnt have to lose money promoting, marketing when Master P did it all and every 2 weeks something new was dropping.

Jive messed ugk flow up, Pimp and Too short hit off, and they decided to form a group broad playaz, back in the 90s, 2 of the earliest songs they did together was all about it and its alright. Jive is still sitting on that album.

I know 1998-2000 Pimp begin working a solo album

2uz40ep.jpg
(pimps handwriting of the tracklist), alot of the songs ended up on other albums example






(swap out webbie and boosie and add Xmob (bundy slice and vicious))


(was originally bump and grill for dirty money, jive didn't come thru so he just gave that beat and falling in love again to sleepy, if Im not mistaken this is right around time pimp and p started beefing because he shot a slug at P and c-murder, and its funny that bump and grill ended up on i got the hook up)






Jive refused, eventually they ended up releasing dirty money. Pimp got locked up, Pimp and James Prince started working together, while locked up, since he and bun are signed to James as solo artist, all of sudden Jive let em do their own thing as a solo artist, Pimp get out drop a compilation, now its back to jive for another ugk album, and James is involved now, and kind of funny they went back to dropping every 2 yrs with James backing them.
 
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