Bomani Jones

[LV Koopa]

I really don’t like son

Insane. As a NY cat, first time I saw No Limit they were so larger than life I assumed they were some kind of super group reppin' the entire South.

They were a big reason we had arguments with cats from the South (Atl, Memphis, Houston). We assumed everything was the same down there just because of huge them dudes were.

 

[Max Power]

There's dudes still listening to this contrarian, black man hating, sassy male feminist?

Gluttons for punishment.

 

[desjardins]

I really don’t like son

As a person who grew up on the east coast i kind of agree. I didn't hear what Bomani said but I'm assuming he articulated it wrong (also didn't he grow up in houston/atlanta so still weird for him to say). I'm assuming the context is of a Versuz. Obviously Master P was a superstar who had movies, sports agency and was big enough to sign one of the biggest NATIONAL rappers at the time in Snoop. That's doesn't mean people outside of the south know their southern hits from their vast catalog of albums.

If you read the Source and watched RapCity you knew more then the average casual. I did that so I knew about a lot of regional stuff. But on the radio No Limit wasn't getting played like that outside of maybe 3-4 huge songs they had. Nobody in my area was rocking with the B tier No limit roster (mia x, fiend, those twins, etc)

 

[Legal]

As a person who grew up on the east coast i kind of agree. I didn't hear what Bomani said but I'm assuming he articulated it wrong (also didn't he grow up in houston/atlanta so still weird for him to say). I'm assuming the context is of a Versuz. Obviously Master P was a superstar who had movies, sports agency and was big enough to sign one of the biggest NATIONAL rappers at the time in Snoop. That's doesn't mean people outside of the south know their southern hits from their vast catalog of albums.

If you read the Source and watched RapCity you knew more then the average casual. I did that so I knew about a lot of regional stuff. But on the radio No Limit wasn't getting played like that outside of maybe 3-4 huge songs they had. Nobody in my area was rocking with the B tier No limit roster (mia x, fiend, those twins, etc)

I think this is honestly hard to gauge. On one hand, I agree that a large portion of their roster were almost entirely regional acts, but that's also because there were so damn many of them. There had to be in order to keep up with their insane release schedule from 1997 to around 2000.

But that being said, during No Limit's peak, we were all very aware of what they had coming out and when, and I was in Columbus, Ohio. They had a LOT of reach, so I think writing off No Limit as a whole as regional is probably a bit dismissive. But if you wanted to tell me most of the country wasn't fukking with Mr Serv-On specifically, or something like that, I can't really argue against that.

 

[Kingcobrakai]

But if you wanted to tell me most of the country wasn't fukking with Mr Serv-On specifically, or something like that, I can't really argue against that.

Man, I met a rural Canadian (Western Canadian) in like the early 2010’s who one of his top 5 rappers was Mr. Serv-On.

I was blown away. Knew his entire discography. Was talking about album filler like it Nas or Jay. Giving me what-if’s that could have advanced his career.

Dude was drunk as hell but you ain’t just saying that shyt without some type of conviction.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

There's dudes still listening to this contrarian, black man hating, sassy male feminist?

Gluttons for punishment.

I stopped paying attention to him yrs ago i just seen that quote yesterday, nikka just be contrarian just bc & I didn’t know he was one of those male feminist smh, nothing disgusts me more than one of those

 

[Legal]

Man, I met a rural Canadian (Western Canadian) in like the early 2010’s who one of his top 5 rappers was Mr. Serv-On.

I was blown away. Knew his entire discography. Was talking about album filler like it Nas or Jay. Giving me what-if’s that could have advanced his career.

Dude was drunk as hell but you ain’t just saying that shyt without some type of conviction.

That's wild, but I 100% believe it. A lot of those B and C tier No Limit artists may not have had a lot of fans, but the people that fukked with their my music REALLY fukked with it.

 

[jadillac]

I don't know if No Limit was regional after a certain point. Maybe moreso they just weren't pushed nationwide as, at the time DMX, Puff & the Lox,, etc. They were definitely a tier above No Limit in how they were pushed in the industry and in the media.

But No Limit got where they were without the machine