Cash Money biting No Limit

[OHSNAP!]

Ok we all know P and No Limit was copying tons of Cash Money's success formula, with different results

However, we ain't talkin' too much about Cash Money copying NL

Juvenile coming with the Soulja Rags album in 97, copying the successful NL soldier trend/slang, while BG, UNLV and the other CMR rappers rarely (never?) had any lyrics/relation bout army/soldier shyt

Ballerblockin' soundtrack in 2000 featured the same guests that were on all those NL soundtracks/compilations (DSH, Mean Green) years ago: UGK, 8Ball/MJG, Mack 10/Comrads, E-40

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

The whole "Soulja/ Soulja Rag" slang and camaflauge stuff comes from the Magnolia Projects, which is Juvenile's hood.

Soulja Slim aka Magnolia Slim was saying "soulja" on his early records in 1995 such as the very start of this verse (that P put on No Limit's Down South Hustlers compilation).

"Dig deep into the mind of the wild Magnolia/
And the projects that I come from is the the home of the souljas"


"I was local until ya heard me on Down South Hustlers, it was nation/
That soulja shyt is my creation/
Is it real, yeah, cause nikkas wearin' soldier rags and shyt/
Keepin' it trill"
@1:40



And with those guest artists it was more a case of those artists wanting to be associated with the hotttest label at the time that had taken the top spot that No Limit had. That and the Houston connection was always there because Pen & Pixel, who did CMR's covers, and Southwest. Distribution were located in Houston. Bun B had been doing features with them since their early days and UGK actually almost signed to Cash Money in the 90's.

 

[OHSNAP!]

@Marlo Barksdale
I know all this brah, let me explain this: why didn't CMR or Juvenile ever do soldier/army slang/songs before 97 then? They only started it because P blew up with the no limit soldiers stuff in 96/97. Let's be reality here

I do agree that those artists wanted to be associated with the hottest thing going around, understand it as a business move, but pretty shady nonetheless (smilarly E-40 associated himself strongly with the Lil Jon/crunk movement later on, while Mack 10 even released an album on CMR with little success)

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

Juvey was basically new to CMR when he dropped Soulja Rags so it's not like he switched up

 

[@ReallyReal]

Man if a nikka aint from the city.......he wont understand....

 

[letti cook]

im a nolimit stan but straight up: nobody talks about cash money biting them cause nobody would know..when nolimit was cooking they were local..when Cash Money blew, Nolimit got BLATANT as fukk with the biting and P was known as Shang Tsung already so it just reaffirmed everything..

funny thing is, Fresh going around lately saying Nolimit was jacking them before they blew...dude said Bout It was UNLV shyt and i was like

and well..

 

[Buzzed Lightyear]

Ok we all know P and No Limit was copying tons of Cash Money's success formula, with different results

However, we ain't talkin' too much about Cash Money copying NL

Juvenile coming with the Soulja Rags album in 97, copying the successful NL soldier trend/slang, while BG, UNLV and the other CMR rappers rarely (never?) had any lyrics/relation bout army/soldier shyt

Ballerblockin' soundtrack in 2000 featured the same guests that were on all those NL soundtracks/compilations (DSH, Mean Green) years ago: UGK, 8Ball/MJG, Mack 10/Comrads, E-40

They were the Clifton Powell's of hood movie soundtracks. But they bit the Hell out of No Limit with the Pen & Pixel album covers.

 

[OHSNAP!]

Man if a nikka aint from the city.......he wont understand....

I know soldier slang/fatigue/mentality existed before Tru 2 Da Game and before NL returned to the NO, but nobody ever exploited it bigtime/on a big stage, and CMR didn't use it before Solja Rags

 

[OHSNAP!]

They were the Clifton Powell's of hood movie soundtracks. But they bit the Hell out of No Limit with the Pen & Pixel album covers.

Yup, compare the cover of Tru 2 Da Game to Guerilla Warfare, or Made Man (OG blingedout edition) to I Got That Work etc

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

Having the big logo on the back of the album

 

[No Hook]

I always thought it was a NO thing

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Yup, compare the cover of Tru 2 Da Game to Guerilla Warfare, or Made Man (OG blingedout edition) to I Got That Work etc

Nah BG's Chopper City and UNLV's Uptown 4 Life had Pen and Pixel covers before Tru 2 Da Game

at CMR biting No Limit when they were the #1 indie label in NO and doing true NO/Southern rap when P was trying to sound like a Bay Area nikka

 

[Young/Nacho\Drawz]

You might be on to something here. In the Mr. Serv On interview I posted not to long ago, he said that him, Mystikal and C Murder were all in the military. You can see the military slang and dress in Mystikal's music prior to NL too. Even with his team being named The Boot Camp Clicc.

This was in '95 possibly recorded in '94.

 

[Young/Nacho\Drawz]

Nah BG's Chopper City and UNLV's Uptown 4 Life had Pen and Pixel covers before Tru 2 Da Game

at CMR biting No Limit when they were the #1 indie label in NO and doing true NO/Southern rap when P was trying to sound like a Bay Area nikka

Again, back to that Mr. Serv On interview. He speaks on Baby/Slim being cool with P and them asking P for business advice.

 

[Young/Nacho\Drawz]

Man if a nikka aint from the city.......he wont understand....

You always give these types of answers. For once why don't you drop some jewels?