I knid of remembering hearing about the TRU Records issue, but I could see why that would cause a rift. A few questions though. I was always under the impression everyone kept their publishing on No Limit. What was Mia X's situation and who did C-Murder get into it with on the label? Buy yeah, I've always considered P a snake for the most part. He made alot of people money, but it seems he ain't gonna let your hand stay in the cookie jar for too long. I think Snoop even had a problem with him by the time The Last Meal came out because he said he named it that because it was the last time motherfukkers was gonna eat off him.
After her 3rd album she was preparing material for her 4th album(sista stories) when her parents were killed in two accidents. Her mom got killed 1st & months later her dad died in a accident so she gave up on music for a while.
When snoop called his album the "the last meal", he was speaking about DR as it related to his publishing. When he came to NL he still owed DR 3 albums. P bought out his contract but suge kept a percentage of his publishing but P didn't take any plus snoop got a huge 3 album advance from P & adding snoop gave NL the credibility it needed nationally.
When P filed for bankruptcy, there were plenty of ignorant people making jokes that P was broke but that couldn't be further from the truth. When NL was going strong he wasn't paying taxes but understand this: P ONLY had distribution deal with priority, he never got any advance & had little overhead plus he was receiving 87% of all sales for each album sold. So this was before the internet boom & napster. Albums were selling $12 to $17, let's say an average of $15 so that's 13 bucks P was profiting off of EVERY ALBUM SOLD. That's the reason he rarely toured because he was making so much money off record sales alone. He was putting out 2 albums per month.
He had guys like soulja slim who was a local artist selling 600,000 albums in a two month span so imagine the money P had coming in. When people said he had 400 to 700 million & dudes was calling ducktales, they don't understand the type of unprecedented deal he had. Wendy day, russell simmons, lyor & all of those guys have gone on record saying a deal like that will NEVER happen again & it hasn't.
I don't think it was one isolated incident that made them fall out, it was accumulation of things. One foul thing P did was jack "wobble, wobble" from magic. It was originally on his thuggin' album & mystikal had already left NL but P needed a single for his 504 boyz album & he remade the song & no one received publishing for it but P so C was upset about that but it was a lot of stuff he did over the years.
There was a rumor years ago that c-murder beat up juvenile over the beef between the labels but it wasn't true. They spoke but by that time juvenile realized how CMR was jerking him so he wasn't about to get faded for a label that raped him & C respected that.
I know a lot of people think c-murder is crazy but if they ever did an american gangster story on Soulja Slim then a lot of people would be in awe. It's no secret that he was like a black version of Albert Anastasia or "Brother Mouzone", that dude was violent, ruthless & feared. Even though formal charges never came at the time of his death he was a main suspect in a lot murders in NO but due to a lack of witnesses he was never charged...