Honestly I just think it started from Roc telling Chain Gang "y'all the hottest dudes from Philly...that's why we signed y'all" "Fukk them nikkas" and Chain Gang started feeling themselves and taking little shots.
im trying to recall it myself.
so much happened so fast.
iirc, they fell out with beans before state property was even a thing.
and beans fell out with philly's most wanted as well.
i think it may have been over jay-z biting ninjas, and beans of course - playing foot soldier in response. i always figured that was the root of it..
but yea, that comment you posted might have been the spark that blew it out of proportion.
Back in the early 2000s labels were scrambling everywhere trying to find the new No Limit or Cash Money... trying to jump in front of a camp that was bumbling on a regional level and blow up the whole scene like what happened with New Orleans...Wallo pretty much said they had that type of movement in mind when they made the Figgas, he looked to the success of NL and CMB and took it from there...so labels were throwing deals...the Figgas flopped pretty awfully once they got signed though and that was that...
as far as what kinda demand Gillie had at the time, look at which deals he ended up taking... if you're this prized super buzzing commodity why are you taking deals with independent southern labels that had never broke an East coast act and couldn't compete advance and budget wise with the big majors? No buzzing east coast rapper is signing to go sit on Sauve House and Cash Money's bench when Def Jam and all the new York labels are right up the interstate with the bigger bag
no limit - yes.
cash money?? not so much. the figgas bidding war started before cash money blew up like that.
Wallo just lumping them two together off GP. people tend to lump CMR's name in the mix whenever they mention No Limit in hindsight, as if CMR blew up right afterwards.
youre too caught up in smoke-n-mirrors.
the figgas were more about money over fame. hence, the reason why they signed with ruffnation over rocafella.
and going back to the suave house deal, that was prolly the bigger bag and he kept his publishing. plus, he was like the first east coast rapper on a southern label. nobody was thinking that deep about whether or not they would know how to promote an east coast guy. youre using 2020 logic concerning something that happened 22 years ago.
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