kingdizzy01
ATXBBOY
A ballet dancer from New York moves to LA and changes his image to a gang banging rapper
The label obviously did this to push this ignorance to black kids
TuPlant
If thecoli.com Was Around In The 90's.. Using thecoli.com logic- Who Would Be "Industry Plants"..?
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Now we know that Big L, Camron, Mase, McGruff all grew up in the same hood and were all gaining a buzz using very similar rhyme styles. Most of the difference was in their individual voices, and the way they carried themselves.
Camron sounded like the kid who had attitude issues, and would get into big fights over the smallest things. You couldn't ask him to do anything he didn't want to without him tossing a wisecrack, or sucking his teeth. You could just hear the agitation in his voice when he rapped.
Big L was the quick witted short dude who would come around and just roast everyone into oblivion. Just relentless snaps, back to back to back. He was somehow always in the barbershop, even though I've never ever seen him with his fitted off. He would say things that would make you want to chase him down the block... if you weren't already doubled over from laughter.
McGruff was just cool, laid back and confident. He wasn't on that rah rah, whenever you saw him he had a new girl, a new leather on his back, and the newest shades.
Little Mason was like the class clown. He talked really slow, and always seemed to be in a good mood.
He liked to make faces, dance, wear silly outfits etc. he would do just about anything for a laugh because he loved the attention.
The whole neighborhood was buzzing, and it was only a matter of time before someone out of that circle made it big. So in the midst of the Tupac & Biggie drama, who do y'all think top level music execs wanted to represent that bubbling Harlem scene and become the new young African American idol?
THE DIM WITTED HAPPY FOOT NEGRO.
HE WAS A PLANT.
No one has ever heard anything about Mase having a solo demo, and no one has cited any of his recorded verses prior to his signing as the reason why he was the chosen one. He didn't have a hot independent single, he wasn't Unsigned Hype, he didn't have a classic guest appearance, he wasn't even the nicest one in his neighborhood using that style. After he was signed he switched up his delivery to a cool, conversational, ladies man tone to stand out more. I would have respected it more if I didn't later find out his swag was lifted directly from another upstart Harlem rapper named Loon.
I can go on and on about this. He didn't have to even get himself hot. He was signed and immediately placed on songs with 112/Biggie/Puffy etc.
Camron sounded like the kid who had attitude issues, and would get into big fights over the smallest things. You couldn't ask him to do anything he didn't want to without him tossing a wisecrack, or sucking his teeth. You could just hear the agitation in his voice when he rapped.
Big L was the quick witted short dude who would come around and just roast everyone into oblivion. Just relentless snaps, back to back to back. He was somehow always in the barbershop, even though I've never ever seen him with his fitted off. He would say things that would make you want to chase him down the block... if you weren't already doubled over from laughter.
McGruff was just cool, laid back and confident. He wasn't on that rah rah, whenever you saw him he had a new girl, a new leather on his back, and the newest shades.
Little Mason was like the class clown. He talked really slow, and always seemed to be in a good mood.
He liked to make faces, dance, wear silly outfits etc. he would do just about anything for a laugh because he loved the attention.
The whole neighborhood was buzzing, and it was only a matter of time before someone out of that circle made it big. So in the midst of the Tupac & Biggie drama, who do y'all think top level music execs wanted to represent that bubbling Harlem scene and become the new young African American idol?
THE DIM WITTED HAPPY FOOT NEGRO.
HE WAS A PLANT.
No one has ever heard anything about Mase having a solo demo, and no one has cited any of his recorded verses prior to his signing as the reason why he was the chosen one. He didn't have a hot independent single, he wasn't Unsigned Hype, he didn't have a classic guest appearance, he wasn't even the nicest one in his neighborhood using that style. After he was signed he switched up his delivery to a cool, conversational, ladies man tone to stand out more. I would have respected it more if I didn't later find out his swag was lifted directly from another upstart Harlem rapper named Loon.
I can go on and on about this. He didn't have to even get himself hot. He was signed and immediately placed on songs with 112/Biggie/Puffy etc.
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
I wouldnt call him a plant.@hustlemania u make me sick lol
It's funny you mention NAS because I actually got into a discussion that turned into an argument live on air with the conscious rapper NYOIL (the UMC's) from Staten Island who had the audacity to say that ILLMATIC was a marketing scheme
Dude was just salty and jealous cause Nas was the shyt! And he felt like I was jocking him too hard
However the legacy of illmatic is a complete farce.
It flopped and
Several debuts that year sold more and meant more in 1994
Biggie
outkast
brat
coolio
bone
warren g
And fukk the sales,it didnt really change anything either.
Biggie was the king of NY and Nas himself switched to a bad boy-esq sound to garner success.
daboywonder2002
Superstar
vanilla ice
A ballet dancer from New York moves to LA and changes his image to a gang banging rapper
The label obviously did this to push this ignorance to black kids
TuPlant
Yo TuPlant is fukking crazy bruh lmao
Cheech&Chong
rip chinx
ok guys, listen... record lables sign people to make money on images. so either everyone is a plant or plant is the dumbest term. Im going with the latter
Cheech&Chong
rip chinx
MC Hammer - Too obvious
Onyx - One nikka was a barber with orange dreads and they did house music before getting on then they turn into gangster rappers
Diggable Planets - Never seen nobody bumping this shyt in the Hood, two weirdo nikkas and a racially ambiguous lead female rapper? Industry made up shyt
Arrested Development - Look at these nikkas B
ive heard this but never seen pictures. All i could find was there first song before def jam and it was def different from bacdafucup onyx
Jokes aside I'm a huge Pac fan but I kinda do think he may have been a plant.A ballet dancer from New York moves to LA and changes his image to a gang banging rapper
The label obviously did this to push this ignorance to black kids
TuPlant
The whole story of the record execs daughter listening to Pac blah blah blah is flimsy as fukk.
Ardamus
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MC Hammer - Too obvious
Onyx - One nikka was a barber with orange dreads and they did house music before getting on then they turn into gangster rappers
Diggable Planets - Never seen nobody bumping this shyt in the Hood, two weirdo nikkas and a racially ambiguous lead female rapper? Industry made up shyt
Arrested Development - Look at these nikkas B
god i hate you sometimes, lol. this was funny.
Ardamus
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But real talk.....the 90s was full of Industry plants..simply because Labels wasn't in tune to the streets this was prior to the mixtape being used as a promotional tool and the internet...
This is the era in which i worked Radio and you didn't playback record based on buzz or request...but simply cause the record was "serviced" to you by the label or Indy promoter ..i.e PAYOLA....
The kid group QUO out of Australia is the best example of a Industry plant....
They were a kid group doing horrorcore ...
And we're signed to Michael Jackson label Mjj a subsidiary of Epic records...
They got called out by DJ S&S for being a fraud......
Yeah, I agree with this. I think they were trying to compete with Da Youngstas, Illegal, and Shyheim (not sure who came out before who though) but yeah, they were plants.
Man It was the first time I ever heard a mixtape deejay apologize for playing a song
He knew damn well he wasn't shyt for taking a check to play that garbage
But it was an obvious pay for play scenario ...
The group was on Epic Records which was a subsidiary of Columbia records at the time...
DJ S&S was hosting the Butta tapes (vol 1 to 3) which was nothing more than a mixtape sampler for Columbia records
Surprised no one said Warren G
Who said I was joking :Idontlikemycoffeeblack: