J Prince BreakfastClub Interview

[dtownreppin214]

welcome back @shopthatwrecks

my nikka never left.

 

[Harry B]

Those 2 dudes had a small army. This dude got an army behind him?

They didn't come up with an army which is the point I thought you were making, they were fukked over, got fukked up and on but they grew smarter and wilder than the competition.

And J Prince could probably set up a small army if he wanted to.

 

[O.Red]

flips uncle hump doin a bid

Damn when did that happen?

 

[Reality Check]

What do you mean by that?

They were going to start a music industry union. Irv Gotti spoke on this with MTV's Rap Fix while being interviewed by Sway. It wasn't a distribution company at all according to Irv. It was suppose to be irv, prince and suge. If Meech was involved (which he may have been) Irv didn't say.

I'm glad UGK is being mentioned. UGK was on Jive and blew up back in '92 with "tell me something good" way before they had anything to do with RAL. They not even from Houston they from Port Auther Texas. I say that because people keep attributing their success too RAL and that simply isn't true.

Meech not involved at all. Was supposed to be Irv Gotti, Suge Knight, and J. Prince starting an artist union. Trying to post the link but it's fukking up. Type "Suge knight irv gotti j.prince" in Google and it's the first article

Throughout the course of his 16-year music career, Irv Gotti has served as a DJ, record producer, A&R, video director and label CEO, but when he appeared on "RapFix Live" last week, the Murder Inc. founder revealed that he was at one time also looking to add labor organizer to his already-extensive résumé.

In the early 2000s, it was rumored that Irv, along with Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince, was looking to start a black-owned record distribution company. Gotti, however, revealed that the now-aborted plan was much bigger.

"It wasn't a distribution; it was a union. In the music business, the artists, we have no union. There's no health care, it's nothing like that. It should be done," Gotti said, crediting Suge with devising the plan.

"It was all his plan, and it was a hell of a plan," Irv said of the union that would include all artists of every genre. "He was like, 'OK, say you got a million-dollar budget. We're gonna make the record label make it a million and one.' Now, this will all get recouped back to the artist, but that hundred thousand will go for the union."

Under the plan, record labels would front the union dues to artists by including the extra money in their recording budgets. The artist would then have to pay the label back the recoupable costs, just as they would with any advance when their album is sold. In theory, the deal would provide artists with necessary health care and retirement plan options. "Now you can take your kids to [the doctor] — because we have no insurance, no dental, no nothing," he said. "It'll go towards an annuity, it'll go towards a retirement fund, so now when you're a rapper and you aren't making so many records no more, maybe you got a million dollars that built up when you were hot."

Irv told Sway that he, Suge and Prince even went as far as to meet with the same labor organizers who helped set up the player's union for Major League Baseball, but shortly after, things went awry. "Baseball, football, all the other forms of entertainment have a union, they have representatives, they have pensions, they have all this other stuff. So he was talking everything right, it was right," Gotti said. "The Feds came in shortly after we were talking."

In January 2003, Irv's Murder Inc. New York offices were raided by federal instigators, and the producer and his brother Chris were later charged with money laundering and faced up to 20 years in prison. The Gotti brothers beat the charges in 2005, but despite Irv's claims, there was no documented link to his case and his plans to unionize the music industry.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

And what people don't realize is that when J Prince says he owns his own masters, the nikka own the masters of nearly EVERY MC that was ever on Rapalot, including Z-ro, Ghetto Boys, Scarface, Devin, and tons of other classics.

True indeed

 

[O.Red]

Damn 97.9 about to be

 

[Earnings]

Damn I cant stand that f@ggot Envy.

On topic, Prince is short as hell the 2 n1ggaz next to hm are dwarfs in their own right. How is he so feared? Ole Mad Dog No Good azz n1gga

Dude does the gunpoint in every pic

Maybe that's why he's feared

if you look at alotta real killas them nikkas dont always look overly goonish... its about how far a breh really gon take it or known to take it.

 

[WheresWallace]

Damn I cant stand that f@ggot Envy.

On topic, Prince is short as hell the 2 n1ggaz next to hm are dwarfs in their own right. How is he so feared? Ole Mad Dog No Good azz n1gga

Dude does the gunpoint in every pic

Maybe that's why he's feared

Why do you say nikkaz so much...you're white. :thinking:

 

[MidwestD]

I remember my cuz from Houston telling about Rap-a-lot goons going around Houston to beatup and confiscate bootleggers with Zro cds. This when burning was at it's height. You know J.Prince too old school for that kind of bs.


This good when the Breakfast Club has people they respect and admire on the show. It's a totally different type of interview.

 

[Theo Penn]

Damn I cant stand that f@ggot Envy.

On topic, Prince is short as hell the 2 n1ggaz next to hm are dwarfs in their own right. How is he so feared? Ole Mad Dog No Good azz n1gga

Dude does the gunpoint in every pic

Maybe that's why he's feared

J Prince got that Brother Mouzzone swag.

 

[Tony D'Amato]

Why do you say nikkaz so much...you're white. :thinking:

Bish, Im pitch black. I dare you try to slander me and my good name

 

[blackzeus]

Summary...

 

[Bugsmoran]

J Prince is a boss

he needs re release some of them old Nip albums

 

[Scientific]

also did h-town people really fukk with dope house records like that? cause i never saw many collabs with other h-town acts

The biggest collab I have in mind was one he did with Flip and Botany Boyz.

Before he got locked up, SPM had a niche; which was bieng the first Chiacano rapper to be looked at in Texas, much less the South. He had a lot of love in the H within the Latino community obviously, and also becasue he was the only Latin dud who was seen as a SUC member. He grew up in Sunnyside and Southpark, and was personal freinds to Screw and Hawk. So he was within those cirlces. Also went to high school with Scarface.

What made him get so much love back then was becasue he was a Mexican speaking in Southern slang, and he never hid it. Didn't pretent to sound like he was another Westcaost Mexican. I met some Mexicans from Atlanta who told me they copped his Purity Album when they were in high school. I hadnt realized how far across the South he had reached. I also remember the first screwed CD I had ever heard was SPM's album. I didnt know he was the only one who had gotten this until shopthatwrecks just mentioned it.

Dope House was pretty big back then, when I was middle school, everyone was listening to SPM. Mediocre beats and all.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

The biggest collab I have in mind was one he did with Flip and Botany Boyz.

Before he got locked up, SPM had a niche; which was bieng the first Chiacano rapper to be looked at in Texas, much less the South. He had a lot of love in the H within the Latino community obviously, and also becasue he was the only Latin dud who was seen as a SUC member. He grew up in Sunnyside, and was personal freinds to Screw and Hawk. So he was within those cirlces. Also went to high school with Scarface.

What made him get so much love back then was becasue he was a Mexican speaking in Southern slang, and he never hid it. Didn't pretent to sound like he was another Westcaost Mexican. I met some Mexicans from Atlanta who told me they copped his Purity Album when they were in high school. I hadnt realized how far across the South he had reached. I also remember the first screwed CD I had ever heard was SPM's album. I didnt know he was the only one who had gotten this until shopthatwrecks just mentioned it.

Dope House was pretty big back then, when I was middle school, everyone was listening to SPM. Mediocre beats and all.

I knew he was big out here in New Mexico, i just didnt know if it was like that in H-Town let alone the rest of the south. I knew about Flip, he even did a song with Fat Joe and Pun, i just never heard many other H-Town cats really messing with him. I know he was featured on that Trae tape with that hispanic dude a few years ago but thats all I heard. I didnt know he was seen a SUC member, but I know he was down with Screw and i didnt know about that either til Shop mentioned it