KENDRICK LAMAR IS PROOF LUPE FIASCO LIED ABOUT HIS LABEL.

[Prince.Skeletor]

Forget being on different labels
Kendrick HAD DRE BACKING HIM UP


COMPLETELY different stories
being on a diff label is just scratching the surface

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

Atlantic let Lupe do whatever he wanted his first 2 Albums... people forget he was co-signed by Jay, 'Ye & Pharrell (who at the time was still a super-producer)...

When they didn't sell what was expected they put their hand in the 3rd & guess what... it went Platinum...

 

[HARLEM AL]

50 wasnt shyt without chris lightly

chris lightly had the connections n and advised 50 to make the moves he made...n chris got a waaaaaaaay bigger % in the vitamin water deal than 50...he didnt even get the 15% nor the 30% them indian nikkas got..

had it not been from chris puttin it on 50s mind to do the master p puffy n rocafella hustle 50...woulda jus been a rapper still waitin his turn...

How 50 Cent scored a half-billion

chris was the boss not 50

slim only partner doin his come up has always been his blood brother rayface

no other companies..no other execs or advisors..

slim was a 300k nikka a month nikka in high school...jus doin shows..and he never made a album...jus off freestyles..be4 nikkas even knew who 50 was or he even caught the 1st bullet...

michael watts n ron c made all the money off mixtapes..them nikkas on swishahouse was jus rappin 4 free..


slim was makin noise...he didnt even wanna rap...but somebody wanna pay u 10-20 a show why not..so promoters started calling...n when they ask em what he wanted up front...he jus said a number...n they paid em..next time he raised it to see if he would get it...n he did..

alot of the house members begin gettin suspicious thinkin watts payin em...but slim paid watts to dj..slim kept the rest of the money...the rest of house got mad...they at shows with slim he gettin thousands...

then they do shows with watts they gettin 200 each...slim left..next time anybody seen em he came down in the 1st bentley

got his business license started up the hoggs...n bought out a couple mom n pop record stores

bought a gang of music whole sale...sold em..along with his shyt...n made a killing

then he got his real estate license started flippin houses...

helped toya get her own store...

slim hustle n gettin his blood on his team > chris giving 50 advice

LOL @ this fukking post.


you nikkas will type anything and past it off as true. foh nikka..

 

[Funcrusher]

People that say Atlantic is all that horrible: let's not forget how Aftermath has been a graveyard for careers from the start. Rakim, Bishop Lamont, Stat Quo, Busta Rhymes (yes he dropped an album, but he had to throw his whole image into the bushes for that one, never been the same since). The list goes on and on. I'm actually quite impressed with how quick Kendrick dropped an album there and stayed true to himself.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Five star thread.

This shyt backfired like a muhfukka

 

[Ohene]

They'll probably make Kendrick go more pop on his next album like Atlantic did with Lupe

if not, then the album after that

OP is making no sense

yea, i can actually really imagine him making an album of stuff like "Now or Never"

 

[Colilluminati]

Lupe second album went Gold and had a hit with Superstar. Please stop the lies.

 

[Drizzy Dre]

I do think some of the opinions are a little misguided, but I can offer some clarity from a West Coast point of view.

Kendrick Lamar had been buzzing in LA for quite a while. He had opened for Game and other artists, and had been pretty prominent on a then "dead" west coast hip hop scene. I call it dead because there was a time that the "premiere" radio station Power 106, wasn't playing West Coast hip hop...AT ALL. I mean there were protests from several up and coming artists complaining about the payola going to various DJs that are still on the station now...

Enter 2012. Kendrick drops Section 80 to critical acclaim. Odd Future was getting some shine. Dom Kennedy heated up the streets. But still no radio play outside Tyga's "Faded" for West Coast artists.

But when Swimming Pools dropped, the game changed. A "club centric" station like Power, now had a song it could play now amidst all the other poppy club anthems. Alas, a song about drinking, who would've thought! Mix that with a little push from Interscope and the whole coast was anticipating Kendrick's next move.

Then the album dropped, and it actually surpassed A LOT of people's expectations, so it was kinda a perfect storm for the artist formerly known as K.Dot...

As for Dre's input, I'm sure he had a hand in making sure the album was as cohesive and coherent as it sounded. However, if Swimming Pools didn't blow up the way it did, I think Kendrick would've been in the same boat (or bush) as: Slim Da Mobster, G.A.G.E., Joe Beast, Eve, Hayes, etc.

 

[Shadow King]

I do think some of the opinions are a little misguided, but I can offer some clarity from a West Coast point of view.

Kendrick Lamar had been buzzing in LA for quite a while. He had opened for Game and other artists, and had been pretty prominent on a then "dead" west coast hip hop scene. I call it dead because there was a time that the "premiere" radio station Power 106, wasn't playing West Coast hip hop...AT ALL. I mean there were protests from several up and coming artists complaining about the payola going to various DJs that are still on the station now...

Enter 2012. Kendrick drops Section 80 to critical acclaim. Odd Future was getting some shine. Dom Kennedy heated up the streets. But still no radio play outside Tyga's "Faded" for West Coast artists.

But when Swimming Pools dropped, the game changed. A "club centric" station like Power, now had a song it could play now amidst all the other poppy club anthems. Alas, a song about drinking, who would've thought! Mix that with a little push from Interscope and the whole coast was anticipating Kendrick's next move.

Then the album dropped, and it actually surpassed A LOT of people's expectations, so it was kinda a perfect storm for the artist formerly known as K.Dot...

As for Dre's input, I'm sure he had a hand in making sure the album was as cohesive and coherent as it sounded. However, if Swimming Pools didn't blow up the way it did, I think Kendrick would've been in the same boat (or bush) as: Slim Da Mobster, G.A.G.E., Joe Beast, Eve, Hayes, etc.

Interesting post from a West point of view.

But for the rest of the thread, Atlantic and Interscope are two different places. Atlantic doesn't give a fukk about hip-hop they wait for the top 20 single that any given rapper may strike luck with and then press them for that song every year.

"Superstar" was it for Lupe, which led them to press for "Show Goes On" and "Outta My Head". And I think someone said Lasers went Platinum, it didn't. It was mentioned that Lupe had two lead singles that he was pushing but wasn't even on the album. He clearly had a different direction before label pressure.

Aftermath/Interscope got more freedom, and if Dre got faith in you, you're getting pushed. Dre ain't believe in them other nikkaz somebody named like he has in Kendrick or else they woulda dropped. Nobody dropped under Aftermath within a year of getting put on outside of Em, 50, Game, who are all stars. Kendrick had the liberty and really privilege of being himself on a mainstream basis.

And no, S80 & GKMC aren't better than F&L or The Cool. They aren't blown away though.

 

[Wild self]

I think that Lupe should have went to Def Jam back in 06 when Food and Liquor dropped. Nas was making noise. Jay was making noise, Jeezy had sales on lock, Rhianna sold, and even Ghostface did decent that year.
Atlantic is just shyt in terms of developing rappers.