Meek and Wale had fanbases but them shyts was not huge. Wale debut flopped and he aint bounce back until hids verse on no hands and that way with Ross and jeremiah, meek introduction to the world was on tupac back. They both def needed Ross co-signs at the time
Fair enough but they had bases. Wale still did 30k first week, without ross. Thats like someone snatching ace hood up today(did 30k on his last album) and him doing 150k the next time and them not saying ace hood had a fanbase before.
I will give you that no hands popped wale off. He even said it on the breakfast club. He got the letter from interscope terminating the contract and one week later no hands hit in atlanta. Of course jimmy came running back saying do you wanna do it again but he decided not to go back to them.
Also fair that meek intro to MAINSTREAM was tupac back not to the world. He had a solid base in the philly, jersey, dmv area. Meek had Flamerz 1-3 and Mr Phili mixtape before tupac back. Meek had dem street hits hottest in tha city, im so fly etc. Meek was selling out decent venues before he signed with ross


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? Dro might have a better eye for talent being that he found young la,i heard him talking about young thug before anybody,cosigned yellah nino who I like....he need to help Grand Hustle out right about now cuz with the death of Doe B the roster starting to look real 

