Nelly: I'm The Only Rapper From My Era To Gain Success Without A Co-Signer

[satam55]

Until today I had zero idea Scarface had anything to do with Def Jam. And I purchased all of Luda’s first 3 albums day 1.

I guess this means you don't read the album credits on your CDs.

I was 10-14, Tf do I care about some album credits

We about the same age. I was definitely reading album credits back than.

 

[Silkk]

We about the same age. I was definitely reading album credits back than.

 

[keond]

Breh, who you wit was a hit in every confederate state atleast and that was in '96 so his success was while he was on with Dupri ..and then he did the bass style compilations in '96, '97 and '98, under Dupri...

JD ain’t have nothing to do with Who u Wit, yea Jon was on the bass projects but they were local and were not the style of music that introduced him to the masses. But ok,

 

[Mindfield333]

Timbaland and organized noize co-signed luda.

Plus he was a radio personality

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

"IF MY HEAD GAME RIGHT NELLY FURTADO THERE EVERY NIGHT" SLAIMON KHAN SHAH

 

[987654321]

Scarface cosigned him by signing him to Def Jam South

True. Dude had a lot of contacts of the strength of being a prominent Atlanta radio host, for a while.

 

[reserved_one]

I remember Bizzy Bone telling a story about Nelly giving Lazy Bone his demo in like ‘99 or so and he shytted on him for trying to sound like Wish lol…A Massive miss but Nelly was looked as a novelty act especially being from fukking St. Louis which was foreign to a lot of hip hop listeners at the time.

I grew up 3 hours away from St. Louis and coming up in the hood/country type of environment, I understood it even though I didn’t understand some of the slang Nelly was using but

Nelly is definitely a GOAT…not for his lyricism but for shifting the culture, creating a classic debut that went Diamond and creating timeless records.

 

[Big Boss]

He's right. Also they relegating Ja to a RocAFella affiliate now

well Ja was doing songs with Hov before his debut album

Can i get a was huge

 

[Jplaya2023]

Who co-signed juvenile?

Who co signed vanilla ice

 

[987654321]

There are known cases of labels fumbling projects from artists who later went on to major success.

T.I. is an example. His label fumbled I'm Serious. He got dropped, regrouped and became a superstar on another label.

Saying that Luda would have blown up regardless, and without the Def Jam muscle and leverage is speculation.

Was never a fan of either rapper but one of Luda's lines on Stomp alludes to what I posted here, and ethered Tip.

"Your deals keep getting fukked up, my contract practices abstinence!"

I remember the “I’m serious” cover wrapped suburban riding around Atlanta before that bum came out. He got some real attention with a subtle attic crew, dungeon fam, and Arista co-sign. The fact that the neptunes produced the lead single with a beanie man feature made me listen to the album. I ended up really liking it and it got played at a lot of house parties from front to back when I was in HS. Everybody co-signed “trap muzik”. Dude got a lot of love on that second lap.

 

[TaxCollector13459]

None of them were nationally known in 1999

They weren't big like that until Juvie broke out with HA

They had a platinum album in 99 didnt they?

 

[Wacky D]

I always wondered how Nelly got on without being part of the rap circuit.

Lunatics had underground music and they were shopping for a deal.

He tried to get signed by layzie bone. Layzie listened to his demo and called him a biter. Hence, why we never got any collabos from them.

Universal picked him up. He was part of that new talent iniative that they had. He could've easily ended up as a trivia question for magazine junkies like some of those other dudes in those adds like say Genoveese if the country grammar song didn't blow up like it did.

One of the greatest stories in hip-hop history.

 

[North of Death]

JD ain’t have nothing to do with Who u Wit, yea Jon was on the bass projects but they were local and were not the style of music that introduced him to the masses. But ok,

JDs platform is still where he learned the game and he used it to launch his career...No JD means no Lil Jon

 

[North of Death]

Lunatics had underground music and they were shopping for a deal.

He tried to get signed by layzie bone. Layzie listened to his demo and called him a biter. Hence, why we never got any collabos from them.

Universal picked him up. He was part of that new talent iniative that they had. He could've easily ended up as a trivia question for magazine junkies like some of those other dudes in those adds like say Genoveese if the country grammar song didn't blow up like it did.

One of the greatest stories in hip-hop history.

Nelly said thats Cap

Nelly Denies Ever Beefing With Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

 

[Dwolf]

After Luda had already got himself hot.

I never knew and im sure most aren’t familiar with their affiliation. Face didn’t jump on any singles or promote him like that.

Still remember when he was on the radio
Chris Lova Lova