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No Limit Records Stories
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Okay album by NL standards. Preferred Gambino Family's album tho, always liked Lil Gotti's delivery
(Uzi was their best spitter by far)
(one of my favorite NL videos, loved the cover art inclusion)
1-8-7-Skillz
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GREG STREET, YOU KNOW HE BOUT BOUT ITyup....i remember having it in VHS format when it first was released...it was at all the mixtape spots and bootleger havens.....
that shyt spread like wildfire thru the streets..no commercials....no radio drops ...no posters ..no flyers no nothing....just straight "word of mouth"
then i'd say about a year later it came out in DVD form in 1998 based off those phenomenal first month sales!!
the DVD was amazing...because it had extra features dropping gems about his life and the music business
it got me intrested in the business side of the music game as a young cat
the first feature told how he first got to be an Entrepreneur in the Indy Music game.....going to college and having a bond with his grandfather who passed out in California whom left him with like a 10k cash inheritence which he used to open up his own Record Store and flipped into his own label with advice from E-40
but the Second Feature was some real HISTORIC and CONTREVERSIAL SHYT
it spoke of how Master P became the first SOUTHERN ARTIST to make the Top ten of ANGIE MARTINEZ countdown on HOT 97 and also secure regular rotation airplay for the BOUT IT BOUT it single on that station which was considered a historic moment for a Southern rapper to make the playlist of this NYC market station.
Considering Outkast the year prior (1996) had released the classic ELEVATORS single which NEVER cracked the top ten of Hot 97 let alone even got play on hot 97 nor the mixshows of Flex and the staff.
then it became apparant that a "hustle" was in play.......
New York attorney General Eliot Spitzer had announced in 2001 in a scathing press confrence that Hot 97 was the most flagrant amongst a host of stations in the NYC area that were accepting PAYOLA (bribes from record companies and moguls) according to an investigation that it was conducting at that time ...
No Limit Records was named as one of the parties involved in that investigation..
it was revealed that Funkmaster Flex owned a company (Big Dawg Record Pool , Franchise Marketing) that would serve as third party record promoters within the Tri state and as well as "servicing" (dictating to deejays) across the nation which records to spin for airplay ....
Greg Street a prominent Atlanta Deejay was a member of the Big Dawg Record pool and his name came up as being the "go to guy" ($$$) for Master P. to be plugged in with Funk Flex and the NYC radio landscape....
noted Hip Hop journalist Davey D. acknowledged these activities taken place as well as legendary New York rapper KRS ONE whom shared his story of being a A&R for a record label that forked over 40g's to Flex to play a record..........
Is Funkmaster Flex Guilty of Payola
as for myself I AIN'T MAD AT P
the game is to be SOLD not TOLD
And what he did for the game BROKE BARRIERS for not only himself and NO LIMIT but Southern Music and hip hop itself
so i can't knock the hustle
I found it then lost it. It was a short PSA commercial directed by the Hughes Brothers (also did Dead Presidents and M2S) called Peace, Live It or Rest In It.Was I trippin as a kid but did I'm Bout It have a trailer or quick video with a stray bullet like that Korn music video that ended witb a single mom getting shot and her child playing on the ground?
It was more like a PSA but morbid as helli mustve been trippin
Edit:
The crackhead on the banned cover of Ghetto D was an unknown Houston rapper that Pen & Pixel had dressed to look bummy
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
i was shocked when found out Mr. Marcelo was Currensy's brother.
any info on QB, Short Circuit, or Lil Italy?
any info on QB, Short Circuit, or Lil Italy?
Fiend is the most versatile artist and doesn't get credit. Can kill a hook, rap in his barry white voice flow, then switch it the mr. whomp whomp voice, and is a good rapper. Best on the tank. Yea, Yea MAC is good rapper; but that's it. The Ghetto Commission album was highly slept on.
This song knocks in the car
This song knocks in the car
lil italy was related to someone on beats by the pound that's how he got on
QB used to go! Wanted Ghetto Ingredients
Short Circuit's kids were the lil soldiers
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
what ever happened to Krazy the fake Pac?
Holloway >