Phonte Sends message To Fans & ABB Records - "We Havent Seen a Dollar | Update : IGTV vid

[Mindfield333]

Man 9th used to stay in some beef on The Lawn message board. I vividly remember Kaze and K Slack from The Thyrday having long ass threads at 9th lol. I know a lot of the early Jamla artists fell out with him for various reasons too, most notably Skyzoo

And I still stand by a lot of those earlier artists being better than Rapsody

Lol I think I remember that thread lol. As for Rap, She came into her own with Eve tho

 

[get these nets]

That may be a bit weak, but the irony is that LB is known for having one of the best live shows of any group in hip-hop history. Also gotta keep in mind that if it's a print interview, it's likely from the mid 2000's. It's not an understatement to say that most of us from NC had a chip on our shoulders. We didn't get a lot of love or support from our own state, and were also younger and more immature. You can see the same type of behavior at times from Griselda due to them being from Buffalo.

I feel like you might enjoy their music if you gave it a shot and set aside the print interview. I'd even start with the newest album first. It's really dope.

Thanks for the response. Read it when it came out, just mentioned that it was print for context. It was in XXL.

 

[Flywin Lannister]

Get played by a cac named Ben Nickleberry Jr. brehs.

I saw these muffukkas live too

Dafuq

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

The fact Big Pooh had to start driving Uber should be enough for fans to understand they were being screwed off them Listening/Minstrel Show royalities.

SON

 

[dizzy4111]

So who getting paid off that Minstrel Show vinyl I just copped off FatBeats?

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Man 9th used to stay in some beef on The Lawn message board. I vividly remember Kaze and K Slack from The Thyrday having long ass threads at 9th lol. I know a lot of the early Jamla artists fell out with him for various reasons too, most notably Skyzoo

And I still stand by a lot of those earlier artists being better than Rapsody

Rapsody is mid

 

[Ziggiy]

I don't think 9th was screwing Phonte and Pooh out of early album royalties because when Pooh and Phonte reunited, 9th was originally part of the full reunion. Phonte especially, I don't think would have even entertained the thought of including 9th if he was somehow seeing more bread off The Listening/The Minstrel Show.

Both 9th and Pooh have conceded publicly that Phonte is the leader of LB. If i'm not mistaken I believe he was the early "business" guy or at least the most hands on from a business perspective. They were all very young when they got started so it's probably just shady industry practices and I wouldn't be surprised if all three of them aren't seeing proper royalties and 9th just doesn't give a fukk enough to complain because he's good enough financially.

 

[Motife43]

Lol I think I remember that thread lol. As for Rap, She came into her own with Eve tho

I think she's good in her own right and was definitely more marketable than the others.

So who getting paid off that Minstrel Show vinyl I just copped off FatBeats?

ABB/Beni B and Fat Beats

 

[JoelB]

I remember working overnight at Toys-R-Us when The Listening came out. Had that album in rotation every night... made my shifts go by so fast

and them brehs aint get paid for that body of work

 

[KingsOfKings]

9th always been moving funny..Jamla could've been special

Yeah I remember this.

 

[Motife43]

What Pooh is talkin bout is what I talked about in an earlier post. They could've easily been on Jive under Chris Lighty

 

[Icewatermetallik]

Maybe I'm just dumb or something but isn't this the type of shyt you lawyer up for and make sure all the T's are crossed and all the I's are dotted when you sign these record label contracts? Shyyt, you can't get me to sign any damn thing without me or someone (lawyer, some one with experience) looking at it. Esp if it's some type of contract.

Wayne went thru the same shyt wth Baby and his catalog/ contract. I mean, you can't just trust ppl anymore, you really gotta look over shyt.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I get frustrations with not being paid, but what do you want your fans to do? If they don’t already own it they’re going to buy or stream to listen to you, that also keeps y’all in their consciousness to have them think about checking out your shows, which I assume is the one thing your get paid for.

label fights aren’t for fans to fight cuz at the end of the day the only way you win is for us to not consumer your art

 

[Guvnor]

As I get older I realize 9th wonder is probably an ass hole who's best producing days are behind him. He can still make a great beat every now and again but he is kinda stale now. He also put so much of his time and energy into his girlfriend Rapsody that all the other acts on his label suffered. The more I learn about him the more I get disgusted and disappointed.

I'm not blaming 9th behind LB not getting paid but just speaking on him leaving the group.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I get frustrations with not being paid, but what do you want your fans to do? If they don’t already own it they’re going to buy or stream to listen to you, that also keeps y’all in their consciousness to have them think about checking out your shows, which I assume is the one thing your get paid for.

label fights aren’t for fans to fight cuz at the end of the day the only way you win is for us to not consumer your art

I love Little Brother but are people even messing with them like that these days? I mean I still got all my physicals from them, but I know the older guys remember how tough it was to find little brother and that NC crew in any stores. You had to buy them shyts online. I’d imagine that all the LB fans pretty much have their records.