Black Lightning
Superstar
The Minstrel Show is one of my top 5 Hip Hop albums of all time.
Phonte Sends message To Fans & ABB Records - "We Havent Seen a Dollar | Update : IGTV vid
- Thread starter KingsOfKings
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Tall talk from a Lupe stan.
Honestly I feel like many of us were all in the same place in the early to mid 00s and it's just a matter of which path did you explore. Most of us took the Kanye path, which may have led you directly to Mos/Common/Kweli, and/or Lupe. Some of us explored all that and also found Little Brother, Dilated Peoples, etc. Your boy was def bumping Akrobatic's Remind My Soul in front of 50 Cent stans trying to teach them knowledge of self.
Looking back a lot of that shyt was corny but Little Brother stands the test of time because they were never preachy. All that "I'm trying to be conscious but I just got my dikked sucked" lyrical shyt J Cole has been struggling trying to pull off...Phonte did that shyt effortlessly. I remember taking this as a personal attack and then realizing all that righteousness shyt was corny.
LB got classics and deserves respect.
Akrobatik
Copped this
And this
Still got the CDs somewhere.
LB talking MAAADDD shyt 
this seems random after 17 years to finally come after him, but I'm sure covid has hit their pockets because they rely on shows to eat.
Its calculated.
They already said that the royalties owed is more than ABB could pay them. They want those Masters.
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
They got fed up with yet another vinyl repress from ABB. There was one a year or two ago. And Phonte ran into the ABB owner recently anyways. So the timing is bad for sure. I also think they waited until they knew they were owed more than they could be paid, like @Ziggiy noticed
Its not random at all, he just recently pressed up another reissue of vinyls that he will solely profit from, how are you missing that?
Akrobatik
Copped this
And this
Still got the CDs somewhere.
Mr Lif was a problem
independent, Big Pooh co-manages Lute, who is on Dreamville
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
Truth.
There have been a few reissues in the past 6-7 years. I copped a few of them. Clear and colored vinyl, bonus 7", all kinds of variants. So those records are selling and being resold, but Pooh and Phonte aren't seeing their cut. It's wild.
Ruckfonnie
All Star
As of today they put a deluxe version of The Listening on DSPs. A few remixes, bonus loosies from other projects and instrumentals from The Listening
https://allhiphop.com/news/little-brother-the-listening-deluxe-edition-abb-records/
https://allhiphop.com/news/little-brother-the-listening-deluxe-edition-abb-records/
Did ABB give up the masters?