Rappers that have been blackballed by the industry.

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

ali vegas

False

He flopped out the game.

Stop believing every bitter failed artist was blackballed. Ali Vegas barely put music out and was on multiple labels and he wasn't producing.

You can't be this naive. Why doesn't he make music now? There is a lot of room to move outside the industry and has been for a while now with the internet giving people reach that wasn't there before. He had a fanbase and he kept them starving and his flow fell off dramatically in the process of him not making that much music while he was signed. This is at the height of the mixtape era. No one could stop dude from putting shyt out.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

NaS did, he was blackballed briefly

Nah

Def Jam shelved him

Not the same. He didn't wanna sign the firm production deal.

GOT HIS own deal and they shelved his album.. It didn't have any hits and wasn't that good.

Again that's not a black ball and not Nas problem...

Mega had the album released years later and it was lackluster so you know why the business didn't want to get to get behind it.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Mic Geronimo
Herb mcgruff
Chi ali
Lauryn hill

Lauryn lost her mind and wasn't crediting producers and writers

She never completed her contract either. She lost her case for not crediting people... Had to pay

Then she really started making all her music on her own hence the unplugged album

Chi Ali went to Jail

Mic Geronimo was a one hitter quiter

Herb Mgruff wasn't solo material. All his homies with potential got picked up.

Y'all got too many

Maybe this thread should be about what is a blackball. Just like the world plant the coli is not very clear on it.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Dude was nice wit it. Had a hot album out wit ja rule, Jay z, DMX, puffy, Monica, Kelly price. production from Irv and Pete Rock.

Then nuthin. No more singles, albums mixtapes. Labels wldnt touch em. U don't vanish like that unless u bein blackballed in da industry. Wacker rappers have been given more chances.

So basically you are just making assumptions.

This why these threads suck because nikkaz don't like to back anything up they are talking about. Talk about what you know not what you "feel"

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Keri Hilson for sure got blackballed by Beyonce

no question

The first actual legit answer in here smh

 

[Wacky D]

jay-z blackballed major figgas, diplomats & damon dash. he was still tryna blackball dipset years later, until funk flex exposed him.

cash money blackballed fresh & juvenile. prolly BG & turk too.

 

[Wacky D]

The last two projects solo projects Eazy-E released while he was alive (5150 Home 4 Tha Sick EP, It's On EP) went gold and double platinum respectively, not to mention MC Ren had platinum and Gold albums after Dre left & before Eazy died, and Eazy helped Bone Thugs go double platinum with their first EP and was putting together their LP before he died. In no way, shape, or form was Eazy-E blackballed.

you can be blackballed & successful at the same time.

those releases may have sold but they weren't getting the exposure that they should've.

ruthless been getting blackballed since the death row beef breh.

only reason bone was superstars was because they had mega-hits. the industry always tried to downplay & gloss them over. now its like they never existed, even tho theyre all-time top-sellers and most of the radio today is still riding off of their style.

If Eazy-E was "blackballed", whoever did so did a shytty fukking job of it. If Eazy was blackballed, he wouldn't a) be going double platinum, b) be given the time of day to promote Bone Thugs, ATL, etc., and c) he sure as hell wouldn't be allowed on Arsenio Hall calling Dre a studio gangsta, exposing the fact he still makes money off of Dr Dre, calling him a cross-dresser, performing "Real Motherfukking G's", and showing a picture of Dre with the Wreckin' Cru.



Also, Ruthless left Priority, not the other way around.

Relativity to distrib Ruthless rap

those albums got good promotion to you?

fortunately, eazy was already a boss and had enough connects to still make moves. he was able to do what he did on arsenio, because he already had a relationship with that show, and arsenio was an unbiased party. but why don't you try pulling up clips of eazy-e styling on death row all over MTV? all youre gonna get is an impromptu interview at the CB4 release party. MTV didn't even air "real Compton city gs". you had to order the video on the box. same with the rest of ruthless, bone thugs saved the label, and they themselves had to blow up thru the box as well. outside of that, their biggest outlet was rap city. there were always a lot of doors that were closed to them. keep in mind that bone outsold everybody on death row, but weren't getting half the exposure unless they had a super-smash mega hit out.

 

[Hoodoo Child]

Hospin,Papoose and Cassidy too

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Bow wow
Romeo Miller
Sean Kingston
B2K
Nick Cannon
Maino
Papoose
Chingy
Chamillionaire
Asap Mob whole crew
Ab soul
Oj da juiceman
Travis Porter
Lil Flip
Troy Ave
Lil Chuckee
Every Wu-Tang member not named Ghost face killah or Raekwon

I don't think y'all know what blackballed means

 

[Wacky D]

Didnt 50 have a bidding war before signing with aftermath

50 was beefing with damn near everybody in ny including preme labels were more likely scared & turned off before he dropped those mixtapes & got the em cosign that nikka wasn't blackballed

All that blackballed talk is all apart his image & storyline he wanted to present

50 cent was blackballed breh.

he had just gotten TOO BIG to the point where the labels eventually came calling anyway. but before that, murder inc definitely halted his career.

master p blocked pastor troy from universal, but they eventually came back around and signed him a couple years later.

 

[Reality Check]

you can be blackballed & successful at the same time.

those releases may have sold but they weren't getting the exposure that they should've.

ruthless been getting blackballed since the death row beef breh.
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and at the revisionist history and not understanding what blackballing means.

Here is the definition of Blacklisting from Merriam-Webster:

Definition of BLACKLIST

"A list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted"

Now ask yourself, with the dictionary definition of "blacklisting" posted right in front of you, does Eazy-E fall into that category? The answer is no, and even after people respond to try to revise history, the answer will still be no. People who are boycotted do not sell 2 million records and aren't given a platform or allowed the opportunity to be on TV/Radio nationwide.

There is a major difference between Blacklisting and fans losing interest that some people in this thread can't fully grasp. Blackballing =/= fans losing interest. If Eazy-E was blacklisted because of Death Row, he would have no platform anywhere; he wouldn't have done Arsenio, MTV/BET/The Box wouldn't have played his videos, and no one would have given Bone Thugs the chance because THEY WERE ON A LABEL RUN BY EAZY.

 

[Wacky D]

stars & superstars that were blackballed. some in the midst of their run, so it goes overlooked:

master p/no limit
bone thugs
eazy-e
DMX
jarule, irv gotti, murder inc
diplomats
dame dash
50 cent - twice over
the lox - twice over
lil flip
and more

 

[Wacky D]

and at the revisionist history and not understanding what blackballing means.

Here is the definition of Blacklisting from Merriam-Webster:

Definition of BLACKLIST

"A list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted"

Now ask yourself, with the dictionary definition of "blacklisting" posted right in front of you, does Eazy-E fall into that category? The answer is no, and even after people respond to try to revise history, the answer will still be no. People who are boycotted do not sell 2 million records and aren't given a platform or allowed the opportunity to be on TV/Radio nationwide.

There is a major difference between Blacklisting and fans losing interest that some people in this thread can't fully grasp. Blackballing =/= fans losing interest. If Eazy-E was blacklisted because of Death Row, he would have no platform anywhere; he wouldn't have done Arsenio, MTV/BET/The Box wouldn't have played his videos, and no one would have given Bone Thugs the chance because THEY WERE ON A LABEL RUN BY EAZY.

breh, we're not even using the dictionary term, let alone the definition.

youre the first person to even mention the literal term of BLACKLIST, for a reason.

@Marlo Barksdale already laid it out for you. its about doors being closed. not every door being closed. if it was about that, then this thread wouldn't even exist.

again, ask yourself why would MTV allow death row to diss eazy in their videos and all in their interviews and specials, while not giving a voice to eazy at all. they didn't even play "real Compton city gs". bone didn't get an mtv raps interview until after they were like double platinum already. there was obvious foul play there. and the situation was rinsed & repeated on iovine's watch with 50 cent & jarule. all the way down to the "all eyez on 50 cent" special mirroring that of the dr dre episode of "past, present & future".

 

[mag357]

Rich Boy.... of throw some Ds on it fame..
Shyne... or shiiiit any nikka that ever rapped for Puff

 

[mag357]

The term BLACKBALLED is an oxymoron..

No one actually gets BLACKBALLED

they either aren't MARKETABLE anymore

Or fell out with their distributor

And failed to find other outlets or options

Oxymoron? Not to be rude but do you know what that word means, brother? Or maybe I missed the point...
anyway, alot of the dudes ppl are naming just never had IT, chose to be non-mainstream, or just passed there sell-by -date. Keri Hilson for example (i know shes not a rapper) seems to have been black balled.