He is/was nice and deserved to be part of that cover. I thought signing to Khaled was a good move because he was dropping albums when Cam was starting to slow down. Khaled just never really found or gave him a lane. I don't think he was even getting regular features on Khaled albums. Kay Slay (RIP) told him on the radio that Khaled wasn't doing as much as he should. Vado has/had the talent and dropped a ton of mixtapes. It's crazy how things panned out for NY mixtape rappers of that time. Maino and Uncle Murda were not the two that I expected to still be relevant in 2024.nikkas in this thread rewriting history as always, a prime DJ Khaled isn't giving Cam a bag to buy out the contract of a nikka who is Red Cafe status
This is regarded as probably the greatest freshman cover ever. I VIVIDLY remember there being outrage about Vado not being included in it so much so to the point that XXL had to do damage control by including him in their freshmen concert and had him headline with Cam. I’m not saying the nikka had a massive buzz but that Boss of All Bosses mixtape series was a staple in the streets, Stop It 5 was a street hit and that became common slang. He made people start saying “slime” again(yes I know nore said it first 10 years prior but it wasn’t common slang till Vado came out). And he had everybody wearing Rugby. Plus Speaking Tungs, We All Up In Here, and Hey Muma was on regular rotation on NYC radio. Cardi B herself even cited Hey Muma as her inspiration for that coach bag line on her last song, that song was big in the city in 2011 which was her high school years.
And it could've very well been a regional thing that didn't reach past the tri-state area.. but it was a thing nonetheless.
It was obviously a brief time and he fumbled his moment by doing dumb shyt and going to Khaled, but he 100% did look like a promising prospect. ASAP Rocky kinda came outta nowhere and passed him by in late 2011 and snatched young Harlem from him and never looked back tho
Remember when Vado tricked us into thinking he had next
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Too many NY rappers used to act like you could just be a good spitta back in the days and blow up. 
The thing was that their predecessors either like changed music, made crazy bangers or even pop hits. While then you had the lazy “I’m just gonna rap like I’m doing a freestyle over a generic beat, with the same flow and delivery dudes heard a thousand times”
But personally I fukked with those Boss of all bosses tapes. I could easily hear that it was niche type of music though
The thing was that their predecessors either like changed music, made crazy bangers or even pop hits. While then you had the lazy “I’m just gonna rap like I’m doing a freestyle over a generic beat, with the same flow and delivery dudes heard a thousand times”
But personally I fukked with those Boss of all bosses tapes. I could easily hear that it was niche type of music though
BIG FACTS; no disrespect to either.
I can't listen to HI hater to this day. N that was my shyt.
I got Tboned by a minivan in the bronx when it was pouring rain that ran a red light with that song bumping with my ace.
Half the minivan ran away in the pouring ran.....my breh had to slide out of my whip 2
Took the cops 3 hours to show up. And it was pouring rain so they didn't feel like doing their job
Yaboysix
That nikka
I always thought it was weird he was signed to a Nygga who signed a nygga named Mavado ....
So we got TWO Vados, now?...
I understand they are nothing alike...but
So we got TWO Vados, now?...
I understand they are nothing alike...but
Bugzbunny129
All Star
Us? 
I always thought it was weird he was signed to a Nygga who signed a nygga named Mavado ....
So we got TWO Vados, now?...
I understand they are nothing alike...but
Yaboysix
That nikka
DJ Khaled:
"This is my new signee...the hottest in the game right now..from Harlem NY...VADO!!
"And over here is my OTHER new signee...the hottest from Jamaica...MAVADO!!"
This is how I remember him introducing them Nyggas on Rap city one day...even back then I was like "oh, this is a bad idea"
DJ Khaled:
"This is my new signee...the hottest in the game right now..from Harlem NY...VADO!!
"And over here is my OTHER new signee...the hottest from Jamaica...MAVADO!!"
This is how I remember him introducing them Nyggas on Rap city one day...even back then I was like "oh, this is a bad idea"
Khaled really in tune.....both good choices in signing.....Mavado got outta here for other reasons tho
Yaboysix
That nikka
What happened?Khaled really in tune.....both good choices in signing.....Mavado got outta here for other reasons tho
Lost a beef and everyone turned on him
SpottieOttieD
Bmore via Bad News
No but I remember hearing his crew got they ass beat on Lenox. Apparently Vado got hit so hard it sounded like an SUV hit em
god shamgod
Veteran
He never tricked me ,dude was always wakk.I remember when he was on Jae millz joints long before he was rapping with camron