because i don't find it THAT offensive considering EVERY GANGSTA RAPPER of this contemporary era has commited some sense of FRAUD on record.
At the end of the day as i said on many occasions ...HE'S AN ENTERTAINER.....so who is the BIGGER CLOWN the C.O imagining himself as a COKE DON on RECORDS??..or the LISTENER who FEELS AS IF HE OR SHE HAS BEEN MISLED because that ARTIST isn't really WHAT THEY CLAIM TO BE ON RECORDS???
I learned long time ago once i started managing acts and seeing "deals" evolve first hand , that these first person dramatizations are simply that DRAMAtizations....in laymens term..."just enjoy the music mane"
sorry to sound so "insensitive"
but as long as the beat knocks and the hook is catchy and the punchlines and stories is on point..I gives a fukk how much bricks an artist CLAIMS to move........i'm just being entertained.....by no means am i trying to find a "connect" or make a "play" on some work.
as for Ted owning Ross's publishing..it MAKES SENSE ...considering how DEF JAM tried to fukk Ted Lucas over with the cheap a$$ budget they were giving him, Lucas been tired of the Majors, when he had TRINA and TRICK DADDY over at ATLANTIC...he constantly had to fight with them mofos over them treating him like some stepchild , as they do most "southern imprints" i.e (rap a lot, suave) in the majors i.e
The Majors based in NYC , with a majority of thier a&rs and label heads being east coast biased, they made cats like Ted come out thier own pockets and work even harder than the northern imprints simply because they were intimidated by the Southerners ingenuity and Self reliance and simply because they DIDN'T WANT cats like Ted Lucas to "WIN" because these guys wouldn't be ENSLAVED to these DEBT DEALS that the majors offered.
Ted knew eventually that if had a marquee act like Rick Ross that the big guys like Def Jam would "take him off of his hands" and put him into thier MACHINE...
so TED being the SMART BUSINESSMAN he's always been HAD PAPERS ON DAT NICCA ROSS!!!.....
Which is why Ross is still kinda salty because he thought he could ditch Ted like he did Draper , and like most artist do imprints and just jump ship to the majors and EAT with no obligations to the people that put him on....
But Ted wasn't having it.............and for that I
him
cause NICCAS ain't got no loyalty....
they are "rapping prostitutes they jump from CLIQue to CLIQue (dikk to dikk)"
so the real question is WHY SHOULDN'T TED LUCAS be able to EAT OFF OF ROSS considering it was HIM that allowed RICK ROSS to even be on the DEF JAM radar based on Lucas's track record and connections in the industry....
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