Who's the greatest hip hop exec of all time?

[Piff Perkins]

Russell and Lyor, business wise. Steve Rifkind in terms of not fukking people over and being a good dude.

 

[Bolzmark]

Other than Gotti with Ashanti, who else on that list even really made a name for themselves in the R&B genre? Diddy is behind Mary J. Blige, Faith, Carl Thomas and Total.

 

[semicko82]

Delete

 

[shopthatwrecks]

St Charles. He gave e40 and Master P their blueprints to get to where they're at now

yep n master p took that game... n turned the music business into the crack game...

gave u more bang for ya buck at a cheaper price...nobody was droppin albums with 20+ songs on it

color cases were crack vials.. u see certain colors vials..u correlate them to perticular album.. red fiend.. orang p.. green kane n abel

and u got ya fix every 2 weeks...new product hit the streets... u could get it earlier..

he turned a bunch of nobodies into stars...n they all went damn near gold n platinum over night back to back

he was consistent with releases too

26 pay checks in a year if u get paid biweekly.. 98 that nikka p dropped 24 albums

no label on earth has done that

 

[shopthatwrecks]

He should take credit for Death Row records if that's the case

nah interscope was jus a distributor for death row

pac n dre were jimmys artist

 

[shopthatwrecks]

Other than Gotti with Ashanti, who else on that list even really made a name for themselves in the R&B genre? Diddy is behind Mary J. Blige, Faith, Carl Thomas and Total.

no nate dogg michelle or jewell....n lil sassy ass danny boy without dre n suge

 

[Bolzmark]

no nate dogg michelle or jewell....n lil sassy ass danny boy without dre n suge

True...but none of them are on the level of Mary. Not even close.

 

[semicko82]

yep n master p took that game... n turned the music business into the crack game...

gave u more bang for ya buck at a cheaper price...nobody was droppin albums with 20+ songs on it

color cases were crack vials.. u see certain colors vials..u correlate them to perticular album.. red fiend.. orang p.. green kane n abel

and u got ya fix every 2 weeks...new product hit the streets... u could get it earlier..

he turned a bunch of nobodies into stars...n they all went damn near gold n platinum over night back to back

he was consistent with releases too

26 pay checks in a year if u get paid biweekly.. 98 that nikka p dropped 24 albums

no label on earth has done that

 

[I Really Mean It]

Where is Russell Simmons?

 

[semicko82]

nah interscope was jus a distributor for death row

pac n dre were jimmys artist

What was Jimmy's role for the Aftermath label

 

[semicko82]

Where is Russell Simmons?

I edited the poll

 

[jilla82]

People really are forgetting how important Def Jam is/was

 

[Gwoppo]

Dre, easily
But
Birdman cuz I’m from the south

 

[shopthatwrecks]

u new on the block... u finna short stop

what u do..

give more 4 less..

everybody else albums 14-17 songs at most 17.99

pick up a no limit album 25 songs... 7.99 n if its a mom n pop u get posters...

shyt serve em 3.5 of 10 ...

they dont know what u servin...but shyt they enjoyin it

they gone comeback because u cheaper...n ya dope is good..

then nikkas gone join ya team

mystikal
snoop
soulja slim

 

[shopthatwrecks]

People really are forgetting how important Def Jam is/was

L L couldnt save em..

dr dre's brother had to ..the irony