Did Those No Limit Albums In The 90s Really Sell?

[Dave2one6]

That silkk album up above is a personal classic to me. yeah, no limit and Master P had it. and i was one of those people buying every album every tuesday.

It wasnt so much about the artist that dropped the album, but the posses cuts and hearing all of no limit on those albums.

There was a formula:

The Soulja song

The I-miss-my-homie song

The weed song

The sellin dope song

The I love you girl, song

The fuck a bitch song

The Club song

The special guest song where u like how-da-fuc-they-get-him song.

 

[Dave2one6]

Tru - Last Dance

 

[Dave2one6]

And yes, sometimes MASTER P can hold a song on his own.

Master P "Back Up Off Me"


Master P - Swamp Nigga -

 

[T. Sanford]

Master P could rap when he wanted to. I think when Ice Cream man dropped, he started freestyling his verses

 

[hiphop12345]

Master P first album took 6 years to go Platinum, he was pretty much a 2.5 Mill selling artist himself. Most of those albums didn't make Gold but several artist went Gold and Platinum.

 

[aneed123]

The hate is strong in this thread

 

[emaculate]

We was coppin No Limit records where I was in Va. Best friend at the time had damn near every album I bout my fair share fam was from LA tho

Sidebar: OutKast & No Limit had some of the best production during the 90s

 

[emaculate]

It Ain't My Fault was tight but I can't cosign the rest of the album.

Do any of those albums still have replay value?

I was listening to Ghetto D a few months ago. That still stands the test of time, but what about the rest of that stuff?

Ice cream man

True

Da Crime family

The tre-8 joint

Cmurder life or death

I'm bout it soundtrack

All of snoops no limit joints

Married to the mob

The shocker

Charge it 2 da game

Unpredictable

Those are some of my favorites I revisit when I need a break from today's climate music

 

[smp4life]

A few more reasons the No Limit formula worked:

Each album was like a compilation album. Every NL artist was showcased. That's a lot of cross promotion.

The number of albums being released per week gave NL better distribution. This is when albums sold in brick and mortar stores. The amount of albums P dropped guaranteed his records were on those shelves.

 

[5 Grand]

It Ain't My Fault was tight but I can't cosign the rest of the album.

Do any of those albums still have replay value?

I was listening to Ghetto D a few months ago. That still stands the test of time, but what about the rest of that stuff?

Ice cream man

True

Da Crime family

The tre-8 joint

Cmurder life or death

I'm bout it soundtrack

All of snoops no limit joints

Married to the mob

The shocker

Charge it 2 da game

Unpredictable

Those are some of my favorites I revisit when I need a break from today's climate music

So what happened to those guys? Most rappers that had decent albums in the 90s can still book shows, albeit for a smaller crowd, but they can book shows nonetheless. Do any of those guys still tour? Or make records?

 

[NCswag]

At one point no limit literally put out an album 2 times a month for 4 years straight. Definition of a dynasty. Quality wasnot great but you'll never see shit like that again in evolution.

 

[genocidecutter]

No Limit was running the south back in the late 90's

 

[emaculate]

It Ain't My Fault was tight but I can't cosign the rest of the album.

Do any of those albums still have replay value?

I was listening to Ghetto D a few months ago. That still stands the test of time, but what about the rest of that stuff?

Ice cream man

True

Da Crime family

The tre-8 joint

Cmurder life or death

I'm bout it soundtrack

All of snoops no limit joints

Married to the mob

The shocker

Charge it 2 da game

Unpredictable

Those are some of my favorites I revisit when I need a break from today's climate music

So what happened to those guys? Most rappers that had decent albums in the 90s can still book shows, albeit for a smaller crowd, but they can book shows nonetheless. Do any of those guys still tour? Or make records?

I'd have to do research to give you str8 facts.

Some of these cats I don't follow or haven't looked up since, I just enjoy the music and the nostalgia of that era.

But I assume some are. Liz Silkk is touring still and I guess making a new project, CMurder is locked up and I know a joint or two came out while he was (dunno which trial/sentence period), MAC (not listed above got locked up but should be on his way out now), Mystikal on Cash Money very rarely hear anything, Fiend (not listed) linked up with $pitta and still drops quality music and tours, MPs wife as far as I know has other ventures and is not recording, Snoop is still relevant word to the BUSH joint, RIP Tre-8 he passed, a lot of cats left the label.

This thread, these question why MP is making a biopic on his life. A lotta history cats don't know and whether ppl like the music the man business acumen it's all black history.

 

[5 Grand]

No Limit was running the south back in the late 90's

It wasn't just the South, they were making noise in New York. I don't want any misunderstandings. I'm not trying to diss No Limit in any way, shape or form. I know they made a huge impact in the mid to late 90s. I was there, I saw it with my own eyes (and ears). I'm just curious; was it all hype? was the music any good? and are those guys still around?

It Ain't My Fault was tight but I can't cosign the rest of the album.

Do any of those albums still have replay value?

I was listening to Ghetto D a few months ago. That still stands the test of time, but what about the rest of that stuff?

Ice cream man

True

Da Crime family

The tre-8 joint

Cmurder life or death

I'm bout it soundtrack

All of snoops no limit joints

Married to the mob

The shocker

Charge it 2 da game

Unpredictable

Those are some of my favorites I revisit when I need a break from today's climate music

So what happened to those guys? Most rappers that had decent albums in the 90s can still book shows, albeit for a smaller crowd, but they can book shows nonetheless. Do any of those guys still tour? Or make records?

I'd have to do research to give you str8 facts.

Some of these cats I don't follow or haven't looked up since, I just enjoy the music and the nostalgia of that era.

But I assume some are. Liz Silkk is touring still and I guess making a new project, CMurder is locked up and I know a joint or two came out while he was (dunno which trial/sentence period), MAC (not listed above got locked up but should be on his way out now), Mystikal on Cash Money very rarely hear anything, Fiend (not listed) linked up with $pitta and still drops quality music and tours, MPs wife as far as I know has other ventures and is not recording, Snoop is still relevant word to the BUSH joint, RIP Tre-8 he passed, a lot of cats left the label.

This thread, these question why MP is making a biopic on his life. A lotta history cats don't know and whether ppl like the music the man business acumen it's all black history.

For a label that was that big in the mid to late 90s you'd think somebody from that No Limit era would still be around. The only one I can say I've heard from is Snoop and I don't really consider him a No Limit artist, I consider him more of a Death Row artist.

 

[CracceR]

i remember those tank chains were everywhere

 

[gemini86]

At one point no limit literally put out an album 2 times a month for 4 years straight. Definition of a dynasty. Quality wasnot great but you'll never see shit like that again in evolution.

i guess but theyre not looked at as legendary as the other labels such as Bad Boy, Deathrow, Rocafella, and Aftermath. Quality over Quantity. All of a sudden platinum and gold justifies their status in the game but it doesnt for Eminem and em. FOH. u want it to be one way. but its the other way

 

[T. Sanford]

Mia X (the trillest & most classy female rapper of all time) - she retired from rapping & I think she is into cooking nowadays. I told her if she makes a comeback then get Mannie on the beats & serve her some of his soul beats........ That would be an instant classic. Plus they have history together since the 80s

Fiend - working behind the scenes at a record company (I think it's Def Jam tho) & also with Jet Life

Mystikal - I guess he still making records. He was featured on a big Bruno Mars song a couple months ago

Soulja Slim died before he could blow up

Mac - serving time for a crime that he didn't commit.

 

[SELASI_i]

honestly , the no limit movement was more hype than anything.

I graduated in the late 90's and I remember when some of my guys used to leave school and come back with whatever no limit album that dropped, all with the pen n pixel graphics and different color plastic sidings and shit.

and one of the most common things dudes would say when you ask them "is that cd any good?" they'd say "man it got like 2 or 3 good songs on it foreal" but they still would buy every no limit album that dropped so it had to be something that kept them coming back, you never knew which album would be worth buying, this was before you could preview shit on the net - aside from guys like fiend,mac,magic, soulja slimm,mystikal - no limit didn't have real rappers foreal, just some niggaz who can put songs together, and once beats by the pound left the ship was sinking, they didn't have that tank sound no more. and by that time that sound had started to phase out for the more synth heavy cash money sound.

I remember all this shit, cause I was still on my westcoast shit and not really fuckin with P them like that, I did cop that ghetto d tho.

 

[gemini86]

the only no limit CD i bought was Snoop's Top Dogg. Down 4 my niggaz was so beast. i still know every verse by heart

 

[_God_]

Niggas in nyc was not playin no fuckin no limit anywhere, if a song happen to come on the radio we left the premises. We were laughing at this corny ass nigga screaming n shit. And there was a 4321 remix made just to take master p off. Stop rewriting history . Niggas was not playing bout it bout it till the diplomats remixed it.