If You Were A Rapper, Which 90's Hip-Hop Record Label Would You Have Signed To Out Of These Choices?

[usmarin3]

Loud records. I've never heard of Loud artist being forced to make commercial shit and never heard of them getting ripped off.

 

[dwade206]

Deathrow

So i can wrk wit pac snoop daz kurupt tha outlawz

Yeah and get assaulted or murked if you wanted to leave.

 

[FishNChips]

Deathrow

So i can wrk wit pac snoop daz kurupt tha outlawz

nah you get signed to the 98 death row. you might get to work with crooked I and left eye if you're lucky

 

[kzzl]

Out of that list in the OP probably Loud. I haven't heard anything bad about them over the years, unless there's some shit I don't know.

I'd want a label about good business. I don't wanna have to worry about street shit and janky contracts just to go to work.

 

[skpjr78]

T/S should have posted Rap-A-Lot Records too, J.Prince made sure his artists were taken care of and never made you put out music that YOU didn't feel comfortable doing. He was also willing to help show you the ropes on the business side so you could own your own.

It'd easily have to be No Limit Records or Rap-A-Lot Records for me. Scarface, Devin the Dude, UGK, and for a lil while J.Prince even helped Gang Starr get on and was the dude who got DJ Premier to join the group (I bet niggas aint eem know Premo was from the south). They had a legendary roster and Prince looked after his niggas. All of my albums would have been classics.

Its hilarious to hear east coast dudes talking shit about the south and not even know one of their best producers is from houston

 

[FishNChips]

T/S should have posted Rap-A-Lot Records too, J.Prince made sure his artists were taken care of and never made you put out music that YOU didn't feel comfortable doing. He was also willing to help show you the ropes on the business side so you could own your own.

except for when he made albums out of leftover verses and released them without the artist's input

 

[usmarin3]

Another thing too about Percy Miller, even if even if it doesn't work out, the knowledge you'd have in terms of how things work, where to find things, how to do them and how to manage your money would be far more useful - you'd never have to worry about being broke and you'd have the Master P blueprint of how to market yourself. Plus the music you made you'd still own on your way out. Master P had regular joes and even his barbers going gold..... I mean come on maaannnn........ His whole family got platinum records, that's not an accident.....

How many ex-No Limit rappers has gone on to have success though?

 

[skpjr78]

Another thing too about Percy Miller, even if even if it doesn't work out, the knowledge you'd have in terms of how things work, where to find things, how to do them and how to manage your money would be far more useful - you'd never have to worry about being broke and you'd have the Master P blueprint of how to market yourself. Plus the music you made you'd still own on your way out. Master P had regular joes and even his barbers going gold..... I mean come on maaannnn........ His whole family got platinum records, that's not an accident.....

How many ex-No Limit rappers has gone on to have success though?

Mystikal did alright for himself and Snoop is still Snoop

 

[usmarin3]

Another thing too about Percy Miller, even if even if it doesn't work out, the knowledge you'd have in terms of how things work, where to find things, how to do them and how to manage your money would be far more useful - you'd never have to worry about being broke and you'd have the Master P blueprint of how to market yourself. Plus the music you made you'd still own on your way out. Master P had regular joes and even his barbers going gold..... I mean come on maaannnn........ His whole family got platinum records, that's not an accident.....

How many ex-No Limit rappers has gone on to have success though?

Mystikal did alright for himself and Snoop is still Snoop

Yes to Mystikal and i don't consider Snoop a No Limit created artist. Mystikal first found success outside of No Limit too. He went gold on Mind of Mystikal.

 

[skpjr78]

Another thing too about Percy Miller, even if even if it doesn't work out, the knowledge you'd have in terms of how things work, where to find things, how to do them and how to manage your money would be far more useful - you'd never have to worry about being broke and you'd have the Master P blueprint of how to market yourself. Plus the music you made you'd still own on your way out. Master P had regular joes and even his barbers going gold..... I mean come on maaannnn........ His whole family got platinum records, that's not an accident.....

How many ex-No Limit rappers has gone on to have success though?

Mystikal did alright for himself and Snoop is still Snoop

Yes to Mystikal and i don't consider Snoop a No Limit created artist. Mystikal first found success outside of No Limit too. He went gold on Mind of Mystikal.

He had a very strong regional start to his career. Here i go is a banger rhat will never play out in Atl. But as strong as he was down south P and NL took him nationwide/global.

 

[skpjr78]

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[iron man1]

Rawkus or Def Jam or possibly Rocafella

 

[natural born sinners]

Bad Boy Records

Death Row Records

Roc-A-Fella Records

Cash Money Records

Def Jam Recordings

No Limit Records

Columbia Records

Loud Records

They say hindsight is 20/20 so looking back on it now and finding out the financial traps of some of my favorite labels at the time I would say I would sign with no limit, just bc I never heard Noone ever say master p played them on the money end, but if u dropped me in the 90's w no knowledge of the shadinness of labels n CEOS I Def would got down w bad boy no questions asked. I'm not gon front I was a puff Stan when I was in middle school. Puff n bad boy had shit on lock. Life after death then no way out then Harlem world back to back to back, them niggas had me wearing some bright ass shiny clothes w a gelled out blow out like it was a school uniform

 

[The Nuisance]

The Roc or No Limit.

The Roc cuz of the producers and Jay & Same got shit done.

NL cuz P was a marketing genius and I would have did tours even when P didn't.

 

[Shizlansky]

Everybody loved P

He gave you YOUR money and rights to YOUR music.

 

[RawAce]

Everybody sayin P looked out, wow, I never kneww that.

I thought P paid people upfront and took the lionshare of the profits .

 

[RawAce]

I also would wanna sign to a bigger label with access to various producers.

I wouldnt want an album entirely produced by beat by the pound or whatever label's in house team.

I would have to go with defjam.

If u could create something at defjam, u could branch out to other things like endorsements, tv & movies

 

[dalyricalbandit]

Roc-A-Fella I want a chain.

Death Row - I ain't tryna get my ass kicked

Bad Boy - I ain't joining no cult or seekin God afterwards

Cash Money - Ha! I want my bread and u know how this story goes

Def Jam - was alright

No Limit - it's cool u get your money, and classes how to hustle from P, plus I get a pen and pixel cover, a verse from Silkk the down side u get Master P sneakers

 

[Beta]

No limit because even if I was wack I would still sell well

 

[emaculate]

Def Jam 1st choice

Followed by No Limit, Loud or Jive but I need that E-40 deal for Jive