that article basically confirms what i said
yup and just like i stated..it was a business decision made to look like a "spiritual obligation" ...yeah right..that boy ain't want that LOX debt
*Neither Ma$e nor Robinson would comment on the rapper's contractual obligations to Bad Boy Records, which signed the artist to a multi-album deal in 1996. Standard contracts usually call for artists to record at least six to eight albums. "Double Up" is Ma$e's second. Robinson said that if Ma$e ever records again, he still would be "obligated to make records with Bad Boy.
and his HARLEM WORLD imprint flopped......
*Ma$e fueled speculation of a rift with Combs last year, when he partnered with a Combs rival So So Def Records to create his own rap label, Harlem World Records. But Mase insisted that there was nothing sinister about his retirement from the music business. ...yeah right
yeah JESUS saves alright...in the form of two redbone twins showing up at your video shoot and some "game" being shown to you by CREFLO DOLLAR who balls harder than any rapper.....
i rest my case
all you gotta do is show em' this album cover @The HONORABLE SKJ
this album cover set the tone for almost EVERYTHING hip hop would become as a cliche
the women, the gold chains, the champagne, the cars etc etc
(and yeah, you right on the money. some nikkas was hatin' ll too because he was cocky, the ladies loved him and he had talent and hung with street cats like az, rich and alpo)
this is THE BLUEPRINT!
90's model veronica webb in the middle with the phatty
Yup.....you put up the perfect refrence...that album is when cats mainly dudes DESPISED ll cool j
he had that song "IM THAT TYPE OF GUY" that set the tone for all this "Ill fukk your byatch" themes we hear these days
prior to that...THAT WAS CONSIDERED TABOO during those times
cause not only it was 1989 the height of the "respect our black brothers" and "black nubian queens"
also dudes didn't want them problems...this was the era of the AUTOMATIC TEC 9
anyway ...LL had lines like ...."your the type of guy that has no idea..that i sneaky creepy brother is coming in from the REAR"
"im the type of guy to say why u illing b??
your the type of guy to say my lower back is killing me ...catch my drift?
me personally..i thought it was brillliant art!!.....LL was being LL in his creative mode besides he gave us some good songs on that lp
BIG OL BUTT...JINGLING BABY...GOING BACK TO CALI....IT WAS A DAMN GOOD ALBUM!!
but n1ggas being insenstive n1ggas just like the DRAKE situation take shyt PERSONALLY for some reason
instead of seeing it as entertainment ....they get all thin skin and take it litearlly and start taking shots
and that happen to LL too......now although LL never got hit with the GHOSWRITING SLANDER like drake
he was seen as SOFT by appealing to the R&B crowd....not BLACK enough cause he distanced himself from pro black themes and artists
and commercial.....
which is unfair considering EVERY RAP ARTIST AT THAT TIME wanted LL TYPE of fame and money
homie just did the damn thing and they hated...he had the look...the byatches...the talent and the numbers to match it up
as my ratchet homegirl likes to say..."n1gga u doing to much"
i would argue that harlem world is a classic
got classic singles with 24 hours to live, feel so good, tell me what you want, lookin' at me, and album cuts that won't singles like the player way, do u wanna get $, take what's yours, nikkaz wanna act, wanna hurt ma$e, cheat on you etc etc
he got classic features from 112 records to brandy, mariah's honey remix, brian mcknight and then his features on the puff daddy and the family singles too!
his run was short but ma$e was just gettin' started
Mase fukked up his own career with his shenanigans
Youngins prolly will never understand how big duke really was a for hot minute
ma$e use to be that nikka and the youngsters have no idea!
but my nikka ma$e got at him on an r&b classic
Ayo, Mase and The Lox
We taking knots from the out of state spots
Any nikka make it hot, get found in vacant lot
You don't really wanna come try, the one guy
Who stay dumb high from blunt lye
The Rikers, Sing Sing alumni
Who got more beef than a Islamic farm
So I pack enough sonic arms to neutralize atomic bombs
It's not a nikka in your gang want it
My AK slay gays, spray strays wit nikkas' names on it
Often I bug, then we'll soften a thug
Have a chump coughing blood, fill his coffin with slugs
Yo, you know I got enough guns to wreck a nation
Any nikka wave a Tec at Mason, have a explanation
You bring your crew and em and I'm doing em
Then I'm beating 'em down with aluminum
Then I'm putting two in 'em
You can't touch me, I've been devil sent, wanted for embezzlement
A lot of other things, but that's irrelevant
nah real talk..MA$E really put shots in JAY-Z on that cut "IM NOT A KILLA" a banging azz subliminal diss track
in which he not only questions jay's gangsta but also throws the Crips and Bloods into the mix.....
sad thing the masses of rap fans didn't get to hear it cause it was a regional cut on mixtapes in nyc......
it even caused a slight rift with CLUE and JAY cause clue played the track not realizing it was dissing JAY
now how you??...better yet WHY YOU?
Be a light skinned n1gga that's found rocking sky blue
"All summer long y'all been ducking Piru
And half y'all nikkas was scared to buy blue"
jay knew what was up ...when he had issues uptown with some certain "red ants" in the fosterville projects....jim jones know
he was taking shots at JAY-Z clicking up with some brooklyn locs......
same locs who ran with haitian jack and uncle zip
"it's hard again ..i can't even walk thru HARLEM again" "its alright" - jay-z
Ayo, Mase and The Lox
We taking knots from the out of state spots
Any nikka make it hot, get found in vacant lot
You don't really wanna come try, the one guy
Who stay dumb high from blunt lye
The Rikers, Sing Sing alumni
Who got more beef than a Islamic farm
So I pack enough sonic arms to neutralize atomic bombs
It's not a nikka in your gang want it
My AK slay gays, spray strays wit nikkas' names on it
Often I bug, then we'll soften a thug
Have a chump coughing blood, fill his coffin with slugs
Yo, you know I got enough guns to wreck a nation
Any nikka wave a Tec at Mason, have a explanation
You bring your crew and em and I'm doing em
Then I'm beating 'em down with aluminum
Then I'm putting two in 'em
You can't touch me, I've been devil sent, wanted for embezzlement
A lot of other things, but that's irrelevant