Ask Hot Rod Anything Thread

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Here's a quick summary of my career up to date... not everything but you'll get the point...



@riddlerap you should throw this in the original post cuzzzzz

 

[wingzboy]

Did you request to leave the Unit or were you dropped? And would you rejoin the Unit?

 

[AJtheOne]

GOAT thread

 

[WSFGDan]

@TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY How often do the G-Unit artists & Staff monitor the online chatter? lmao

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

So its 2006 and a couple months into this dream of being signed to G-Unit and I'm living in CT at the G-Unit mansion with 50, his assistant, engineer and my friend/hypeman Carnegie (R.I.P.) I finished my album "Fastlane" in the first 2 weeks of me being there so now I was rehearsing my lines, performance, and shyt that I would need to have in cooperation with the music. (Best advice I've gotten from Fif was, to be a superstar you must have 4 qualities: Peronality, Performance, Appearance, and Material)

Sooooooo, coming up in 2 weeks I had my first performance in Orlando which was an Interscope Records showcase which featured all of the newer artists at the time, as well as other established artist that were on Interscope... It was like a talent show to see if we really had what it takes and to showoff the new ponies that had been in training at the time.....

Me and Carnegie were living the life recording music, working out, myspacing hoes, you know it was crackin.... Now there was a strict security rule at 50's mansion that we all as a team knew not to break.. NO RANDOM bytchES AT THE MANSION!!! So obviously me and my nikka Carnegie didn't wanna fukk up this situation so we abided by this rule with no problems... I had my laptop and there was WIFI in the house, so I took that time to become better acquainted with Pornhub, XNXX, Xhamster, and various other pleasure sites that were up and coming at the time....

So we were all in the studio one day and Fif went overseas for business so we had the crib to ourselves... One of Fifs assistants starts hittin up bytches on Myspace (the shady "browse" feature was a nikkas best friend ;) ) and he starts showing us all these bytches he was tryna invite over... I'm sittin there like "cmon man we cant have no pointless hoes over here my nikka, I aint tryna get caught up.. "

Him and his boy was there like, "Naw man its cool we do it all the time, yall find some bytches so we can get it poppin"


So me and Carnegie are lookin at each other like, as long as we don't call no bytches over then we are straight.. So we hit up some chicks but don't really invite them over and said we struck out..

The assistant and his boy round up a crew full of bytches for the crew and we end up having a cool little kickback/pool party at the crib and shyt goes down... (If you ever want to see how bytches get down, take them to a superstars mansion... anything goes)


So the bytches leave hella early in the morning and everything is all good at this point..... All of a sudden the assistant nikka calls me over the intercom to see him in the studio... I walk in and he hands me a Dwayne wade sidekick and says, its Fif.... I grab it and I'm like "Wuttup Fif!! Whats poppin?"


There's a loooooong pause and he goes.... "nikka are you fukkin stupid??...... You tryna get killed out here??""

Im like, "Huh, what you talking about??"

He goes, " You inviting bytches from the internet over to my house??? Really?? You're done nikka, you goin home.. You aint ready for this shyt... (CLICK!!).."

The nikka hung up in my face my nikkasssss!! Heart dropppped and I'm heeeeeeeeeated.. I go to the assistant nikka like yo wut the fukk nikka?? What you say to this nikka!!

Now I could tell this cat was shady from the jump and didnt really fukk with me cus I was a west coast nikka who was gettin hellla attention from his boss, so it seemed fishy...

He was like.. "nikka you shouldn't have invited bytches over... Im getting you and Carnegies plane tickets booked now..."

COLI NIGGGAAAAAAAAAS!!! WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS READY TO RIP THIS nikkaS HEAD OFF AND SPIT DOWN HIS NECK!!!! I'M GETTIN HEATDDDD TYPIN THIS shytTT RIGHT NOW WOWWFDDFDFDFDFDF I WAS ON FIRE!! (<---------- Ima keep those typos) If my mom wouldn't have ever whooped me in life, I woulda murdered that nikka dead ass... all jokes aside....

Im like "What??? You and that other nikka invited them bytches over nikka!!!" You fukkin with me right now???"


He just dipped and went upstairs... I felt like I was about to turn into a fukkin Werewolf and eat this nikkas soul off, but I had to compose myself.. I tell Carnegie the news and now it was time to get out of this sticky situation....... (To be continued........)

P.s. We were still negotiating the recording contract so nothing is signed at this point... soooooooo he could send me home and I'd be a wrap......... yeah I'll finish this later, I gotta mix this record....

 

[Art Barr]

my fav hot rod song


used to play this before i hit the club

this record i actually thought would give, hotrod a good gateway draw to him artistically at the time.
not sure why it never had traction.

@TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY
maybe you can explain to us the administrative reasons.
behind, why this record never actualized the obvious large domestic draw potential, it had.
especially, considering the timing and the high quality this record was, then.



art barr

 

[WSFGDan]

this record i actually thought would give, hotrod a good gateway draw to him artistically at the time.
not sure why it never had traction.

@TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY
maybe you can explain to us the administrative reasons.
behind, why this record never actualized the obvious large domestic draw potential, it had.
especially, considering the timing and the high quality this record was, then.



art barr

It did have traction i didn't even know who this nikka was until like 2009. But i remember Kids at school listening to it.

never got radio play and shyt if thats what you mean.

 

[Art Barr]

The lack of album sales and the fact that no rapper has gone gold besides Iggy this year and it's mid October is proof that it's on it's last legs. This could very well be the first year that no black rap artist has gone gold.

they have found a way to have disco/house/edm steal trap as the predominate sound.
then, turned rap into the fad they wanted it to be in 1984.
the business of rap, is very close to being phased out, and made into a parody completely.
nikkaz, not old enough to know or remember before krs came through, after the boom of the roxanne wars.
how it was exactly the same way.

if no krs, none of y'all would be who y'all are.
y'all would be in chiffon shirts, with dress shoe stepppers on a pleated pants.
y'all definately would not be rockin no jordans.
y'all would be in jordace, and sassoon's.


art barr

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

this record i actually thought would give, hotrod a good gateway draw to him artistically at the time.
not sure why it never had traction.

@TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY
maybe you can explain to us the administrative reasons.
behind, why this record never actualized the obvious large domestic draw potential, it had.
especially, considering the timing and the high quality this record was, then.



art barr

Tila Tequila's camp wanted $100k for her to do the video
At this time leaked music was defined as music that was decreasing in value
Between the label, publishers, lawyers, it became too much of a hassle to come to an agreement so it just fell in between the cracks..
It was a hit record that everyone wanted a piece of... and in the end no one got shyt... well I got to tour but thats it ;)
Probably the biggest unreleased record to date... I blame it on the transitional period the industry was going through at the time...
Execs had no idea what they were dealing with.. I understand

 

[Millz]

skimmin thru most of the thread, that 50 in the hood and that Benzino story is crazy, i'll be back for that drizzy and the other one.


Rizzy been cool, when did you got of the Unit and where is Paris??

 

[bl2k8]

Yeeaahhhh born and raised in the strawberry manors... went to Natomas and graduated from Grant

That's wasup breh. You do work with any sac or bay cats?

 

[Art Barr]

Tila Tequila's camp wanted $100k for her to do the video
At this time leaked music was defined as music that was decreasing in value
Between the label, publishers, lawyers, it became too much of a hassle to come to an agreement so it just fell in between the cracks..
It was a hit record that everyone wanted a piece of... and in the end no one got shyt... well I got to tour but thats it ;)
Probably the biggest unreleased record to date... I blame it on the transitional period the industry was going through at the time...
Execs had no idea what they were dealing with.. I understand

preciate you explaining the situation on this record.
this record should have had a crazy return.

shame you never got to draw off the record in every facet, that you could have.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

It did have traction i didn't even know who this nikka was until like 2009. But i remember Kids at school listening to it.

never got radio play and shyt if thats what you mean.

this record was one of those, wtf are the labels NOT doing when it dropped.
should have had a much larger draw.
if it was given the proper treatment, in a money rules based industry.


art barr

 

[Still FloW]

So its 2006 and a couple months into this dream of being signed to G-Unit and I'm living in CT at the G-Unit mansion with 50, his assistant, engineer and my friend/hypeman Carnegie (R.I.P.) I finished my album "Fastlane" in the first 2 weeks of me being there so now I was rehearsing my lines, performance, and shyt that I would need to have in cooperation with the music. (Best advice I've gotten from Fif was, to be a superstar you must have 4 qualities: Peronality, Performance, Appearance, and Material)

Sooooooo, coming up in 2 weeks I had my first performance in Orlando which was an Interscope Records showcase which featured all of the newer artists at the time, as well as other established artist that were on Interscope... It was like a talent show to see if we really had what it takes and to showoff the new ponies that had been in training at the time.....

Me and Carnegie were living the life recording music, working out, myspacing hoes, you know it was crackin.... Now there was a strict security rule at 50's mansion that we all as a team knew not to break.. NO RANDOM bytchES AT THE MANSION!!! So obviously me and my nikka Carnegie didn't wanna fukk up this situation so we abided by this rule with no problems... I had my laptop and there was WIFI in the house, so I took that time to become better acquainted with Pornhub, XNXX, Xhamster, and various other pleasure sites that were up and coming at the time....

So we were all in the studio one day and Fif went overseas for business so we had the crib to ourselves... One of Fifs assistants starts hittin up bytches on Myspace (the shady "browse" feature was a nikkas best friend ;) ) and he starts showing us all these bytches he was tryna invite over... I'm sittin there like "cmon man we cant have no pointless hoes over here my nikka, I aint tryna get caught up.. "

Him and his boy was there like, "Naw man its cool we do it all the time, yall find some bytches so we can get it poppin"


So me and Carnegie are lookin at each other like, as long as we don't call no bytches over then we are straight.. So we hit up some chicks but don't really invite them over and said we struck out..

The assistant and his boy round up a crew full of bytches for the crew and we end up having a cool little kickback/pool party at the crib and shyt goes down... (If you ever want to see how bytches get down, take them to a superstars mansion... anything goes)


So the bytches leave hella early in the morning and everything is all good at this point..... All of a sudden the assistant nikka calls me over the intercom to see him in the studio... I walk in and he hands me a Dwayne wade sidekick and says, its Fif.... I grab it and I'm like "Wuttup Fif!! Whats poppin?"


There's a loooooong pause and he goes.... "nikka are you fukkin stupid??...... You tryna get killed out here??""

Im like, "Huh, what you talking about??"

He goes, " You inviting bytches from the internet over to my house??? Really?? You're done nikka, you goin home.. You aint ready for this shyt... (CLICK!!).."

The nikka hung up in my face my nikkasssss!! Heart dropppped and I'm heeeeeeeeeated.. I go to the assistant nikka like yo wut the fukk nikka?? What you say to this nikka!!

Now I could tell this cat was shady from the jump and didnt really fukk with me cus I was a west coast nikka who was gettin hellla attention from his boss, so it seemed fishy...

He was like.. "nikka you shouldn't have invited bytches over... Im getting you and Carnegies plane tickets booked now..."

COLI NIGGGAAAAAAAAAS!!! WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS READY TO RIP THIS nikkaS HEAD OFF AND SPIT DOWN HIS NECK!!!! I'M GETTIN HEATDDDD TYPIN THIS shytTT RIGHT NOW WOWWFDDFDFDFDFDF I WAS ON FIRE!! (<---------- Ima keep those typos) If my mom wouldn't have ever whooped me in life, I woulda murdered that nikka dead ass... all jokes aside....

Im like "What??? You and that other nikka invited them bytches over nikka!!!" You fukkin with me right now???"


He just dipped and went upstairs... I felt like I was about to turn into a fukkin Werewolf and eat this nikkas soul off, but I had to compose myself.. I tell Carnegie the news and now it was time to get out of this sticky situation....... (To be continued........)

P.s. We were still negotiating the recording contract so nothing is signed at this point... soooooooo he could send me home and I'd be a wrap......... yeah I'll finish this later, I gotta mix this record....

Yeah i remember readin about this somewhere... or was that another one where Willie North Pole almost got ya'll kicked out of the mansion or something shady like that ?

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Yeah i remember readin about this somewhere... or was that another one where Willie North Pole almost got ya'll kicked out of the mansion or something shady like that ?

nahhhh that was some other shyt that had to do with us and fox R.I.P.