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Ok so continuing on from "How I almost fukked up my record deal" story....



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.......

So I called Fif back to explain the situation and he wasn't having it... He said "Yall nikkas go back home and think about this shyt... And remember you have a performance coming up so you better be rehearsing everyday cus if you fukk up its a wrap for you..." :ufdup:

Im soooooo fukkin mad but, once I heard that I realized that I WASN'T finished for good... I had to deliver on this performance and I had to deliver well..


So our flight info comes in and I refrain from any contact with the assistant nikka for the rest of the time.. Me and Carnegie fly back to Phoenix, AZ...

We were on the grind rehearsing our set for the showcase... I was gonna do 3 Records.. Be Easy, Chase Da Cat, and Rock To it... This was only with adlibb backing tracks so it was on me not to fukk up the words. (Not like today where performers rap over the whole track) :childplease:


So we rehearsed everyday up until we had to fly out to Orlando for the event... We had it down so we were confident that we would kill the show.. When we land at the airport in Orlando we hop in the car service and head to the Hotel... We haven't spoke to Fif since leaving the house so that was nerve-wracking but we had to fight through and act as men.... We checked in and immediately began rehearsing in the room to make sure we had our shyt in order... We had no idea what was to come or when our time-slot was but that shyt didnt bother us at the time...


We get dressed and have a few cocktails as our call-time was approaching.. We head to the lobby and chill for a few and we run into Fif's Lawyer Theo...

He comes up and says "hey Rod whats up, you good??" :smugbiden:

Im like, "Yeah man just ready to kill this show and keep pushin."

He goes, "Well I heard about what happened at the Mansion, hopefully you make better decisions in the future." :smugfavre:

Im like "mannnnnn its a long story but I definitely will stop and think before acting in any manner going forward."

So this nikka goes in his bag and pulls out a folder full of papers and holds them up. He says "Look, here's your recording and pub contracts... Fif told me if you fukk this show up, I have orders to burn these up immediately and you will be sent home. Good luck Kid..... " :smugdraper:

Then he dipped off.....


MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!! ........ At this moment I felt like I was in a fukkin movie... If there wasn't a studio audience watching this I've seen everything... Like, does this kinda sht happen to everyone?? That shyt put ULTRA PRESSURE ON US!! I started gettin bentttttt after that cus a nikkas nerves were :dead:


SOOOOOOOOOOOO a few shots later.....


Me and Carnegie look at each other and go back to the room to rehearse a bit more before heading down to the event.

We finally meet up with Fif at the designated area and we shake up. He's cool, doesn't bring up the house shyt.. :whew:

We just chill and started meeting everyone that was there. We were mingling with the Interscope staff going back and forth just shootin the shyt as always.

The showcase starts and I forget who the new acts were but they were pretty mediocre. Pharrell performed and he introduced some new acts, hella other acts were there but I just can't remember who, my bad... Now we find out that I'm the headliner of the showcase... MY NERVES DIED AGAINNNN..

PRESSURE ON MAX ..

MORE SHOTS PLEASE :noah:


Now Me and Carnegie are rehearsing in between patron shots hoping this shyt goes well... We take a sec and they say "Rod yall going on after the Flipmode set"..

I ask how long and they said 10-15 mins... I said "Cool"... We go over there to watch and you wont believe this shyt my nikkas....

Muthafukkin BUSTA AND SPLIFF STAR WAS ON STAGE PERFORMING.... THESE nikkaS DID A FULL OUT SHOW LITERALLY FOR 45 MINUTES TO AN HOUR!! GOING BACK N FORTH, TOSSING THE MIC AROUND.. THESE nikkaS MIGHT AS WELL BEEN DOING BACKFLIPS AND BLOWING FIRE OUT OF THEIR MOUTH WITH MONKEYS AND BEARS RIDING AROUND JUGGLING ON STAGE!! THEY HAD THE CROWD WYLINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!! Me and Carnegie were look at each other like :sadbron::to::wow::damn::flabbynsick::mjcry::pacspit::mindblown::snoop:


I thought these nikkas show would never end my nigggaas.... My sadness was on max.... That shyt felt personal.. It was like Busta was gonna perform until I stole a towel from the pool area and threw that muthafukka on stage..... I was bout to grab a white flag from the souvenir store and wave that muthafukka hella hard while standing in the front row...


Soooo this nikka finally ends his show and fireworks might as well have been going off... Now its showtime..

Im standing there with Fif and Carnegie and he's like "You ready?"

Im like "yeah fukk that nikka we gon kill this shytttt, lets go".. :cape:

Fif introduces me and everyone is going wild!!.....

The beat to "Chase Da Cat" drops aaaaaaand nikkas LOSE IT!! I was supposed to Do "Be Easy" first BUT Fif changed the set after seeing Busta tryna body a nikka with his set... So Fif starts it off doing the hook to Chase Da Cat and it set it off perfectly... We running around like kings performing perfect, missing no words and Chemistry was on 100.. We're in a zone at this point..:banderas:

Fif hypemans the next couple of joints along with Carnegie and the crowd was dying of happiness the whole time.. BANGGGGGGGG WE MURDERED THAT shyt


Nigggaaaaaaaa that shyt felt like I was taking the elevator to Heaven my nikkas.. We hopped off stage and everyone ran up hugging nikka taking pix, autographs etcc... Pharrell came up to me and shook my hand and gave me a few compliments, Busta ran up and we shook up, I told that nikka to never do that shyt to me again or we beeeefinnn hahahaaa .. Iovine came up, everyone mannnn it was crazyyyy..

Theo runs up with the contracts afterwards and goes "Congratulations my man you came through in the clutch!" I hugged the nikka and we all went back to the Hotel and hit up the afterparty...... Gooooood fukkin time my nikkas

I was speechless, it was like I won the damn Super Bowl... I got chills just now while typing this shyt..

Anyways like I said before, Im freestyle typing so you get the point.. EPIC MOMENT but it was just the beginning... crazy shyttt, yall don't even know



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breh...I STILL wanna beat that assistant nikkas ass tho...You kept it reeeeaaall cool by not telling everyone the full story...you were just vague and said it was a loooong story.....You can see you about your business...you had to focus and couldn't get caught up in the back & forth on that he-said, she-said shyt...

That's what I'm taking from this....but that assistant is a straight up bytch for that...
 

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breh...I STILL wanna beat that assistant nikkas ass tho...You kept it reeeeaaall cool by not telling everyone the full story...you were just vague and said it was a loooong story.....You can see you about your business...you had to focus and couldn't get caught up in the back & forth on that he-said, she-said shyt...

That's what I'm taking from this....but that assistant is a straight up bytch for that...



yeahh man the whole business side of things is a game.... its crazy but definitely worth it... If I don't write a book about all this shyt I've seen everything
 

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Breh this story is one of the ebst things I seen on Coli. You seem like a cool dude since the Coli like even if you blew up you will still be creepin. You still need to get on that TRAP music like Waka flocka I think that would be the best for you like that diplo mixes he has with rappers. Anyways appreciate all these stories, I go out to Australia twice a year, no stan but let the coli know the next time you're out there

yeah that nikka Waka eatin off that shyt... I need that work... Im tryna hit Aussie this summer (our winter).. Gotta see them beaches again.. I'll let yall know
 

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

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


art barr


Yeaahhh that was a haaarrrrrrd breakup.... but fukk it, had to keep pushin... :yeshrug:
 

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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
thats some bullshyt though. damn.
 
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