Ayo.... How Did No Limit Sell So Many Records?

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

No Limit Records discography - Wikipedia


They never had any hit singles until 98 (and Make Em Say only reached 16)

no limit was dropping hit after hit for years.

for future topics on any artists, billboard is not a proper reference point homie.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Man shut the fukk up. Im talking very respectfully

oh i see that youre one of those little white dikkheads.

that explains alot.

also explains you naming yourself "tharealness" in 2020.

f*ckin computer nerds.

 

[ThaRealness]

oh i see that youre one of those little white dikkheads.

that explains alot.

Where did I insult no limit, besides the one time... because they did have some mediocre rappers. And some terrible album covers

But I respect it.

 

[King Poetic]

Support from the south

and I also believed and I’m not sure even if the CD was shipped and not sold I think they counted it as a sale at the time back then..once again I’m not sure about it

 

[JustCKing]

The South wasn't No Limit's only supporters. They actually started out West in regard to selling music. P and most of the roster is from The South, but their music was West Coast heavy until 1995. The had a huge cult following out West, but blew up mainstream once P went back home and adopted a Southern sound and style.

Also, hits didn't sell No Limit albums. No Limiy had GOAT marketing. While they had platinum successes with TRU and I'm Bout It Soundtrack, Ghetto D really set up No Limit for the monster 1998 that it had. That album featured the entire roster and all of those artists had album advertisements complete with album cover in the booklet of Ghetto D. Ghetto D went 2X platinum and eventually moved 3, so it exposed the entire roster to millions. These artists had spreads in mags and features and ads on every No Limit release. Nobody was doing that then and nobody does it now. Every album promoted the whole roster. Imagine being an artist no one has ever heard of and you're on platinum albums doing songs with Snoop.

 

[MJ Truth]

They were manipulating the numbers at an insane pace lol.

 

[swerve]

Beats by the pound deserve a lot of the credit for No Limits success

 

[Higher Tech]

The South wasn't No Limit's only supporters. They actually started out West in regard to selling music. P and most of the roster is from The South, but their music was West Coast heavy until 1995. The had a huge cult following out West, but blew up mainstream once P went back home and adopted a Southern sound and style.

Also, hits didn't sell No Limit albums. No Limiy had GOAT marketing. While they had platinum successes with TRU and I'm Bout It Soundtrack, Ghetto D really set up No Limit for the monster 1998 that it had. That album featured the entire roster and all of those artists had album advertisements complete with album cover in the booklet of Ghetto D. Ghetto D went 2X platinum and eventually moved 3, so it exposed the entire roster to millions. These artists had spreads in mags and features and ads on every No Limit release. Nobody was doing that then and nobody does it now. Every album promoted the whole roster. Imagine being an artist no one has ever heard of and you're on platinum albums doing songs with Snoop.

This was it. You couldn't buy a hip hop magazine without 4 or 5 No Limit ads. And if you weren't alive back then you can't understand the impact those magazines had. Source & XXL were like monthly bibles.

 

[Jplaya2023]

No Limit Records discography - Wikipedia


They never had any hit singles until 98 (and Make Em Say only reached 16)

P had every artist selling 500k minimum. But they had no cash cows

Juvenile was with Birdman right?

So they had Silk, Mystikal and a bunch of no names.
Im trying to understand this phenomenon. The bad album covers, the mediocre MCs... how did P flip that into platinum records?

You had 2 be alive to feel that down south energy to understand.

P is a fukking genuis

 

[CrimsonTider]

Beats by the pound deserve a lot of the credit for No Limits success

I actually think they get too much credit.

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

1 bar code

 

[Cheech&Chong]

1 bar code

There it is. I don't know how he got away with that. But every album scanned went towards the same total. So most albums didn't sell that well but we're counted as a sale if you bought ghetto d or tru

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Southern support. Many Southern acts were moving alot of records with songs you never heard on mainstream radio

 

[letti cook]

"hits"/singles didnt matter with them..

i found out about No Limit because my neighbor was knocking Mia X Unladylike everyday in his front yard, speakers blasting....and damn near every car that passed was bumping some song from some album from them...and i would always hear Mystikal, not even knowing who he was at the time

then i heard Man Right Chea on the radio and got my mom to buy the album

those albums were like a gateway drug because the whole label is featuring...they were basically weekly compilations

so if P, Silkk, Cmurder, Fiend etc...are on 3-4 songs that you like...then you open the booklet and see all the "coming soon" covers, you were gonna cop regardless...you just needed to know when it dropped. damn what the single was

i didnt even know the singles for most of those albums til I got older and stumbled onto the videos.

P made those albums collectables by the way he was marketing..some stores had a whole ass No Limit section.

 

[theflyest]

Dude I was 5 in 1998

Im quite sure the numbers may have been manipulated, but you gotta understand that no limit was real hot in the streets at the time. P could put out an artist named Lil Jumpercable, with no music video, and you’d hear it EVERYWHERE.

Nolimit wasn’t a label that relied on “hits.”