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

[Ghpstface]

I'll never understand how muthafukkaz from other regions, countries, ethnicities, run up in these threads runnin they mouth on some johnny come lately just discovered rap music opinion with NO IDEA of what the fukk they are talking about.

EVERY single nikka in the south during that time was listening to no limit, whether YOU liked it or not, Straight up. Cant even debate this shyt anymore. If you was there or old enough to remember that shyt was pumpin outta every whip, dorm, step show, step party, hole in the wall strip club, club, party, function, ject, black high school/college football/hoop game.

Bbbbbutbbut the soundscan? They were trash tho, who listens to master p? He has no bars, he cant speak, silk only sold x records, i hate mystikal, why snoop of all people sign? how did no limit stay a float, blah, blah, waaaaah. Klowns on here sayin/askin the same shyt for 20 years...lol

Muthafukkaz bought their records. And listened n partied to the music all over the muthafukkin south n beyond. End of story.

This. Master P was a household name. He had movies, had his own ugly ass shoe, had a sports agency that signed a Heisman Trophy winner as a client... the nikka even played in the NBA


That's not even mentioning the music. When I was growing up it was Bone, 3-6, and No-Limit...then a little later first wave Cash Money (Hot Boys, Big Tymers, all the solos) took over. But yeah No Limit was inescapable.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

Another 1 of those dumb ass no limit threads

Some of those no limit artist was already well established in louisiana & the bay before they signed to him

He networked & took a bay area independent system to the south & caught fire

Then took advantage of extreme fan interest in the no limit hype & put a shyt ton of product out & it worked very until it didnt

Some of that shyt didnt sell

st charles thurman and james prince... also came into play ...


p ownin a mom n pop...n learnin the game from those 2.... p was destined to blow...

i mean nobody really fukks with e-40..,but if u watch his unsung..n listen to russell simmons...speak on how 40 had signed the best deal in the history of the game..lol n he is still relevant...

 

[shopthatwrecks]

charge it to the game and i got the hook up soundtrack

 

[Playaz Eyez]

This. Master P was a household name. He had movies, had his own ugly ass shoe, had a sports agency that signed a Heisman Trophy winner as a client... the nikka even played in the NBA


That's not even mentioning the music. When I was growing up it was Bone, 3-6, and No-Limit...then a little later first wave Cash Money (Hot Boys, Big Tymers, all the solos) took over. But yeah No Limit was inescapable.

It pretty much shows how isolated they were up there despite being the Mecca. From 97-00 there was no where that Master P wasn’t seen. He played NBA preseason games AND was heavily featured on WCW Nitro directly in the mainstream’s peak era of wrestling if you weren’t seeing and hearing P, Silkk, and Mystikal (AND NO LIMIT SNOOP), you simply lived in a box

 

[shopthatwrecks]

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?

u ever sold dope.... u would understand how p worked

1st n the 15th.. most of those albums dropped around those dates..back to back on top of one another...n u could get them earlier than the tuesday it dropped back then...n mom n pops gave bundles cds n posters..n the albums were over 16 songs..n cheap

 

[shopthatwrecks]

It pretty much shows how isolated they were up there despite being the Mecca. From 97-00 there was no where that Master P wasn’t seen. He played NBA preseason games AND was heavily featured on WCW Nitro directly in the mainstream’s peak era of wrestling if you weren’t seeing and hearing P, Silkk, and Mystikal (AND NO LIMIT SNOOP), you simply lived in a box

yep

boys might not have liked it... but p flooded the game with his artist...if they wanted they got out there n got it...wasnt none of that first quarter bullshyt ...if u saw this ...

78percent of the time it was comin out the next month... n everything in this case dropped lol

 

[JustCKing]

I can't remember the specifics. @shopthatwrecks broke it down several times. Something about lesser known No Limit releases would have the same bar code as the albums they knew would sell....like Master P....so a sell for Master P = a sale for the lesser known artist.
I guess this is the part where people claim calling this out is biased against the south....which is because shopthatwrecks is damn near an encyclopedia when it comes to southern hip-hop.

Fred.

I don't think it worked like that. A lot of those lesser known acts weren't even sold like that at major retailers. For

charge it to the game and i got the hook up soundtrack

Those aren't the same barcodes. They are different. A lot of barcodes from artists of the same label start with the same numbers especially when the releases are back to back.

 

[ZEupTWN]

He hustled his way to 35 million in debt and lost No Limit. Hence the wack ass "New No Limit" era

P was the ultimate hustler....NL peak was one for the books....but when it crashed it crashed hard

P is A1 with the self promotion and still is, so people never really caught wind and by 00 no one cared about NL...

st charles thurman and james prince... also came into play ...


p ownin a mom n pop...n learnin the game from those 2.... p was destined to blow...

i mean nobody really fukks with e-40..,but if u watch his unsung..n listen to russell simmons...speak on how 40 had signed the best deal in the history of the game..lol n he is still relevant...

yep 40 did it different he was all about the long game...kept everything in house and still does....

 

[JustCKing]

n the albums were over 16 songs..n cheap

This.

Back when Pac, Biggie, Bone, and Wu had double albums that ranged between $30 and $40, No Limit had double albums that were like $17-20. And that is possibly because the cassette were never doubled. They fit all those songs on one tape. Down South Hustlers is the exception.

 

[zayk35]

P was the ultimate hustler....NL peak was one for the books....but when it crashed it crashed hard

P is A1 with the self promotion and still is, so people never really caught wind and by 00 no one cared about NL...




yep 40 did it different he was all about the long game...kept everything in house and still does....

As big a No Limit stan as I was I'm still trying to come to grips that it actually wasn't real. Like maybe they really didn't do the numbers they claimed. It still doesn't change the fact that he upgraded the game from where it was at the time. He still inspired a lot of folks to get it on their own. That certainly counts for something.

 

[Gotright]

I’m shocked that most of you don’t know that those numbers we’re cooked and not legit

i never knew. Info me breh

 

[sneakers&sex]

JT explains how it worked in this video

 

[puppetmaster]

I remember being in the 4th grade back in 98 and me and some other kids at the after school daycare formed a little crew named the New No Limit Soldiers and we would have "fights" with other kids on the playground.

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Heard P was doing some sorta barcode scam where one CD had 2 or 3 barcodes which inflated the sales.

 

[Sccit]

THIS WAS AN ERA IN HIP-HOP WHERE PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING WENT GOLD

AND IF U WERE ALIVE BACK THEN U KNEW THE BUZZ WIT NO LIMIT

MOST CASUAL HIP-HOP FANS WAS COPPIN ALL THEM RELEASES TBH

I WAS MORE A WEST COAST HEAD COPPIN MY XZIBIT KURUPT AND ICE CUBE ALBUMS AT THE TIME, SO NO LIMIT ALWAYS SEEMED SECOND RATE AND WATERED DOWN TO ME

BUT IN RETROSPECT A LOT OF THEIR SHIIT BUMPED.. ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPARED TO THE GARBO OF TODAY