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

[MR. SNIFLES]

Then what was Priority doing for No Limit?

YOU ARE RIGHT. I DON'T KNOW WHO I WAS THINKING OF. MY BAD.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Still waiting on that Tank Dogs album

 

[En Sabah Nur]

I’m sure there was some manipulation going on but I personally saw nikkas cop those albums. It was crazy to see. I’m from Baltimore and up until that point hip hop was very NY based here. Sure we bumped some west coast shyt but from the south it was all Scarface, 8ball&MJG, and some OutKast. Once No Limit opened the flood gates everything changed. Like somebody said earlier in this thread hip hop had gotten kinda jiggy and people wanted to hear that gangsta shyt. No Limit filled that void. I know nikkas who only copped bootlegs who bragged about copping all those albums

Same.
Dudes and females was eating them No Limit releases up left and right, and I just did not get it I thought all them nikkas besides Mia and Mystikal was absolute trash, and I knew him before he was No Limit. The hype definitely is not exaggerated, as the southern takeover started with that tank. Personally I look at that time as watching the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs flying through the sky, but i digress

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Nobody talking about the heavy hitters breh...

We talking about the c class members

Nah, dudes straight up said they weren’t hearing No Limit on their radio stations up there

 

[360dagod]

Nah, dudes straight up said they weren’t hearing No Limit on their radio stations up there

Make em say ugh
Lay low
I think down 4 my nikkas got a lil spin
It ain't my fault

Rap city played alot of no limit....

Old school BET put nikkas on to alot of shyt poppin...

Now of course mr Marcelo not gonna be on a ny radio station

Lot of no limit shyt was highly regional

 

[MurderToCassette]

I remember looking at my cousins CD shelves way back when and nothing stood out like the No Limit cases. Seeing the bright orange chunky case for Ghetto D and the other bright ass colors he was putting on other joints was a genius marketing move.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Steady Mobbin didn't even get radio spins in the Bay yet they moved units on No Limit.

 

[DANJ!]

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.”

Pretty much this... when they were at their hottest, it had nothing to do with where they were on the charts. Even the fans that latched on with the "hits", they stuck around after buying the albums, like a brand loyalty kinda thing. It was about the overall sound/aesthetic of No Limit at the time. I wasn't a HUGE No Limit fan but I knew some, if they had a Master P album and heard Silkk, Mia X, C-Murder, Fiend, Mystikal, whoever had something coming out... they were buyin' their shyt also. Most people who fukked with No Limit REALLY fukked with No Limit... they weren't just buyin' shyt based on whose songs were bein' played on the radio.

 

[DANJ!]

@bigbadbossup2012

now this thread right here, is an example of east coast bias. LETS GO.

its amazing how dudes can still be so oblivious about the chit. i mean, over 20 years later and people still out the loop??

and i dont even know how this is possible. im sure no limit was getting bumped like crazy all around the OP.

oh lord Yo even summoned his tag team partner for the crusade...

 

[lone_druid]

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

CD prices were inflated before Napster took them down. I'm talking about $18.99 retail for one album. You could get lucky and buy a new release for $9.99, but that was a promotional price door buster. No Limit CD's were on the cheaper side, IIRC, and they wouldn't pull the "12-track; 40-minute" bullshyt other labels did. The no-limit cd's ran for at least 65+ minutes.

 

[MustafaSTL]

average person including execs would never catch it...


remember i said be4 ... p treated the rap game like the dope game


nikkas who sold dope...know the old school vials..

every color represented somebody elses work...hence the no limit colored cases..

it was impossible for nikkas on any label to drop albums every 2 weeks...on top of one another...n go gold or platinum...n these are rappers that dont really have a name for themselves..

p was the only label..ever to drop albums consistently every other week..n they were sellin...

he would drop a album...then throw a throwaway album...sountrack or a compilation with the same upc code jus off by a number or 2...

u wouldnt catch it... unless u tried to retun the compilation or soundtrack...with the receipt...or u sittin on the shytter readin the linear notes of the albums u just bought..

master p n lil flip was killin the game with this..loophole..

alot of flip mixtapes had similar upc to the leprechaun and the underground legend...

notice that compliation n snoops debut got similar numbers..

then mystikal..n mac scan dont look nuthin like snoops scans..

How would two different products/albums with two different bar codes count as double for one of the products? Those bar codes are not the same, so how because the first set of numbers are similar does that mean the entire code count twice for another album?

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

then you shouldnt be talking like youre talking.
just ask the question respectfully and keep it moving.
dont sit up here and tear the label down with insult after insult.

you named yourself after mobb deep and keep them in your avatar, but there would be no murda muzik without "im bout it". ya man prodigy even said it himself in the DVD bonus features.

btw, bout it was way bigger than murda muzik.

I was about to neg you into oblivion until I realized you were talking about the movies and not the Mobb album and TRU song.

 

[Ghpstface]

He also knew how to market his artists

Why does this look like an old West Coast Productions DVD

 

[letti cook]

He also knew how to market his artists

if this aint a prime example...nikkas was anticipating this album for years and she wasnt on ANY NL albums. I dont think I knew what she sounded like until Its Your Thing dropped.

a decade after the fact, P had to check Charlamagne over this cover

 

[EBK String]

marketing, he was basically created the marvel cinematic universe in album form. He promoted all the albums that were coming out in a packet inside the album case. Kids like me were copping every no limit album because of the artwork and songs being played everywhere.