Is it safe to say D Block were studio gangstas?

[Sbp]

Only reason nikkas copping pleas is because they do it better than most

Facts

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Dee pretty much confirmed this in this Math Hoffa interview @ 4:36.

Talks about having to step in during the Beanie Sigel beef because he knew it could get ugly, he raised the Lox and they not really shooters, but can make it sound nice.

 

[JQ Legend]

Styles: I don't give a fukk who you are, so fukk who you are

Jay:


Styles: I don't care about a pretty bytch, watch or a car


Jay:


Styles: I don't care about your block and whoever you shot


Jay:



Styles: I don't care about your album and whenever it drop


Jay:


Styles: I Ruff Ryde and pop a fella for Roc-A-Fella



Jay:

That’s wild how they were dissing Hov on that track. Not some rumor shyt they actually confirmed they were pissed at Hov for rushing them to the studio

That “I don’t care bout your album or whenever it drop” was directly at Hov

My ngga what language are you speaking He was the leader of 9 Trey. He’s on tape. It’s not that complex

Jim been screaming 9 tray since 2008 I’d HOPE these nggas got promotions tf

Don’t forget with Mel and Jim we talkin bout 40,45 year old men these gangs are predominantly young nggas of COURSE he’s a leader

Jim been screaming 9 trey way before 08

Even Cam said 9 trey on Killa Season in 06

Weatherman on POME had Jim saying “in 9 trey news” in the beginning of the track. This was also 2006.

Jim been proudly repping since years before that. Pretty sure his first album cover was Blooded out.

All these rappers sold bricks. The Lox, Cam, Jim Jones, 50, Yayo, Mega, Beanie Sigel, and so on. It's not as big a thing in those circles as people on the outside of them make it out to be. Plenty of them took advance money and bought kilos. That's not just rap music.

Just put a rough number on it, like 20k a kilo in 1997, whatever, maybe 25 maybe 15k, not that much money, and all these guys made money like that. It's right there in the songs. Not the obviously imaginative rap shyt, but Jada raps like "give me all my royalties and let me re', and I'm'a have o's for 6 and half's for 3", that's straight coke talk, that's regular shyt. I was buying and selling at those numbers when I was in high school around 2003.

No way someone sells O’s for 6 and half for 3 but I get your point breh.

 

[maxamusa]

Dee pretty much confirmed this in this Math Hoffa interview @ 4:36.

Talks about having to step in during the Beanie Sigel beef because he knew it could get ugly, he raised the Lox and they not really shooters, but can make it sound nice.

I didn't listen yet; but they from the BX.

 

[maxamusa]

RR paid like 3.5 million for them...with puff getting forms of residuals...

That red tape gotta be nasty

Dj shok(he did slippin)won a few million from RR cuz they were playing with his money

They def were dippin in DMX pockets..

Lox not gonna play the legal game with them for obvious reasons..

Of course they were. DMX was an artist not a businessman. They were hustlers. The fact they plugged in Swizz the way they did Cmon breh

 

[Pop123]

They may not be what they rapped (like every rapper), they exaggerate and embellish and inflate their statuses and levels…but the Lox probably have the biggest fan base of tough guys ever in rap, dead serious. The Lox had the jails and prisons in a smash in the tri-state in the early 2000s…outside of their Ruff Ryders affiliation which already had the jails on them because Ruff Ryders are a serious serious movement. Studio gangstas or not, if you violate you’re probably gonna get hurt bad…or at least have a serious problem on your hands

 

[re'up]

That’s wild how they were dissing Hov on that track. Not some rumor shyt they actually confirmed they were pissed at Hov for rushing them to the studio

That “I don’t care bout your album or whenever it drop” was directly at Hov


Jim been screaming 9 trey way before 08

Even Cam said 9 trey on Killa Season in 06

Weatherman on POME had Jim saying “in 9 trey news” in the beginning of the track. This was also 2006.

Jim been proudly repping since years before that. Pretty sure his first album cover was Blooded out.

No way someone sells O’s for 6 and half for 3 but I get your point breh.

Different markets, but around 2003 in San Diego, when I was in 11th grade, I could and did buy ounces at 625 and halfs at 330, of something good, but worked on, or I could get the real ones for $700/800 an ounce and $400 a half. And that was kid shyt-----Someone in NYC buying bricks, then cutting them by 30% could easily do those numbers, or close, but obviously partly it's just for the bad, the sound of 3.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Different markets, but around 2003 in San Diego, when I was in 11th grade, I could and did buy ounces at 625 and halfs at 330, of something good, but worked on, or I could get the real ones for $700/800 an ounce and $400 a half. And that was kid shyt-----Someone in NYC buying bricks, then cutting them by 30% could easily do those numbers, or close, but obviously partly it's just for the bad, the sound of 3.

I’m sorry breh. A $600 zip of ya from NY sound like 100% You definitely wasn’t getting a half for $300. I never took that line serious.I assumed he used those numbers cause it sounded good. You talking about San Diego. Yeah around that time you getting $500-$700 zips in miami too. New York though? Technically someone probably had some playa ass deals up there. Or little runs with crazy prices. But in general? fukk no

 

[re'up]

I’m sorry breh. A $600 zip of ya from NY sound like 100% You definitely wasn’t getting a half for $300. I never took that line serious.I assumed he used those numbers cause it sounded good. You talking about San Diego. Yeah around that time you getting $500-$700 zips in miami too. New York though? Technically someone probably had some playa ass deals up there. Or little runs with crazy prices. But in general? fukk no

All sorts of variables, and like I am saying, partially it's for the rhyme, I couldn't say what a brick went for in NYC in 2000, wouldn't know, except for rap music. But, if I could get them $300 in San Diego, (worked on, but good) I am sure they could do something similar in New York. That's my logic. And Jada playing with way more cash than I was, I was like 16.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

All sorts of variables, and like I am saying, partially it's for the rhyme, I couldn't say what a brick went for in NYC in 2000, wouldn't know, except for rap music. But, if I could get them $300 in San Diego, (worked on, but good) I am sure they could do something similar in New York. That's my logic. And Jada playing with way more cash than I was, I was like 16.

Man I was getting bricks for 3k in Panama (the country) at the time. I was too in tune. I used to be in NY on the purple haze tip so I can’t say from direct experience. But I’m certain that price would have been an outlier up there at that time and not the norm. Of course, the more plugged in you are, the better prices. But NY always had that NY tax on they shyt. A $600 zip of ya in NY even if possible, nikkas done danced all on that shyt

 

[re'up]

Man I was getting bricks for 3k in Panama (the country) at the time. I was too in tune. I used to be in NY on the purple haze tip so I can’t say from direct experience. But I’m certain that price would have been an outlier up there at that time and not the norm. Of course, the more plugged in you are, the better prices. But NY always had that NY tax on they shyt. A $600 zip of ya in NY even if possible, nikkas done danced all on that shyt

Right, I'm pretty sure that would have been like a 50% one lol

appreciate the convo.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

They may not be what they rapped (like every rapper), they exaggerate and embellish and inflate their statuses and levels…but the Lox probably have the biggest fan base of tough guys ever in rap, dead serious. The Lox had the jails and prisons in a smash in the tri-state in the early 2000s…outside of their Ruff Ryders affiliation which already had the jails on them because Ruff Ryders are a serious serious movement. Studio gangstas or not, if you violate you’re probably gonna get hurt bad…or at least have a serious problem on your hands

That’s how it was in Jacksonville with Boosie and Webbie and BG. Them nikkas used to run the jails/prisons. Inmates literally rapping they songs at night in they cells…like the whole dorm. nikkas singing Lil Boosie as bedtime stories. shyt was a crazy phenomenon. But every city got those few rappers that the streets love a whole lot

 

[JQ Legend]

All this jail talk reminded me of that Kiss line “never did a day but got the jails on smash” on his first album

Might have been some embellishing but Kiss kept it 100 bout who he really was overall

He came off more like he was being artistic rather than actually trying to convince everyone he was some super gangsta

 

[Wild self]

They may not be what they rapped (like every rapper), they exaggerate and embellish and inflate their statuses and levels…but the Lox probably have the biggest fan base of tough guys ever in rap, dead serious. The Lox had the jails and prisons in a smash in the tri-state in the early 2000s…outside of their Ruff Ryders affiliation which already had the jails on them because Ruff Ryders are a serious serious movement. Studio gangstas or not, if you violate you’re probably gonna get hurt bad…or at least have a serious problem on your hands

True, at one point, people were legit on some "You ain't authentically BLACK if you don't rate the LOX as your top 3 group"

 

[Pop123]

I just watched that NWA movie last night, for the first time, and it made me think of the Lox for some reason, . Anyway….Gangsters lie and say they’re law-abiding good citizens to the public…fake gangsters lie and say they’re law-breaking, bad guys to the public…because they want you to think they’re gangsters. Think about it. Being a gangster is illegal champ, lol, not fashionable.

Being in prison talking to other inmates or talking to other underworld figures…or trying to extort…those are really the only times gangsters publicize their gangster. Off the record/camera/microphone/etc. Any other time you’ve ever heard someone do it, they’re either young…or an old, extremely dumb idiot/possible druggie who wants rap fans to like him…or just totally a fraud lying selling rap fans an image…100% of the time. Which group do you think the Lox are?