the roots comment shows that you really don't get IT. I see that I'm wasting my time, but as always, I'm gonna hold out hope for you.
stop it. we already know CMR got the deal they got off the strength of no limit.
ted lucas himself said he got a master p deal for slip-n-slide.
3-6 mafia got their deal thanks to the bone thugs beef. but hypnotized minds wasn't on the map back then. not even a project pat album.
yea rap-a-lot were pioneers, but they didn't open up the market. no limit did that.
suave house didn't make a dent in that aspect, bro.
@ the bolded, how? there were Atlanta acts that benefited from no limit, being from the south. but the Atlanta scene specifically was irrelevant until '03.
nobody said outkast had to be CEOs. they just didn't generate that level of interest. face it. we knew backbone, killer mike, cool breeze, witchdoctor, slim Calhoun, etc. most people just didn't care.
dungeon family simply didn't appeal like that. all those acts were regulars on rap city. they had their chance.
The Roots comment is you once again making up some wild statement and when challenged on it, you fail to back it up.
In regard to CMR's deal:
Draper also used his keen business sense to help Cash Money secure their six-figure deal with Universal back in 1998, as well as stepping in to negotiate the Clipse’s long-delayed release from Jive and was instrumental in Ice Cube’s comeback album,
Laugh Now, Cry Later, becoming the highest selling indie album of 2006, with 650,000 copies sold.
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^^^ Draper refers to Tony Draper, CEO of Suave House.
Regardless of why 3-6 got their deal, and it wasn't because of them dissing Bone, it wasn't because of Master P.
Ted Lucas getting a "Master P" deal for Slip N Slide refers to what I was talking about in regard to showing how to negotiate deals. You're not proving your point. That's not saying he got his deal because of No Limit vs. CMR getting their deal directly because Tony Draper helped them secure their deal with Universal.
Master P didn't open the market up either. Again, he only blew up New Orleans. Outside of Snoop, nobody that wasn't from New Orleans even got an album release during the '96-'00 era.
OutKast generated a huge level of interest. Artists not blowing up under them is neither here or there. OutKast didn't force their sound on anyone and it wasn't uniform to where any one of those artists sounded like Kast or anyone of those artists sound like each other. When crunk popped off, a lot of those songs and artists sounded the same, which is how it became the movement that it was. A lot of those Lil' Jon beats sounded the same on purpose.
Atlanta was already on, before Kast.
it wasn't a factor until the crunk movement. long after outkast.
More contradictions. According to you, Atlanta was on before OutKast, but in the above post, you said it was irrelevant until 2003.
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Southernplayalistic was the first classic rap album to come from ATL and the eye-opener for other cities that our time was coming."---- Jermaine Dupri
In reference to that "long after OutKast statement":
Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below by Outkast
"The biggest rap album from the city and the biggest rap group left in hip-hop. Another huge statement that got us over that 'ATL is in a slowdown' hump. No!"---- Jermaine Dupri
“When I put out Kriss Kross, people in New York and L.A. were saying Atlanta wasn’t the place for rap music. That’s what fueled OutKast for what they did and that’s what fueled the Dungeon Family to be as dark and as hip-hop as they were, that was all coming from the backlash that Atlanta is not a rap city.”---- Jermaine Dupri