Silkk The Shocker On No Limit Records, Working With JAY Z, Cash Money & More | Drink Champs

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Old enough to know that No Limit had the rap game on lock and the BS that you're trying to interject that NL was a bad label with bad artists is Bullshyt.

In other words, you weren't older than me, likely still in grade school, yet trying to front as some seasoned vet steeped in industry affairs.

Man, if you don't get your young ass up outta here.

N*ggas collecting Pokémon cards and watching Nick Toons at the time trying to tell me what was good with hip-hop during this era cuz he heard stories at the barbershop and read about it online in study hall.

 

[vdfebduderocks]

my best memory of Silkk was him playing Kool in Hot Boyz. I'm surprised he never pursued acting in some capacity

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Silk just rode his brother's wave and the south wave. That's it. LOL @ people trying to act like Silk was some super power house MC people underrates. He was cool for the moment. That's it.


History is the ultimate judge. Who cares about Silk's music today? DMX old music was still poppin even when he was in and out of jail. Silk has the respects he deserves.

And wasn't P rumored to be "playing" with numbers?

They was hustling the UPC scans and barcodes

 

[Pop123]

my best memory of Silkk was him playing Kool in Hot Boyz. I'm surprised he never pursued acting in some capacity

That movie is in my pantheon of hood films in the crib, . That shyt is so stupid and awful that it's fire, . Ya man Kool was a whole kung fu master, snitch, drug kingpin, stunt driver and some mo shyt.

 

[NO-BadAzz]

In other words, you weren't older than me, likely still in grade school, yet trying to front as some seasoned vet steeped in industry affairs.

Man, if you don't get your young ass up outta here.

N*ggas collecting Pokémon cards and watching Nick Toons at the time trying to tell me what was good with hip-hop during this era cuz he heard stories at the barbershop and read about it online in study hall.

This shyt is so corny on what you're doing.


Just state that you just started listening to music (HIP HOP) in 2006, I get it breh

 

[NO-BadAzz]

Brehs in here trying to say that NL as a label was trash in 98 with trash artists but yet was the number 1 rap label in that year and was killing shyt in 97 as well

 

[NO-BadAzz]

Brehs in here trying to say that NL as a label was trash in 98 with trash artists but yet was the number 1 rap label in that year and was killing shyt in 97 as well

 

[Mr. Negative]

and Silkk wasn't rhyming off beat, neither. When he said folks was just listening wrong he was 100% correct.

 

[Methodical]

I swear no one cared about first week numbers and all that shyt back then, maybe unless you were the actual artist. I never had arguments with the homies about who sold more let alone who sold more first week like it matters.

Right. People started arguing about how much they sold, was started all by 50 Cent. He was the one braggin about sales, shytty on you for not selling record, etc.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Jack Thiller is fukking this interview UP!!!!

 

[Bboystyle]

That whole No Limit run from 97-99 was


"Bout it bout it" still fukking bangs to this day.

 

[Deltron]

This shyt is so corny on what you're doing.


Just state that you just started listening to music (HIP HOP) in 2006, I get it breh

@New Jeruzalem Journalist been in the game for years...he a vet

and your argument about no one buys low quality shyt on a consistent basis is shytty...just look at today's shyt.

 

[NO-BadAzz]

@New Jeruzalem Journalist been in the game for years...he a vet

and your argument about no one buys low quality shyt on a consistent basis is shytty...just look at today's shyt.

In 1997, 1998 nobody was buying shytty music, let alone a whole label running the game.

The fact that you compare today's music with the shyt that was put out in 97-98 is stupid.

98 being one the GOAT years in Hip Hop, you're comparing it with 2021. Breh stop that.


People didn't buy low quality music on a consistent basis in those years, that type of music was not being put out for one.

 

[NO-BadAzz]

@New Jeruzalem Journalist been in the game for years...he a vet

and your argument about no one buys low quality shyt on a consistent basis is shytty...just look at today's shyt.

No label in 97-98 outside of maybe Bad Boy was seeing NL with anything.

Like I stated to Breh and I'm stating this to You, NL run was because they put out shytty music, no one is going to purchase shytty music
An independent label putting out shytty music but had the rap game in the choke hold from 97, 98, 99 doesn't make sense.

Especially how Breh hyped up those other labels and artists, if his argument makes sense, then those labels and artists that he is championing, NL would not even existed or been in the game for that long.

Lol At him being a Vet. Smh.

You nor him know what the fukk y'all talking about

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

@New Jeruzalem Journalist been in the game for years...he a vet

and your argument about no one buys low quality shyt on a consistent basis is shytty...just look at today's shyt.

I pulled his card when he refused to tell me how old he was during this era. It's cuz he knows he'd look foolish pretending to be some type of music industry aficionado.

Nothing worse than cats that front and wanna try and lecture others on topics when they weren't even old enough to cross the street by themselves when the events they're talking about happened.


2nd and 3rd graders at the time it went down trying to tell people how shyt was "back in the day" .



In all likelihood, I probably been listening to No Limit shyt longer than he has, and I didn't even fukk with 90% of that bullshyt. But I had a few of my friends, one from high school and one in college specifically that swore they had the hottest shyt ever created. And my college homie was an East Coast dude.


Needless to say, they were sadly mistaken.


I started listening to music in 2006?



I was writing freelance articles and getting published in Philly music magazines and papers years before 2006 even came around. I was co-hosting college radio in the 90s. Da hell is he even talking about?

 

[vdfebduderocks]

No Limit doing 22 million in 1998 was unreal, but they were aided by a production/distribution/marketing/branding model that would literally only circa 1999. They used every single album to promote the next album and the album after that and such forth. That's how they flooded the market with releases.... especially at local record stores. They churned out a ton of music by having an in-house team too. They had a couple double albums that inflated sales too.

But once Napster hit the market, No Limit's model died. And once they stopped paying KLC, they were toast.