I don't watch his platform
it's stirs up a lot of issues. he's in it for the wrong reasons and will falter.
I would listen to the album if it was released. I can't believe that they haven't squashed whatever issues they had over the years. Would have been cool if they could have brought him out at that Versuz with Dipset.
Styles came up there and was honorable as fukk. Not with bs, calm, respectful. He would have answered any question about J Hood. The idea that Mecca made him forget to ask about it makes zero sense when as you said, Math KNEW he had J Hood coming in that week.
The entire point of signing someone to a rapper imprint is to release their album so you can make money. I'm just not buying that D Block decided the best way to rob this man was to fukk with his advance and then take a 60k check they couldn't have planned for. He says the budget wasn't cracked and then says the producers were paid. None of this makes sense. This isn't like say...Dipset slow walking a Hell Rell album because they know it's gonna bomb. J Hood was HOT. He def goes gold with the right singles. Even if you agree with J Hood that they weren't the best businessmen I'm gonna assume they understand a gold album gets them way more than the $60-70k they allegedly decided to take from him instead.
My theory
LOX pulled industry favors and got JHood some hot placements (Pete Rock, Primo, Chingy), album got shelved. Lox took the $60K as pay back.
but fr, getting taxed on money you never touched gotta suck.
Everyone was putting albums out on koch... this theory makes no sense. Universal dubbed D block because they didn't like sheek walk wit me album. So sheek went to Koch and convinced hood to go to Koch too. Once they got to Koch they still wouldn't release his album... there's no way possible Hood got shelved on an independent label when every obscure artistul under the sun was putting albums out.