T.D.E Was Supposed to Be The Next Big Label But They Fell Off! Stunted Growth Music

[Westbama Heartthrob]

hip hop labels by and large don't have extended peaks. Rappers might, but the labels they sign to maybe have 5 year peaks at best and then crumble. Death Row had 4 years. Ruff Ryders had 4-5 years. Roc-A-Fella had 5-6 years. G-Unit had 3-4 years. No Limit had a 5-6 year run. Ca$h Money's peak was from what, 98-03? Dipset had maybe 3-4 years. Then you had labels like Ruthless and Aftermath which had extended lifespans but were either really infrequent or were only gonna go as far as their star artist carried them.

This might be a more interesting subject to discuss in-depth

Exactly. Def jam is the only exception I can think of that has lasted till today

Young money kinda has if you count cash money and focus only on Nicki, wayne, and drake

But unfortunately, rap labels don't last long. I feel like dreamville has the potential to cause cole and them seem to be doing a good job so far

It's really when the second generation pops up that the labels fall off. Talent just doesn't be there. Or street politics fukks everything up.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Exactly. Def jam is the only exception I can think of that has lasted till today

Young money kinda has if you count cash money and focus only on Nicki, wayne, and drake

But unfortunately, rap labels don't last long. I feel like dreamville has the potential to cause cole and them seem to be doing a good job so far

It's really when the second generation pops up that the labels fall off. Talent just doesn't be there. Or street politics fukks everything up.

YMCMB in hindsight had one of the great label runs ever. That was damn near 10 years of hits and not just from the flagship artists. Same with G.O.O.D. Music

Remember when everyone thought nothing was gonna stop QC? Now all that's left is a cold Lil Baby

Dreamville to me is nowhere near the peaks of these other labels, but they're comfortable being what they are and as a result, they have a dedicated fanbase that slowly grows.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

YMCMB in hindsight had one of the great label runs ever. That was damn near 10 years of hits and not just from the flagship artists. Same with G.O.O.D. Music

Remember when everyone thought nothing was gonna stop QC? Now all that's left is a cold Lil Baby

Dreamville to me is nowhere near the peaks of these other labels, but they're comfortable being what they are and as a result, they have a dedicated fanbase that slowly grows.

Dreamville has been great. People won’t realize that til later though

 

[RhymesWell]

At one point the Black Hippy hype was at a fever pitch. They should've capitalized off of that alone whether them 4 dudes wanted to do it or not. The only one that got some decent shine out of it all was Q besides of course Kdot.

 

[DaSk8D00D]

I stopped watching after he kept saying the same stuff and had obvious biases towards certain players. I haven’t even checked out the hip hop versions

Haven’t watched his basketball stuff but a lot of the hiphop ones are pretty good IMO and he does a lot of obscure/forgotten artists along with the more mainstream ones

 

[DoubleClutch]

lol this dudes channel got stale quick to me. The basketball one at least..the reasons are usually generic as hell and he says the person was supposed to be the next ______ too often.

Like just off the thumbnail..Rashad being outed has nothing to do with their fall off. He isn’t even a top five most popular artist on the label.

Maybe he started focusing on too many side channels and pushing out content

His recent Jason weaver episode was good though