His advance money was $25k, not the $60k as the movie claimed. His mother wrote that in her book. Biggie had serious financial problems. Biggie didn't have money like that. You can do the numbers of sales and his royalties. Plus Puff owned half of his publishing. He was leasing cars, like most nba players and musicians, and the houses weren't paid off. It's ok to find out Santa Clause isn't real. the label deal was with Un and and the album went gold(500k if you aren't aware), but but all of that money doesn't go to Big hahaha. cmon man. Biggie didn't have it like that. He wasn't definitely on the come up before his death though. I'm giving you information from his mother and wife. Don't quote me to argue, go on their twitter pages and tell them they are lying.
borrowing money from your wife …. what type of nonsense is this
again, i always wonder where do people come up with this notion that he was broke
he took his 1993 advance money to start his own label with his homie, Lance which produced 2 albums, where he was the executive producer, and wrote all of the albums. Those 2 albums, one from Junior M.A.F.I.A., and the other one from Lil Kim was very successful.
Add the fact he was puff executive producer for his album
owned a clothing line, called Brooklyn mint
owned 3 properties in a gated community in New Jersey one for his mother, one for him and fay and the other one for Junior mafia again
where is this ridiculous notion that he died broke
Album sales as a whole were never for albums sold, but albums "shipped". . You'd get a platinum or gold plaque if your label shipped 500k or 1 million units initially. The albums would sometimes not "sell" 500k, but the remaining copies would have to be put on discount or in the dollar bin so the store could move them. But artists would still get a plaque for it. It would take months for an artist to see a check after sales of an album. Everyone gets paid first, including producers and after everything is recouped, at a bullshyt very high rate, then the artist could see a check. Back then, show money is how artists made money because there were not 360 deals taking a piece of that from them. So there can be an example of an artist selling millions records and singles, but never seeing a check from the label. See (De la soul). Artists find ways to rob artists with hidden costs like studio time(even though they rent studios for block perids, but charge artists a higher rate), promotion costs, half of video costs, and a lot of shyt they can squeeze out of them. You've really got to be on top of your business.
Grown people who think it’s cool to be dependent on other grown people are
That was Daryll James of Rap Sheet saying that bullshyt about Biggie dying broke.
borrowing money from your wife …. what type of nonsense is this
again, i always wonder where do people come up with this notion that he was broke
he took his 1993 advance money to start his own label with his homie, Lance which produced 2 albums, where he was the executive producer, and wrote all of the albums. Those 2 albums, one from Junior M.A.F.I.A., and the other one from Lil Kim was very successful.
Add the fact he was puff executive producer for his album
owned a clothing line, called Brooklyn mint
owned 3 properties in a gated community in New Jersey one for his mother, one for him and fay and the other one for Junior mafia again
where is this ridiculous notion that he died broke
Perfect recipe for dying broke
Biggie sold his publishing to Puffy for 250K, only a nikka hurting money (on a relative scale) would do that shytbiggie ?
That's why I think Biggie's death is the bigger tragedy because Pac did not live like a nikka that expected to see 30
Biggie sold his publishing to Puffy for 250K, only a nikka hurting money (on a relative scale) would do that shyt
Before the late 90s, most rappers were at best living in a modest crib outside the city ie a lot of NY rappers living in Jersey. But a lot of them still lived in the projects and still had to be in the streets a little bit. Havoc for example, didn't move out of QB until '98. Ghost said he didn't stop selling drugs til 95.
and for the record, I’m not specifically saying you
