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Originally Posted by Geeno
if hes on cash money he's big, but waynes big and rick ross is big... meh to big.
theyre alright on a certain level but theyre just not great
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worrd. i was just going to say: there is almost, if not ZERO correlation between the record label you're on, or even being 'big' on mtv and being a great artist. in fact, i'd argue that most of the truly great artists aren't on labels, or merely give labels distribution rights [think mf doom and others] in order to get their music out there.
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf left the Disney label [forget the name.. had organized konfuzion, raw fusion, etc]... BASICS!!! haha, that's what it was, Hollywood Basics. anyway, as i was saying, charizma and peanut butter left the label over artistical differences.. i heard from a friend of pb wolf's that the label said something to the effect that their music wasn't 'gangster' enough. [this was when NWA and all that west coast gangster sound was all the hype].
so after charizma died, and pb wolf was trying to find suitors to put out the music he and his best friend devoted the last 5 years of their lives making, he couldnt get a deal that he felt did them any justice, so he went out and made is own label, StonesThrow.
by the way, that Big Shots record that disney never released, I could argue day-in-day-out that it's the best hip-hop record ever layed down, front to back. that record is like my bible. i've up'd it in this thread.
i've got the Big Shots Bonus EP laying around here somewhere if anyone wants it. maybe when i find it i'll just up it, haha. but ya, it's the tracks that didnt make the cut for the LP plus a couple remixes/other versions of tracks that did make the final cut.