Mase Calls Out Puff For Bad Business & Not Letting Him Buy His Publishing Back

[Don Dada]

I remember 15 years ago i sat home watchin niggas postin a gif in every Nas related thread where Nas picks up an L and keeps walkin.

Where them now? They never knew.

Those G unit and Eminem soldiers n Roccafella groupies never knew this day would come.

 

[SeaSnake]

So let me get this post right.

You saying puff should do right by made cuz he black, they so called cool or what?
Can you clarify?

Puff should do right by him because it’s the right thing to do. Even more because they supposed to be friends. And even more because he say he pro black

 

[DOS_patos]

I remember 15 years ago i sat home watchin niggas postin a gif in every Nas related thread where Nas picks up an L and keeps walkin.

Where them now? They never knew.

Those G unit and Eminem soldiers n Roccafella groupies never knew this day would come.

I can agree with you here but....

Nas manager once said that Nas has invested in more than 100 companies.(thats like 2018?) now 2020.

Nas serves as a founding partner of Queensbridge Venture Partners

They doing invests all the time.

In 2018 Nas manager said they had inviest in 100 companies now 2020 .. Just imagine.

Pluto Tv got sold for $340 million, Amazon deal got sold for $1.1 billion.. Thats just the ones that made the biggest numbers.

There are plenty more thats not even sold and many more that been sold that he earned plenty of millions.

Nah.
That ain't how it works...

I'm not going to down him tho. But you got it wrong.

If that's the case I own part of the wells Fargo center, the sixers and the flyers.

Celebrate his hustle but don't get carried away.

 

[SeaSnake]

We talking niggas from the hood who ain’t never seen shit....sometimes that upfront money is the difference between life and death....niggas would sign anything

thank you I mean think about you 19 or 20 and somebody offering you 200k to 500k and you don’t know if your artistry is even worth that at that point

 

[DOS_patos]

Puff should do right by him because it’s the right thing to do. Even more because they supposed to be friends. And even more because he say he pro black

Thank you for clearing this for me. Salute

 

[R.I.P KOBE]

View attachment 221131

“When our own race is enslaving us”

I mean we did sold our own people off to serve as slaves back in the slave trade days

 

[konceptjones]

thank you I mean think about you 19 or 20 and somebody offering you 200k to 500k and you don’t know if your artistry is even worth that at that point

Niggas wasn't gettin six-figure deals like that in the 90's.

 

[Race Jones]

Word?

yes I texted you and you never responded. must have been in some pus :ualreadyknow:sy.

 

[SeaSnake]

Niggas wasn't gettin six-figure deals like that in the 90's.

im exaggerating

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Niggas sign bad deals the same way a lot of us had to take jobs that had nothing to do with our majors and concentration

 

[konceptjones]

Niggas sign bad deals the same way a lot of us had to take jobs that had nothing to do with our majors and concentration

not even a close comparison.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

not even a close comparison.

Desperation is desperation

 

[Goldie]

yes I texted you and you never responded. must have been in some pus :ualreadyknow:sy.

Nah, I told you about what's going on with my fam, just had a death and been dealing with that.

 

[konceptjones]

Desperation is desperation

That's a cop-out.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

That's a cop-out.

It is what it is

 

[konceptjones]

It is what it is

Why can't we hold people accountable for their fuck-ups? Serious question. These muhfuckas went in with their eyes closed and mad 'cause they fell in a hole.

Even if the label dangles a check, if they don't take it they're still in the same place they were already in. Nothing changes.

 

[konceptjones]

Its all well and good saying artists should have 'gotten a lawyer' but when there is only ONE label or label with connections offering you a 'take it or leave it' deal then its either the artists take the deal and the money, the opportunities and everything that comes with it or they go back to the block and the grind of trying to find another label... So alot of artists had no choice but sign those fckd up contracts...

Also back in the 80s and the 90s there was no social media and real independent opportunities like there is today, yeah majors had big budgets but getting a contract was like hitting the lotto...

Had to circle back to this and address it 'cause I forgot to earlier:

You know the 80's and 90's there was a shitload of independent labels out there, right? Small labels that would give their artists a fair deal without all the bullshit. Ichiban Records was one of those labels. Some of everybody got fair deals on Ichiban. It's where Vanilla Ice's "Play That Funky Music/Ice Ice Baby" 12" and his first album "Hooked" dropped (which was then bought out and repackaged as "To The Extreme" by SBK), It's were MC Breed's "Ain't No Future In Your Frontin'" 12" and his first 4-5 albums dropped on, and several other regional and national acts. Every city with a hip hop scene had indie record labels, some good, some bad, but those opportunities existed even back then.

Towards the end of the 90's, the major labels started buying out indie labels, so those opportunities started to dry up for mainstream music genres. But even with that there was still indie labels that exist even to this day.

 

[Race Jones]

Nah, I told you about what's going on with my fam, just had a death and been dealing with that.

Goldie Im so sorry. you know I love you more than a fat kid loves cake. reach out to me anytime. Im here for you 10 fold

 

[Soul_Rattler]

Joe Budden was just talking about being young and knowledgeable, even not knowing which lawyers were not really on his side. Let me find it...

 

[BRIAN B.]

Nas dont get the credit he deserves when it comes to hustle.

HE never brag how real he keep it. That's the truth.

cuz it's the best secret?