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Post your top 5 label runs.

- Choose 5 specific years. Ex: Ruff Ryders (98-02)

- This includes Hiphop and RnB

- Choose between 1988-Now

- Lets keep it to sub labels (Rocafella, Murder Inc, Etc). We're not counting (Def Jam, Universal, etc)
 
Elzo69Renaissance said:
5 years bro
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#1 has to be Bad Boy 1996-2000. When it comes to hits, impact, and diversity of successful people on the roster.

1996: They killed it with the R&B. Faith Evans, Total, 112. And Biggie was hopping on remixes.
1997: Easily the biggest label posse year ever. Life After Death, No Way Out, Harlem World. They were doing what other labels couldn't do, and that's bag mainstream hits. They had like 6 #1s this year or something wild like that.
1998: LOX dropped and the same 3 R&B acts from '96 ran it back and dropped again in '98
1999: Double Up, Born Again, 112 Anywhere burning up R&B
2000: Shyne, Black Rob, Carl Thomas

Shit, you could even make an arguement for 1994-1998 and 1999-2003 both being in the Top 5 GOAT label runs.
1994-1995 had Ready To Die, Craig Mack, Faith Evans, Total, etc.
2001-2003 had G-Dep, 112, Bad Boys II Soundtrack, I Need A Girl Part 1/2, Loon, Da Band, that Dream pop group, Mario Winans, etc.
 
KillaCham said:
#1 has to be Bad Boy 1996-2000. When it comes to hits, impact, and diversity of successful people on the roster.

1996: They killed it with the R&B. Faith Evans, Total, 112. And Biggie was hopping on remixes.
1997: Easily the biggest label posse year ever. Life After Death, No Way Out, Harlem World. They were doing what other labels couldn't do, and that's bag mainstream hits. They had like 6 #1s this year or something wild like that.
1998: LOX dropped and the same 3 R&B acts from '96 ran it back and dropped again in '98
1999: Double Up, Born Again, 112 Anywhere burning up R&B
2000: Shyne, Black Rob, Carl Thomas

Shit, you could even make an arguement for 1994-1998 and 1999-2003 both being in the Top 5 GOAT label runs.
1994-1995 had Ready To Die, Craig Mack, Faith Evans, Total, etc.
2001-2003 had G-Dep, 112, Bad Boys II Soundtrack, I Need A Girl Part 1/2, Loon, Da Band, that Dream pop group, Mario Winans, etc.
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its Bad Boy, cuz their run went longer than 2000. And second has to be Cash Money when they made the come back with Wayne and Young Money. The question is whos 3rd?
 
If we talk about sales Aftermath gotta be up there:

1999 - 2004

1999 - SSLP (5X Plat, 14million EAS)
1999 - 2001 (7X Plat... not sure on EAS sales but probably close to 20million)
2000 - MMLP (1X Diamond, 34million EAS)
2001 - The Wash OST (Gold)
2002 - Eminem Show (1X Diamond, 37.5million EAS)
2002 - Truth Hurts - Truthully Speaking (350,000)
2003 - Get Rich or Die Trying (9X Plat, not sure on EAS but prolly ridiculous numbers)
2004 - Encore (5X Plat, 18.6 EAS)

Thats crazy number, Dre must had made BANK... Plus they had tons of dope 12" and mixtapes from Eve, Knock, Game, 50, King T etc during that time...
 
Water Ur Seeds said:
If we talk about sales Aftermath gotta be up there:

1999 - 2004

1999 - SSLP (5X Plat, 14million EAS)
1999 - 2001 (7X Plat... not sure on EAS sales but probably close to 20million)
2000 - MMLP (1X Diamond, 34million EAS)
2001 - The Wash OST (Gold)
2002 - Eminem Show (1X Diamond, 37.5million EAS)
2002 - Truth Hurts - Truthully Speaking (350,000)
2003 - Get Rich or Die Trying (9X Plat, not sure on EAS but prolly ridiculous numbers)
2004 - Encore (5X Plat, 18.6 EAS)

Thats crazy number, Dre must had made BANK... Plus they had tons of dope 12" and mixtapes from Eve, Knock, Game, 50, King T etc during that time...
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That's 6 years. But I get what you mean.
 
Aftermath if we're only talking sales, but qualitatively some of those albums don't have any replay value.

Those Bad Boy, Death Row,and Rocafella 5 year runs sold just as many units as Aftermath but the music has more replay value.

Sales isn't the only factor.
 
Cold Chillin dropped some heat between 87-91 but the difference is that back then rap albums didn't really sell unless you were really commercial. There were no media outlets to play the videos or the music. The Source wasn't really around. The internet didn't exist. But between 87-91 you had

MC Shan - Down By Law
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
Kool G Rap - Road To The Riches
Marley Marl - In Control Vol 1
Master Ace - Take A Look Around
Biz Markie - Biz Is Goin Off
Biz Markie - The Diabolical Biz Markie
Big Daddy Kane - It's A Big Daddy Thing
Kool G Rap - Wanted Dead Or Alive


Yeah Cold Chillin deserves a mention in this thread. If you were a DJ back then you had to cop all of the Cold Chillin 12"s and remixes. But they didn't have the sales of Eminem, 50 Cent or Jay Z.
 
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