Timmy84 said:

Real talk, MP Tha Don is one of my idols. Look at what this brother did in so little time. That's why the IRS men came down on him, didn't want a young brother to succeed and make all that cash. Two years of business classes at a community college and hustler minds from the street get you 661 million.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I KNOW! He did good.

Timmy84 said:

Master P (HipHop Facts)

*Started No Limit with only $10k (first a record store - than developed into a Record Label Empire)
*First rapper to be worth over $100 million
*First rapper to be worth over $300 million
*First rapper to own 100% of his Masters
*First and only rapper/CEO to receive 85% of profits in a major deal
*First rapper to make Fortune magazine's 40 richest Americans under 40 in 1999
*Has sold 75 million records as an "Independent" CEO
*First Rapper to own a cable network
*Made Forbes list of highest paid entertainers in 1998
*First rapper to Own and control a clothing company
*Started the direct to video trend in Hip Hop
*Fortune magazine's 40 Richest under 40 list in 2001 Over P.diddy & simmions
*Fortune magazine's 40 Richest under 40 list in 2002 Over P.diddy & Simmions
*In the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid entertainer in 1999
*Brought commercial credibility to Southern Hip Hop
*Brought marketing innovations to Hip Hop
*Had the Highest Attened Hiphop Concert Tour in 1998
*Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 1999
*First Rapper to Grace the Cover of Forbes - with an Estimated Net Worth of 661 Million
*Inspired a new generation of rappers to become independent
*First Hiphop Artist to have his Banned Movie in 97 Sell Over 500,000 Copies "Bout It The Movie"
*Independent Film Maker of the Year Award
*Entrepreneur of the Year award (Acapulco Black Film Festival)
*BlackEnterprise B.E 100 list
*Listed as one of Hiphop's #1 Realestate Company Owners.
*The Source magazine's Power 30 list at #1 two years in a row
*VIBE magazine's 10 most influential artists of the decade
*Owner & President of BBTV (coming in 2009)
*Owner of No Limit Records, New No Limit Records, Guttar Music, Soldier Army Records, Take-A-Stand, and has ownership in over 20 indie labels.
*Owner and Ownership in over 10 Clothing Lines & Shoes (including his own P.Miller Designs)
*Ownership of Internet Distribution programs.
*Wrote a BEST SELLER Book in 2008
*Credited #1 in 2009 to have the Most Material ever Executive Produced & Performed by an Artist : Over 200 Albums, Over 40 Singles Release, 5k+ individual tracks, Numerous Tape & Vinly Releases since 1990.
*Started in 1990 in Richmond, California, 96 in New Orleans!
*Only Artist to gain 2x Platnium Record Sales Status with Zero Raido or Tv Play for an entire album release.
*Over 20 #1 Billboard Singles & Albums

Timmy84 said:

No, P's money these days is all legit. Remember, he's getting that Nickelodeon money now

LittleBLUECorvette said:

This money was part of the beginning of the Hyphy Movement

bboy87 said:

Uh that's what I meant.

Timmy84 said:

I thought you talking "outside" the rap game

bboy87 said:

No, not like that. When you accomplish shit in a PROFITABLE LEGAL business, the last thing I would expect someone to do is try to get $10 million off drugs or some shit.

Like LBC said, Master P is SMART lol

Timmy84 said:

A lot of it comes from record sales. You gotta release he was getting 85% of the record sales (un freakin heard of.) Most artist get 5% of their shares back while the label profits the others. And than, he was getting that from his artist on No Limit too. And from 95-2000 just about every album went gold or platinum (you do the math.)


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LittleBLUECorvette said:

Shit it's like "wow all of that and he owned most of it", yeah I see why now.

Just goes to prove that sales dont equate to quality.

minneapolisFunq said:

But it does equal money.

What I can't believe is how basically everyone (beside Snoop Dogg) that was a former No Limit artist hate Master P. No offense, but most of them were bums of the street. P gave them a record deal and gold or platinum records.

Most of them complain that they weren't making money. Naw,y'all were making money just not Master P money. They didn't realize P wasn't just rappin. He was making his money off of other deals, weather it be in films, TV, book deals, a sports agent, playing pro sports, and being the owner of his own company and many others. SOme of these rapper no one even knows ere millionaires man, but of course it don't compare to someone making 661 million.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I think a lot of them are just mad their careers flopped, but at the same time, P was at fault too

If you think about it, No Limit signed alot of marginal or no talent acts who barely had a consistent album. How many No Limit acts aside from P and his brothers made it to a third album, much less a second one. It was a smart move for him to concentrate on other venues

bboy87 said:

I don't know, he marketed everyone the same. He market the Gambino Family (lol) just like he did Mystikal. They was in every NL release in the cover. The public knew who hey wanna hear, cause you already heard them on the ten previous NL artist albums, lol.


Some never got to that third album cause either they sucked (Prime Suspects, Full Blooded, Lil Soldiers, lol) or they decided to leave on their own (Mystikal, Fiend, Kane and Abel, Mr. Serv-On, ect.)


PS. No what's funny, you're right about P and his brothers, that third album only came for two other artist not named Miller Snoop and Mia X.

I guess in Master P.'s case, blood runs thicker than water. He was quicker to release the fourth albums by Silkk and C Murder than he was the rest of No Limit and I know Silkk probably has stock in the company, C would've too if he hadn't further got involved in crime.
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bboy87 said:

After the move to New Orleans, he signed many Bay Area artist. Steady Mobb'n, Sons of Funk, Lil Italy and Snoop fron LBC.

Still tippin'

LittleBLUECorvette said:

damn, I haven't heard those names in years That's why I said he signed alot of ppl with no staying power. Remember Mercedes?

and Snoop don't count. LBC is in SoCal

bboy87 said:

bboy87 said:

Yeah, but it's sill the WestSide.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

yeah, I feel you, but it's a big difference