How Did Master P Do it?

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Lil flip sold 150,000 out of his trunk. Yes he did get a 22 million dollar contract. I have a friend that works at Columbia that was in the room when he signed. Next, E-40 sold more records without a major record deal than anybody out there. He is one of the most underrated rappers in the game today.
 
drjrock2003 said:
Lil flip sold 150,000 out of his trunk. Yes he did get a 22 million dollar contract. I have a friend that works at Columbia that was in the room when he signed. Next, E-40 sold more records without a major record deal than anybody out there. He is one of the most underrated rappers in the game today.
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I did not become an E-40 fan till I moved to the Bay Area. I love him for being innovative. He's independent but he has a distribution deal with Jive which is a major. He may be worth a mill or 2 but he's not loaded. He needs some better artists to get that big dough. Remember P and Puff made their dough off other artists.
 
drjrock2003 said:
Lil flip sold 150,000 out of his trunk. Yes he did get a 22 million dollar contract. I have a friend that works at Columbia that was in the room when he signed.
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I dont believe that your friend was in the room during negotiations. The only folks present during negotiations from the label are the big dogs.
 
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cash money sold alot independently. They were going gold independently, which is like going 1-2 time platinum behind a big label. Thats why universal offered them 30 million. Since then everyone is signing with universal.
 
modizel said:
this is what u need to do.
1. open a record/cd store
2. have your cd in there 2
3. when ppl come to buy Jay-Z, Bounty Killa, whoever, sell it to them, but scan your own ****
4. Your soundscan numbers hit the roof, after that the distribution dealers come knocking and it's on after that
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Oh my god...thats the best method ive heard yet
 
White folks always discredit a black man for having business skills. When's the last time you heard someone admire a Black man's business savy. Whenever a Black man is successful they say he robbed folks to get his money. I have yet to hear P Diddy, Robert Johnson from BET, Master P or Dame Dash get their props for their business skills.White Execs have taken their artists publishing for decades yet their considered genuises.
 
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CASTLE HILL said:
White folks always discredit a black man for having business skills. When's the last time you heard someone admire a Black man's business savy. Whenever a Black man is successful they say he robbed folks to get his money. I have yet to hear P Diddy, Robert Johnson from BET, Master P or Dame Dash get their props for their business skills.White Execs have taken their artists publishing for decades yet their considered genuises.
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co-sign.
 
CASTLE HILL said:
White folks always discredit a black man for having business skills. When's the last time you heard someone admire a Black man's business savy. Whenever a Black man is successful they say he robbed folks to get his money. I have yet to hear P Diddy, Robert Johnson from BET, Master P or Dame Dash get their props for their business skills.White Execs have taken their artists publishing for decades yet their considered genuises.
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^^^what hot trax said
 
Lets hear more about how E-40 did it? What methods did he use?
 
Whos discrediting Master P's skills? All I've seen is people saying he's a good businessman/bad rapper....which is pretty much the truth.
 
jackpot777 said:


yeah,he sold 150,000 independently,that right there is enough money to last by itself!
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that ain't reall that much

some dudes from the chi
name s.a.w ya they pretty weak but they sold i think something like 300.000 cds on the street in 1 year

it was that dude rappin with jay=z and dmx on that one movie i forgot the name when they where on tour
 
In the end it is all about the money who cares how you get it.
 
We care how u get money... I think there are consequences beyond death.
 
CASTLE HILL said:
White folks always discredit a black man for having business skills. When's the last time you heard someone admire a Black man's business savy.
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An issue or two ago in Fortune. Jay-Z is reportedly worth 300 Million and Russell Simmons was also featured in the same list as a bunch of other businessmen including Donald Trump, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and E.F. Hutton.

Anyway, this music game is a hustle. Some people got game and some don't. But yeah, the independent thing is the best thing to happen to rappers in a minute. Lil Flip (Screwed Up Clik), Swisha House, Slim Thug (formerly of Swisha House), and Chamillionaire (formerly of Swisha House) have all been putting up big numbers independently and y'all are just now hearing about them (except for Flip since he's the only one signed to big label). Cash Money started out the same way by only keeping it between Texas and Louisiana until more and more people were demanding their product. Before, you had rappers handing out demos, begging for a deal, and getting fukked by the labels who snatched them up; but now, you got independent artists telling major labels to fukk off and turning down million dollar deals cuz they're doing just fine on their own.

Now about the Lil Flip deal as far as I know, is true; however, he did not get signed for 22 million, he signed a label deal for his and Hump's label "Sucka Free" which included local artists including Young Redd and Lil Ron (a former Swisha House alumni). So basically, he had to split that between his people but he's broken away from them now and is focusing on managing himself.
 
Yall also got to look at the fact that some of these guys had venture capitalist putting dough out for a recoup. Some of these major mulit-million deals were investments from Mom and Pop shops (sponsors) who then rig your numbers as well. Radio stations get payola checks under the table. Cats like Flip do tours and sell their c.d.s on tour. Whats the best way to get 5000 c.d.s to people---sell'em for $5.00 a pop at a tour and have your own scanning rig to scan your barcodes.
 
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