First up, lemme say thanks to everyone for the support man. I definitely reall appreciate it. For a bunch of people who've never met and for them to still have support for one another's struggle is a beautiful thing.


But to your question Colby.

Good Question, but I doubt it. All the Labels in the US are connected through a sytem called the juggle. Lets say bad boy just dropped an atrist that's real grimey and hard-edged, like a beanie Siegel, styles P, etc essentially. Now Bad Boy also has an artist that was speaking to them the entire time that's the "next Generation" of that style, but they obviously can't put him out as their next artist because he's competing with another artist on the label's style (a Loon and Mase situation) so bad Boy signs him and buys him as a finished product and shops him out to Arista, DefJam, UMG, etc, one of em buys him, sets him up a direct competitor of that artist on their NEXT album, and boom, they both make more money by far. The old artist is fresh again now and the new artist comes in strong. Joe buddens was this to Jay Z (remember their micro-beef that they said wans't really a beef?), J-Mills is trying to be this to Cassidy, Game was this to 50¢ (Game is the embodiment of a West Coast 50) and so on and so fourth. Rap is a business. Yay.

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