11-09-2002, 12:44 AM
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Triple OG nigga on GFY
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Originally posted by Pornwolf
I step away for a couple of hours and came back to see this thread got even funnier.
Dude, I know everyone at Dreamworks urban from John McClain on down. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that Viscious is not going to have anywhere near the success Eminem has. Skills don't matter as much as affilliation. Viscious has no important freinds or crew backing him. He can spend all the money on tracks he wants to but it doesn't matter. He needs some freinds.
There are tons of artists on other labels buying tracks from The Neptunes, Just Blaze, and more but without the key affilliations they don't win. Most of them you never even hear of unless you are in the business. There was a label that did this with every artist called Quest that never had hits. It was disgusting.
Hopefully your friends act does some units. There is a great new promotion guy at Dreamworks named Garnett so he has some good backup but Viscious still needs some high level star affiliation.
I can't say how much money your freind makes from Eminem but I guarentee that Jeff and Mark Bass who started working with Em when he was 15 would have a bit to say about him taking credit for 'discovering' Eminem.
Actually Em was 'brought' to LA to compete in a rap competition called the Rap Olympics hosted by a now defunct magazine called Rap Pages. I know because I was there and was one of the sponsors.
While there they did what they could to shop Em's demo which was easy to do with every companies west coast A&R in the room at the time. It was more Paul and Em than anyone else. Even Jeff and Mark's connections were limited at the time although they had done some major work previously.
Also, do you know how hard it is to make millions on a couple of points? It's damn near impossible om 99% of all acts. It's especially hard when the acts you sign haven't even come out yet. Your friend has a lot of work to do to start making that kind of money and still a couple of years to do it. It takes more than one artist. He'll make more money doing a few large production deals or taking a large position after the next artist he deals with that he plays a larger role with blows up.
There were a lot of hands in the Eminem deal. Interscope, Aftermath, Eminem & Paul, Mark & Jeff, Wendy from Web - then whoever else (this MAY be where your freind comes in). Points usually don't get shared at that level.
I am not trying to argue with you because I know music isn't your first priority and the business isn't something you'v studied. But those are the facts.
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goddammit we might have run into each other before!! hit me on ICQ 33176397...u are knowing some shit only industry folks would have known
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