Yeah, Azealia Banks called out how this shit was common past the 90s recently and caught a lot of flak for it.
But really if anything she was giving the music industry too much room, that shit was still happening publicly thru the 2010’s.
But that article does mention what I was talking about:
He continued, “The reason I dissed him is actually a lot more petty than that. The reason that I dissed him is because he got on—first he said, ‘I’m the greatest rapper alive since my favourite rapper banned me from Shade 45’ or whatever he said, right? Like I’m trying to hinder his career. I don’t give a fuck about your career. You think I actually think about you? You know how many fucking rappers are better than you? You’re not even in the fucking conversation.”
Labels desperately wanted another white rapper to beef with Eminem, that’s how Kelly got signed.
RA the Rugged Man came up with Wu-Tang but got blackballed. When Eminem blew up he started getting offers again, but only if he went up against Eminem.
He didn’t take those deals out of principle, and it took another decade or two for him to really break mainstream. Which is insane considering in the first issue of XXL magazine, Biggie himself named RA as the best rapper in NYC.
I don’t want to link the actual interview cuz Vlad is a piece of shit, but I remember it from a couple years ago. The article gives a decent enough summary.
Yeah, Azealia Banks called out how this shit was common past the 90s recently and caught a lot of flak for it.
But really if anything she was giving the music industry too much room, that shit was still happening publicly thru the 2010’s.
But that article does mention what I was talking about:
Labels desperately wanted another white rapper to beef with Eminem, that’s how Kelly got signed.
RA the Rugged Man came up with Wu-Tang but got blackballed. When Eminem blew up he started getting offers again, but only if he went up against Eminem.
https://www.musictimes.com/articles/24999/20150117/eminem-diss-record-new-york-rapper-approached-labels-attack-slim.htm
He didn’t take those deals out of principle, and it took another decade or two for him to really break mainstream. Which is insane considering in the first issue of XXL magazine, Biggie himself named RA as the best rapper in NYC.
I don’t want to link the actual interview cuz Vlad is a piece of shit, but I remember it from a couple years ago. The article gives a decent enough summary.