S/D: Master P

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I'm pretty sure there are some threads on this already. Do a search, you'll find 2003 discussions between Ethan and dk about this kind of stuff.

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This is prob my favorite No Limit album right now. "Mama's Family"!!! Posse cuts forever.

C Murdah - Akickdoe
Youngbleed - Day They Made Me Boss
Master P - Burbans and Lacs

Clearly though, his "gangster cha-cha" needs a lot of work.

http://www.tvgasm.com/archives/dancing_with_the_stars/001567.php

Classic.

his unnnnnhhhh is a work of genius

there really isn't any other master p thread is there

i should make a real top 50 or something.

master p - ice cream man

i got that top 50 coming for you tomorrow, j

for now just listen to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yctj5h7-Tcg

that fresh from the west coast percy miller is a great persona though too. in my mind nigerian pentecostal preacher swag with boxy shoulder starched creases and grey on white pinstripes, new economy hustler fervor behind christian dior goldrims, glock 17 in the waist and motorola startac crisp in its holster. the godgiven ever dependable 1 and only gfunk synth whine gangsta music transposed onto b.w. cooper apartments, calliope housing project, third ward.

best line i ever read about "bout it bout it" was in 04 when p was making fake lil jon records probably or fake mystikal can't remember which and trying to put lil romeo through school and he sold the track to jim jones and cam'ron, who paid for him to take a greyhound to new york to shoot a video for "bout it bout it 3" and a murder dog writer probably in st louis mo or somewhere in the midwest reacted with horror: "How Master P endorsed a jewel of New Orleans being given to a New York cat for bastardization is beyond reason." i love that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtAqhUVVXs

#1 HUSTLER BALLER GANGSTA CAP PEELER WHO I BE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DRUG DEALER.

#2 to this day, i don’t have a lot of time for west coast rap. i was too late, maybe. i thought west coast gangsta rap was cartoonish or mawkish, just not my thing when i was into 41st side of vernon project hallways. when i started listening more broadly, the south was ascendant and the west coast sounds filtered through texas and new orleans were new to me. i'm not familiar enough with the sound of the west to identify how those filters change the music but this is how i feel: it's tinnier more brittle; the highs are higher the lows are lower the middle is gone; and it's spookier. lyrically, the west coast slang is gone from it and it's virtue is its explicitness (it has its own code just like ghetto quran nyc rap does and it can be even more opaque and it’s harder to make sense of or track down many allusions but that’s not the case with master p and we’re talking about master p). maybe unlike gfunk as it continued to exist on the west coast, there was no chance for it to continue being influenced by the source musics that led to the original form; or there was no further influence or crossbreeding like there was between west coast rap scenes. there was no crack epidemic race riot cali politics. i guess “break em off somethin” and the west coast jacking no limit gfunk synth whine sound is derivative but i would struggle to clearly explain to you what it’s derived from.

#3 in my unpublished biography of master p, i used extensive research to reconstruct the events that occurred after the release of “break em off somethin.” kitchen of a tudor bungalow in suburban baton rouge, percy miller sweat soaked through a violet silk shirt, pimp c the defiant hedonist duct taped to a chair, spitting at his captors through a broken cubic studded grill, his torn rabbit coat heaped on the linoleum floor. a phone call to j prince. like a scene from a no limit straight to dvd movie. j prince says, let him go. pimp c drives back to houston in a dodge caravan and records: i make my fuckin music for the boys with the Os / the old school pros and the strip club hoes / the boys with the hard in the motherfuckin south / bitch you aint had a hit since i sold you "break em off."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztNNyHf1eSQ

master p is really the only reason that we even know that we're supposed to say RIP SOULJA SLIM
appreciate that and appreciate the hook from p in mode "fake tupac" (as pimp c put it in the track mentioned above, or was he referring to c murder)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY9nSioH19w

SEE IN THESE STREETS ANYTHING GOES
MY COUSIN THE THE PEN HITTIN IRON GETTIN SWOLE
SENT ME A LETTER SAID P GET YO PAPER DON'T TRUST THESE HOES

master p phase 3, percy on the yacht with obama jeans, dior shades, bottle of dom awkwardly clasped between his knees

wrong young bleed / p track. there it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxVzhpcX_pM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbp5fLRZYGQ

master p phase one, pre no limit, still based in richmond california.

smoky dorm room deep cut flutes, hippie trail flutes. c murder with two bullets and no exit wounds tossing the gun before slumping behind the wheel of the coupe deville driving to the clinic. it's hard to explain what i like about p on this but... being forced to work within formal constraints for what ascribe to him as purely financial goals (veers into rap game like the crack game explanation)... he tries to put together a narrative but due to limited traditional storytelling skills he goes for extremely explicit weights and methods descriptions (p was undeniably one of the first pyrex cookin turn a key into three in his verses rappers): 72 ounces that'll be two keys / cook it up with some cut and turn it into three / open up shop and start serving double ups / five days later watch a nigga fuckin bubble up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb9yT9ME6oM

ok this thread development is one of the things i am about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7tbYop-STQ

(i got a lot of time for pained when keepin it real goes wrong rappers that never get their due, guys that run the same routine on every record, refining those same bars over and over again. 2004 when this dropped bg was taking out the waist on his girbauds bitterly checking his bank account watching the last of his cash money drain out getting fat and glassy eyed on roxy 30s and brown powder, croaking glock 40 on a no limit choppa record) master p tryna get that hot boys money.

its something to hear master p on a bouncy record with two legit n.o. guys. i always thought or i think so now that part of the reason cmr/no limit's relationship if never completely cordial and competitive never really devolved into a ground war was that
1) both offices were tied up with internal disputes, various historical conflicts and border skirmishes (especially percy),
2) by the time cmr was ascendant, no limit was being dismantled, beats by the pound were gone and rappers started leaving and master p was in toronto trying to play for the raptors
3) musically cmr and no limit diverged, percy coming from the west coast and being interested in that unifying west coast-originated gangstermusic that appealed to the murder dog triangle (bottom corner is bay area top corner is kansas city bottom corner is jacksonville roughly) and the triangle's bordering areas while cmr built a name off a local sound that triggerman beat with slapdrums and sparkly n64 mannie fresh update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVzhvz3S7FI

obviously the father of
yo gotti explicit newspaper on the floor raps
clipse entourage members over the stove on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlWks8jTpBA

jackolantern skimasks, the subtitle MORE FOR YOUR MONEY
southern rap classic. the hardest no limit release.

(j, i know this is about p but listen to silkk, verse starts "LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE" at like 2:30? tell me what you think about it. i can't get enough of that part EVERYBODY QUIET!!!!... ... ... ... ... while i load up this rifle! ATTENTION now all my soldiers start fightin
he has the ability to ride a beat while maintaining a liberal approach to rhyme and meter...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNWnn8Nyzlk

if one wants to write critically at length about master p, the more attractive angle is p as a behind the scenes figure, new media entrepreneur, artistic curator and patron, esthetic mastermind. to look at his artistic vision, its easier to analyze the greater character and image and sound of no limit records. its interesting to locate the SOUND of no limit as a result of preinternet underground murder dog triangle local rap scenes and his unique ability to sell a lot of records using a business model pioneered by the local artists in those scenes but the style of the music and the image broadened in content and sound to contain multitudes and sell a lot of cds in kansas city and baton rouge and oklahoma city and dallas.

but i think ice cream man, its interesting to approach it from nowhere as you would a serv-on (or any other 1990s underground south / midwest rapper) record. and think this as just a particularly hard greasy weed record from a westcoast-influenced down south scenester.

WHATEVER YOU WANT WHATEVER YOU NEED
FOOL I GOT IT
WELL LET'S GO HALF ON A BAG OF DANK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et_hYSRqgkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d5kpsMOc3M

other ssouth rap will always appeal to me more and im not the right person to keep talking about master p because i just ran out of weed and the ability to come up with concrete reactions to master p records.

when i was in the first years of highschool smalltown western canada the only people listening to rap were this blonde girl sarah who was into like outkast and del tha funkee homosapien and i always wanted to engage her in some sort of discussion when i saw her reading the source in christian ethics class and never did (except the discussion that led to me finding out she was into del. the next time i would see her ten years later was at a raekwon show at fortune in vancouver getting her picture taken with 9th wonder [9th was at fortune every fucking night of the week that summer because he was working on some EA game i believe so i might have the show wrong but does it matter] we could have been so happy together), and then great majority were into mainly into claustrophobic tinny midwest underground like tech n9ne, bone thugs, whatever, and then no limit (and dmx and eminem of course). so this will always sound like the driving down with dennis weaver during lunch to buy shitty weed coming back to school packing bowls to a burnt cdr of master p and korn.

This is probably my favorite P song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLLOUvxuSg0

He gets real gruff on his vocals and rides the beat perfectly. Love how he and Silk swap bars on this, just havin' a good time. Silk even stays on beat ha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLLOUvxuSg0

still uncanny to hear p rocking his scarface flow (or is that the other way around, i researched it once, obviously not to dylannnnesque degree, but i have forgotten what i found out)

i saw her reading the source in christian ethics class

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmnOogZEOg8

to have been in the room when Bun B heard what P did to his verse on this

around 2:20 i just lose it

ahahahahahahahahahaha, like a slightly tardy hype man

and yet he's doubletracked against his own verse right in sync

i'd never heard this before, master p sampling tom waits's 'underground' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQm5FrFBuj8