This isn’t just aimed at Obie. No he’s not the first and he’s damn sure not the last.
The industry isn’t the NBA. So when you hear an artist boasting about their free agency, it’s never a good thing. I can never understand what certain artists look to accomplish by going for dolo when their claim to fame is association with the ship they abandoned and especially when they have an entire discography dedicated to expressing their loyalty in verse. Their story is always the same as well: “They didn’t promote my album right” or “We released the wrong single.” But that’s not song they were singing prior to the album’s release. It’s usually like this as well: “We went in 110%” or “Everybody is happy with the product.”
I’m sure they were.
And there’s been instances before where established rappers such as Ice Cube and The Game went on to paying the bills themselves. (Do I really need to follow up on that statement? Nah! Let’s move on).
So yeah, Obie announced his candidacy to be put on the long list of artists eligible for another Nas “Where Are They Now Remix” (Headstrong Edition). Think of that dude from Nappy Roots, a good chunk of the DTP artists, Rampage rounding up the Flipmode Squad and starting his own “FMS” movement. Two albums in and it’s YOUR fault for not securing a fanbase when the label allowed you to do the music you felt comfortable with. The split’s details are a little sketchy but I’m sure the fans would rather see Obie on stage with Eminem than at a show of his own.
Expect a “Obie’s Free” mixtape of some sort and then watch his ass get right back on the bench.
Update — Shady Records Issues Statement On Obie’s Departure [RGF]
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Obie Trice real name no gimmicks.
i saw it coming ,that’s i went solo………
i saw it coming that’s why i went solo…….
my bad….
Well said, TeeSea. I like Obie a little bit. But I think he stuggled because of Oobie coming around the same time or something. He go no buzz.
Aww Naw hell Naw…….
say it aint so Obie….
say it aint so !!!!
Hey-
want the label to back you? put out good music….
obie never really took advantage of the shady rub.
yo, im a long time fan of the website, but lately every time i visit i get an error and have to close evreything. What’s the deal?
Im an Obie fan, i wish him the best.
He aint always the most consistent, but the dude has a unique voice and can tell a story with the best of em.
Stay chisel like a box of wife-beater by a Fila !
LOL @ headstrong edition
Obie’s got skills, but stuff like no teeth or whatever it was called did him no favours in my opinion. He needed to do more stuff like the track don’t come down.
Cry now… :) i dont like this new song or whatever u wanna call it though. Wish Obie the best but he needed to work out a better situation with shady label for himself…from the sound of the song though it seems like a money thing. Hope its not like on some three six shit over there word to Juciy J and Dj Paul ;)
Preach! But at the same time Obie says he’s getting more money on his own than at interscope. So if chilling at the crib flippin sacks is paying u more than interscope. The nigga gotta leave. But you right, eminem was his biggest fan. Aint nobody signin him.
u head the nail on the head with below avg rappers boasting about free ageny. lol But how hot would rap be if da industry wuz like the NBA free agency? shit wud be hot! lol
Timing was the big issue with Obie. He had a radio & MTV friendly song in Snitch, but then everyone mainstream was on their “start snitching” campaign. Too bad.
Obie was always criminally underrated…. from the way Obie’s telling it, it sounds like he had problems with people at interscope. I dont understand why him an Em didn’t clear things up though.
His record label dropped the ball HUGE with the release of his last album in 2006 though. I dont know if any of you guys remember that, but dude released THREE videos before the album even hit the streets and he had no buzz whatsoever.
MTV refuse to air the first video because of the “stop snitching” thing..and then interscope dumped 2 extra videos simultaneously, which were collectively ignored by everyone.
Obie has been in my top 5 since Cheers, I think in this case it may have actually been the label.
Or, it’s true – most artists can’t continue to write with that hunger they do when they’re unknown and want to get big, after their first CD.
But still, iunno. Cheers was and still is a great ass CD. The shit he put a year or two ago was pretty bad, and didn’t seem like the Obie from his earlier Shady days.
*Throws on Don’t Come Down.*
It was all about the beats with Obie. He had a couple of hot lines, but really though…Obie Trice? The name might be real but the skills: not so much.
: Meticulously crafted, Show You the World is The Grouch’s first solo release in five years, serving food for thought over a platter of tight production. Though “Clones” deals in trite topical matter, its medley of congas, horns, strings, and keys will put a twist in your hip. The same goes for the funky “Hot Air Balloons.” Sticking to his simple-man mantra, he attacks corporate chains on “Mom and Pop Killer” and pretentious pseudo-elitists on “Artsy,” rapping, “You ain’t artsier than me/’cause you got sideburns and a vintage tee.” However, his and Murs’ post-hyphy construction “The Bay to L.A.” comes a little too late. If you thought the Legends were slipping, Show You the World will fix your screwface.
Hey-
want the label to back you? put out good music….
obie never really took advantage of the shady rub.
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Obie put out good music in his first two albums… they weren’t classics by any means, but a lot better than most of the triz-ash that’s out now.
If he would’ve dropped somewhere between Eminem’s 2nd & 3rd LP, he would’ve blown. I personally would’ve made the move to push his project before D12′s. I stand behind my belief that everyone in D12 is not nice.
^^^
you absolutely right… i still fux (II) with Cheers…
Naptown Drew Says:
It was all about the beats with Obie. He had a couple of hot lines, but really though…Obie Trice? The name might be real but the skills: not so much.
Jun 30, 2008, 4:08 pm
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I disagree, what really judges skill to people is relation. If you can relate to an artist, you think they’re skilled. I could relate to a lot of the tracks on Cheers.
More specifically “Cheers” and “Don’t Come Down” means at that time I was pretty tore up over some friends that died, and the fact my Mom found out about me being involved in some dumb shit, like drugs.
But yeah, I think more people like certain artists based upon relation, whether being from the same city or state as them. Or, experiencing and talking about the same shit you may have went through.
“They didn’t promote my album right”
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If I had a dime for every MC/Group that used this…you know the rest
If you ain’t The Roots..I don’t want to hear that shit!!
obie lost.
I purchased Cheers back in the day and it was alright, but then the TSS breths dropped the detroit selection and I heard Cry Now, Follow My Life and most of all Obie Story, those are some classic tracks.
In other news that new Beck and Dangermouse is my most anticipated.
^ lol
BTW… Where the fuck is Eminem?
^Eminem is sitting on his ass reading the blogs and laughing at obie.
^ correction….that’s what i’m doing.
Big fan of Obie. Both albums, not just the first, are hot 2 def.
More above avg. songs than most albums coming out these days.
I tihnk Obie’s biggest problem was that he would disappear in between albums. he’d drop, to some above-avg. hype, and then lose it two weeks after the release. artists like Weezy (mixtapes), Lupe (unreleased songs), Kanye (remixes), Game (BWS tapes/remixes), TI(remixes/his own artists tapes)…..these artists stay around before, after and in between their albums drop. they never let fans forget about them.
shit, in obie’s case, if he would’ve never been namedropped before “without me” people wouldn’t have a clue who he was to this day. (bobby creekwater, anyone?)
anyways, I’m a fan..always will be. Detroit Summer is his dude’s best song. classic shit…so i’ma stay down.
Boo hoo…it’s your fault that your career sucks balls.
Eff Obie…Where in the world is Stat Quo?
This is right on time. I was bumping the hell outta “Cry Now” yesterday and “They Wanna Know”.
Well Obie, we wanna know what’s really good witcha?
if people havent caught on by now Dr Dre and Eminem really only give a shit about only Dr Dre and Eminem.
Sure – Dre throws Snoop a track here and there — and he fucks with Busta….but that’s it. He’s distanced himself from both Game and 50. Think of all the artists on BOTH his albums that NEVER got any sort of push from the doc. Same with Em. He’s pretty much distanced himself at this point from D12.
If I was an up and coming artist I’d be apprehensive about signing with them. Everything that glitters aint always gold – ask Stat Quo.
anyways, I’m a fan..always will be. Detroit Summer is his dude’s best song. classic shit…so i’ma stay down.
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hands down his best song….i LOVE this track…
obie_trice-detroit_summer.mp3
hxxp://www.zshare.net/audio/144741446800cd3a/
STAT QUO?
If I were an artist, I’d try my hardest to be signed to a different label than one of my friends and/or not be signed to one of my friends label. Only as a last resort.
I don’t know any artist that signed to a friends label that actually didn’t catch a brick and end up not friends afterwards. Okay,… you might be able to count Memphis Bleek, but his albums didn’t sell because of him… not because of Jay.
STAT QUO?
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lol
^ Wait…. are you serious?
Simple, everything that glitters isn’t gold. Just because it’s Shady, Em, Dre, G Unit, whoever, it doesn’t mean it’s good being there, or that you’re being treated right as an artist.
FTR, it’s not about making good music. You can make all the good music you want, and be an incredable artist all you want. There’s plenty of good music out there, that never gets heard or touched. Simply because people choose to entertain the wackness, that they are fed on the daily. If these shark industry folks, feel they can’t make a quick buck off of you. Either that or be some carbon copy or re-invention of something they already got, you can forget it.
There’s plenty of artist making great music, it’s just not getting the same exposer, as the garbage at this point. They get pushed to teh back burner for a dollar.
There’s plenty of artist making great music…
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Not really.
shady records -&- obie trice = statu quo !
obie’s gone but stat quo and booby creekwater are both good rappers!!! but it seems like ca$his is gonna have his album released before either of them, which makes wonder what em is are doing….besides making prank phone calls to ll cool j.
Obie is aiiiiiight, I prefer Royce 5’9″ though. He can’t blame Em for some of those stupid songs that he made. I smell another KOCH candidate.
@ pauly penis…I think em distanced himself from hip hop.
he’s aight, he is still droppin shit unda the name red cafe…
“I’m sure the fans would rather see Obie on stage with Eminem than at a show of his own.”
Please. When was the last time Eminem even got on a stage? 2004 or ’05?
I’m a much bigger fan of Obie and Em than I am of G-Unit, but at least you see bosses like 50 working their asses off to promote the label and the crew that they feed and feed off of. But Eminem seems like he could care less about promoting Obie, D12, Stat Quo, Bobby Creekwater and Cashis. Shady released that Re-Up album two years ago… then nothing. Eminem’s nice as hell giving his artists a free verse of his for their album, and producing for them also, but ultimately the bigwigs at Interscope only care about product that has buzz behind it, and Eminem has rarely been there working the media to get his artists in the door. All Eminem would have to do is actually do interviews and talk his label roster up–and every media outlet would listen to him and replay his words and give Shady advertising–but he’d rather be a recluse.
Lmao@ Wit-E
I thought I was about the only person who thought Red Cafe sounded like Obie.
what’s up with the track “Hold up” obie just released? i thought that was from his new album “Bottoms up”. what’s up with that now? and if u think that obie’s wack, think again! 1
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