And there was actually a song that was released on Massacre back in the day called Gat Man and Robin, and it was Eminem and 50 Cent. 50 Cent being Eminem's protege, I believe he was signed a Shady at this point, or aftermath, I'm not sure. And it was the most clear cut to me as a kid, the most clear cut sign of a protege dealing. I've seen these artists handle each other well
LaMar Kennedy
@SimplyLammy · 4:56
If he were to be able to add something substantial to his career and push his career further along down the years, he would have been a problem for Eminem in his prime, a very big problem. We would have seen two titans going head to head for a long time. But m could make songs. He could make music that you felt in your heart that you truly felt a part of
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
I think that's why you always get people jumping off features with each other. But the idea of the protege where you had like, Snoop and Dre. Bone Thugs in Harmony and Easy, you could keep doing this over and over and over again. It's something about the way we receive music now because of everything from Spotify to social media, the absence of publications like The Source, Double XL, the culture has shifted away from this. Like, we need to learn about people
It was just lying dormant until somebody asked. As simple as that. I think that they went from being protege to I'm assign you, I'm assign you, I'm assign you. Because the groups and the rappers, they had their own labels or they're independent or whatever. And the roster that Lord Wayne had there for a minute, I mean, how could you beat it? Nicki Minaj and she's very underrated
LaMar Kennedy
@SimplyLammy · 4:51
Gutta. Gutta. He was way better than he was on the Bedrock. The Bedrock song that blew up, everybody listened to. He had other stuff. There was another song that him and Wayne had did initially over the sample of a Willy Wonka song from the original one with Gene Hackman, young Money. I think I was so glad when Mike brought this up because Young Money is what we can, honestly, I think, consider a top tier group, a top tier hip hop group
LaMar Kennedy
@SimplyLammy · 4:46
There's this big idea that battle rappers can't rap. I don't always believe that. I believe that Jay Mills can, just like Eness can. If you all remember from making the band back in the day, p diddy show, there was a rapper named Eness on that band on that show, and he was a bigger guy who was from Philly and he kind of got into fights quite a bit
LaMar Kennedy
@SimplyLammy · 2:47
But in the era of what would have been proteges, I think we did see it kind of work its way through. It handled well. It's not handling well now and it's not really even so present now. But the fact that it happened at one point is cool, I think. Yeah, we did get to see that. We got to see it in even different kind of ways where it was like Guru and Premiere
My vision is not the same as that of a person that's training me because I'm my own person. And just know that it's a sad thing. You got a valid point, you know what I'm saying, but once you learn the business, but you already your own person, you got to do it different than what you were taught. You have to apply your being along with those trainings and everything like that