Raw and Uncut: La The Darkman

[Jammin]

[Vintage Wu]

Nice interview! 4 months old too, lol.

[Hollow Dartz]

Nice Interview good info and now I know why he doesn't bother to put out proper albums anymore. Hope he drops the documentary.

[Kutman]

Nice Interview good info and now I know why he doesn't bother to put out proper albums anymore. Hope he drops the documentary.

Why? Don't have the time to watch it

[Mumm Ra]

^ La prefers management over being an artist even before he blew up. He said he was so busy with his companies (Affiliates) that he completely forgot he even came up as a rapper. He went to college for business management and accounting before being an MC.


but yeah nice interview there, La is one of the most down to earth people out there

[David Daniel Davis]

Dope. I love it that he took the time to get college educated. Instead off glorifying being leaned out all the time, these new age rappers should be stressing higher learning to these young ones. If I had the funds to do so, I would go to college for the rest of my life. You can never attain too many degrees.

[MikeAll]

Thanks for posting this great interview! LA comes across as a savvy business man who made wise moves to build his success. As mentioned in another thread, the classic "Heist of the Century" turns 20 SUUUUUUUUUn...

[Hollow Dartz]

^ La prefers management over being an artist even before he blew up. He said he was so busy with his companies (Affiliates) that he completely forgot he even came up as a rapper. He went to college for business management and accounting before being an MC.


but yeah nice interview there, La is one of the most down to earth people out there

This. Plus unlike most rappers who come into the game broke, LA was already getting money at the time. He already had $100k in the safe when he was in college so he wasn't eager to just take a deal. He states wu tang offered him a deal initially but he passed on it. Which was smart because most of the Killa Beez ain't get paid for shit. He got a $550k from Atlantic but never dropped the lp there because he wasn't satisfied with the label direction. Rza talked it out with Atlantic and then he did the deal with the distro company Navarre who gave him $750k and he was getting $7 an album at the time. He says they sold over 375k copies = 2 Mill. And that was a lot of money back then. He had more money than most of the clan probably lol. (Except RZA) So basically he didn't have to keep rapping and making albums.

[Vintage Wu]

This. Plus unlike most rappers who come into the game broke, LA was already getting money at the time. He already had $100k in the safe when he was in college so he wasn't eager to just take a deal. He states wu tang offered him a deal initially but he passed on it. Which was smart because most of the Killa Beez ain't get paid for shit. He got a $550k from Atlantic but never dropped the lp there because he wasn't satisfied with the label direction. Rza talked it out with Atlantic and then he did the deal with the distro company Navarre who gave him $750k and he was getting $7 an album at the time. He says they sold over 375k copies = 2 Mill. And that was a lot of money back then. He had more money than most of the clan probably lol. (Except RZA) So basically he didn't have to keep rapping and making albums.

Didn't he said that the album did generate 20 mil? anyhow crazy numbers, but anything with a Wu logo on the cover sold gold or platinum back then and he put a big ass Wu logo on the cover also, lol.



Btw, was'nt LA supposed to release an follow-up album titled Darkman II?

[Jammin]

Nice interview! 4 months old too, lol.

Better than nothing

[David Daniel Davis]

Yes. That album is finished. It is just up to La himself to put it out

[Vintage Wu]

Better than nothing

True!

[Vintage Wu]

Yes. That album is finished. It is just up to La himself to put it out

Source?!

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

Gonna peep later