When Rap Nepotism Goes Wrong
“Only 999,790 to go ’til we platinum!”
So, “Team Blackout,” huh? Yeah, the group is a little cheesy and it features JoJo Simmons—son of Reverend Run, star of Run’s House—but c’mon, who can get mad at wholesome rap for the kids? We were totally fine with letting them live…until our inbox was bombarded with emails promoting the group’s Lights Out album, which dropped last Tuesday. Noooooooooope!!!(c) Jim Jones. Time for a lil’ kufi-smacking.
Like Jigga said—men lie, women lie, but numbers don’t. Sadly, Team Blackout didn’t even make the Billboard Top 200 album chart, so we had to hit our homey with Soundscan access to get us the first-week sales. The numbers? 210 units. As in: Two. Hundred. Ten. And that includes copies bought by the Simmons clan. Fuck, we could pull three rugrats off the street and move more units! Still, Team Blackout is hardly the first act to exploit family credentials en route to a failed rap career. We present the top 5 worst cases of rap nepotism below…
ARTIST: FLATLINERZ
RAP RELATION: Redrum, nephew of Russell Simmons
Horrorcore? If you think this shit is scary, don’t go near any peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
ARTIST: RAMPAGE
RAP RELATION: Cousin of Busta Rhymes
Spliff Starr’s armpit hair has more personality.
ARTIST: HARLEM WORLD
RAP RELATION: Baby Stase and Blinky Blink, twin sister and brother of Mase
What is this, the RingDing Bros. Circus? FOH.
ARTIST: BRAVEHEARTS
RAP RELATION: Jungle, Nas’s brother
They’ve had their moments, but two albums’ worth? That’s a negative, boss.
ARTIST: LIL E
RAP RELATION: Son of Eazy-E
Well, we tried to find an official music video from this dude on YouTube. We really tried.
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f*ck rappin’, go paint a house
Comment by pancakes — August 29, 2008 #
Well it’s no wonder that these cats never got it poppin. As for Joe Joe & company, Run House exposed his group for what it was. A perfect example of how “When keeping it real..goes wrong”. Joe Joe failed @ being and inturn for his uncles company because he was spoiled. He expected his father to get him “hot” producers for his album thinking that would garner his success. He never stopped to take any advise from two of Hip Hops biggest Icons. I mean, the people watching Runs House saw all that and said ” I’m not into rich spoiled kid rap” and literaly ignored Team Blackout. What a fitting name to this group; their stint in the game was a Blackout lol!!!!!
Comment by www.nappyheadinc.com — August 29, 2008 #
i watch the show and jojo talked mad stuff about how he wanted to make it on his own but as soon as the time came to shop the demo he went right to his dad asking for a meeting with a label. Its cats who actually shopped they demo the old fashioned way goin to stations beggin to get it played doin small venues and even passin out flyers but because his dad is who he is he and his whack ass team got on too easy thats why they music suck. I would have more respect for them if they actually did work to get on.
Comment by joanneskid — August 29, 2008 #
one of thodse dudes is dougie fresh’s son.
210 copies. that’s like what fiddy’s sales outta look like.
Comment by mo-nee — August 29, 2008 #
Cmon Rampage had skills, remind yourselves on Abandon Ship of Bustas first album.
And where is Diamond Shell?!!
Comment by PAS — August 30, 2008 #
Rampage was good , has nothin to do in this review , be serious please !!!!
Comment by hugolin — August 30, 2008 #
He could do it better.I watched runs house and I think he is to spoiled for true rap..
eyy they can always do feat with soulja boy
Comment by Icarus — August 30, 2008 #
I thought they would sell better with the popularity of the show and all…
210 though..that must hurt.
Comment by Et Cetera — September 1, 2008 #
WHY IS ALL THESE NIGGAS IN EVERY HOOD TRYING TO GET ON BUT CANT CAUSE RUN SON AND HIS CORNEY SQUAD IS IN THE WAY 210 SALES DONT MAKE NO SENSE THAT HIS HOUSE HIS SQUAD FAMILY AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORK WITH RUSSELL
Comment by g.o.m.d. — September 4, 2008 #
that “wild for the nite” joint was the shit back in the day, that was probably the only good song rampage ever had…
Comment by supierior — September 4, 2008 #
LOLOL
http://DCtoBC.com
Comment by modi — September 5, 2008 #
Its dudes like Run’s son, and all these other garbage MCs that are killing hip hop! Lil Wayne, Team WackOut, all these dudes need to disappear!
Comment by Woodyblack — September 8, 2008 #
i cant stand TEAM BLACKOUT so i wrote a dis that i hope they ass see
Team Blackout? Yall more like Team Wackout. You lil niggas better STOP writtin raps b4 you get knocked da fuck out. Dat JoJo nigga’s flows are so wack. I think he thought most of them up after he jacked off zack. Lil lame ass nigga JoJo, you’ll never be like ya dad. when lights out hit stores (nigga) the fuckin stock market crashed. Pretty soon lights out gonna be in the dolla store bin. Keep on dreamin of them grammies nigga that yall ass aint gonna win. If it wasn’t for run’s house yall fuckin album wouldn’t sell. when yall gonna step into reality (niggas) and stop fuckin livin a tale. Yall claimin yall some thugs and yall aint sellin drugs. All over youre myspace (niggas) yall wearin POSER ass mugs. if any of you niggas wanna fire back yall betta do what you do. Its a shame when dora the explorer sellin more shit than you do
Comment by Mr Unknown — October 28, 2008 #
RAMPAGE DID HAVE SOMETHING THERE…..HE WASNT WACK BY FAR….
TEAM BLACKOUT…..THEY WACK!!!!….AND KNOWING WHO IS LEADING THEM AT LATCHKEY……AFTER I CALMED MYSELF DOWN FROM A HYSTERICAL LAUGH…..I AM NOT SHOCKED. BUT ON SOME FOR REAL FOR REAL SHIT…..200K AINT BAD AT ALL FOR 1ST WEEK….MORE HARDER NIGGAS SELL LESS….BUT THESE ARTISTS(TEAM BLACKOUT) WAS PICKED ( I AM SURE) SOLELY FOR WHO JO-JO IS RELATED TO……. WAS THAT A SMART MOVE MIKE?
Comment by IVONO A STINTUG — November 1, 2008 #
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…NOT 210K…………210 UNITS…OH SHIT……..LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL….OH MY GOD……..WOW……DAMN NOT EVEN GROOVE PHI GROOVE SUPPORTED Y’ALL AND COPPED Y’ALL ARTIST’ ALBUM…..SO WHO Y’ALL PROMOTIN NEXT? SHAME ON YOU MIKE, U FROM HELL’S KITCHEN KID…THOUGHT U KNEW BETTER.
Comment by IVONO A STINTUG — November 1, 2008 #