Money To Blow: The Most Expensive Rap Record Contract Fails

After serving nine years in prison for busting off during the infamous shootout in Club New York where he was allegedly defending Diddy, then having Diddy turn his back on him during the trial, and then being deported to Belize upon being released last October, most of us were expecting Shyne to come out spitting nothing but hot fi-yah. Then earlier this month, "All My Life," a collaboration featuring him that was slated for DJ Khaled's upcoming album, Victory, dropped. Shyne-Po sounded sluggish, bored, and slightly Eli Porter-ish. Of course Khaled came to his senses, and left the subpar track off the final tracklisting.

Thank God for major labels! Karma is smiling the fuck down on Shyne as our homey Miss Info announced that he had signed a seven-figure deal with Def Jam. The crazy thing is this is the third allegedly million dollar contract Po has gotten. We can only speculate that the ink must have already been dry when "All My Life" came out, so Def Jam had no choice but to act like they were happy and excited about their newest addition. Then again, maybe it wouldn't have made a difference because labels have always believed the hype and opened their wallets to prove it. Shyne won't be the first or last rapper to rape a label, er, rob a label, er, not hold up his end of the bargain. Take a look at some of Rap's biggest contractual fails over the years...