Shortie No Mass: Yet Another Industry Tale

This is how it used to work. You learned about new MCs (even in the times of Rap magazines) in a variety of ways: liner notes, shout outs, and most importantly, the guest verse. That’s how we heard of Nas for the first time, same with Redman, hell, Snoop’s first appearance was basically a guest verse.

Next, that guest would have a single. You would get all anticipatory and shit, thinking…