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Grasp P is a legendary rapper, businessman and philanthropist representing Hip-Hop tradition, with out query. The New Orleans native’s life will get spotlighted within the newest episode of TV One’s UNCENSORED, and he affords recreation for which sensible enterprise folks would pay a King’s ransom.

The episode explores how Grasp P, born Percy Miller, went from operating a document to turning his unbiased No Restrict Information label into an business juggernaut. A part of how he made it occur was not falling for the okey-doke, which included passing on the million {dollars} that business icon Jimmy Iovine provided to signal him.

“Bro, that white man provided me one million {dollars}, how a lot you assume I’m value?,” P rhetorically his brother C-Homicide on the time, who couldn’t imagine he didn’t take the cash. “You gotta know your self value.”

P would turn out to be a millionaire earlier than he was 30, and he expanded his empire past music along with his fingers in every little thing from a clothes line to a branded cereal (“Grasp Crunch may very well be the subsequent Wheaties field for our tradition,” he tells Hip-Hop Wired with full earnestness.) to movies to Rap Snacks.

In his UNCENSORED episode P says, “No matter I obtained to do, I obtained to present me some product and I obtained to personal it.” His No Restrict Information distribution take care of Precedence Information was famed as a result of he obtained to maintain 85% of his label’s earnings, which was unprecedented for a Rap act, or any act. One of many preliminary albums in that collaboration, Ice Cream Man in 1996, would go platinum, so do the mathematics.

Possession clearly paid off, and continues to. However regardless of the pristine instance set by P, artists complaining about being caught in dangerous offers or getting jerked by their label proceed to be common headlines in 2022. “You already know why? As a result of our folks [are] getting caught up by the Web, getting caught up by what different individuals are doing as a result of all people needs quick,” says P when Hip-Hop Wired requested why he thinks artists are nonetheless getting duped often. “There’s no such factor as in a single day success. It’s going to take exhausting work. It’s going to take sacrifice. It’s going to take constructing a crew.”

That was free recreation. We received’t spoil it, so watch UNCENSORED to see how a lot P needed to pull out of his personal pocket to get some sound recommendation from Michael Jackson’s lawyer.

TV One’s UNCENSORED: Grasp P airs on Sunday, March 20that 10 PM ET/9c.

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