>I want to stop myself from calling them the new Rawkus
>but fuck it

I first talked about in a thread Philpot created almost a year ago:

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2881533&mesg_id=2881533&listing_type=search#2881705

To paraphrase and update, Rawkus had three A+/A albums (Funcrusher Plus, BOBS, TOT) as does Mello Music (In the Ruff, People Hear What They See, Trophies). Mello Music then has a bunch of albums that fall between the A to B+ range, whereas Rawkus has much fewer. Mello Music has been going REALLY strong since 2010-11, whereas the quality of Rawkus albums fell off a cliff after 2001. What ends up helping Rawkus is the albums that they distributed in the late '00s and some of those Rawkus 50 albums. Mello Music has actually done a really good job at the developing they're artists.