When Cal popped up out of Milwaukee and moved very respectable units of his single "My Projects" and his album "Disturbed," everybody in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, and the greater Metro area thought there would be solid spill over of recognition to other MKE artists. We saw it happen to cities all around us (albeit some of those cities WERE part of the industry - Chicago, MPLS, Detroit). Get that one artist to blow and then the industry pays attention and a few more get major deals or a local label (like Infinite which had a lot of the top North Side MKE rappers) gets a distribution deal. Maaaaaaan did that not happen. Tommy Boy started it's well documented struggles, Cal had drug problems and caught a case, and things fizzled out as far as national attention goes. It broke a lot of beer-filled hearts who wanted to see some recognition come to the city and area we loved so much...mine included.