...not Dipset.

And their music got shittier, without question, once they stopped getting major label budgets to clear samples. Cam'Ron is one of my favorite emcees but his music sounds like it was mixed/mastered inside of a tin can & unless they are putting out free/mixtape songs, none of those guys are clearing samples like Def Jam or Sony used to do for them.

All this would lead to are retail albums with more samples, possibly more recognizable/obvious ones at that. Could go either way. We know Bulletproof Wallets would have been a better album had the samples been cleared. Streets Disciple, too.

Half of these indie rap labels aren't even clearing samples. Not much would change in actuality.

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