Create Your Own Label Tournament ROUND 1 WINNNER: GoodFellas.ENT 3-1

I got my score card out as well lol

Will vote later

The Champ is here!

And I'm the newest judge in this ? . Lets do this

Future Sales- So this part of the match, is a no brainer. Yung$ has Eminem and Drake on the same label. Sorry Menace. Meek will give you solid sales as well. Your heavyweights aren’t really big sellers anymore outside of Nas. I’m aware you have Dre but I can’t sit here and really try to guestimate what Dre would do in this modern day and age. Winner: Black Roses Ent.

Future Critical Acclaim: Another no brainer but this time it works towards Menace’s favor. Nas, Dre, AZ, Cube alone! Theres a winning combo right there. Not to mention the producers, just feels like this label here could crank out great music consistently. Yung$, Bobby Smurda straight up bodies your whole case. Nothing acclaimed would ever come from him. Em & Drake make good music but based on your albums for them (more on that later) you kinda made them look derivative. Same with the Unit as well. Menace has some derivative ? as well but yours is worse. No beef fam. Winner: Goodfellas

Longevity: This is where both of y’all rosters balance out. Menace has that old time feeling while Yung$ has a bit more youth on his side. Granted Em and 50 aren’t exactly youngins, but compared to Dre, Quincy Jones, Kells and Mariah…. You get the point. Here is where the tie breaker comes in: when it comes to music with lasting power, I gotta go with Menace. The roster too strong for Yung$. Menace has legends.
Em . Drake and Fab got staying power but everyone else on the roster falters. Winner: Goodfellas

Album Covers/Tracklist: Man ima start with the tracklistings first. You guys totally phoned it home here. There was some serious lack of creativity going on. Its just Yung$ might have done it worse! Like I swear you guys were on Wikipedia looking at old albums and just took tracks off from them LOL Sorry guys I don’t mean to be mean but I have to call it how I see it. Then the titles : “Man In The Mirror” “Money Power Respect” “How The West Was Won” “Trust Issues” “Shoot Stab ? ” its like y’all weren’t even trying. Cover wise both of you guys were meh. But I think Yung$ was a little more creative. Can’t call it: Tie

Cohesion: I like both of these rosters for what they are. Like I said, Menace you got acclaimed proven vets that seemingly would work extremely well together. I can see Nas, Quincy Jones, Kells, and Dre in a studio together with Large Professor and Pete Rock around. Yung$ ‘s label reminds me of the old school Shady Records…. Just with Drake and he and he alone doesn’t fit. Throws off your cohesion. No matter how much Drake can spit I can’t see him and Eminem as a tandem. Or hanging around with G-Unit for that matter. Winner: Goodfellas

Overall: Menace

future sales:
Black Rose Ent. – Eminem and Drake could probably outsell Menace entire roster individually. Most of his (Menace) roster have put up decent numbers in the past, but none of them are currently doing it, and this will most likely not change. The wild card on his roster would be Dr. Dre, but there really isn’t any kind of guaranty he would do numbers to rival those of Em and Drake. On top of that Yung$ got people like Fabolous and 50 who both could do decent numbers, at least on the same level of the artists on Menace roster, so all in all, this one really isn’t close.

future critical acclaim:
Goodfellas.ENT – This is really a win for Nas. Most of Menace roster hasn’t been to consistent with their output in the later years, so an argument for their best years being behind them could definitely be made. That being said, most of the artist could probably continue to release decent to great projects in the future.
Yung$’ artist don’t really have a history of critically acclaimed albums, which hurts him in this category, and the few of his artists he could gather some in the future, are suffering from the promised upcoming releases from the label, which doesn’t look to promising, a problem for both labels (more on this later).

longevity:
Black Rose Ent. – Unlike Menace, Yung$ actually has a fair share of younger artists, who could maintain their position in the game, maybe even improve it, in some cases. Add 50 Cent and G-Unit, who are still highly active after more than a few years in the industry, and BRE has a great base for longevity.
Menace roster on the other hand consists mostly of older acts, and most of them have in one way or the other flirted with the thought of retirement, because they are focusing on other stuff, being headphones, movies or whatever AZ is up to.
All of this gives BRE the best future prospects.

album covers/tracklist:
None/tie – it kinda bothers me not to pick a winner in this category, since it’s probably my favorite, and such a big part of this game, but the output from the two players, unfortunately, wasn’t very good, in my opinion. A big annoyance to me was the size of the covers. This might seem a little petty, but the artwork looked more like promotional posters in some cases. On top of that, the fonts used on a lot of the artwork didn’t work to well, for both players.
It didn’t really appear as either of the players focused a lot on the tracklists either, which is a shame, because this is a great place for a player to set him/herself apart from the competition, a chance none of the two players in this match up to advantage of. Both players made some questionable choices when it came to features as well, where is appeared to me, as if the features where just there to take up space. Basically it can be summed up as pretty cliché overall, from both players, and neither seems to have taken well rewarded chances. Ideas that might have looked good on paper, ended up not working very well. An example of this could be Menace Nas, Cube, Scarface and Kanye album, where the involvement of Kanye is a bad idea to me. While the thought of a One Nation album is dope, I doubt Kanye would mesh well with the other three.
Maybe I’ve been spoiled by the earlier games, but my expectations where definitely not met. I hope whoever end up winning this matchup has some better ammo in the stash.

cohesion:
Black Rose Ent. – Most of his artists are capable of releasing albums doing decent numbers, while gathering some acclaim for them, without necessarily making classics, so his label could definitely function as a mainstream label.
Menace on the other hand ended up messing his cohesiveness. Most of his roster consist of ’90s rappers, with producers to match, and the rappers he picked up could probably work together really well, but then there is the addition of R. Kelly, Mariah and Quincy Jones. While they are good artists, they don’t mesh very well with the rest of the label, a problem that could’ve been solved by making a sub-label for the three.

Vote goes to: Black Rose Ent. And Yung$ with a 3-1 victory.

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Alright here's my vote!

Future sales; on one hand you have menace with Mariah Carey the highest selling artist of the 90's, but were in 2014 ole girl can even get gold. He has a solid cast of artist and if this were the late nineties he could have won. The black rose has drizzy who for all intensive purposes has the highest selling rap albums of the new school. But I think he fell flat with the eminem release. That album looks like reload which is ems lowest selling album. At the end of the day though he has proven sellers in the new era so This round is Black Rose.

Future critical acclaim; this was a tough one, but I think black rose made some questionable decisions. I would have released those 50 Nd banks albums as mixtape it would have gave them a grittier feel and probably got them critical acclaim. Outside of that I see hardly anything with critical acclaim but I do see street bangers. Menace has a solid cast, Nasir is going to give you a solid effort and then you can bank on the stand to call it classic anyways so you straight. You have dre but didn't release detox?!! Smh media would have crucified it. Kells looks like that grown man ? lol this round goes to menace


Longevity; another tough round, it's like young versus old. Black rose has eminem and drake who have prove they can maintain the top since they've been out. While menace has Nasir who has proven he can produce dope music. But cube hasn't made anything dope in a awhile and that nostalgia grab ain't worth it. Mariah Carey is at that point where she's feigning for a hit lol black rose has meek, drizzy and shrumda that really tips the scales in the future they can lead the way. Round goes to black rose


Cohesion; highly disappointed this round. Neither of you will get my vote. You both made the mistake of making a bunch of albums with too many different producers instead of creating cohesive albums. While menace had a cool idea the one nation my question is why even put those four artist at the forefront when you have a feature on damn near every song? You were better off making that a compilation album instead of trying to shoehorn those four artists it really looks like one big cluster ? . While both had features that made sense I couldn't get with the too many producers on a every album.

Tracklist/cover art; menace you've come along way from getting bullied on the block, you have some pretty dope covers particularly you excelled with the Nas covers. Both of y'all fell into lapses of generic ? . That em cover is just some promotional stuff from relapse. The biggest grievance I have is with the track lyrical slaughter off of drakes album that seemed so forced especially when the albums called trust issues. That one nation is a disaster like I already mentioned all the song titles are too generic when it's an artist from that region you just put a regions specific track name on the song that's wack, a lot of potential but fell flat. Overall though menace had better album cover skills and black rose needs to upgrade that Photoshop or take lessons with sion Lololol this round goes to menace

Overall since my rounds are tied I got to see which label would be more successful realistically. I'd line my pockets up with black rose or I could get mad acclaim from menace. From a creative standpoint y'all both stayed in a safe zone and neither really thought out the box. But my vote goes to @menace the initial impression I had left a bigger impact on me then black toed and he has least try to make different albums but still I'd tweak a few things cuz you would get burned in the next round bruh

thanks for the votes wanted to wait until everyone was done to comment, I agree with the tracklist kinda phoned those in. Good win Menace

Ill see yall next year