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Master P
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On April 29, 1967, Master P was born Percy Miller in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Growing up in New Orleans' Calliope projects, regular hustling ingrained entrepreneurial skills in him. Master P's basketball skills were good enough to earn a college scholarship to the University of Houston where he studied business. He soon left Houston for California , later joining Meritt Junior College in Oakland. With the $15,000 he inherited from his grandfather, he started his own record store, No Limit Records., which'd later turn to a label.
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Guide Note: Percy Miller aka Master P is a Hip-Hop artist and entrepreneur. He has ... appeared in both movies, television, as well as playing simi-professional basketball. In 1990 Master P started No Limit Records out of his No Limit Record's shop. Master P has built an empire worth over $300 million. He is also the father of rapper Lil Romeo.
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In 2006, Master P has closed No Limits doors. Seeking to work with new management, he started Guttar Music Distribution, which is both a record label and a music distribution company. As of March 2006, Guttar Distribution is distributing over 160 artists to traditional retail and has partnered up with digital asset distribution company GoDigital Music to deliver albums to digital retailers and ringtone providers worldwide. Their first releases, Romeo's "Lottery" and Master P’s "America’s Most Luved Bad Guy" hit the digital street in late March and early April 2006.
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To date, Master P has twelve multi-platinum, ten platinum, and thirteen gold albums. Fortune and Forbes have listed him on "The 40 Richest Under 40" and the "Top List of Highest Paid Entertainers," respectively. Master P has enjoyed world-renown success as a hip-hop artist, a successful actor, director, producer, and athlete. He is the father of rapper/actor Romeo, formerly known as Lil' Romeo.
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In early 1997 Master P released the unprecedented success, "Master P presents.. West Coast Bad Boyz II", the follow-up compilation dedicated to Tupac Shakur. With the debut of the project at number two on the Billboard R&B chart and number eight on the Billboard Top 200 album chart, it was time to recognize No Limit Records. In the following weeks, P released TRU's latest project, "TRU 2 DA Game", which debuted at number two on the R&B chart, number one on the Rap chart and number eight on the Top 200. Within one week of its release, "TRU 2 DA Game' was RLAA certified Gold and is now double Platinum. As the success story thickens, Master P proves there's 'no limit' to his dreams.
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The do-it-yourself, bootstrapping ethos is admirable, but Master P ... represents something more atavistic. He sometimes refers to his enterprise as the "No Limit family." If it's a family, it's more like the Corleones than the Cleavers. Master P was a hood and a hustler, and even as a corporate man, he behaves like a hood and a hustler. He models No Limit on the mob, not the Fortune 500. He calls his artists "No Limit Soldiers."
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