Name all artists who were dropped from the Math since 96

[GangstaBoogy]

Dawn Robinson (from En Voge) was signed too

[sniperuk]

Miscellaneous (or Misc?) - they appeared on the song "As The World Keeps Turning" from Dre's "The Aftermath" compilation, and got dropped almost immediately after.  I have their debut album (it came out independently in 2000), and there's a track where they diss Dre and address the matter.

In fact, now that I think about it - it's ironic that almost every artist on that CD (as well as many of Dre's protege producers who also worked on it) got dropped from the label not long after the album dropped.

hook it up playa


also dont think he was officially signed but he was listed in dr dre presents the aftermath as an in house producer,
budd'ha what happened to him? anyone got production credits for him ?

[LyRiCaL_G]

lol@gage signing with dre, he should have known better, his career is over before it even began......nobody gonna be interested in him once dre tells him his times up, ask antonio, joe beast(who was catchy as fuck imo)...brooklyn.......and so on

[Eihtball]

Wait...so does everyone want me to hook up the Misc? album, or should I just post the Dre diss track?

[Kaligula]

I wanna hear the Dre diss track.

[Larrabee]

Current Aftermath roster

Dr. Dre, Eminem, The Game, Busta Rhymes, Eve, 50 Cent ( Shady-Aftermath ), Stat Quo ( Shady-Aftermath ), Bishop Lamont & G.A.G.E.

Artists that got dropped in the last 5 years

Hittman, Truth Hurts, Rakim, Joe Beast, Brooklyn, Shaunta, Antonio

I don't think Ice Cube was officially signed, and Mel-Man left the label at one point a few years back. Back in the day, most of the artists that were signed in '96 left shortly afterward.

[wcsoldier]

That makes a ton of artists. One thing I always wonder is why Dre signed "unmarketable" artists knowing Jimmy won't release shit. I just don't get it

[Kaligula]

I'm still scratching my head to G.A.G.E. He's just never gonna cut it.

[Dedicato]

Brooklyn is signed to Aftermath as a songwriter, so she's still with the math ...

There're so many artists who got dropped ... D. Robinson, Hittman, Beast, Shaunta, Antonio ... Truth, RBX & Ra left the math

[Okka]

Bud'da was a producer on the Aftermath Production team, so i think he got dropped too...

[Don Seer]

Glove was on the production team too...


thing is.. dre's relationship with a lot of ex artists is pretty good.. since he didnt tie peoples hands who wanted to leave.

last emperor was def signed.. he did drop a 12" on interscope/aftermath (cant remember what one now).. some of his leaked tracks mention dre/aftermath and on his lastest album he reaches out to dre and kinda apologises for being young and having a bad work ethic..

[sniperuk]

Wait...so does everyone want me to hook up the Misc? album, or should I just post the Dre diss track?

diss  track, and if the album is nice then hook that up too pls 

[No Compute]

T.JONES: "First you were signed to Dr. Dre's label Aftermath Records. What happened with that deal?"

THE LAST EMPEROR: "Initially, I was signed to Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records in 1997. When I got there, it was with a certain understanding that my album would come out in a certain amount of time. I thought that the rate of production and work that I would partake in would be somewhat frequent. When I got there Dre couldn't be as hands on with my project as he initially alluded to. I was pretty much the low man on the totem poll at Aftermath. So, at a certain point, I had to say to myself, 'Well this is not really satisfying to me or the rest of the empire in terms of how rapidly the music can be placed'. I was kind of limited even at doing side projects. So, that first deal kind of went sour. At a point, Dr. Dre sat me down and said, 'Look, realistically speaking, the album may not come out for another 3 to 4 years. If this is something you could live with or a reasonable scenario, cool. If not, and you feel that you need to go somewhere else, I can respect that as well'. I opted for the latter. I really dug the potential of what could have happened at Aftermath but I didn't feel that my project was getting the right amount of attention. I opted to leave. The parent company, Interscope, kept me for about a year. The situation was, I was given an A&R and this was his first experience, being an A&R in music at all. So, that didn't work. For the second A&R I got, it was his first experience dealing with a hip-hop act. Prior to that, he dealt with acid rock and things of that nature. It kind of created a riff or a clash. When we ironed out everything, I got dropped from the label. This was around late 98 or early 99. If you studied what was going on with a lot of labels around that time or the American company in general, you would know that there were a lot of companies folding and downsizing. I looked at that situation like I got downsized if I worked for Enron or something. They let me go because resources were scarce. After I got out of Interscope, I sat around for about a year as a free agent. I did as many projects and collaborations as I could."

[Layeth THe Smacketh Down]

Daks was signed to.  He was on the Wash soundtack and performed that song Ridin High with RC.
There was also an artist called H&R Block that was signed.  Dre talked about him in an interview with MTV around the time the Truth Hurts album dropped in 2002.  I guess he got dropped before he even released any material.

[Eihtball]

I'll try to get Misc?'s album up, but I'm having a few CD drive difficulties right now.  Sorry 'bout that.