MOBB TIES: The Legend of Tony Draper

[@trainingbig]

Sauve House was definitely popping in the 90's All classics

[@statusboom-x6348]

Agreed.

[@mogulgiant3201]

Right 8 ball and mjg Tela Mr. Mike crime boss.

[@missg1727]

Yeeess, you just had to be tgere😍🤩

[@onlyStardust-82]

Sauve house ! No Limit Soldiers!

[@GHOST91141]

🎯💯 and I still listen to all those albums

[@statusboom-x6348]

Keep giving people this work. Not enough is said about T Draper and his influence on southern hip hop. He has never gotten the recognition he truly deserves.

[@ozzybangemz8954]

I was raised on that sauve house

[@statusboom-x6348]

@ozzybangemz8954 Me, too. Agreed.

[@lochnkey5216]

From Atlanta coming up during the Suave house era. Much respect to Tony Draper and the whole crew. Official

[@lochnkey5216]

@popalot do Luke next. Luke is responsible for all this. I was 9 listening to Unc. OG Luther Campbell

[@DannyDavis-r5c]

They should do the mysterious deaths of all Houston rappers who were blowing up and some how died after not signing to rap alot there's more rapper deaths from Houston than anywhere

[@slowka]

Suave House introduced me to Ball&G back in 1995, Fort Hood Texas. Space Age baby☝️

[@williefreeman3656]

A label that has all classics.

[@paulngambi78]

T Money...... Suave House..... This is the label that introduced me to MJG and 8 Ball....... Orange mound Memphis

[@keanegrant3996]

Tela was fire in tha Booth!! Especially that Sho Nuff song!! Sauve House had them soulful beats definitely a Memphis thang 👍🏾

[@dav1ll3]

Classic. Hoes in the club showing love………🔥

[@elbowgang9715]

I still play Tela to this day

[@tedbundy4373]

Jazzy phae from Nashville

[@GHOST91141]

Let It Rain & So Tried Of Ballin are joints

[@ZOONGOZEEN]

Tell is TRASHHHHHH

[@dav1ll3]

Ball & G. My favorite group 🔥🔥

[@amsf1]

Suave House has some of the most smooth player records ever produced.

[@vincentwelch8577]

Dont forget Suave House was the first to use Pen & Pixel for there artwork on album covers later No Limit, Cash Money, Rap-A-Lot and Hypnotize Minds would use them for those iconic artworks

[@dogbeats9808]

Wow didnt know that I thought no limit did it first those graphics was a smart idea because it brought attention to the buyers

[@ZOONGOZEEN]

Corny on top o’ corny

[@Ajay-uk6kc]

Growing up in Houston, I always heard that there was a bet made between Suave House and Rap A Lot, and it involved Tela. That’s why Tela ended up with rap a lot. Draper went to ATL but around this time, so did Scarface to work for def jam south. Ball and G went to Puffy Daddy and the rest is history.

[@George-i7p]

You're talking 10 years later!

[@andrewbarberFSD]

one of the greatest labels ever. the way Rick Ross described it is the same way I feel -- names I'll never forget. This is why Drape needs to eventually do an interview (even just one) to clear the air, tell his side and control his narrative. People have been running with this for too long without REALLY knowing.

[@andremcpherson6395]

This is well overdue.

[@keanegrant3996]

You need to do a Story Rico Wade very underrated!!

[@rasheemfoster87]

Facts 🔥🙏🏾

[@cotoniomoses3454]

I agree

[@HeyMissesParker]

Suave House was the label in the 90's

[@mrmagnolia662]

Im glad he still an Alive LIVING LEGEND 💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@theSmokeyCarleone]

Definitely Tony Draper, Chaka,C-Loc and Concentration Camp, Block Ent,Dirty Boys

[@lennysmith1964]

South Circle and Nola

[@JUSREEL1978]

Psycho Drama voice was dope...

[@goldmouthdoctor6626]

Legendary!! I was just bumping that 8ball & MJG On Top of the World album a few days ago

[@Pj862-y9y]

Down in Texas we knew The old Man started hating and felt SH was a threat

[@bluv0802]

Houston born and raised it was definitely beef between the 2. Nobody in Houston was going back and forward with rap a lot… Sauve House was THE BOMB 🔥🔥🔥

[@sandrabrown4283]

Thanks for this. I used to wonder what happened to Tony Draper and Suave House. He just disappeared from the music scene

[@irandleIV]

If you listen to Tela's second album, Now or Never, he shoots multiple slugs at Suave House on it. I think Tela and Draper fell out and then Tela went to J Prince for help in that situation, and thats where the so called "beef" came from between Draper and J Prince. On Eightball's album LOST, I think he shoots subliminal slugs back at Tela in response on the song Put Tha House On It. I always figured Ball was dissing either Tela or Mr Mike since both had left Suave House around that time. But it was more than likely Tela. Suave House ultimately fell off when Ball&G left in '99. Once they departed it was pretty much a wrap for Suave House. Draper is a legend though. Without him there probably wouldn't have ever been an Eightball&MJG, Tela or Mr Mike. There'd be no Mr Big, Lay It Down, Spaceage Pimping, Where Is Your Love or any of the classic albums that came to be. To this day Suave House is still my all time favorite record label.

[@ahmadmoore4737]

Yep Tela has spoke about this in past interviews. Think it was on one of those early B-hi interviews.

[@vincentwelch8577]

Much love for Tony Draper and Suave House my only issue with him is im from Chicago so im still upset he didn't drop that PSYCHODRAMA album. Outside of that its all love

[@Open-MindedSkeptic]

I remember when Suave House was all I bumped in the ride for a year.

[@markcowser2403]

My Favorite Rapper from Sauve House Mr Mike and South Circle

[@BigHomieDJVIP]

Drap been that guy💯❤️💪🏿

[@tcdavis6553]

Mr. T Draper is the goat 🐐!!! Great video Mobb Ties He’s a genius with a heart and is cool as 🧊 if you ever get the chance too meet him! Wishing nothing but the best success to you and your teams!!! Stay Blessed 😇

[@USSOBRIEN]

Suave House's movement was so big in Memphis & Northwest MS, that's all we played during that time. We'd listen to 8Ball & MJG a million times if we had to. I found out I was kin to MJG once I moved back to MS, also. Talk about small world.

[@roberthopgood728]

Definitely most underrated

[@houseofhunter]

Psychodrama Time vs Life on Suave House was one of them albums we were waiting on that we never got

[@jus3278]

Draper was a legend and in the mid 90s Suave was getting Rap A Lot a run for their money in Houston.

[@joeyfrakes8523]

Suave house was lovely back in the day!!!!!! 8 ball n Mjg all Day!!!!😎👊💯💥👀

[@zoomanx9661]

Makes moves, stay out the limelight, smart 🧠

[@TruthTella40]

I definitely know in Memphis because of ball and G and tela🔥

[@bran6111]

Ted Lucas n Tony Draper most underrated ceos

[@ZOONGOZEEN]

Corny dudes with bread

[@ZOONGOZEEN]

Ted did some funny SHID wit my folks BIG BERT AND EST WHEN THEY WROTE N ORODUXED “ CURTAIN CALL “ FOR NIÑA SKYY EST HAD TO BOSS UP AKD DEMAND PAYMENT NIGGA WAS TRYNNA GREASE NIGGAZ AND ALL THAT

[@gilbertmillerjr367]

MR. MIKE!!!

[@KibweThinking]

Hella respect for Tony Draper. Suave House's music shaped my teenage years. Is there not any modern day video or audio of T. Draper? Every pic or video of him is old and grainy

[@mikesenoj720]

Schoolly D. PSK/Gucci Time started gangsta rap in 85 from Philly had Schoolly D records in 84 even Ice T admitted he got his style from Schoolly who did the urban hood soundtrack "King of New York " which Biggie got the "Black Frank White " from all facts 🧐

[@williebeamen773]

SUAVE HOUSE FEDERATION!

[@dtbredhalf5823]

Thet had a line up!🖤..looking thourogh💪🏾

[@scolt4351]

Sauve House lost their distribution deal when the distribution company they were working with filed for bankruptcy ....and Sauve House never recovered

[@TheEmpireStrikes74]

Damn thats hard..I always wonder why they fell off..They had a Fire 🔥 🔥🔥Roster .

[@skyykidd7979]

Miami-Dade County 💰💥🌴

[@ohmynester]

The Bottom!

[@BigA_DaTrucka]

Im from Houston J. Prince was hating on T. Draper

[@pepewillis8345]

Sauve house 💯✨😎

[@izocshow2158]

2 record labels that should have been mentioned on this list Big oops camp a piece of Atlanta rap history And you don't get No Limit and Cash Money without Big Boy records.

[@TheEmpireStrikes74]

Nah bro.. Incorrect..Cash Money and No Limit were already in existence before Big Boy existed.Cash Money started in 1991 in New Orleans and No Limit was formed in Richmond, Califonia by Master P in 1991 ..Big Boy didnt come until 1992-93..Cash Money & Big Boy were Rivals and engulfed in a rap beef in about 93-95 with UNLV and Partners & Crime. Later UNLV and Mystikal started to go back and forth . Once Master P came back to the city NOLA⚜️ and 94-96 and Big Boy records was into decline due to its founder Charles " Big Boy" Temple going to the feds .Then alot of Big Boys artist went to No Limit and sign with Master P lole Fiend , Mystikal who was already on Jive by this time, etc...But both Cash Money and No Limit were already in existence when Big Boy started in 94..Cash Money & Big boy were Rivals and semi contemporaries of each other. BUT CMR- Cash Money Records ( came first) & both Cash Money & No Limit was already in existence since 1991 . I was there homie..I saw it..⚜️⚜️⚜️ Do you research bruh..

[@dandrewilson1995]

It has to be a reason for the voices sounding like this in all of your videos

[@2piecesensei]

Tela's Piece of Mind was the dopest, most slept on album of 1996/97. It didn't get the props it deserved because it came out between Outkast's ATLiens album, 2Pac's Makavelli album and Biggie's Life After Death album. By 1997 it was totally overshadowed by Master P because that was the year that No Limit took off.

[@perreality]

3:00 Hypnotize Minds didn’t exist in 1991. DJ Paul & DJ Juicy J were separate DJs at the time. Triple 6 Mafia wasn’t even formed yet.

[@squiresmith58]

Another entertaining show Pop

[@josephsanders-f5t]

Most underrated unsung executive Crime boss Was 1 of the most underrated artist Tony draper Tony draper Put on 4The whole south I wish UGK What's on the label TRUKATENT

[@Steevthe1]

The Honorable Tony Draper is still the truth.

[@850pimpn]

Suave House Was The Real Deep Baby! The South Stand Up Ball N G Tela Crime Boss All That Shit!

[@paychexx]

I was put on to Ball and G back in 92 or 93 with "9 Millter Boyz", the tape where Ball and G were in the dropped Lexus and they still had curls. One of the more underrated thing about Suave House, the amount female MCs they had and they were all dope. Crime Boss, "The Fry", Mr. Mike solo was fire too. South Circle. To be honest and I love Rap A Lot. S.H had better music and MCs at the time. MJG solo was fire. Psychodrama was so fire too. We definitely fucked with Suave House.

[@actrite3139]

Gold= 500,000 copies sold

[@JeromeFrancois-cl4ig]

Thanks for giving Big Paper Tony Draper his 🎉! I got one for you if you're interested! Gulf Coast King 🎳!!! 🖤🤞🏽

[@413slim]

At one point suave was the most talented rap label imo. They had spitters. Just listen to any posse cut they had and u will see. Prince was hating cause rap a lot was first but suave had just as much talent

[@djmichaeltimex4511]

Suave House had such a huge future lineup that didnt materialize and i hate that. They had Knuckleheadz, and the Scientists coming later already off of such a hot era.......but to this day i still clench my fist that Psychodrama got shelved.....I was waiting constantly for "Time Vs Life"

[@bbrown8136]

Bro u need to do awol records ceo Freddie t smith ….. yeeeeeeaaaaa.

[@ericwright2594]

suave house , no limit soldiers, suave house ,no limit soldiers, you for got about psycho drama

[@rgclark30]

Good one. T Draper that guy

[@CHARLESJOHNSON-gv7zy]

'SUAVE HOUSE' ..

[@edwardwilliams9115]

I was there when they had the dice 🎲 game. The play was Tela for Scarface. J won. J won Scarface from Lil Troy in a dice 🎲 game. So take that in account. Now what was going on when Migo's Takeoff got killed 😳. Dice 🎲 game. That's the play. I believe they were up for a deal with Mob Ties and Takeoff wasn't really feeling the deal Quavo got beat out of a lot of money and they were going to force him to a deal. They argued and he was disrespectful to them and a argument happened and it turned into gun 🔫 play and Takeoff got killed. This been going on with Rap a Lot.

[@johnblack4354]

Don't forget slip and slide records out of miami

[@trusno7751]

Where is Tony Draper at in 2024🤔 And Gold is 500,000 copies, not 5k‼️

[@Tu723music]

He was part of the foundation. Didn’t hear about him then.. behind the scenes. Everybody don’t want lime light

[@Pittsburghhomicides412]

Bro do a video on trapn hardo & trapn deezlee. Pittsburgh Pa ..fame or feds

[@clrkkdd12]

Suave House !!!!

[@kanyegang2810]

Tela' word to Tony Draper

[@jamilevans439]

S/O Sauve House 8 Ball MJG 🍊 Mound Legends !!!

[@kingdavid9520]

U skipped master P no limit was before cash money

[@williammatthews7252]

No limit was never before Cash Money

[@BigUnk85]

🧢🧢🧢​@@williammatthews7252

[@michaelblackwell5693]

No Limit started releasing records before Cash Money. ​@@williammatthews7252

[@bernardbradford835]

You are correct cash money was before no limit but in the 90s No limit was bigger than cash money

[@williammatthews7252]

@bernardbradford835 oh yeah I heard in 1996 in Paducah Kentucky they put me up on them and Texas, all I knew out of Texas was Gansta Nip, The Convicts, Ghetto Boys, 5th ward Boys just rap a lot guys, I heard of UGK but pocket full of stones was on a soundtrack so I wasn't a fan really until riding dirty came out but Ball and G were definitely The Souths favorite and alot if other places too

[@GregTurdHauler]

Suave House was destroying Rap-A-Lot back then, but only because Rap-A-Lot was incredibly inconsistent dropping 1 good album a year. Meanwhile Suave House was dropping nothing but back to back classics. We rarely bought anything from Rap-A-Lot during that era, but copped everything Suave House dropped the first day of release. Then the cassette tapes would come out so we could dub em, give a copy to the homies, and sell the rest in school. I miss those days.

[@Gates..]

Good video but Cultfigga been had a whole series on this “Houston aint big enough” give that man his credit tx stand up

[@elMaxx5]

Moooooooooob!

[@appiconll]

Outcast did it for the south for me.👍🏾

[@craigpetties1476]

💎💎💎💥💥💥

[@GregTurdHauler]

Damn I neva liked Ross, but I gotta give him major respect for him paying homage to T-Draper. Big up to the Boss Rick Ross salute

[@philliplyn2692]

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@lavellsmith3494]

🔥💯

[@jasonheffernan1803]

No mention of Russ and Big Tyme Records

[@REALNOTPOPULARTV]

You mean 500,000 my man's said 5000 copies sold 🤣🤣🤣

[@TSA1D1]

4:16 who.......

[@marcuschatman2209]

Yeah you right, Tony Draper is underrated but not counted out though. You really can’t name an artist that wasn’t inspired by 8ball and Mjg, Tony Draper brought them into the world. J Prince brought the geto boys and scarface into the world , the end. They both birthed giants, who would eventually go on to birth giants. The down south shit really started with them. Also, more importantly (but seldomly mentioned): they pioneered the art of perfecting your craft and being dedicated. Before the geto boys and 8 ball and mjg the goal was to get a hot SINGLE and get it on the radio. Mc thick from marrero , mc Nero from Baton Rouge , dj jimmy from New Orleans and everybody else that was hot had hot SINGLES!!! After the geto boys and 8 ball and mjg the goal became to make a hot ALBUM, A CLASSIC ALBUM!!!!! That’s a fact. Somebody got their foot in the door and fucked that right back up but you can figure out who that was , they’ll remain nameless here.

[@knowledgeallah1526]

Pimp C is not the founder of trill entertainment just the father of the slogan trill

[@BigUnk85]

Man wtf u talking about? That was Pimps record label fool.

[@michaelblackwell5693]

​@@BigUnk85 No it wasn't.

[@BigUnk85]

@@michaelblackwell5693 man yall fkn sleep 😴

[@vontesantos5981]

@knowledgeallah1526 pimp was co CEO with turk & mel lol

[@ShawnVenable-i3i]

To a story about dump sq in Newport news va

[@ErnestScott-rs4dz]

🔃🔃🔙🔃

[@EBerg225]

How the hell u forget No Limit

[@DannyDavis-r5c]

Do a story on why all the on the verge of super startem rappers dying or being killed the most rappers to die are from Houston

[@vontesantos5981]

@DannyDavis-r5c no they're not lol Houston ain't even close lol

[@biga3053]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@RoyakZamora]

#807💪 Crime Boss and CBo "Until my casket drops " on my burned cd from 10yrs ago still getting played in my vehicle 🚘🎶🎵🎼🫡

[@williereed4915]

What u got wrong? Well 5000 aint gold! 500000 is!

[@edwardwilliams9115]

Tony Draper is not mob ties. So I don't know where this came from. Tony and J were in competition with each other. Gambling 🎰 over artists 🎨 and Tony lost Tela in a dice 🎲 game to J. That was a big mistake. Something happened to Tony with some cases and he disappeared from the streets. Never heard what happened.

[@cokeLord]

Suavehouse fell off towards the late 90's .....I was in the joint bumpin all that old shyt.....8ball &Mjg , south circle , crime boss , tela etc

[@b9479]

I would say early 00s, they hit they peak in the late 90s

[@dallasfluff3347]

Tela was so underrated

[@Open-MindedSkeptic]

I still got all of that shit and bump it.

[@ZOONGOZEEN]

Pop a lot u mean selling over 500,000 copies not 5000 [ Tighten Up ]

[@DannyDavis-r5c]

Alot off people don't no it unless you new people on the inside of Memphis mob but big Ronnie Woods put the block on J.prince from crossing that bridge into Memphis money on his head

[@48biggripp]

Oooooowwwweeeeee

[@gregoryjohnson6569]

Tony Draper from Hillcroft square apartments in Southwest Houston

[@vontesantos5981]

@gregoryjohnson6569 Tony draper from Memphis Tennessee just moved to Houston lol

[@vontesantos5981]

@gregoryjohnson6569 Tony draper from Memphis 10 he just moved to Houston lol

[@gregoryjohnson6569]

Yea but he was in Houston Texas long enough to go to Westbury HS

[@archielean4349]

Mf's can say what they want, but in That era, TEXAS Was HOT! & I DON'T just mean da weather.. ✌🏿🤙🏿💯🇨🇱🥃

[@sixojefe]

Milwaukee Wisconsin Rapper Chicken P

[@victorwilliams9674]

No Limit Records came way before Cash Money Records. Your storyline is not accurate.

[@davidblank5296]

Nice Vid but yo timeline def off a lil 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@lilred380]

I feel like it’s only right you do Kamala Harris and Donald trump,