Slim Jesus was offered a contract worth $1 million on Diddy‘s Bad Boy Records back in 2015 when his song “Drill Time” was going viral – today, the Ohio native is quite pleased with himself for never responding.
Taking to his Instagram Story on Saturday (April 6), the 26-year-old shared a screenshot of a September 2015 Diddy tweet in which the embattled mogul wrote: “1 Million waiting on Slim Jesus when he come to Bad Boy Records.”
In his caption, he added: “They said I was crazy when I ignored this years ago [shrug emoji, laughing emoji].”
Diddy’s original tweet was deleted just shortly after it was posted, so it’s still unclear if he really planned to put up that amount of money to sign the drill rapper.
Diddy and Bad Boy weren’t the only music industry titans Slim Jesus was skeptical of. At the height of his fame, he shared a video of himself burning a record contract to demonstrate just how anti-label he was.
“A little fun fact a lot of y’all don’t know. I been had offers from the same bullshit ass labels signing your favorite rappers. And you know how I feel about ’em? Fuck a label. We getting independent money, bitch,” he said in the video, while adding in the caption: “Fuck a label #IndependentMoney”
Though labels were indeed clamoring for him, his fellow rap peers were divided in how they felt about his approach to going major.
Lil Bibby was among those who came to his defense, while other rappers like Lil Mouse released diss records. Additionally, Charlamagne Tha God also gave the MC his props for admitting that his gun-toting antics were just an act and didn’t correspond to his real life.
“It’s not cause he’s hot. It’s not cause he’s hot in the streets,” the radio host said. ” [We] fuckin’ with Slim Jesus. It’s that we saw his video. And the video had the warning in the beginning that none of this is real, which I thought was dope. Cause why incriminate yourself if you don’t fuckin’ have to? A lot of you stupid mothafuckin rappers could learn a lot from Slim Jesus.
“Like you don’t have to act like this shit is real. Shit don’t have to be real. I don’t know if y’all noticed or not, being real in rap don’t pay the bills no more. That shit ain’t never really paid the bills.”
He is crazy for turning it down. Haven’t heard about this pasty MFer in years lol
What rock have u been hiding under? Go listen to ur hip pop and let the real live and keep getting that chedda
You gotta be Slim Jesus himself. Get a fucking tan and eat some protein 🤣
Not really crazy for turning it down. He wouldn’t have gone anywhere with it. Better to just be free at that point to do what you want. Not like he would’ve actually sold records, gotten streams, or solid features. So yeah, better to deny it and just live life. And those “million dollar deals” aren’t a million in cash or anything. Usually it’s something like “250k for music videos and production, 150k for travel and expenses, $50k a year, and give us 4 albums to compelte your contract”.
1 hit winder should e take the offer at least Trinidad James signed a 3m deal to be a 1 hit wonder, slim Jesus is probably a unit manager at Walmart now
Diddy would’ve r**** another skinny white boy instead…. wait isn’t ManGirlKelly signed to Bad Boy? Nevermind…he still got what he wanted anyways.
people who “love rap” respect “slim jesus” over Puff Daddy. That’s why rap is absolutely worthless to me.
One is a kinda corny independent white boy rapper, the other is Diddy. You think it’s an expression of your “love for rap” by siding with a rapist? What the hell is your definition of rap???
also does this guy look poor to you? If you are going to inherit a 100m dollar business why would you jump to sign a million dollar record deal knowing it means nothing except you have to pay that million back. all this story means is i have no time for slim jesus wack clout chasing ass