| Master P | |
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Birth name |
Percy Robert Miller |
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Also known as |
P. Miller |
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Born |
29 April 1969 (age 53) |
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Genres |
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Occupation |
Rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, author, filmmaker, record producer, philanthropist |
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Years active |
1990-present |
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Labels |
No Limit, In-a-Minute, SOLAR, Priority, EMI, The New No Limit, Universal, Guttar, E1, No Limit Forever |
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Associated acts |
504 Boyz, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, E-40, Jermaine Dupri, Romeo Miller, Mystikal, Rick Ross, Scarface, Snoop Dogg, Soulja Slim, TRU |
Percy Robert Miller (born 29 April 1967), better known by his stage name Master P, is an American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, author, filmmaker, record producer, philanthropist, and former basketball player. He is the founder of the label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was later relaunched as No Limit Forever Records. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment conglomerate and Better Black Television, a cable television network.
Miller gained fame in the late 1990s with the success of his group TRU and his fifth album Ice Cream Man, which contained the hit single "Mr. Ice Cream Man". In 1997, he grew in popularity after his single "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" went 2x platinum in just one month and the release of his album Ghetto D which was his best received album of his career selling 32,000 copies after the album was pull due to the cover art of someone smoking a crack pipe, but a week later the album was back in retail stores 760,000 copies in the second week & over 6.6 million copies in the U.S. but sound scan only counting 3.1 million copies due to most retailers in the 90's were not sound scan Miller also directed, produced, wrote, and starred in the semi-autobiographical street movie Bout it Bout It. In 1998, Miller released his most successful (sound scan wise) album to date, MP da Last Don, which reached #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and has since sold over four million copies. Platinum releases from Mia X, Silkk the Shocker, Snoop Doggy dog and more. No Limit released a grand total of 26 albums of those nine went Platinum and eight went Gold, when 1998 came to a close, No Limit records sold over 30 million albums in the United States alone and over 50 million worldwide. In the early 2000s, as No Limit Records' popularity was slowly declining, Miller's did too, and he released several albums which all achieved modest success. He also produced and written his own movies most notable is Bout it Bout it: the movie (1996) and I Got the Hook Up (1998) with I Got the Hook Up raking in over $4.6 million dollars in the opening day and over 9.32 the first week in theaters and going on to gross in $29 million dollars Worldwide. By the end of 1998 No Limit Records had grossed over $480,000,000 in cash in that year off of record sales alone and Master P cashing in $185,000,000 alone.
P also had a No Limit clothing line from 1998- 2001 where he grossed over $200,000,000 dollars. Next was a shoe line with Nike, then a phone sex hot line, in 1999 he joined the NBA, then in 2001 he launched P-Miller & P- Miller shorties clothing line from 2001-2005, a jewelry line called Master Pieces from 2004- 2007.
On February 22, 2009 Master P was the richest rapper on the planet with a net worth of $700 million dollars.
But by 2014 , Forbes estimated Miller's net worth at nearly $350 million, which put him as the third richest figure in hip hop at the time. His latest album, The Gift, was released in late 2013 on his newly founded No Limit Forever Records label.
Discography[]
- 1991: Get Away Clean 10,000
- 1992: Mama's Bad Boy 150,000
- 1994: The Ghettos Tryin to Kill Me! 250,000
- 1995: 99 Ways to Die 300,000
- 1996: Ice Cream Man 1,800,000 U.S. & 3,000,000 worldwidde
- 1997: Ghetto D 6,600,000 U.S. & 10,500,000 worldwide
- 1998: MP da Last Don 4,500,000 U.S. & 9,000,000 worldwide
- 1999: Only God Can Judge Me 1,000,000 U.S. & 2,000,000 worldwide
- 2000: Ghetto Postage 500,000 U.S. & 1,500,000 worldwide
- 2001: Game Face 800,000 U.S. & 1,500,000 worldwide
- 2004: Good Side, Bad Side 300,000 U.S. & 700,000 worldwide
- 2005: Ghetto Bill 180,000 U.S. & 250,000 worldwide
- 2013: The Gift n/a