, Missy Elliott, A Tribe Called Quest and many more. During those years, Lighty negotiated 50 Cent’s deal with Vitaminwater — which ended up netting the rapper a reported $100 million — and over the course of his career worked at Rush Management and Def Jam, Jive and Loud Records, before his death in 2012.
And what happened with me and him was my first solo album was a success and is what contributed in the most significant way to the growth of Violator. And there will never be another movement that can compete or compare to the level of greatness of Chris and Mona as individuals.I love them so much. They were everything to a lot of our lives.
That’s the way we operated — it was a functional dysfunction, right? Organized chaos! The reason he managed to juggle these different entities so seamlessly and symbiotically was because, even though you might think that there would have been some kind of conflict of interest, he understood one benefits the next — how to put the pieces together so that they all worked in concert for greater good.