Purple City Productions
Harlem hip-hop collective founded by Shiest Bub, closely affiliated with the Diplomats.
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Purple City Productions, also called Purple City Entertainment or just Purple City, is a hip-hop production house, collective, and record label based in Harlem. Its earliest artists were founder Shiest Bub, Agallah, Un Kasa, and E-Norm.
The roster later grew to include Smoke DZA, A-Mafia, Streets da Block, Den10, Smoke & Numbers, and Doe Boy Choch. After putting out several mixtapes in the early 2000s, the group signed with Babygrande Records in 2004. Under that label, they issued a compilation of earlier mixtape material along with three new albums.
Background
Purple City, also known as PCP or Purple City Productions, began in 2001 when Shiest Bub met Cam'Ron of the Diplomats at a shoe store. After exchanging numbers and weed, a connection was made. Shiest had the Purple, and soon enough Shiest was running around with Dip Set and Purple City was born. Cam'Ron served as mentors to Shiest, leading him to create Purple City and begin to put out mixtapes.
After signing a deal with Babygrande, Purple City released a compilation of mixtape tracks: Road to the Riches: The Best of the Purple City Mixtapes (2005). Later in 2005 they released two studio albums: The Purple Album and Paris to Purple City, the latter a collaboration with French artists. In 2006 they released Born to the Purple.
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