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Released more than a year after his death, “Flamboyant” became Big L’s biggest hit, reaching #39 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topping the Rap chart for 3 weeks in June 2000.
The track’s title is a reference to Flamboyant Entertainment, an independent label founded by Big L in 1998.
During a February 1999 interview with Mike Lewis in Amsterdam, the New York emcee spoke on why making his own label was so important:
“Having your own label is financially rewarding and it’s good for long term growth. I’ve got total control of what I put out and don’t have anybody telling me what to do. A lot of A&R people never even grew up on rap so how can they tell a rapper what kind of records they should make? Basically they want you to be a copycat of whoever’s selling the most records at the time. If you went back to ‘93 they would probably tell you to sound like Snoop. DMX is hot right now so they’d want you come out like that. don’t let artists be themselves.“
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