Talking Master P.

Name: Talking Master P Make ‘Em Say Uhhh

Made by and When: No Limit Toys, 1998

Material: Vinyl head and hands, lower legs, and feet; stuffed cloth body, arms, and legs; paint

Height: 17 inches

Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Sculpted and painted-black hair, painted-black eyes, open mouth with sculpted gold teeth, painted black mustache and goatee

Clothes:  Because Master P “popularized wearing camo for guys in rap—musicians calling themselves soldiers” (Knowles), the doll wears a camouflage jacket, pants, and has a hat (attached to the box liner), a gold chain with a square “No Limit Records” pendant, and molded-on black boots; the gold-rimmed sunglasses are missing.

Other: The Talking Master P Make ‘Em Say Uhh doll represents the American rapper and entertainer (Percy Robert Miller), 1991 founder of No Limit Records, which relaunched into the spin-off labels New No Limit Records and No Limit Forever Records (Wikipedia). Miller’s company, No Limit Toys, manufactured his portrait talking doll. Squeezing the stomach activates the AAA battery-operated voice box, which says, “Uh, na-na-na-na .”

The Talking Master P. doll represents a shift—hip-hop moving into entrepreneurial ownership, expanding representation in toys, and redefining what it meant to be a music artist in the late 20th century. It’s both a collectible and a symbol of a broader transformation in Black cultural and economic expression.

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Reference

Knowles, Tina. “The Style It Takes.” Matriarch: A Memoir, ebook ed., One World, 2025, p. 435.

“Master P.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_P. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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