Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

Kanye was mainstream as hell going platinum on major tours and signed to Rocafella/Def Jam

The only people who thought he was backpack were people not in to underground rap. Dude didn't fool anybody.

There aren't just two lanes, gangsta and backpack or pop and underground.
I don't automatically associate backpack with underground. Even then Kanye was doing songs with Little Brother when nobody else would.

To me Lupe was a backpack rapper and went platinum and on tours too.

Now Ye could've been thinking he was faking it but dude blended in with the rest of them. Those first 2 (3 really) albums don't scream super mainstream or commercial rapper. Especially when he linked up with Common.

He may have been aiming for that Mase lane but he didn't really start there. To me he always stuck out among Jay-Z, Beans, and Cam on the Roc.

There's definitely more than one lane but what was Kanye when he came out then?
 
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Smh how dare y’all disrespect tight eyez the krump legend and call him jay Jenkins. At least eyez the goat at his craft. I see y’all ****** wasn’t watching rize back in high school.
 
More of a T6M fan, but then again, never listened to a whole Bone Thugs album. Should be good though.
 
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