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this.
The 25 most Overrated things in hip hop history
this.
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That list is on point. The only people saying it's awful clearly had some of their feelings hurt by it.
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ETHER SHOULD BE NUMBER 1
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In what year were you born son?
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Nope the list isn't that good. It seems like they're operating under the assumption that people are supposed to have never ending impacts. Jadakiss' impact wasn't going to last forever, and neither was Nores to give two examples.
They knock those two guys for not having longevity then clown others for actually doing it just cause they personally don't like them (Wayne, Drake, Eminem). The fact that TM 101 can make that list more than proves that its worth the hype. Everything Jeezy has put out and will ever put out will be compared to TM101
The list is mostly hate. Except for Ether they were spot on with that one, been saying it for years.
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Reasonable Doubt at number 2?
$+$* outta here
$+$* outta here
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- I don't know man, there were tons up people pegging all 4 of them as THE guys to "bring NY back", and that's including the fanbases and the media in general. ItOriginally Posted by RavageBX
18 - That's complete bull. No one ever considered Saigon, Tru Life or Uncle Murda to be the "savior" of NY rap. Papoose maybe a little (mostly fueled by Karstenand DJ Kay Slay who was the most popular DJ at the time). Just because a rapper has a following doesn't mean ppl think he's the next coming. By most accounts in NY we're still waiting on a real impact player and I doubt anyone will tell you different.
17 - Also nonsense. 50 has put out a ton of great music since GRODT. He hasn't put out another classic but let's not act like he was one and done. He had a choke on the game for a pretty long time.
was just a bunch of collective things that made that not the case though (too much hype & expectations, not being accessible to everybody, and the fact that it was
just not realistic.)
- That's a big no. He hasn't. He's put out a lot of mediocre music, especially based on how big he was. 50 just can't buy a hit, and after having so much early success
and loads of money, it doesn't seem possible he ever will again.
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Disagree on maybe two or three things, but list is pretty on point.
Edit: I've always felt that way about double albums in general. Use Your Illusion is another great example. If Guns n Roses took the best songs off both volumes and made it into a single disc, it'd have been better than Appetite for Destruction, and also be viewed as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Instead, tons of filler, and nobody talks about it outside the singles. Same with Tupac and Biggie. People wax nostalgic about those albums, but there's a lot of filler.
Edit: I've always felt that way about double albums in general. Use Your Illusion is another great example. If Guns n Roses took the best songs off both volumes and made it into a single disc, it'd have been better than Appetite for Destruction, and also be viewed as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Instead, tons of filler, and nobody talks about it outside the singles. Same with Tupac and Biggie. People wax nostalgic about those albums, but there's a lot of filler.
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Nah man I can assure you no one was pegging them as THE guys. People may have been excited just to hear someone new from New York but none of them ever did anything worthy of praising them as the next big thing. Tru Life and Uncle Murda's only claim to fame are Jay-Z cosigns. Heck Tru Life was cosigned by Saigon, how the hell could he even be considered to be that guy? Of those four only Papoose ever really had the streets buzzing and like I said before that's only because Kay Slay had the streets on lock. None of those guys even had local hit records when they came onto the scene. Only one in rotation regularly on Hot 97 was Papoose, again cause of Kay Slay. I assure you, you're focusing too much on hopeful whispers instead of concrete facts. A lot of ppl hoped they would blow, very few said that they were in fact the next big thing.Originally Posted by Peep Game
- I don't know man, there were tons up people pegging all 4 of them as THE guys to "bring NY back", and that's including the fanbases and the media in general. ItOriginally Posted by RavageBX
18 - That's complete bull. No one ever considered Saigon, Tru Life or Uncle Murda to be the "savior" of NY rap. Papoose maybe a little (mostly fueled by Karstenand DJ Kay Slay who was the most popular DJ at the time). Just because a rapper has a following doesn't mean ppl think he's the next coming. By most accounts in NY we're still waiting on a real impact player and I doubt anyone will tell you different.
17 - Also nonsense. 50 has put out a ton of great music since GRODT. He hasn't put out another classic but let's not act like he was one and done. He had a choke on the game for a pretty long time.
was just a bunch of collective things that made that not the case though (too much hype & expectations, not being accessible to everybody, and the fact that it was
just not realistic.)
- That's a big no. He hasn't. He's put out a lot of mediocre music, especially based on how big he was. 50 just can't buy a hit, and after having so much early success
and loads of money, it doesn't seem possible he ever will again.
Not having a hit doesn't mean you put out mediocre music. He just lost the radio's ear. They moved on to the next "hot" thing. But if you look at all his projects since GRODT they all have bangers on them. They just didn't outdo his intro so ppl look at it like a failure. The Massacre was a number one album and multiplatinum. And that was AFTER he gave away MULTIPLE hits to Game. Hate It or Love It ring a bell? Yeah, that was 50s doing, let's not pretend otherwise. Only difference is Game was new and hot so he had the radio's ear.
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even though its blown outta proportions, they album wasn't a big deal at all in 1996.
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Someone show me where the filler is on Life After Death. I don't see it. I'm tellin you 2-3 records tops, and those weren't horrible by any stretch of the imagination.
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But not because it wasn't hot, but because people weren't up on Jay-Z. It became a much bigger deal after the fact because people DISCOVERED it after the fact. Not because Jay-Z told them it was hot and people just accepted it.
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naw b...jay-z was well known, problem is he was just a dope rapper, nothing more nothing less, plus when you look at da competition in 1996, he simply didn't have da firepower to mess with
his counterparts.
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i figured it would be some stuff i thought was downright crazy being on the list(RD,LAD, AEOM,Kiss) but the drake one is what makes me disregard this list. im no drake fan but when you say things like 'theres no reason for him to be here but we just dont like him' that is pure unadulterated hate. like i said i dont rock wit drake all like that but thats just corny.
i would feel that way about any artist they wouldve done that too.
im going to reread it in the mad rappers voice, that way it'll make more sense.
i would feel that way about any artist they wouldve done that too.
im going to reread it in the mad rappers voice, that way it'll make more sense.
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well known as in having to force his single on the radio?
other than maybe calling up the box to have his video played, what do you mean by well known?
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RD was the next review after IWW in The Source with Nas on the cover about being the leader of the new school, and Jay had no buzz. It Was Written was the $%#* at that time when both of those albums dropped. Even though they both got 4 mics. IWW>>>>>>>>Reasonable Doubt.
Dudes gotta be making up stuff if they say Reasonable Doubt was considered a classic when it dropped.
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I'm convinced a lot of you would call your own grandmothers "wack" and "overrated".
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That I can definitely see. They were being pumped up huge even without radio singles (other than Papoose's features). It did seem like they also piggybacked Nas' whole hip hop is dead
movement, which probably made them seem bigger than they really were or thought they would become.
50 did lose the radio's ear, but that was really through making mediocre music (and burning bridges). GRODT was of course a standout, and the Massacre was good in it's own right, but
Curtis (regardless of the hit singles) and BISD were very subpar, maybe even forced. And around the time of Game's album, 50 was still at his peak, with that Massacre video dvd set
and really good soundtrack that came you. You can really say that 50 gassed himself out going into Curtis. Even a lot of his mixtapes and free songs (outside of 'Blood In The Sand' and
'War Angel', and possibly 1 or 2 others) didn't at all have that same feel.
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they tried eminem
i'll put eminem over pac or big....that says alot
i'll put eminem over pac or big....that says alot
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It may be a weird list, maybe even dumb, but I agree with most points.
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stopped taking list serious after #24.
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$%*! about Em is true. Dude has put out some bad music. All his albums after MMLP were just not that good.
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It does say a lot. It says that what comes through your ears does not reach your brain fam. Something just aint clicking there with you. I'm sorry.
