1998/1999 era DMX >>> Any era Jay Z

[Harry B]

DMX didn't have an album in my top 5 of 1998 btw and neither did Jay imo.


Lauryn
Pun
Outkast
Black Star
Gang Starr

#6 is the spot Vol.2, 400 Degreez and It's dark and hell would square it out for.
All 3 are 4.5.

 

[Tom]

Exactly...what kind of shyt is that to say? The late 90s were weak years in hip hop? Embarrassing post

homie probably loves modern 2012 hiphop too

 

[Tom]

wha wha, where my dogs at?

first time I copped the album as a youngin in 98 and the intro track came on

 

[ManBearPig]

DMX didn't have an album in my top 5 of 1998 btw and neither did Jay imo.


Lauryn
Pun
Outkast
Black Star
Gang Starr

#6 is the spot Vol.2, 400 Degreez and It's dark and hell would square it out for.
All 3 are 4.5.

Soul Survivor

 

[bangedher_wholesquad]

i just got love for the person who took the L.

Cuz well, he was a champ to me.

I even stanned him on Money, Cash, Hoes at the time even though Jay did have the hotter verse.

 

[Tom]

^^^ X made the song tho

wouldn't have been shyt without him


they even kept his adlibs on the remix

and that track was the first of many times Beanie Sigel murdered Jay Z on his own shyt (Thread on that topic coming up in the near future )

 

[Cumlover]

jay was never that good accept it fools

 

[bangedher_wholesquad]

i still think X got f*cked over man.

like it wouldn't surprise me if jigga sold him crack to f*ck up his career.

its d'evils.

 

[Ziggiy]

i still think X got f*cked over man.

like it wouldn't surprise me if jigga sold him crack to f*ck up his career.

its d'evils.

X BEEN a fukk up though, read his autobiography. Nobody could derail X BUT X....

 

[bangedher_wholesquad]

i know.

its just he was the man to me when i was a kid. i know i didn't have the same rough gutter life as him but he just made me feel what he went through.

him and em are really good at it and that's why i like'em.

jay is smooth but i don't feel emotion when he raps. and i feel the best songs are ones that reek of emotion

but i guess simping is an emotion too so maybe i'm just confused.

 

[Oroko Saki]

^^^ X made the song tho

wouldn't have been shyt without him


they even kept his adlibs on the remix

and that track was the first of many times Beanie Sigel murdered Jay Z on his own shyt (Thread on that topic coming up in the near future )

*Anticipates*

 

[Wacky D]

#6 is the spot Vol.2, 400 Degreez and It's dark and hell would square it out for.
All 3 are 4.5.

these were the best 3 albums that year, along with FOMFBOMB.

all classics.

X is talented, but he's not a franchise player.

His short reign was during the weakest era in hip hop history.

im sorry but these 2 statements are ridiculous.

I'll never understand the DMX/Tupac comparison. Outside of being bald and occasionally similar subject matter, I don't see where they have much in common.

DMX was more reminiscent of the "grimy" rap era from the early-90s on the East Coast when rappers were comin' out with gruff voices and talkin' about guns and shyt. He brought that back, during a time of shiny suits and whatnot. When I first started hearin' him, he just reminded me of Onyx/M.O.P./Nine/dudes like that, cause that style of rap had been pushed back for a couple years at that point.

But Pac wasn't one of those grimy era East Coast rappers, and didn't even really spit much violent killer shyt... so what's the connection?

its nothing to understand.

the comparison is generally just something thats made by noobs & novices.

 

[Danie84]

i still think X got f*cked over man.

like it wouldn't surprise me if jigga sold him crack to f*ck up his career.

its d'evils.

As much as I wished this was true. X and his drug habit ruined his own career.

Sidebar, I always got a kick (no pun intended) when X would curse on one song straight, then the next song would be a prayer.

I don't care about the crackhead stigma, X is a legend and the realest to ever do it.