3. youre completely missing the point with the outkast chit. the fact that you tried to say cypress hill is closer to arrested development says it all. GO SITDOWN MAN. im clearly talking over your head. like i said you dudes are too stuck on rap, with little awareness outside of that bubble.
and btw, you list tribe and pharcyde as alternatives, but outkast was heavily influenced by tribe and the west coast backpackish groups like pharcyde.
2, AGAIN theres a difference between being successful and opening up the market. you can be a gold or platinum artist with your own fanbase but that doesnt mean that youre causing a domino effect and opening up the floodgates for other artists. geto boys didnt even open up the floodgates for the rest of their label. you didnt even attempt to name one member on rap-a-lot that wasnt in the geto boys. and truth be told, none of those solo albums were big nationally except the scarface stuff.
and they werent even the first platinum/gold artists out the south. Luke Records put the south on the map, not rap-a-lot. but i see youre hell-bent on not acknowledging them.
1. get your facts together,
strictly didnt go platinum until '95, same time MATW came out and was going plat. mightve got the plaques issued at the same dam time,
and youre skipping over the thug life album.
like i said, year 5(year 6 if you count digital) and thats when he got his first plaque. off the 4th release.
1. Dude, I listen to all kinds of shyt, not just rap.
I love rock & everything else.
I listen to Nirvana & Nine INch Nails and all that shyt.
I was there in the '90s when all this music was out and I'm telling you that nobody on "120 Minutes" were talking about Outkast on the level of fukking Arrested Development & The Fugees & PM Dawn.
If you listened alternative rock stations, they played Cypress Hill, Eminem (when he came out), Kid Rock (when he was transitioning from rap to rock), some Arrested Development/Dionne Farris, and The Beastie Boys "Sabotage".
They were not playing fukking Outkast.
Why do you think everybody was so surprised when ATLiens came out and Dre stared acting "weird"?
Because even today, nobody thinks of Big Boi as "alternative' or anything, it's just Dre.
nikkaz was weirded out.
If we thought he was an "alternative" nikka from the jump, nobody would've been shocked.
And again, Me Against The World was 3 years into Pac's career & his 3rd album.
His first record came out in November 1991 and MATW came out in March '95.
That's 3 years and some change.
His 2nd & 3rd records when platinum at the same time in April '95.
Do you think kids born in the 90s could be taken to the store by their parents and ask their parents to buy the movie AND soundtrack (that's a 40 dollar package, the movie was $19.99 and the CD was 19.99 too) "I"m bout it" (kids aint have their own money) then take it home and watch the I'm bout it tape and play the CD in their rooms with their parents not saying anything??
Back then you had to have an adult to purchase a No Limit or any hard-core CD in most mom and pop stores, Circuit City, Wal Mart, Best Buy too, You had to have an adult
So who is buying these CDs for the 90s babies and who is bringing them to the store?
So a 9-11 year old wanted to buy the movie I'm Bout it"?? asked their parents and they took them to the mom and pop store to buy it (the movie wasn't sold anywhere else but at a mom and pop store, specifically one in the hood) The movie was dayum near banned everywhere
babies born in the 90s
I mean, I used to just walk into the mom & pop shops and buy whatever the fukk I wanted in the '90s
Not even bootleg shyt.
I bought Bone Thugs, Biggie, Outkast, 2pac, and everything else from the record store.
You'd only need an adult if you were going to one of the big stores like Best Buy or Blockbuster Music or something.
I miss those days. Yeah them damn youngsters don’t know what the fukk they talking about when it comes to this...
