When Bone had a comeback in 2007, Mobb was signed to G-Unit and G Unit was still somewhat big at the time. They were also featured on "Outta Control" remix, which was a BIG record. That was bigger than anything Bone had done since the 90's.
Bone Thugs E. 1999 Eternal-Top 5 Album of All Time
- Thread starter El Bombi
- Start date
When Bone had a comeback in 2007, Mobb was signed to G-Unit and G Unit was still somewhat big at the time. They were also featured on "Outta Control" remix, which was a BIG record. That was bigger than anything Bone had done since the 90's.
sicksoulja
All Star
Can’t no group fk with bone only argument could be wu anybody disagree could kiss my ass.
Dudes help bring in a new sound which is largely adopted today by a lot of these new rappers. Somebody said East 1999 didn’t age gracefully I disagree that shyt still bangs.
Dudes help bring in a new sound which is largely adopted today by a lot of these new rappers. Somebody said East 1999 didn’t age gracefully I disagree that shyt still bangs.
So people are streaming Mobb now because of a scene in a 20 year old movie?
Bone got a platinum single and gold album with that comeback album. Mobb got no plaques in connection with the G Unit run, although that remix was their highest charting song ever.
Why do you think Bone gets out streamed today by a group they were ten times bigger than in the 90s?
That remix was still a bigger deal than the album and single Bone put out in 2007. "Outta Control" remix was huge and "Shook Ones Pt. 2" being featured in 8 Mile was an even bigger deal.
It doesn't have to contain more than 5 90's albums as it is an all time list. My point is that streaming says nothing of how timeless the music is. That data just shows the consumption of music since streaming and those 5 albums were the most streamed of all 90's album. According to you, those would be the most timeless 90's albums based on what you've stated in here.
The list tells me nothing about a Bone or Mobb Deep other than no album from either group was streamed enough to make the list.
And just to put to this whole Bone vs. Mobb streaming discussion to bed, Fat Joe has more monthly listeners than Warren G and Ja Rule. All of them debuted in the 90's. Warren G had a 3X platinum album in the 90's. Fat Joe had one gold album in the 90's. Warren G has 4.2 million monthly listeners and Joe has more than 6 million. Ja Rule has like 5 million. Ja Rule sold significantly more records than Fat Joe.
Streaming numbers can be faked but that album still sounds great to this day. I have the CD.
Wanna borrow it?
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Album blew my mind as a kid
It felt that way to me, but objectively, I Tried went platinum and Outta Control did not. It didn’t go gold either. I Tried peaked at #6 on the Billboard and remained on the Hot 100 for 18 weeks. Outta Control also peaked at #6 but did remain on the Hot 100 for an additional week (19 weeks total). Objectively speaking, commercial wise, I Tried was bigger since people were buying the single and the chart activity was essentially identical.
Shook Ones being on 8 Mile was a big deal 20 years ago, but it got that placement because it was already a legendary/iconic song at that point and it fit the movie. It’s not a matter of just swapping in any underground 90s song in that slot and it will become the consensus GOAT hip hop song.
I haven’t seen it in a long time, but I’ll take your word for it. I do remember it being on TV all the time years ago.
Are you saying that a significant amount of the Spotify streams are a direct result of that movie? That a significant amount of people only stream Mobb Deep after seeing the movie on TV?
Exactly. The conclusion from the list is that 90s hip hop albums, as a whole, get a fraction of the streaming activity of 2000s and 2010s albums. If there was a list of the top 100 90s albums, that would give us a lot of data about which 90s albums are streaming and which aren’t. We could see trends from that. Would most be east coast? West Coast? Underground? Commercial?
4 albums tells us virtually nothing. About 90s albums.
Isnt that relevant data though? What people are actually listening to?
If there was a way to know the streaming activity of every artist, every album, every song, wouldn’t that tell us what people are actually listening to? What could be more relevant to whether something has stood the test of time than whether people are still listening to it?
What are the more important factors to you?