We don't have access to who voted. The voting isn't public. Amongst the people tagged, who voted for EPMD?yea. thats the thing.
people want me to do something, and sure i can understand. if i was on epmd's side, i would be pissed too. but at the same time, whos to say that all these votes are favors when theres mad people in here saying they wouldve voted bone without being tagged. then theres people who were tagged that voted epmd instead or stayed out of the voting altogether. my daps from this thread went up like crazy too. and lets not act like dudes werent tagging in the other thread.
also, people complain about the one-sided votes in bone's favor from people who dont mess with epmd, but thats how epmd got a ton of their votes to begin with. i mean, look at some of the comments in this thread, as well as faulty arguments or lack thereof from the epmd voters. all we basically got for an explanation was a bunch of new york rappers sampling them. the '90s east coast centric crowd got a taste of their own medicine AS PREDICTED by even the epmd voters. yall knew yall were on borrowed time regardless.
i did a good job at avoiding happenings like this, with the way i had the brackets matched up but we're at the point now where its just 7 groups left and its un-avoidable.
but this is no dictatorship. i want to let others weigh in on this.
and at trying to equate me tagging like 5 people in the Mobb thread and "asking" them who they were voting for, to what @observe and company did in this thread. I tagged people not really knowing how they would come down and acknowledged that it could backfire (as it did).
None of the EPMD voters had an issue with anyone picking Bone - it was the posters trying to claim EPMD was a local group - or nobodies - or the people who flat out had never heard of them
And I personally listed numerous classic singles and their legendary four album run in support of my vote...how is that "faulty logic"??
And finally - I was wrong to think it would be a Bone landslide - I'll bet EPMD would have won this poll if the voting process hadn't been corrupted. I guess we'll never really know though