Dave East Drops Top 5 Harlem Rappers, Talks Nas & New Album | The Punchline Academy
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I'm confused in why East wasn't on any of the KD albums.
KingsOfKings
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who knows
IAMDetroit
"Yall Nig*as"
Yea right
As someone who was never checking for him like that why do y'all think his career never truly popped off like it could've? He had the Nas cosign and black female demo in his favor. Worse rappers have done much more with less.
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Rasille
(Rah.Zil.E)
He never really had that one big single to push him over the top. Think Meek before Iām a Boss, J Cole before Work Out, Kendrick before Swimming Pools. He never had his breakout hit. He did have a solid career though, he could still do club shows and tour small venues and drop projects and he was on the Wu Tang show.
A lot of ppl donāt fukk with him for whatever reason which is wild I think heās solid but nikka really donāt like his music like that
AnonymityX1000
Veteran
His last few indie releases have been dope to me.
This is true. He needed either a hit or an undeniable classic album out of the gate and he produced neither.
Heās still had a good career, after the Wu-Tang series iām surprised he didnāt jump headfirst into acting
Plankton
Superstar
He never made a popular hit song that resonated in the streets. Bobby Shmurda had popular hits. Cardi B had popular hits. A Boogie had popular hits. 69 had popular hit songs. Young MA had 'Oooooooh.' Dave never had an "Ooooooh" or a "Hot Nikka" type popular song.
Plankton
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Top 5 rappers out of Harlem.
Kool Moe Dee
Doug E Fresh
Those 2 names off the rip....
Cam
Mase
Last one would be a toss up between Big L, Black Rob and A$AP Rocky.
Mob Style gets an honorable mention.
I could also try to be funny and say 2Pac.
Kool Moe Dee
Doug E Fresh
Those 2 names off the rip....
Cam
Mase
Last one would be a toss up between Big L, Black Rob and A$AP Rocky.
Mob Style gets an honorable mention.
I could also try to be funny and say 2Pac.
bourgeoisie tall freak
Superstar
3/5 of them aint doin shyt now
that might make you "pop off" but it not gonna keep you.
dave still here.
so that would be my answer to the question. a lot of people don't really like real rap. that's dave all day.
i seen a thread about dave dming a hoe go triple plat tho lol, it's not like people don't know him.
straightcash
All Star
That's not his problem, that's the symptom. Dave East's song with Chris Brown had a big buzz and introduced him to a lot of new fans. Between 2017 and 2019 his buzz was huge and other bigger rappers, outlets and celebrities were talking about him. All his tapes or albums between 2016 and 2020 charted too.
He simply underperformed. Dave East was expected to be mainstream but he didn't see the writing on the wall and kept making the same type of music he always made. It got boring and most of his fans left. He has a lot of videos with millions but look at all of Dave's highest-viewed music videos on YT and they all date to 2020 or earlier.
Dave also had some other problems that kept annoying people. He stole artwork from fans and put it on merch. Just because someone drew or edited a picture of Dave doesn't make Dave the copyright holder. Whoever produced or commissioned the artwork is the IP owner. Dave also blocked people on social media randomly. All that shyt added up.
Many people in the industry really expected or hoped Dave East would either join the likes of Drake, J Cole and Kendrick, or at least get to a Fabolous and YG level. He disappointed everyone, myself included. I stopped checking too.
Rasille
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That Chris Brown song was cool but it didnāt make him a star. That song aināt on the level of Hot nikka, Ooh, Iām a Boss, Black & Yellow etc. He needed something on that level. That CB song was cool but it came and went.
