Playaz Eyez
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….can y’all actually pinpoint when you considered they “fell off”? I was only listening to Kid N Play through their movies and can only recall the backend of Heavy D’s career, basically some stuff after ‘Waterbed Hev’.
For anybody that directly grew up bumping Heavy D and Kid N Play…
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ReturnOfJudah
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When G rap/west coast rap took off….can y’all actually pinpoint when you considered they “fell off”? I was only listening to Kid N Play through their movies and can only recall the backend of Heavy D’s career, basically some stuff after ‘Waterbed Hev’.
Grand_Verbalizer
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Dope tribute, not a big fan of either fwiw
I was a kid but I listened to both
It's hard to pinpoint Kid N Play because I started listening to rap at 5, but I didn't really know what was going on. My older cousins would play music videos all day, and I just listened to what they bumped. And they had Kid N Play posters on the wall. But it felt well before I had my own sense of who I liked, they wasn't poppin. By time I actually carved out what I enjoyed, which was around '93-94-ish they was done done.
Heavy D is tougher because he always felt like a big deal until I guess the late 90s. I don't know if he was even making music during the mid 90s but he still felt like he was important. It wasn't until by time he came back with Waterbed Hev it felt like nikkas didn't care anymore as a whole.
It's hard to pinpoint Kid N Play because I started listening to rap at 5, but I didn't really know what was going on. My older cousins would play music videos all day, and I just listened to what they bumped. And they had Kid N Play posters on the wall. But it felt well before I had my own sense of who I liked, they wasn't poppin. By time I actually carved out what I enjoyed, which was around '93-94-ish they was done done.
Heavy D is tougher because he always felt like a big deal until I guess the late 90s. I don't know if he was even making music during the mid 90s but he still felt like he was important. It wasn't until by time he came back with Waterbed Hev it felt like nikkas didn't care anymore as a whole.
KnP - not sure, they kinda faded away musically, but the movies and cartoon extended their run. Their brand of rap was done, unfortunately.
Heavy - Gangsta takeover and BIG crushing the whole lane. He fell back into production and acting. He would be a real industry force had he not died. I think he could have made a comeback in this climate.
Heavy - Gangsta takeover and BIG crushing the whole lane. He fell back into production and acting. He would be a real industry force had he not died. I think he could have made a comeback in this climate.
I was a BIG fan of Kid N Play and Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince because they were the only rap I could listen to in the house for a period of time. With Kid N Play, like @TripleAgent said their run was kind of extended by the movies and other stuff they had a hand in. They were the FIRST rappers to have their own cartoon and their own comic book. They were in Sprite commercials. They were on Sesame Street. They really wrung the most out of their run that they possibly could before gangsta rap and street East Coast rap took over completely; and even then they had a top 40 hit in 91 with Ain’t Gonna Hurt Nobody.
Did Heavy D really have a fall off? 
Seems like he could always pop back in with a hit for the ladies like LL. If there was a falling off, like stated earlier, it was when the hardcore rap started taking over. I do believe Big & Heavy with BIG would have been his come back.
Seems like he could always pop back in with a hit for the ladies like LL. If there was a falling off, like stated earlier, it was when the hardcore rap started taking over. I do believe Big & Heavy with BIG would have been his come back. 
Pegasus Jackson
Trump's Amerikkka
Nobody really listened to Kid N Play like that.. House Party was the best thing to ever happen to them. Heavy D had a run but around Blue Funk was when people stopped listening.
Drizzy Dre
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It went from party hip hop with Kid & Play and Heavy D to the conscious stuff with the Jungle Bros. movement, and then gangsta rap.
Did Heavy D really have a fall off?
Heavy was dope and underrated, but, between gangsta rap and Biggie, he was more or less done. BIG was doing Heav bigger and better than Heav. Completely overshadowed.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
We need both styles of hip hop back
Playaz Eyez
Veteran
Appreciate the info
MajesticLion
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When NWA took off it was a different environment for a lot of artists who made "fun" music. Hev, KnP, De La, Jeff & Prince...the labels threw money at everybody else trying to be the next tough guy, and more balanced stuff got steadily squeezed out.