G Unit, D12 & the St Lunatics all have Platinum albums, Diplomats do not. Was their fame exaggerated?

[Playaz Eyez]

ay @ChatGPT you annoying as hell but you've got this trolling shyt down pat. I hated D12. Garbage. Lunatics wasn't all that bad though. Murphy Lee is legit a good rapper.

Did you just hate D12’s content? Cause 4-5 of the 6 D12 members were better than Murphy Lee

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Jada already told y’all during verses that dipset don’t know about Grammys they know about grams

 

[Ryda52]

Excuses nobody sad that but was they plati like the punatics,

DI went gold. Not to mention not just Cam but Jimmy and Juelz were both going gold and platinum on their own respectively, while dropping their own classics in the process. Besides G-Unit (and it seems like OP slipped them in there later on, but it was initially just the Lunatics and D12) them other groups were carried by the main attraction, the rest were bums, even though I like Murphy Lee and Ali allegedly wrote most of Nelly’s shyt, but they, like D12, weren’t the driving force behind their appeal, the leader was. Most of the Dips could hold their own. Not to mention the impact they had on New York at that time.


Not to mention we celebrate the release of Diplomatic Immunity as a classic in rap and staple for 2000s hip hop. I mean look at the links attached below.


The Diplomats' 'Diplomatic Immunity' Turns 20
Jim Jones Reflects On 'Diplomatic Immunity' 20 Years Later: 'That Era Changed Hip Hop'
‘Diplomatic Immunity’ Turns 20: A Look Back On Its Enormous Impact
Today In Hip Hop History: The Diplomats’ Debut Album ‘Diplomatic Immunity’ Turns 20 Years Old! - The Source



Respectfully, we not doing this for the ‘Tics and we damn sho ain’t doing this for no trash ass D12. G-Unit is the only one in the race and I’ll still give the edge to the Dips as I feel like DI has aged a lot better than BFM. Both classics tho for their era imo.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Dips have a better catalog of music than all of them and a unique sound. Cam was the bigger star but Juelz and Jimmy weren't that far behind. Cam had been around for a bit but the Dips sound wasn't really his, it was the group's. It was like nothing else really

D12 first album was honestly dope but Proof dying and Eminem falling the fukk off did them no favors. That second album a few years later was terrible

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Dips have a better catalog of music than all of them and a unique sound. Cam was the bigger star but Juelz and Jimmy weren't that far behind. Cam had been around for a bit but the Dips sound wasn't really his, it was the group's. It was like nothing else really

D12 first album was honestly dope but Proof dying and Eminem falling the fukk off did them no favors. That second album a few years later was terrible

Devil’s Night was such a good album, and they followed that up with an underwhelming 2nd album. There were a lot of good producers on there, but I just don’t know what happened on there. It almost felt like that second Slaughterhouse album where they ventured out in sound too much.

 

[Brehcepticon]

Dipshyts

 

[Mag Wheel]

Murphy Lee & Ali did not influence the culture to the degree of Juelz & Jim

Same for Bizarre & Proof

This a head shot and nail in the coffin. Salute.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Not to take anything from 8 mile. It was a good movie. I just like Killa Season better.

You always hear about ppl shytting out drugs after smuggling, but to see it in a visual was nothing short of great cinematic artistry. Those mamis were shytting out a substantial amount of balloons. I ain't into anal, but you just know excel in that department

 

[Pop123]

Dipset wasn’t a Fame thing, it wasn’t about platinum albums…they had a street youth movement. I hate saying corny things like this but you had to be outside to see/feel it, pause. Not even just NY…I was in NC and VA all the time back then…everybody had on the pink and the stupid ass goofy strobelight earring and wore the bandana like Juelz, etc… One of the most influential rap groups on the street in history…more so than D-Block. Only ones who probably had the youth more in a choke was G-Unit…50 really

 

[Pop123]

Jimmy, at root, is responsible for like 80% of east coast Bloods, facts

 

[PHamm]

They were the first crew I remember having more fans online than in real life

 

[PHamm]

All 3 Diplomats either went gold, or had a big hit.

Outside of Nelly and Em, what did the rest accomplish?

I did think Murphy Lee could have been a bigger act than he was

Murphy Lee went gold too just like dips did.

Having said that, going gold was NOT an achievement at that time. If the movement was as big as their stans claimed then their albums should have easily gone platinum.

 

[Chip Skylark]

Yes

 

[Yehuda]

Ali could've been a bigger star had he chosen "Ore-Ore-O" as the lead single over "Boughetto".

 

[diggy]

Few Gold Albums and they got plat singles, no streaming.

Oh Boy, Hey Ma, We fly high, Run It (Chris Brown and Juelz), etc