Grand Puba...why doesn't he make any lists for favorite emcee?
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Sane
All Star
Short run, group dynamic, never sold a lot of records.
Older people do....ull hear him brought up on occasion by those who were highschoolers or older around his n brand nubian's reign...i remember Corey holcomb jus mentioned him outta nowhere before
id say he got his just due props...as dope as he was he really wasnt a era transcending talent
Im a fan myself...but he dropped that wack ass neo soul album inspired album retroactive in 2009 and couldn't bridge that time gap...
id say he got his just due props...as dope as he was he really wasnt a era transcending talent
Im a fan myself...but he dropped that wack ass neo soul album inspired album retroactive in 2009 and couldn't bridge that time gap...
I actually disagree here. I think if he:
- came out a few years later
- was solo the whole way
- wasn't on the 5% knowledge so hard
- was more commercial
He could have been huge in the mainstream. Glad he wasn't, though. He was the NYC prototype for a minute.
he stopped way too early in his career
left Brand Nubian too early then came back
First solo is a personal classic. Smooth as fukk and still lyrical like big. he was also a hip hop fashion icon
He just had a poor output.
left Brand Nubian too early then came back
First solo is a personal classic. Smooth as fukk and still lyrical like big. he was also a hip hop fashion icon
He just had a poor output.
BUSINESS AS USUAL
All Star
He was dead nice
Jus considering the ppl who kept going from then i cant say hes on that tier
Nas...ll...biggie...gangstarr...de la...scarface...we may be workin with different functional definitions for that term though
Waterproof
Warrior Lifestyle
Doggie Maxwell
Innovator with slang and Clothing
A Legend
Innovator with slang and Clothing
A Legend
His solo work isn't great. The guy rapping on "One For All" was scary good. He had a lot of love in NYC and we jocked everything he wore, but he never gave another A grade rapping performance. "Reel to Reel" is a B- at best, and there was no answer to his decline besides a lack of motivation.
2000 is a C when you consider what he's capable of. Even if you go back to his Masters of Ceremony work the rapping is better than solo Puba. I think his socio-political content was way too good for him to only give us "Proper Education", "Soul Controller" & "Black Family Day".
Trust if he was giving me 4-5 "Soul Controller" type records per album I'd still be a Grand Puba superfan
Who tells you when to work? The devil
Who tells you when you get a day off? The devil
And who gives you your pay? The damn devil
And who takes it away? The devil
He got at Oprah for caping for cacs back in 1992
Another interesting thing I remember was that Puba was in his mid twenties when he became famous, which was pretty old for a rapper to blow back in 1991.
2000 is a C when you consider what he's capable of. Even if you go back to his Masters of Ceremony work the rapping is better than solo Puba. I think his socio-political content was way too good for him to only give us "Proper Education", "Soul Controller" & "Black Family Day".
Trust if he was giving me 4-5 "Soul Controller" type records per album I'd still be a Grand Puba superfan
Who tells you when to work? The devil
Who tells you when you get a day off? The devil
And who gives you your pay? The damn devil
And who takes it away? The devil
He got at Oprah for caping for cacs back in 1992
Another interesting thing I remember was that Puba was in his mid twenties when he became famous, which was pretty old for a rapper to blow back in 1991.
he's always struck me as more of a rappers, rapper.
Cam used to compare Vado to Puba. which is funny because he does kind of look like him.
and I'm going to listen to 2000 before I go to sleep tonight.
(now thats a good album that really suffers from the songs being too long.)
Cam used to compare Vado to Puba. which is funny because he does kind of look like him.
and I'm going to listen to 2000 before I go to sleep tonight.
(now thats a good album that really suffers from the songs being too long.)