How come Masta Ace always gets overlooked?

[the cac mamba]

 

[I love Latina women]

 

[L. Deezy]

Bruh been 1 of the most consistent MCs of all time since the early 90's.
Yet u never hear him mentioned alongside cats like Nas, Jay-Z, Biggie, 2pac, Scarface, Redman and so on.
If 1 thing, he got the catalog and consistency to hang w/ cats like them.
I've had SlaughtaHouse in rotation since yesterday and in awe of how great it still sounds.

Masts Ace is my Nygga, but he didn't do much to really warrant anything to be mentioned along the usual top 10 mentioned rappers. He could hold his own with all the heavy weights, but is what it is

 

[I love Latina women]

Masts Ace is my Nygga, but he didn't do much to really warrant anything to be mentioned along the usual top 10 mentioned rappers. He could hold his own with all the heavy weights, but is what it is

Yeah. Other than having a consistent catalog, that's the only reason I would ever mention him alongside the heavy weights.

 

[iLLusoYuN_Da_Adidas_King]

Masta ace was top 10 but kendrick took his spot to be honest. He has disposable arts, Masta ace inc and long hot summer all classic albums. Plus his b-sides are sick. He's 50 plus now. But he is an incredible rapper and had the best mid 90 early 2000 career from the juice crew.

 

[Threnody]

Masta Ace never dropped a dud....no wack albums or joints ever...its crazy

The album he did w/ DOOM is underrated as well

And Its crazy how much Eminem was influenced by Ace.....

 

[FreshAIG]

Everyone talks about Disposable Arts and that Summer album but real heads know his best album is Slaughterhouse.

That was Masta Ace at his peak

He’s a good MC, not elite but he could definitely rhyme. Strong catalog but lacked personality to put him over the top. And he doesn’t have much of a story to make up for lack of charisma so that’s why he never blew up

 

[old boy]

I've had SlaughtaHouse in rotation since yesterday and in awe of how great it still sounds.

lord digga the microphone mutilator
with the hardcore data to mash motherfukks like potatoes

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Everyone talks about Disposable Arts and that Summer album but real heads know his best album is Slaughterhouse.

That was Masta Ace at his peak

He’s a good MC, not elite but he could definitely rhyme. Strong catalog but lacked personality to put him over the top. And he doesn’t have much of a story to make up for lack of charisma so that’s why he never blew up

Born To Roll

Fuxed with 'Sittin On Chrome' heavy too.

Coming up as the little homie in the same crew as Kane and G Rap has to be both and though.

 

[TNC]

He’s top 25 of all time, ahead of guys like Mase, Fab and Cam

 

[Hovsta]

I heard a lot of things. I mean great rapper but it seems especially in the comments on the YouTube videos old heads can’t get over. The fact that he went from New York to Cali to make hits. And the Cali dudes think he is cool but it’s like white rappers in rap general we will always pick our own over a “visitor”

 

[Headcase]

Ace is one of the most consistent rappers in Hip-Hop history. Never heard a bad project from the dude and I can count the number of wack songs he's done on one hand.

He's got a full-length album with Marco Polo coming next year, thats a first day cop for me.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Also - completely forgot about the Masta Ace/ Fat Joe beef.

When you did the Sittin’ On Chrome album you received a lot of flack in the press – the same thing happened to Brand Nubian – about ‘pandering to the West’ and stuff like that.

That was a crazy backlash on me because I had such a successful record at the time. Being from New York and having a record that was getting played in the West Coast and Down South – at that time it was very much about what coast you were from and it was a lot of coastal pride goin’ on at that time – so I got a little backlash from that. That really was the beginning of the East Coast/West Coast beef that was already brewing, so the Sittin’ On Chrome album was really my way of trying to bridge the gap between East and West. So I had this whole scenario where my cousin from LA came too visit me in New York – cultural exchange – and we had a good time together even though he was very different than me. People were very upset with me about the record that I made. They thought I was trying to be a California rapper, where I really didn’t change my rhyme style at all – I just flipped a different beat, that really was a East Coast beat. But people at the time were so charged-up on East/West that they didn’t take the time to really listen to anything. They were just, ‘Oh, he’s down with them! He’s rockin’ with them!’ Whatever. I feel like I opened a lot of doors for New York artists to do other things musically. Now you see everybody making Down South music now – nobody’s getting yelled at or killed for it.

I don't know if Joe saying 'Sittin On Chrome' sounded "too West Coast" at the time reflected a popular sentiment, but 'Top 10 List' was

 

[NYK Loyalist]

He's in my top 10 all time. Slaughtahouse and Disposable Arts are classics to me and he's one of the few old school guys who still puts out good music. Son of Yvonne and The Falling Season were both good. Only project I didn't like much was the last EMC album, I couldn't get into that at all. He also has a ton of great unreleased stuff. Only negative with him is like some mentioned in here that he's not the most charismatic MC

 

[GPBear]

His verse on Crooklyn Dodgers was ill