well at one point I kinda thought Cory Gunz was gonna be something too, and look how both them shyts turned out
does anybody have a link to Papoose's first alphabet raps from the years before he linked with Kay Slay? I swear he had a earlier version that was even iller, and he just replayed that same move once he got up with Kay Slay. Before all that Pap used to rap with Kool G Rap before the Kay Slay mixtape days and he was maybe even doper back then, I remember that shyt but it seems buried on the internet at this point
Pap was always still potentially ill after that too. I remember the hype off the "Five boroughs of death got New York City in the palm of my hand" verse on Busta Rhymes shyt, and it was cool for the time but I'd much rather hear the regular original Touch It than the remix at this point. And he even had a chance of hype again years later with the Kendrick/Control verse response. I remember thinking he coulda done a 2Chainz style rename/reinvention. And or coulda had a bigger moment with Remy Ma. and even again after that with the Lil Wayne african song a few years ago. He's always had talent but was corn at the same time. He's had many opportunities but he never quite made it work
The easiest answer may be that taking the biggest money contract doesnt always work out, Jive may have offered the bigger advance money but they were already pretty clearly not that good a label for Rap artists by the time Pap & Kay Slay took that particular deal. He had a decent bidding war going at that point, but just cuz they offer a bigger advance doesnt mean they know what to do with you, or how to help you develop to a higher level.
