In their prime who was bigger : Bobby Brown ,2pac , Snoop Dogg and Mc hammer ?

Who was bigger in their prime ?

  • BOBBY BROWN

    Votes: 6 4.7%
  • 2PAC

    Votes: 24 18.6%
  • MC HAMMER

    Votes: 92 71.3%
  • SNOOP DOGG

    Votes: 7 5.4%

  • Total voters
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:comeon: Snoop was the biggest thing in music in 92/93. He sold more than 800.000 records in his first week, more than any other debut artist before him. Right now, he is basically George Foremann selling grills status. He is nowhere near his fame in the early 90's.

What a great way to put this.

Snoop is more well known now because you have multiple generations that know him as "that izzle dizzle guy" you see with Martha Stewart.

But back then, Snoop was the most dangerous, infamous, coolest nikka in music.

PAC didn’t reach that level till after he died if we being honest. He was a superstar but 92-94 Snoop was bigger than Pac ever was alive
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92-94 Snoop is more famous than any rapper in history other than maybe "8 Mile" era Eminem

And "U Can't Touch This" era Hammer of course.

His biggest hit came out in the 2000s

Maybe pop hit, but Snoop was so much more than pop hits in '92/'93.

Dude was wanted for murder, Madonna was wearing his shirts, politicians were coming out against him, they were trying to ban him from England, "The Chronic" was at like 5 million in sales, he was selling almost a million in a week.

He changed the way people dress, talk, act, etc. . .
 

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Hammer was huge

Nikka had a cartoon, action figures all types of shyt
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Why do Pac stans make him out to be bigger than he actually was?

Mainly because most of his fans came after he died, which is when his popularity surged. I myself was just a little kid when Pac was alive and poppin so i didn't listen to his music until way after he died. So Pac fans, who didn't start listening to him after his death, need to prop him up as this larger than life icon that was that huge through his whole career. They'll even claim they listened to him back in his Digital Underground days:comeon:. Anything to take the smear off being a bandwagon fan who only became a fan after he died. I mean the East coast West coast beef was huge in the hiphop world. But it wasn't until Pac got killed that it became a real mainstream thing and all the national news and media would talk about his death. Add to that his Makaveli persona switch and all the 7 day theory stuff and his most popular album being released right after he died and there you go.

So yea that's really it, a lot of Pac fans need for him to be as big as he was in life as he became after death so they don't look like the late joiner fans they are. Knowing damn well they didn't start listening to him until after other rappers starting treating him like a God in the game, and his Makaveli legend grew, and a bunch of documentaries came out about him. Plus when Eminem made that movie doc about him back in 03' you know it brought A LOT of new young white fans who also needed to pretend like they always listened to Pac. So the bigger you make Pac look as a fan, the more believable it is that u always listened to him.

This is all just my theory of course, i could be wrong.
 

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Mainly because most of his fans came after he died, which is when his popularity surged. I myself was just a little kid when Pac was alive and poppin so i didn't listen to his music until way after he died. So Pac fans, who didn't start listening to him after his death, need to prop him up as this larger than life icon that was that huge through his whole career. They'll even claim they listened to him back in his Digital Underground days:comeon:. Anything to take the smear off being a bandwagon fan who only became a fan after he died. I mean the East coast West coast beef was huge in the hiphop world. But it wasn't until Pac got killed that it became a real mainstream thing and all the national news and media would talk about his death. Add to that his Makaveli persona switch and all the 7 day theory stuff and his most popular album being released right after he died and there you go.

So yea that's really it, a lot of Pac fans need for him to be as big as he was in life as he became after death so they don't look like the late joiner fans they are. Knowing damn well they didn't start listening to him until after other rappers starting treating him like a God in the game, and his Makaveli legend grew, and a bunch of documentaries came out about him. Plus when Eminem made that movie doc about him back in 03' you know it brought A LOT of new young white fans who also needed to pretend like they always listened to Pac. So the bigger you make Pac look as a fan, the more believable it is that u always listened to him.

This is all just my theory of course, i could be wrong.

The fact some people on here can claim that at the height of Pac's prime he was bigger than Hammer or even Snoop in their prime :gucci:

Pac's biggest moment was when he died, he never saw such celebrity when he was alive.. :yeshrug:
 
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Why do Pac stans make him out to be bigger than he actually was?

Mainly because most of his fans came after he died, which is when his popularity surged. I myself was just a little kid when Pac was alive and poppin so i didn't listen to his music until way after he died. So Pac fans, who didn't start listening to him after his death, need to prop him up as this larger than life icon that was that huge through his whole career. They'll even claim they listened to him back in his Digital Underground days:comeon:. Anything to take the smear off being a bandwagon fan who only became a fan after he died. I mean the East coast West coast beef was huge in the hiphop world. But it wasn't until Pac got killed that it became a real mainstream thing and all the national news and media would talk about his death. Add to that his Makaveli persona switch and all the 7 day theory stuff and his most popular album being released right after he died and there you go.

So yea that's really it, a lot of Pac fans need for him to be as big as he was in life as he became after death so they don't look like the late joiner fans they are. Knowing damn well they didn't start listening to him until after other rappers starting treating him like a God in the game, and his Makaveli legend grew, and a bunch of documentaries came out about him. Plus when Eminem made that movie doc about him back in 03' you know it brought A LOT of new young white fans who also needed to pretend like they always listened to Pac. So the bigger you make Pac look as a fan, the more believable it is that u always listened to him.

This is all just my theory of course, i could be wrong.


In 1996 Alanis Morissette was easily 5x more popular than Pac alive.

Her album ''Jagged Little Pill'' who came out in 1995, hit 16x plat (16 millions albums sold) in the summer of 1998. Just 2 years and half later.

''All Eyes on Me'' hit diamond status in the 2000s.


People really overrate hip-hop popularity/revelance in the 1990s. During the vast majority of the decade =1990 to 1996, no hip hop album(except arguably ''Please Hammer Dont Hurt Them''.....but Janet Jackson album, ''Rhythm Nation 1814'' was the best performing and best selling album in 1990, the year MC Hammer reached its peak) was the highest selling of the year and no rapper was the most popular or high-profile artist in any year during that period(1990-1996), even if rap singles were hitting top 10 spots on the Billboard hot 100, because rap was confined to minorities and most cacs were still fukking with rock music, Nirvana and Pearl Jam hit their peak then. Just because cacs liked in 1992 ''I like big butts and I cannot lie'' didnt mean they fukked with rap heavy like that.

Shania Twain, New Kids on the Block, Axl Rose(Guns & Roses), Kurt Cobain(Nirvana) James Hetfield(Metallica)Bon Jovi, Milli Vanilli, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Green Day, Prince, Eddie Vedder, Micheal Jackson, MC Hammer, Bobby Brown, Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Whitney Houston were much more bigger than Pac or any rapper in the 90s. straight facts.

Only in 1997-98-99 rap started to challenge rock as the biggest musical genre and it took the death of 2 legends(Biggie and Pac) Puff/Maze/Bad Boy/ Jay-z corporate machine going overdrive, being everYwhere on TV/RADIO/PRESS and sampling familiar cac songs and HUGE HITS(The Police, ''every breath you take'' and ''Annie'') and the Elvis of rap aka Em being promoted heavily on TRL on the same level as Backstreet boys/Nsync/Britney Spears/Blink 182/Christina Aguilera
 
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In 1996 Alanis Morissette was easily 5x more popular than Pac alive.

Her album ''Jagged Little Pill'' who came out in 1995, hit 16x plat (16 millions albums sold) in the summer of 1998. Just 2 years and half later.

''All Eyes on Me'' hit diamond status in the 2000s.


People really overrate hip-hop popularity/revelance in the 1990s. During the vast majority of the decade =1990 to 1996, no hip hop album was the highest selling of the year and no rapper was the most popular or high-profile artist in any year, even if rap singles were the top 10 hits on the Billboard hot 100, because rap was confined to minorities and most cacs were still fukking with rock music, Nirvana and Pearl Jam hit their peak then. Just because cacs liked in 1992 ''I like big butts and I cannot lie'' didnt mean they fukked with rap heavy like that.

Shania Twain, Kurt Cobain, Bon Jovi, Eddie Vedder, Micheal Jackson, MC Hammer, Bobby Brown, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Whitney Houston were much more bigger than Pac or any rapper in the 90s. straight facts.

Only in 1997-98-99 rap started to challenge rock as the biggest musical genre and it took the death of 2 legends(Biggie and Pac) Puff/Maze/Bad Boy/ Jay-z corporate machine going overdrive, being everwhere on TV/RADIO/PRESS and sampling familiar cac songs(The Police, ''every breath you take'' and ''Annie'') and the Elvis of rap aka Em being promoted heavily on TRL on the same level as Backstreet boys


Dudes are living in a virtual bubble..reminds me of dudes that never left their hood their whole entire lives..:snoop:
 

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I also think what Hammer did is being underestimated because we live in the Internet age.
He had that kind of reach in general life, you’d see him on television, at the store, on billboards, etc.
He was the equivalent of the biggest music celebrity at that time not named Michael Jackson, and you wouldn’t even have to have heard his songs to know who was.
 

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I also think what Hammer did is being underestimated because we live in the Internet age.
He had that kind of reach in general life, you’d see him on television, at the store, on billboards, etc.
He was the equivalent of the biggest music celebrity at that time not named Michael Jackson, and you wouldn’t even have to have heard his songs to know who was.

This is the thing. Hammer reached 'everybody'..Globally! Damn near every single demographic. You cannot say that about Bobby, Pac and Snoop. And as popular as they were, they were too polarising.
The only people that hated Hammer was other rappers like Redman who felt he was too much competition and wasnt hardcore and underground.
 
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