He was though. You don't lose the crown because you don't drop. Plus Biggie was crushing everything with his remixes, Junior Mafia, etc...Biggie was that nikka in 1996 even without an album
Meccapolis ranks “Kings Of New York” from 1985 to 2024
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An album be successful with zero “club” hits.
No. Em is a bad example
You went with the one white anomaly because you know you can't do that with any other Black rappers. The white audience that buys records give it to Em by default till this very day. Every Black rapper who blew up in mainstream did it with uptempo songs. That's why Party Up was Xs most successful song not his street shyt. Same with Jay Z. The same white audience that bought X's albums that went multi platinum in 1998 did not buy his last record and had him go platinum like they did Ems last few records because Em is the white exception to the rule. That's why you yourself can't name 1 Black rapper who blew up in mainstream without something that bumped in the club's. Not 1. Sounds like you are unfamiliar with this pattern because you are constantly challenging old news that I'm just repeating.
qnsfinest
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Come on man. How the fukk you rank rakim number 2 all time and not even give him one of the yrs in the 80’s.
This nikka gonna redo this list too.
This nikka gonna redo this list too.
Ghostface Trillah
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I'm not one of those people comes down on dude for not even being from NY but I don't know how he can make a list like this without being on the pavement and living through the energy that king of NYC gets. Like I was outside when dudes like Buckshot, Raekwon,Prodigy, Method Man,DMX was on top of everybody's list but get downplayed because they didn't have Jay like careers. His 100 NYC rappers list didn't even have KRS-1 in the top ten but had G rap and Kane over him when KRS was bigger than them in their primes.
I say this with No disrespect or malice
Yall gotta stop with that shyt
The best historic curators weren’t in the era they’re documenting
The people yall want to be the ones to do the historical documentation are better at being consultants. Which a lot of them work in conjunction with meccapolis
A lot of them themselves would suck at historical curation bc they get years mixed up or are too biased to be objective. OGs are the pinnacle of emotional and are almost unable to be objective. Look at how everybody is arguing about who was the real first rapper. We still have not gotten a unified answer
Its corny to tell young people to do their research on classics then shyt on them when they do the research but may be 10 to 20% off on some things
Let’s not play dumb and pretend like the early days of hip hop is properly documented. Because it’s not. Hasnt been since The Source fell off
Meccapolis is making an attempt to correct that on the NYC side of things. But it will involve him fukking up here and there because there is no solidified proper documentation of certain things and certain peoples legacies
I remember he tried to hit up Mr Cheeks to properly document the relationship between Lost Boyz the group, and Lost Boyz the street gang, and how it was the precursor of 50 Cent’s come up. Mr Cheeks kept saying he would schedule something but it never happened even though the dude who runs Meccapolis was persistent
If they did that meet, he probably would have been more aware that Legal Drug Money should have been on that list. (Even though “Renee” was EVERYWHERE when it came out when we were kids)
Ghostface Trillah
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Dude has LL as KONY in 1987 and Slick Rick as KONY in 1988. Eric B. and Rakim ran undeniably ran1987. Slick Rick's album didn't even come out until November 88 so how did he run NYC in 1988? KRS - One RAN NYC when the bridge is over came out. Run-DMC was on tour in 86.
Dude is just pulling names out his ass without any explanation of how he came to these conclusions.It's not about being accurate it's just about engagement and traffic to his page because he knows the more comments you get,the more the algorithm pushes you.
You said he’s pulling names out his ass as if he called Kangol Kid from UTFO the KONY of 1987. LL as KONY in 1987 is debatable
And the “he’s driving engagement” argument is tired. And it’s one dimensional nikka shyt. Being controversial for engagement is only good short term but it’s bad long term. No brand who takes themselves seriously would risk that. And that page wouldn’t be what it is if it did cheap tricks like that
Figaro
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Have they explained the criteria for this 1?
Do you need to drop a album in the year your placed as KONY on the list?
Do you need to drop a album in the year your placed as KONY on the list?
