Most disappointing debut album ever?

[OHSNAP!]

Nature: For All Seasons

Basura

Drag-On, BCC, Firm, Canibus were also HUGE disappointments and very hard to listen to to this day

I'm really not a fan of Meth and Big L, but putting their debuts on this list is stupid

 

[OHSNAP!]

Kiss the Game Goodbye is an interesting choice on the list. It’s not my #1 but you’re right. It’s up there.

Twas kinda disappointing yeah, and the ladies/"sellout" songs sucked a dikk, but there were some REALLY hard joints on there (Show Discipline, We Gon Make It, Whatchu Ride 4, Feel Me, It's Time I See U, None Of Y'all Better)

 

[ISO]

THE KINGPIN! WORST DEBUT IN HIP-HOP HISTORY!

This shyt was so bad it tanked his whole career.....Craig G was dope, from QB, went to school with Nas, Juice Crew royalty, HAD classic songs already and dropped the worst rap album ever at that point shyt is 0.5 outta 10

He had to title his second "Now, That's more like it" (this one was actually dope but after the Kingpin NOBODY was checking for him) for as DOPE Craig g was and is.....The Kingpin has to be it...it makes no sense how bad that album was like what the fukk!

The cover and title are hard lol damn nikka really fukked up?

What was it the beats?

 

[Dead End]

Canibus is the one I remember being really disappointed in. But some of these I was too young for or don't remember knowing about at the time.

I would add:

Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substances
Kurupt - Kuruption
Whatever you want to consider Crooked I's first album, IMO he's never lived up to the hype I felt listening to his pre-Row and Row days

 

[HabitualChiller]

I'm just now listening to FNL by J. Cole right now, and I'm not feeling this that much.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Man, I might have to vote Jay Elec, just because he was heralded as the next Nas that would come and be the next rap messiah. He also arguably didn't even have the confidence to have his first album be a true solo, and even though it wasn't bad at all, he leaned on Jay-Z's name a bit.

Also, I wish we could've heard the OG debut that Just Blaze did.

Jadakiss debut was a pretty weak knockoff version of Life After Death, and it was real disappointing considering he was being looked at as a possible King of New York after we lost Big.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Twas kinda disappointing yeah, and the ladies/"sellout" songs sucked a dikk, but there were some REALLY hard joints on there (Show Discipline, We Gon Make It, Whatchu Ride 4, Feel Me, It's Time I See U, None Of Y'all Better)

There was definitely fire on there. I’m just saying in comparison to the expectations, I think it was a bit of a letdown.

I think he messed up by trying to do the life after death formula and do a checklist fir every type of joint. And it just sounded like he was trying too hard.

Every joint you named are my favorites too. I’m not mad at the Sigel diss joint either. And when I listened to it the other year I even thought the Neptunes single wasn’t too bad.

I just had maybe too high hopes for Jada.

 

[dh86]

Big KRIT

 

[NSSVO]

Thank Me Later

 

[JQ Legend]

Jadakiss- Kiss the game goodbye

tried too hard to be a check list album I.e street song, club song, posse song instead of just making a true album.

I liked KTGG a lot more when I listened to it years later but I agree with this

If he woulda made a whole album like his solos on RR compilation 1 and 2 and WATS it woulda been a classic. Strong contender for album of the year in a year Blueprint and Stillmatic came out.

Prolly woulda sold more records too

Still was a dope album, he was spitting all over it but he tried to make a one size fits all album instead of just dropping a Kiss album

 

[jackswstd]

Why didn’t Drag-On just call his album Fire?

 

[Stuckinthe90s]

Why didn’t Drag-On just call his album Fire?

 

[JQ Legend]

For the hype leading up to it, gotta say Canibus’ debut...shyt was so disappointing it totally derailed the trajectory of his career....he had hype like a young Nas based on how he was eviscerating his features and one offs and 2nd Round Knock Out...then the album dropped and just killed every bit of momentum he had...he never recovered, spent the rest of his career in weirdo underground world

“You mad at the last album, I apologize for it
Yo, I can't call it, motherfukkin' Wyclef spoiled it”

2000 BC was actually dope

If he woulda kept putting out joints like that every year or 2 he might have gotten a lil buzz back instead he came back next year with C True Hollywood Stories as some sort of mockery of the industry and destroyed whatever chance he had

That might literally be the worst album I ever heard

He called himself mocking the industry not realizing he would piss off his real fans by making us pay money for that bullshyt

 

[Ziggiy]

Pretty interesting that out of the big three of that generation, only Kendrick managed to nail his debut. Nas and Hov nailed their debuts. Big nailed his. Pac didn't but his first album isn't bad or anything.

The reason why Drake and J.Cole didn’t nail their debut albums is completely the fault of their respective labels. Most labels at the time didn’t understand that these artists of the “blog generation” (Drake, Cole, Kendrick, Kid Cudi, Wale, Big Krit, etc) already had “debut” albums by way of their mixtapes. The Warm Up IS J.Cole’s debut album. So Far Gone IS Drake’s debut album. The labels were trying to push a certain marketing and singles driven campaign with artists who had already established an identity with their fanbase. Jay-Z even put Cole on tour for like two years straight (which was smart) but when it was album time he STILL kept him on the shelf until he had a proper “single” which ended up being “Work Out”, a song that while a hit didn’t do much for either Cole or his fanbase.


If Cole and Drake would have been able to make the albums they wanted those albums would have been MUCH better. If you take FNL (which was meant to be the major label debut) and add 1 or 2 songs from Sideline Story you have damn near a classic. If you let Drake and his Ghostwriters work with 40 instead of rushing him to work with Kanye and Swizz Beats you’d have a Take Care level major label debut.


Interscope was wise in letting Kendrick do what came natural to him. Work with the producers he wanted, have the features he wanted (MC Eiht on a major label debut in 2012 is fukking astonishing) the singles he wanted (Who would have predicted Swimming Pools would be a hit?) because Kendrick was already set up to win. He had a narrative, a fanbase, plus the West Coast was overdue for a “savior”. They allowed Kendrick to be the artist he was MEANT to be instead of conforming to what was “hot” at the time.


Same thing for Kid Cudi. He was on Good Music but he was able to be his own person and release Man On The Moon which FELT authentic to who he was as an artist. As such he was successful.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

jadakiss debut...

tical - method man ....i still trip out how dirry debut album was better than meths

trill- bun b...thinkin bun was gone get on his ricky royal..flow...lazyiest flow ever

kuruption