My fellow West Coasters, What were your initial reaction when you first saw...

[Vancouver Grizzly Fan]

NY rappers such as DMX and Ja Rule.

When we talk about NY rap out here, usually the first names that come up are Biggie, NAS and Jay-Z. Let's not forget Ja Rule and DMX held it down for hip-hop for awhile. But most 2Pac fans feel like they were clones of him. I really never cared for either rapper but I'm curious what Coli posters from the WEST thought of them on first sight.

 

[Los Angeles]

Dmx is cool but it obvious ja rule is the clone

 

[Xtraz2]

when i first heard and seen DMX song "get at me dog" (when it came out)

i thought he might of been from tha west coast.... wuzn't till a lil later i found out he wuz from NY after he made a few other songs...

 

[phatphuck]

both ripped it on mic geronimo's joint, and jay z as well

by 98 x dropped 2 albums which i was neutral on, but ja just kept getting more and more soft by around 01 he's one of the most hated cats around

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Yeah there were people on the westcoast salty calling DMX a Tupac clone, I do remember that. Mainly people who were very much 'westcoast only' types. I really liked DMX's singles and was into a lot of Eastcoast Hip Hop around then.

I don't think anyone really paid much attention to Ja Rule on the westcoast until he started to completely dominate all the hip hop and top 40 stations in the areas.

 

[LezJepzin]

Didn't seem like a Pac Clone to me but he was the first East Coast Rapper I looked forward to his adlibs (Bark, Growl) The Get At Me Dog video was one of the grittiest videos I've seen from the east in a long time and I became a fan then. I was a big ONYX fan and X reminded me more of them. Knew a wigger back in high school that hyped him up bigger than anyone but dissected the fukk out of his first album

Ja Rule was just a cheap clone of DMX but everyone I knew at the time fukked with Ja so much it was disgusting. I tried to get into his shyt for he had some decent tracks but I couldn't get past his cookie monster delivery and his hood fantasy lyrics. He was Rick Ross before Rick Ross but he was far from convincing . I really wanted someone to fukk up his career before 50 came through and crushed the buildings .

That's why I was a 50/G-Unit fan hard during that time mostly because I was just happy someone buried Ja

 

[Judgement!]

Ima admit I hated on DMX. Couldn't stand that nikka.... until I heard him in a interview years later and realized he's a real dude. I bought Ja's first album off the fact that I had seen that Holla holla video with Ms Velez 1000 x. Never liked Ja's shyt though. I thought that they both jumped on that overly thug bandwagon that Pac had laid out, which was wack to me

 

[Ashtrey]

i was on some fukk bad boy shyt mostly puffy and mase and when DMX shut them down i became a huge fan.. i saw the similarities with pac and knew def jam was marketing him as a pac resurrection but i fukked with his music.

i was a fan of ja rule first album too...

 

[LucaBrasi]

It's obvious Ja Rule and DMX both stole their IMAGE from 'Pac

 

[stealthbomber]

i was too young to be caring about all that shyt

 

[daze23]

 

[Kimo_bud]

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