cube has no real cultural integrity emcee-wise, at this current time.
through his own degradation and cultural vulture antics.
so,...plenty of emcees have sustained their cultural purity or connection.
to rival cube's barn burner three release solo run at the beginning of his solo carer.
even, if they never had the same platinum level draw.
or were not generally perceived some drawing equal to general rap fans.
I can think of a few emcees who,..
given what they brought culturally and even industrially.
it rivals cube's entire career.
or still out does cube's career because culturally, he is just given a pass with scrutiny.
the obvious one is krs.
the next not so obvious one is :
redman,...
actually was featured on, as dope group albums,..
on the third and fourth business titled epmd group albums.
in between that,...
he dropped what is or should be considered a genre specific creative defining and drawing genre type.
following that up,..with the greatest single emcee spazz moment in rap history.
on the remix to tonite's the nite,..which later showed up on the classic dare iz a darkside.
which was followed up by the classic, muddy waters.
red capitalized a real genre specific grassroots platinum movie star draw.
while creating an artist type that will forever be used to formulate or draw in music.
including, the history of the pillar of emcee'n and the industry of rap
red only has one lackluster release quality wise,...
which I think is malpractice,...
that after that, he followed up with a classic mixtape series.
plus, his last album was another true to form redman quality record.
that featured a different formatted take on red's general album track.
which was still one of the highest quality records in the past few years as well.
that was drastically and wrongfully overlooked, artistically.
all because of poor pr saturation and sales output.
in red's last studio album on an out of touch market place defjam recording contract.
art barr