nah, i dont think he has a legit classic album either,but he definitey got a few classic songs though(Raw,Ain't no half stepping,Young, gifted and black,etc)
Old Heads: why Kool G Rap couldn't at least go gold?
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nah, i dont think he has a legit classic album either,but he definitey got a few classic songs though(Raw,Ain't no half stepping,Young, gifted and black,etc)
Kane’s first two albums are certified classics.
Long Live the Kane is a GOAT contender album.
As for G Rap, he doesn’t have a GOAT contender album but Road to the Riches is a classic. Live and Let Die too.
yep i agree on kane, both them albums are classics.. and then the brother messes around and gives us taste of chocolate, why kane??? lol
ok i ain't even mad at you saying road to the riches is a classic. title track, men at work, truly yours, it's a demo, rhymes i express, trilogy of terror... maybe i need to revisit that
but you really think live and let die is though? i actually like wanted dead or alive better
wow, i see... ok no classics for kane or g rap
give me a few '85-'91 albums that you do think are classics...
UpAndComing
Veteran
Kool G Rap is the reason some people didn't want to sign Nas when he first came out. They thought he sounded too much like G Rap, and wasn't going to sell records
definitely gotta disagree with that one brehRaw & Ain't no half stepping are the only tracks i wanted to listen to on that album
no way you can seriously believe that that album is up there with Paid in full,It takes a nation of millions,By all means neccesary,Strickly Business,The great adventures of Slick Rick.
shyt even biz's 'Goin off' was more of a legit classic than Long Live Kane..and yes i know kane helped write it lol
its a lot bro lol, i just named a few in my previous post
and i also think the lack of that stand out album is why i wouldn't put them in the top ten of of overall GOAT rappers, but both are arguably top ten GOAT lyricists.
Jadakiss is another perfect example of a GOAT lyricists without a legit classic album.
zayk35
Superstar
He's a regional legend and the early east coast biased hip hop media propped him up more than they should of....wasn't too many ppl checking for him where I'm from
In my 30 years of listening to hip hop sales I've learned dont mean shyt in the long run.
yeah i peeped them in post #36 and i cosign all of them with big respect for mentioning goin off, biz doesn't get his due when it comes to that album
yep kiss and even the lox as a group really, goat rappers but no classic albums
Im a old head from the golden era and a huge G rap fan first heard him on WBLS freestyling with Kane and was
at the end of the day...
G rap didnt make songs for the radio or club
he was a pure rapper.....
and his raps and beats were mostly marketed for the 5 boroughs
Once i left the tristate i never came across a true die hard G rap fan
His delivery and sound was too regional
at the end of the day...
G rap didnt make songs for the radio or club
he was a pure rapper.....
and his raps and beats were mostly marketed for the 5 boroughs
Once i left the tristate i never came across a true die hard G rap fan
His delivery and sound was too regional
G Rap never blew cause he was so hardcore its not like he was making pop hits and they just flopped or something....people would take what he did commercialize it and blow the fukk up BBD is the most well known but there were many others
As dope as the early 90s were emcees were biting like crazy
Tragedy is another rapper who should have sold more he was 'illmatic' in 88'
"They gone bite this just like they bit its a demo"
....2 years later
As dope as the early 90s were emcees were biting like crazy
Tragedy is another rapper who should have sold more he was 'illmatic' in 88'
"They gone bite this just like they bit its a demo"
....2 years later
Trot LaRoc
Superstar
Live and Let Die isnt classic but is a great album that birthed Nas, Biggie and Raekwon. Gimme the Loot is basically a revamped "Train Robbery". Rae got tha mafioso shyt from Kool G
He didnt blow bc he was too NY centric, didnt have a smooth delivery and not charismatic
Dude could rap his ass off
He didnt blow bc he was too NY centric, didnt have a smooth delivery and not charismatic
Dude could rap his ass off
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
Not an old head but Rae and Ghost beat him to the punch
what??
how??
they weren't big sellers either, and most of their fans are also fans of kool g rap and acknowledge his influence over them.
only difference is the wutang tour money & branding.
yes the LOX do have one.
WE ARE THE STREETS.
kane debut is definitely better than the bolded.
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