Primo ain't been the same since Guru

[KingsOfKings]

Its either Nas wanted Prem to focus on his vintage sound (ala the old "Nas can't pick a beat to save his fukking life") or Prem just stuck in his old ways because ain't no way dude just take a piece of a sample and have the drums fill in the gaps like this is 1999 . I'm far from a "super producer" and even I know when to add a twang to the sample.

That part.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Bun B, imo as someone that grew up on UGK, is a shell of himself post Pimp C.

CL Smooth dropped off the planet when he stopped rocking with Pete. And nobody cares about Pete these days.

Q Tip...I don't know about Kamaal to be honest. He had a few hits post ATCQ/Phife.

Has any duo/group really survived after a separation/death?

Or is it just the passage of time?

Phonte became so popular after Little Brother that fans of Foreign Exchange had no idea he was actually in a rap group prior

My 1st cousin's daughter, who is 16 years younger than me, about 10 years ago asked me if I had ever heard of Cee Lo, not knowing I was listening to him when she was in diapers. So Cee lo also survived.

Erick Sermon is 10x more popular with his solor work than he was with EPMD

Cube, Dre, and Eazy all dropped classic paltinum albums post-NWA

Scarface dropped classic albums post-Geto Boys

Mr Mike had a hot ass album after South Circle


Sometimes a group may hold certain members back.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Can we add Havoc to this list. He hasn't been hitting beatwise since P passed. I expected better from the joint album him & SP did. Hopefully he can bring back that Havoc sound for the joint album with Meth

this joint was hot. released a couple weeks ago.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I think Primo's problem is that he's trying hard not to sound like Primo by adding old elments from his style trying to update it. He just be himself and fuk the rest. Large Pro last year gave Termonology, Paul Wall, and Bun B a banger. And he's always giving Neek the Exotic heat.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

He made his biggest hits with other artists
GTFOH

 

[Bugzbunny129]

You think somebody like Busy Mo Bee and em was running Pro Tools trying to cook up a Biggie track?

36 chambers was made on pro tools

Well. After the beats came out the box anyway.

 

[DaHNIC82]

Consistently is the key .

All these from this year, last year and the year before.. OP making it like he aint made a dope beat in 13 years

 

[MurderToCassette]

I dont think premier has been the same since digital/pro tools were introduced

There's credence to this I think. Also I noticed when he stopped using Eddie Sancho as his main engineer his stuff stopped sounding the same.

Guess who's using him now?

Alchemist

 

[3:30]

Preme been still bringing it The fukk y'all talking about here?

I know that Prodigy joint was on repeat when it got heard

Such a fire beat

 

[Metal Face]

Preem was making fire till the Early 2010s

 

[Canon]

hes not in his prime but I still think he makes dope tracks

I don't think a lot of you keep up with his recent stuff. every producer has their misses.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

primo still makes fire

nas picked a wack beat

simple

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

There's credence to this I think. Also I noticed when he stopped using Eddie Sancho as his main engineer his stuff stopped sounding the same.

Guess who's using him now?

Alchemist

this explains a lot.

someone in another thread said the white boy from the Joe Budden Podcast mixed the track with Nas

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

primo still makes fire

nas picked a wack beat

simple

I said that in another thread and that fakkit azz nigguh asked me how I knew that. Well basically because he rhymed on it!!! If Nas didn't like the beat, he could have told primo he didn't like it and used something else like with the 'represent" beat.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Primo didn't even give Gangstarr his best beats. The revisionist history in Hip Hop is hilarious. Y'all write for Pitchfork?