Prodigy's verse on Drop a Gem On Them was the greatest thing out of that East coast-West coast beef

[BXKingPin82]

Mobb Deep was the UGK/8Ball MJG of the tri-state area..unless you were big on that scene you proabably never heard their music like that.

I'm gonna wait for somebody outside of the NY/NJ/CT/Boston area to tell me how everybody was bumping The Infamous or HOE in 94/96. They were going gold back in hip hop's heyday of record sales..which tells me they weren't that big of a deal back then.

Local might have been a bit strong but them nikkas was not on the level of Pac/Nas/Big/Snoop/Fugees etc... They were in the same boat as Hov back in 96.

act like "Shook Ones" wasnt a huge song when it dropped brehs

 

[mobbinfms]

Maybe, but MUSICALLY they still shat on PAC with that song.

As a hip hop fan, that song is untouchable. P might be a coward in real life, but he's still a genius and this verse is a demonstration of his skills.

Exactly. We are talking about music. Emcee skill. Not who was more likely to win a fight or shoot someone.
Keep in mind too, it doesn't take much skill to say someone's name. It does take skill to make a diss record that everyone knows is about Pac, without saying his name.

I mean are people shytting on I Used To Love Her because Com didn't say hip hop's name until the very end
That's what makes the record brilliant.

 

[mobbinfms]

Mobb Deep was the UGK/8Ball MJG of the tri-state area..unless you were big on that scene you proabably never heard their music like that.

I'm gonna wait for somebody outside of the NY/NJ/CT/Boston area to tell me how everybody was bumping The Infamous or HOE in 94/96. They were going gold back in hip hop's heyday of record sales..which tells me they weren't that big of a deal back then.

Local might have been a bit strong but them nikkas was not on the level of Pac/Nas/Big/Snoop/Fugees etc... They were in the same boat as Hov back in 96.

You couldn't have been a serious hip hop fan in 96 and not known who Ball and G and UGK were. UGK was on the Menace soundtrack years prior. Ball and G were all over magazines and had videos on Rap City.
Local is 36 mafia before Tear the Club up. Cash Money before Ha.
I completely agree that the Mobb wasn't as big as those names you listed, but that doesn't mean serious fans nationwide (reading magazines, watching the video shows, listening to mix shows if possible) disnt know who they were.

 

[TrifeGod]

Wish Pac didn't die so Mobb Deep n Biggie could of did a collab diss track ..sweet JESUS

 

[Wacky D]

He took the L to Mobb Deep. He would've got that work from Biggie if he lived and Biggie didn't edit Long Kiss Goodnight, and he would've gotten that work from Jay and Nas. Pac wasn't seeing any of them on the mic.

biggie aint have nothin for pac.

jay & nas are not battle-ready rappers at all.

 

[H.I.M.]

shyt made no noise outside of New York though...Mobb Deep were local until Quiet Storm

THIS

Mobb Deep was the UGK/8Ball MJG of the tri-state area..unless you were big on that scene you proabably never heard their music like that..

and THIS

I would say they were closer to the UGK of the NY tri-state area.

8Ball & MJG had a bigger more spread out fanbase nationwide and sold more records...and they're comparable to neither group as far as quality of music is concerned.

Mobb Deep had that Pac name drop stimulus and still couldn't make any noise outside of their hometown.

Until they got that full-fledged Lil Kim-lead single-feature stimulus.

Verse is garbo btw

 

[28 Gramz]

act like "Shook Ones" wasnt a huge song when it dropped brehs

What is your definition of huge?

 

[Wacky D]

Mobb Deep was the UGK/8Ball MJG of the tri-state area..unless you were big on that scene you proabably never heard their music like that.

I'm gonna wait for somebody outside of the NY/NJ/CT/Boston area to tell me how everybody was bumping The Infamous or HOE in 94/96. They were going gold back in hip hop's heyday of record sales..which tells me they weren't that big of a deal back then.

Local might have been a bit strong but them nikkas was not on the level of Pac/Nas/Big/Snoop/Fugees etc... They were in the same boat as Hov back in 96.

the mid-90s were not the golden age of records sales. and you cant measure status by just record sales anyway.

mobb deep was bigger than those groups.

the east coast equivalent to ugk/mjg is cnn/mop.

Mobb Deep had that Pac name drop stimulus and still couldn't make any noise outside of their hometown.

Until they got that full-fledged Lil Kim-lead single-feature stimulus.

Verse is garbo btw

lol @ a lil kim stimulus.

kim aint been chit since 97.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Mobb Deep was the UGK/8Ball MJG of the tri-state area..unless you were big on that scene you proabably never heard their music like that.

I'm gonna wait for somebody outside of the NY/NJ/CT/Boston area to tell me how everybody was bumping The Infamous or HOE in 94/96. They were going gold back in hip hop's heyday of record sales..which tells me they weren't that big of a deal back then.

Local might have been a bit strong but them nikkas was not on the level of Pac/Nas/Big/Snoop/Fugees etc... They were in the same boat as Hov back in 96.

I lived in Virginia and Mobb Deep got tons of love.

And they were much bigger than UGK and 8Ball & MJG nationwide. Stop it. Mobb Deep went gold, gold, then 2x platinum on 3 consecutive albums. 8Ball and MJG went gold once. I don't think UGK ever went gold.

 

[BXKingPin82]

What is your definition of huge?

stop it
got you back of the woods muthafukkas comin in this bytch speakin on Hip Hop shyt
disgusting
reppin North CAC
when did you muthafukkas even get Hip Hop?

 

[ajnapoleon]

Should prodigy and 2pac have had a ballet battle instead?

I swear people just want to forget tupac was taken ballet and the performance art school and it has been said after filming juice he BECAME bishop!!


pac was a great artist but damn the nikka was 5'6 160 lbs soaking wet!!! he had no hands he even said he can't fight and would drop to the floor and kick and cover his head.


i keep saying as time goes on the Jordan/Pac myth will only grow and grow....I was there during both runs but damn


Jordan never lost a game and always hit game winners and won games all by himself (fukk pippen,ho grant, kerr, and phil jordan taught them how to win!!!)

and pac was a gang banger and was whopping ass ( but he was not wearing a nose ring and getting 100,000 in cash for selling diamond in those days and not doing the humpty dance in tiger striped speedo's with the ass out )

 

[H.I.M.]

the mid-90s were not the golden age of records sales. and you cant measure status by just record sales anyway.

mobb deep was bigger than those groups.

the east coast equivalent to ugk/mjg is cnn/mop.

8Ball's solo debut outsold The Infamous & Hell On Earth combined

 

[28 Gramz]

stop it
got you back of the woods muthafukkas comin in this bytch speakin on Hip Hop shyt
disgusting
reppin North CAC
when did you muthafukkas even get Hip Hop?

Call a song that never charted in the top 50 huge brehs

 

[Wacky D]

8Ball's solo debut outsold The Infamous & Hell On Earth combined

a TRIPLE cd.

and a different era.

and lets be reality, most rap fans never bothered to listen to it.

I swear people just want to forget tupac was taken ballet and the performance art school and it has been said after filming juice he BECAME bishop!!


pac was a great artist but damn the nikka was 5'6 160 lbs soaking wet!!! he had no hands he even said he can't fight and would drop to the floor and kick and cover his head.


i keep saying as time goes on the Jordan/Pac myth will only grow and grow....I was there during both runs but damn


Jordan never lost a game and always hit game winners and won games all by himself (fukk pippen,ho grant, kerr, and phil jordan taught them how to win!!!)

and pac was a gang banger and was whopping ass ( but he was not wearing a nose ring and getting 100,000 in cash for selling diamond in those days and not doing the humpty dance in tiger striped speedo's with the ass out )

jada already confirmed that pac did NOT take ballet lessons.

who says he became bishop after juice besides his enemies?

im not saying pac was anywhere near a super-thug. and i agree with the jordan stuff. but i cant cosign the overall.

 

[28 Gramz]

I lived in Virginia and Mobb Deep got tons of love.

And they were much bigger than UGK and 8Ball & MJG nationwide. Stop it. Mobb Deep went gold, gold, then 2x platinum on 3 consecutive albums. 8Ball and MJG went gold once. I don't think UGK ever went gold.

Ridin Dirty sold 850k..and like I said..going gold wasn't a big thing in the 90's. nikkas like C-Bo,Spice 1 and E-40 sold just as much as much Mobb Deep back then. Quiet Storm set them off to the nationwide listeners..as did Big Pimpin for UGK.