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

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

Verse is garbo btw


The og version without Kim is a lot better.
 

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a TRIPLE cd.

and a different era.

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





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.

From my understanding (and I've read books about this time period of his life) . . he just studied the art and history of ballet, meanwhile he was a b-boy outside of school. When a couple guys who were up to no good started making trouble in his neighborhood, he got in one little fight and his mom got scared and said you're moving with your auntie and uncle in the Bay Area
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And? That shyt had no impact outside of NY. Not only that but their card was pulled as soon as Snoop and DPG kicked down the buildings in NY NY with a video in NY and mobb deep made LA LA but they filmed it in NY :mjlol:

Nobody took em seriously and Pac would have demolished em worse had he stayed alive. I know this truth hurts worse than P's sickle cell

Mobb deep dropped more of a dud than a gem
Nikka Mobb Deep use to perform LA LA in LA at the height of the beef
 

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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.


going gold was a big thing for artists like mobb deep cuz their main markets were bootleg central.

big pimpin didnt do anything for UGK. i dont know why people on here pretend that it did.
 

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a TRIPLE cd.

and a different era.

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

It was double disc album with a sampler bonus disc attached :stopitslime:

It was counted as a double album...meaning one million+ units sold...the same amount as the infamous & hell on earth combined...and sold more than prodigy and havoc's solo discog put together.

And i'm from the East Coast and Mobb Deep were a non-factor (pre quiet storm) back then in my city...but you can find nikkas that were bumpin Ball&G and UGK tho :sas2:
 

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Shook Ones being a huge song is a lie.

The south jokes are about 10 years too late...the biggest rapper in your boro sounds like he's from Atlanta :mjlol:


muthafukka sound like he from outerspace
tell me... who the fukk is French Montana?
 

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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.

Stop making sensible posts!!!!
 
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