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Shyne came home with the same voice.

Or better yet didn't have to do the bid and got off at trial without having to take that, take that, take that.
 

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What if Flesh N Bone was featured on all of the songs instead of Wish

What if Median was the 2nd half of Little Brother (as originally planned) instead of Big Pooh
 

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What if 50 Cent was able to keep some of the songs/beats he ended up giving to Game for his 2nd album?

What if Kanye dropped Yandhi instead of Jesus Is King?

What if Jay-Z never dropped Takeover?

What if Dr. Dre dropped Detox?
 

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What if 9-3 didn't happen? Or at least not in the way it did where everyone was jockin the West steez.

What if BIG never met Pac? No Hennessy, no enemies. No birthdays, no worst days. Just party and BS.

What if Scarface the movie never existed? How different would the landscape of hip hop look at this moment without its influence?
 
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What if the West Coast's music industry was in the Bay Area instead of LA?

What if Dre 3000 didn't bytch up about rapping?

What if file sharing didn't exist?
 
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What if the Makaveli bootlegs hadn't leaked? Would we have heard something closer to the OGs on retail eventually?

What if artists didn't feed the streets with mixtapes full of materials for free? Some careers definitely would've played differently.

What if all beefs were handled on wax a test of skills without resorting to flashing the metal? Take it from the shoulders if you want to go further than pushing a pen...
 

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What if R&B + Hip Hop stayed as two separate lanes?

What if the fans didn't accept rappers recycling the same handful of topics again and again and again?

What if rap wasn't the dominant global culture at the same time as the web spread to further its corrosive influence across the planet, unchecked.
 

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What if in the early 90s rap didn't shift to destructive topics?
 

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What if THE D.O.C didn't lose his voice, history would have been re-written.

I was bumping this today on the way home. He gave Dre, Cube a home run with Helter Skelter. Dre was on that BS




What if Big L didn't get killed?? Hardest punchlines in the game, razor sharp flow, deep vocabulary.

 

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what if 504 boyz came out in 98 as the P, Silkk, Mystikal album it was supposed to be?

what if Tank Doggs (Cmurder, Mac, Fiend, Snoop) dropped right after that?

what if Turk and Mannie Fresh dropped solos when Cash Money was at its apex?

what if RZA's flood never happens?

what if Jay X and Ja as Murder INC comes to fruition?

what if Silkk the Shocker had the same bars but flowed in the pocket?

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