What rappers had the weirdest careers?

[maxamusa]

I'm so not that familiar with him other than he got killed when he was bubbling. What's his story?

Chicago drill rapper from the same hood that produced the whole scene.

Was a known hitter out on his last strike and started rapping n went viral. Durk put him on. Known for street storytelling rap. Actually writes music.

Had a lot of open cases and got killed stepping to another rapper on camera.





Ended up having like over a dozen confirmed bodies or some crazy shyt including women and kids(but he started hitting in his teens)


For someone who barely started rapping and blew up he was nice with it.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Mase is a good one


Rick Ross…dude was a tier 2/3 rapper while his peers were at the top then about 5 years into his career he becomes super popular for about 4 years only to be bushed again

 

[It is a mystery]

Saigon being on on a hit tv series playing as himself, introduced midway through as a recurring character (entourage) before his debut album even dropped

xxxtentacion's story is crazy too

 

[WIA20XX]

So many rappers

• How did they get on?
• Why was this even popular? This is trash by yesterday's standards, not just today's
• How did they fall off?
• Glad they shelved this record...

But when you say the word weird, my mind goes to the HorrorCore Era (i'd even throw in Ganksta Nip here for a bit)

• Gravediggaz -
  
• Flatlinerz
  
• Parts of Geto Boys/Bushwick Bill for a hot minute
  
• Esham
  

And most of all 3-6 Mafia

This is how they used to sound



But they somehow changed to this

 

[Reptile]

Plies was literally everywhere. Dropping shyt at a crazy pace. Then it just stopped. Now he known for sitting in his car on social media. shyt makes no sense to me at all. Idk wtf happend

A combination of that and this




Him resorting to being a satirical dating coach on social media kind of "confirmed" this in the masses eyes.

 

[Reptile]

This is how they used to sound



But they somehow changed to this

Whats weird about this? The songs you posted are damn near 20 years apart. You expect them to not change their sound at all?

 

[Youngdev]

Durk


Had a spark with a gold single, got cold, sold 4000 records, got dropped and then went on to have multiple plat albums

Gotta be one of the most strangest career arcs ever. That doesn't happen often if ever

 

[28 Gramz]

Wayne lowkey.

Went from a platinum selling kid star to C tier underground/mixtape artist, and rose back up to megastar status.

 

[Iverson_64]

50 Cent in all honesty for 2 different reasons.

The 1st reason is that nobody saw him actually becoming a huge mainstream sensation before GRODT dropped. He got blackballed and had to use mixtapes to catch back his buzz. There was always anticipation that he'd at least be Jadakiss or Camron levels of popular if he got signed to a major again but, prior to the Aftermath/Shady cosign, nobody really thought that 50 would completely dominate mainstream music the way he did in 03-05. Even 50 in that GRODT documentary said that he didn't expect to sell as much as he did with GRODT.

The 2nd reason which is opposite to what I just said is how hard 50 Cent fell off after dominating the scene. By 2009, 50 already felt like a relic of the past and despite having a solid diss track towards Ross(Tia Told Me), casual rap fans basically left him in the dust and assumed he retired after the 07 sales battle. BISD barely outsold Ross's album too which was a strong indicator that rap was leaving 50 behind. Then, as time went on, 50 slowed down on music(besides some tapes) and turned himself into a TV producer with Power and other shows. And now he's basically the Hood Tyler Perry and retired from the rap game.

So, 50's career took 2 major turns that people didn't see coming.

 

[duckbutta]

Joe Budden... laughed out of hip hop and forced to sit around and talk about a bunch of rap shyt cause his career was in the toilet, somehow stumbled onto "podcasting" and turned that into generational wealth.

Boosie...I legit can't believe this dude is alive with all the dirt he did in Louisiana. Dude had straight up kids dropping bodies for him back home. Got ran up out his home. It's crazy seeing him on social media knowing the shyt he was involved in. He another one of them dudes who when he 65 feds going to hit him with like 10 murder cases.

 

[Novembruh]

Rob Van Winkle going from background dancer to diamond record and owning a Queen song to telling ninjas to go, to bad rock music and then home renovation has been quite a life for Ice.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

50 Cent in all honesty for 2 different reasons.

The 1st reason is that nobody saw him actually becoming a huge mainstream sensation before GRODT dropped. He got blackballed and had to use mixtapes to catch back his buzz. There was always anticipation that he'd at least be Jadakiss or Camron levels of popular if he got signed to a major again but, prior to the Aftermath/Shady cosign, nobody really thought that 50 would completely dominate mainstream music the way he did in 03-05. Even 50 in that GRODT documentary said that he didn't expect to sell as much as he did with GRODT.

The 2nd reason which is opposite to what I just said is how hard 50 Cent fell off after dominating the scene. By 2009, 50 already felt like a relic of the past and despite having a solid diss track towards Ross(Tia Told Me), casual rap fans basically left him in the dust and assumed he retired after the 07 sales battle. BISD barely outsold Ross's album too which was a strong indicator that rap was leaving 50 behind. Then, as time went on, 50 slowed down on music(besides some tapes) and turned himself into a TV producer with Power and other shows. And now he's basically the Hood Tyler Perry and retired from the rap game.

So, 50's career took 2 major turns that people didn't see coming.

I feel like "blew up unexpectedly, hot for a minute, and then disappeared" is a pretty common career storyline though. 50's commercial peak was bigger than most but that's just a matter of degree.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

• Parts of Geto Boys/Bushwick Bill for a hot minute
  

When the fukk are we going to get our Bushwick Bill biopic? I don't mean a low-budget documentary, I want a Straight Outta Compton-style Hollywood flick. In the right writer and director's hand that could be Oscar material.

 

[Love Sosa]

Yung Berg. Signing to DMX at 16, after a few years having a couple successful hits, getting his chains snatched and getting beat up by females every week seemingly, to changing his name and becoming a successful pen.

 

[get these nets]

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Mase. Dude was a superstar out the gate. He went the most commercial route possible but he could really rap his ass off when he wanted. Could thrive in any lane. Most effortless charisma of any rapper in the wake of Pac and BIG passing. Floor for his career should have been Ludacris run in the 00s. But his second album was dead on arrival with the unexpected retirement and he just disappeared.

Heard everything from getting caught doing some activities in a Range Rover, to getting run out of NY by some street dudes. But he went to Atlanta so the aspect should not have been an issue and there's plenty stud

Magic Johnson signed on to be his manager after the 1st album + group project. Word is that his contract with Puff was such a terrible deal, that he tried to use the saved/leaving industry to preach route to get out of it.
And get back a year or to later.

Barry Sanders quit the Lions allegedly with the same ultimate goal

I remember Magic announcing being his manager and shortly afterward announcing Mase was retiring.

He quit ahead of the completion and rollout to album two, so not doing promo/ in stores, etc .Not sure if he recorded ant music videos for it.