Which rapper fell off from the highest plateau?

[Sampson]

I'd say DMX and Ja (I personnaly stopped checking for him after his 1st album thb)...but didn't Nelly just move on to other stuff?



Word? I always thought P was set for life and knew how to handle his dough

Lyrically Prodigy gets the obvious nod...low key I might have to mention...Inspektah deck, I mean he's still got it but compared to late 90s Deck, he fell off a lot IMO, Iwas anticipating his verses big time back then but now I always anticipate being disappointed...

Not sure if related or worthy of another thread, but what happened to Bone Thugs, MOP, Redman, Keith Murray, Sermon...did they just "retire" or dropped projects I didn't hear of/fell off?

The project, called "Uncle P," starred the rapper alongside comedians Cheech Marin and Ken Jeong. In 2003, crewmembers reportedly sued Master P for nonpayment and a judge ruled that he owed them $240,000. Now, though, sources report that the rapper never paid his crewmembers. In a second attempt to collect their salaries, crewmembers have filed a lawsuit with the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Court.

If the court rules to force Master P into bankruptcy, a court-appointed trustee will take financial control of his assets and distribute them among creditors as the court deems appropriate. Now, though, almost a decade has elapsed since the first court order mandating payment. The creditor crewmembers are reportedly requesting far more than the original amount because of the interest that could have accrued on the payment had it been distributed on time.

A forced bankruptcy case would not be the first financial difficulty Master P has faced. In 2003, he filed for bankruptcy protection for his record label, No Limit Records. Master P had founded the label in 1990 and after significant success in the 1990s, the label spread itself too thin and lost many of its profitable acts.

Following the bankruptcy reorganization, Master P launched New No Limit Records, which was distributed by Koch Records.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Ja Rule...till this day I STILL feel that if Ja would have just ignored 50..he would still be at the top right now..

 

[MaccabeanRebel]

I'm going with canibus. I literally get sad comparing current bis with 98 version of bis. Like dude was on a totally different level. I still fukk with him though. He switched his style to be strictly metaphors and is on that spiritual enlightenment tip...but he was sick with those punchlines back in the day. I still get chills listening to some of them old freestyles

 

[OHSNAP!]

DMX
Mase
Ja Rule

win this hands down. at least some are still making a bit of noise here n there (Nelly, Master P, Cam, Cube), but these 3 clowns are DEAD in the music game

 

[OHSNAP!]

A forced bankruptcy case would not be the first financial difficulty Master P has faced. In 2003, he filed for bankruptcy protection for his record label, No Limit Records. Master P had founded the label in 1990 and after significant success in the 1990s, the label spread itself too thin and lost many of its profitable acts.

Following the bankruptcy reorganization, Master P launched New No Limit Records, which was distributed by Koch Records.

dumbass. he filed bankrupcy for No Limit just to start another label. not because he couldn't afford it any longer

P still got $

 

[Izanami]

In terms of pure lyricism and being a top 5 emcee. i'm going with Eminem. Arguably had never spit a weak verse pre Encore. Had the best run from 99-02. Killed every feature dropped dope albums but now we got Recovery era Em who couldt hold a candle to the old EM

 

[Xecutioner]

I know they were not big time rap stars but I'm going to have to say Beanie Sigel and Young Buck. Every time I listen to that Beanie Green Lantern mixtape I shake my head disgust at where he is now.

 

[FaTaL]

whoever did dancing with the stars

 

[DANJ!]

DMX wins this... or loses, I guess you could say. Some of these other dudes being mentioned aren't as hot as they used to be, or whatever have you... but nobody got as high (so to speak) and fell as low as X did. As popular as he was, he should at least still have his own little core audience or somethin'... dude has fallen off so bad on every level of his life, his career is dead.

And Lauryn Hill... I don't know what happened to her- whether she mentally broke down, or got on drugs, or dealin' with the Marley dude, or some behind the scenes issues with the industry that she won't speak on. But she had everything at her feet when she won all those Grammies and was selling like crazy. Granted, most people who get to that level are eventually bound to get torn down by the same people who built them up anyway. But in her case, she tore herself down off the pedestal before anyone else got the chance to. Whatever got to her must've been real fukked up because the one thing she always seemed to love was making/performing/putting out music, and she got so far away from it, she's never been able to fully get back to it. And now she's headed to jail.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

Nelly just had monster smash across europe and worldwide with 'still a dream' .... He knows there is not much money in albums when he was always considered a hit maker rather than a great rapper. So his making single/itune/radio play money.

Lauryn Hill is a scum bag and wanted people to go on a million man march before she puts out records, no one is begging that b1tch she never fell off .... she's just be studying e-hollywood disasters and trying to force legendary by her name.

Its not DMX fault the game moved on and he is too chaotic in his ways, he still makes music for his fans and hiphop unlike Lauryn.

Mase is being featured on Kanye's new good album .... Mase is Kanye's favorite rapper and his last one 'welcome back' was solid went gold. Mase never fell off, the game moved on and there is not much money in it.

The award for highest falling off probably someone like Chingy or Young berg, where they self-ethered their way out of all media outlets.

Most in the 90s are still on right now, ..... 50 cent had a big drop. If not Chingy then 50 Cent.

 

[DANJ!]

^^^Yung Berg???

The thread is asking us who fell off from the highest plateau... what high plateau was Berg ever on?

 

[Majestic Pape]

I don't really think it's that fair to bring up money when comparing how X and 50 fell off. I have the feeling that money never meant that much to DMX in the first place, definitely not as much as to somebody like 50 who prides himself on being a "businessman".

 

[RajWatts]

its Ja. He was at the top of the game not only from a hip-hop standpoint but on the pop level as well, and there's no other rapper who has gone from Pop Icon to Irrelevant so fast.

 

[MrPentatonic]

I cant decide between the two but its tragic, ones in jail and one is a hard drug addict.

You would think the taste of success would draw them away from that life.

 

[BlackZilla]

It has to be Nas.

Smarten up Nas. You had a spark when you started but now you're just garbage. Went from top 5 to not mentioned at all, till the bodyguard's "Oochi-Wallie" verse was better than yours.