Why Dont The Internets Acknowledge The CLASSIC "We Are The Streets" By THE LOX??

[Benefited]

f*ck outta here. I stand stern behind everything I said. YOURE THE ONE that was beating around the bushes for 5 pages

I stand by the bolded as well. Eminem fueled the album sales. west coast was the only streets that got behind that album IN GENERAL. and they prolly only did that cuz they were desperate at that point. plus, the "up in smoke tour" crowds were flagrantly white. THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING P*SSY.

this is that nerd talk that people are complaining about.

lol @ exposal. I just shut that chit down. you don't even know what an exposal is, evidently.
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You never shut anything down,you didn't deny you said what he said you said about 2001,which is a pure exposal of you at its finest.

You have the nerve to say only the west coast streets fukked with 2001,but then you put The Lox "We Are The Streets" on a pedestal as if it really had the streets locked enough for you to call people nerds who didn't love it or think its classic

Realistically having the streets locked on the west coast like you admit 2001 did,actually means more than supposedly having the streets locked on the east. For the fact that nerds love that same brand of hiphop the streets do on the east. To think rap nerds don't like lyricism whether its from street nikkas or not shows why you are a baby in this.

You obviously were in your east coast incubator when 2001 came out,or just on the porch,which is likely the case. All of you wanna be tough guys who rallied behind the Lox as they campaigned to gain there freedom, from the big bad shiny suit man who the REAL nerds hated with a passion. Not even realizing how goofy it was for 3 supposed street nikkas to publically campaign and beg to gain there freedom from Puff Daddy

The true nerds/goofies were you babies who passionately fought alongside them emotionally.But you've already admitted they had the streets locally though,no need to stay defensive and push this "You guys aren't from the streets like me" nonsense.

It made no real waves,and did nothing but appease the streets they dissapointed on their debut. A debut people outside of NY were not checking for like that either.

 

[JustCKing]

ARE YOU STUPID?? OR ARE YOU JUST TRYING TO TWIST MY WORDS??

I was saying that the lox didn't hit their stride when they were on bad boy - which is what you were referring to when you were saying that the lox came out not too long after mobb deep.

are you saying that the early 2000s weren't more organic than what rap is now??

the lox didn't get a big push from interscope, outside of the doofy single. so no, even if I didn't like the LOX, I wouldn't say that.

I said that mobb deep was BORDERLINE old school. meaning they were on the downside, and not on the forefront of hip-hop anymore. same other legendary groups of their era - including wutang and my favorite group - bone thugs. I guess youre gonna accuse me of downplaying my favorite group next right?

Obviously, they didn't hit their stride with WATS either.

The 2000's weren't more organic than the 90s. Nobody brought up this decade.

They did get a push. They had a single produced by Timbaland and a big budget video. That is a push.

They weren't borderline old school. These groups were still big deals. This was 2000 not 2005.

 

[JustCKing]

no bro, its the way you conduct yourself.

if you conduct yourself like this in real life, regardless of the topic, you would get f*cked up around the wrong people.

which makes it all the more hilarious that youre trying to speak on a LOX album.

Conduct myself. Breh, you in threads typing insults in all caps talking about scrapping. If we talking conduct, you are a child. If not, you way too old to be on a message board talking about scrapping over words on a screen.

You are far from the wrong people. You wanna be street so bad. It explains why you hold an album like WATS in high regard: gotta have something to live vicariously through when real life just ain't cutting it.

 

[TrifeGod]

i lost the cd
then lost the burnt copy
then had a hard drive crash and lost my entire d-block collection plus random freestyle tracks i got from that ruffryders fanmade website back in the day

i know what im doing this weekend

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

You never shut anything down,you didn't deny you said what he said you said about 2001,which is a pure exposal of you at its finest.

You have the nerve to say only the west coast streets fukked with 2001,but then you put The Lox "We Are The Streets" on a pedestal as if it really had the streets locked enough for you to call people nerds who didn't love it or think its classic

Realistically having the streets locked on the west coast like you admit 2001 did,actually means more than supposedly having the streets locked on the east. For the fact that nerds love that same brand of hiphop the streets do on the east. To think rap nerds don't like lyricism whether its from street nikkas or not shows why you are a baby in this.

You obviously were in your east coast incubator when 2001 came out,or just on the porch,which is likely the case. All of you wanna be tough guys who rallied behind the Lox as they campaigned to gain there freedom, from the big bad shiny suit man who the REAL nerds hated with a passion. Not even realizing how goofy it was for 3 supposed street nikkas to publically campaign and beg to gain there freedom from Puff Daddy

The true nerds/goofies were you babies who passionately fought alongside them emotionally.But you've already admitted they had the streets locally though,no need to stay defensive and push this "You guys aren't from the streets like me" nonsense.

It made no real waves,and did nothing but appease the streets they dissapointed on their debut. A debut people outside of NY were not checking for like that either.

how am I exposing myself with the 2001 comments, aside from making you feel corny & hurting your little feelings?

there were like a handful of people that were already dissing nerds in this thread before I said anything about yall.

well, I remember the LOX getting heavy burn in southern states as well, and I'm not even the first person to mention that in this thread either. but if you insist on categorizing the lox as an east coast classic, then its whatever. AND THATS ALL I SAID. I didn't wave the proverbial white flag or any of that chit that youre trying to paint.

dr dre's 2001 album aint have it like that buddy.

and lol @ "all of you wannabe tough guys" YOU DONT KNOW ME. you obviously have something personal against the LOX, like they might've been amongst the favorite rappers of the people that used to bully you in school or something.

how did I fight alongside the LOX emotionally? I never even bought this album. I'm not even that big of a fan really. I'm just acknowledging a classic. LOL. obviously, YOURE THE ONE with the emotional investment here, buddy.

and I'm not from new York either, so you can dead the "only in new York" argument as well. I'm not even sure if new York was their #1 market.

 

[MikelArteta]

type of cd i had to hide from my mom but bumped on my riovolt cd player

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Conduct myself. Breh, you in threads typing insults in all caps talking about scrapping. If we talking conduct, you are a child. If not, you way too old to be on a message board talking about scrapping over words on a screen.

You are far from the wrong people. You wanna be street so bad. It explains why you hold an album like WATS in high regard: gotta have something to live vicariously through when real life just ain't cutting it.

I was just trying to HELP your dumbass.

you clearly have a mental condition. its like you cant comprehend chit for chit.

how does me saying "I'm considered to be too nice of a guy" translate into me "wanting to be street" and "living vicariously through the LOX"???

weirdo.

 

[feelosofer]

Just because you have love for an album doesn't make it a classic.

 

[JustCKing]

I was just trying to HELP your dumbass.

you clearly have a mental condition. its like you cant comprehend chit for chit.

You need to help yourself. Posts like the one above proves you need it far more than I do.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Obviously, they didn't hit their stride with WATS either.

The 2000's weren't more organic than the 90s. Nobody brought up this decade.

They did get a push. They had a single produced by Timbaland and a big budget video. That is a push.

They weren't borderline old school. These groups were still big deals. This was 2000 not 2005.

I NEVER SAID THE 2000S WERE MORE ORGANIC THAN THE '90s!!!!!
I said the 2000s were more organic than today. AND I SAID THAT TWICE!!!! the 2nd time, I said it with EMPHASIS.

go back and read my post. I said the LOX didn't get a big push aside from that single. youre basically repeating what I said, dikkhead.

when you start dropping to lower tiers, youre bordering old school territory breh. if you were in high school in the early 2000s, then those groups were moreso elementary/middle school music.......that's also another reason why that dr dre 2001 album wasn't as big of a deal as you think.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

You need to help yourself. Posts like the one above proves you need it far more than I do.

you need to enroll at Sylvan.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Just because you have love for an album doesn't make a classic.

I didn't say it does.

instead of coming in here with generic rebuttals that don't apply, why don't you read the posts where we broke down reasons why its a classic, from the quality of the music to the impact/influence of it.

 

[JustCKing]

I NEVER SAID THE 2000S WERE MORE ORGANIC THAN THE '90s!!!!!
I said the 2000s were more organic than today. AND I SAID THAT TWICE!!!! the 2nd time, I said it with EMPHASIS.

go back and read my post. I said the LOX didn't get a big push aside from that single. youre basically repeating what I said, dikkhead.

when you start dropping to lower tiers, youre bordering old school territory breh. if you were in high school in the early 2000s, then those groups were moreso elementary/middle school music.......that's also another reason why that dr dre 2001 album wasn't as big of a deal as you think.

Blah, blah. More made up criteria from someone who doesn't know any better.

You made a state about the 90's and then followed with the 2000's were more organic. Now, nobody was even talking about now, so I don't even know how the statement was even relevant, yet I'm the one who needs Sylvan.

 

[feelosofer]

I didn't say it does.

instead of coming in here with generic rebuttals that don't apply, why don't you read the posts where we broke down reasons why its a classic, from the quality of the music to the impact/influence of it.

But it isn't a classic even by your own standards, you're making the argument but it isn't sticking, you have people refuting that this even their best album. Just so you know, I like this album a lot and I do think the album has classic songs but this wasn't even the better than And There Was X. If the streets were so buzzing why didn't this album push them into superstardom, why was the only rapper to really benefit (marginally) was Jada.

What rappers now, named this album as an influence?
Is this a top 50 hip-hop album of time?
Was it even the best album to come out in 2000?

 

[JustCKing]

Nothing on We Are The Streets is even as classic as "Money, Power, Respect" (the song). We Are The Streets didn't even push The Lox into that sphere to where they became an essential group in Hip Hop. If anything, and pretty much every comment in defense of the album supports this, the albun set up their solo albums.

As for them not hitting their stride, they had all the necessary tools to do it. They had huge looks from appearing on some of the biggest posse cuts ever fron "Benjamins" to "Resevoir Dogs". They were on the biggest albums to come out of Hip Hop at the time. They had a classic single, all before WATS.