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Why Dont The Internets Acknowledge The CLASSIC "We Are The Streets" By THE LOX??
- Thread starter Homeboy Runny-Ray
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...thought everybody considered this a classic...was a right of passage to rap over the fukk you beat on mixtapes back in the gap....yea some of the beats aint age to well but that's a lot of classic albums as well....think ppls hate for Swizz clouds their rankings...that tape got burn for a solid two years when it came out....yall telling me sumn new...
Mag149
Back flipped on the mattress they slept on me on
That has to be the worst song in their collective catalogues (solo and group). The fact that he pointed to that song as proof just negated his whole argument.
pointproven214
i speak facts not emotions
lol at we are the streets not being a classic
Borderline old school is a far cry from saying the climate changed. You aren't even remotely old school if you are thriving (dropping one of your best efforts and it also happens to be one of your most successful albums). That's a reach. You made up an excuse and used a "borderline old school" argument to downplay Mobb Deep like they weren't bigger than The Lox.
I didn't misquote you. Your statement about the 2000's being more organic had nothing in it comparing it to now. You went from talking about the 90's to saying the 00's were more organic.
Point is you shouldn't be attempting to diagnose anyone with ANYTHING based on words on a screen. You sensitive and lack the social skills to debate and develop your points without being in your feelings like a hurt female and start hurling insults.
Proof that the OP is incapable of bein articulate is this thread. A breakdown of why this album, or at least why the OP thinks the album is classic should've been in the opening post. Other posters shouldn't be doing the OP's work. Additionally, if you're making a claim such as this, and saying it's one of the most influential and impactful albums on NY's streets, it should be explained. Who else crafted their albums after it? What other groups/artists have albums that sound like WATS? Then to kill the entire premise of the thread by conceding that it was an East Coast classic just shows the OP is on that BS.
Quality: no. Maybe 156th best album of 2000
Influence/longetivity: around zero. DMX, RR as an unit and Eve at this time: yes, Lox at this time: minimal (Jada was hot in the streets, that had nothing to do with WATS)
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Influence/longetivity: around zero. DMX, RR as an unit and Eve at this time: yes, Lox at this time: minimal (Jada was hot in the streets, that had nothing to do with WATS)
OP lost
ZEB WALTON
ayo! - BEZ
I remember this album being pretty big with people but not really my cup of tea. The casio sound is mad repetitive and even tho i sont have a problem with 75 percent of the album per say, i cant help but feel tired hearing repeating keys on every beat. Considering hip hop at this point had been a marriage between sampling and keyboards, it just geta damn repetetive. Tho it had a few classics joints.. tye premo beat wasnt a must have banger but it was dope and gave much needed variety to the albuks sound. That typa relaxed simple beat worked so well with their simple keyboards. Hasnt aged that badly upon a relisten.
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
you can be completely old school and continue to be successful.
borderline old school means that youre past your heyday, on the back-end of your run, and you may be on borrowed time. it doesn't mean that youre washed up, or anything like that.
mobb deep wasn't bigger than the LOX in the streets by this point. they weren't even remotely on the LOX level. mobb deep had a big remix with lil kim, and a white fanbase, so they sold more records. but they weren't the rave. nobody in 99-00 wanted to sound like them. nobody wanted to be like them. this wasn't 95-96. those days were over.
show me where I said in those words that "the 2000s were more organic than the '90s".
until you can do that, shut the f*ck up.
you do this dumb chit in every thread, regardless of the topic.
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Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
lol @ the bolded.
the lox were the main influence over east coast street rap from like 98 to present day.
how is that not influence/longevity?
WATS is the main reason why jada's solo was so anticipated.
just say you didn't like the album and youre not really up on them like that.
cuz all this other stuff youre doing is just making you look bad. like really bad.
I think UGK's ridin dirty is meh, but youre not gonna see me up here saying that they had no impact/influence/longevity in their jurisdiction. i'd be talking out of my ass if I went that far.
It's a dope album
you can be completely old school and continue to be successful.
borderline old school means that youre past your heyday, on the back-end of your run, and you may be on borrowed time. it doesn't mean that youre washed up, or anything like that.
mobb deep wasn't bigger than the LOX in the streets by this point. they weren't even remotely on the LOX level. mobb deep had a big remix with lil kim, and a white fanbase, so they sold more records. but they weren't the rave. nobody in 99-00 wanted to sound like them. nobody wanted to be like them. this wasn't 95-96. those days were over.
show me where I said in those words that "the 2000s were more organic than the '90s".
until you can do that, shut the f*ck up.
you do this dumb chit in every thread, regardless of the topic.[/QUOTE]
You can't be borderline old school in Hip Hop and continue to thrive. Once people start looking at you as even remotely old school, you aren't successful because you aren't connecting with newer fans. You trying to save face with that garbage. They were coming off a three year hiatus at that.
More excuses. Using that weak white fan base argument. The Lox had a Timbaland produced lead single and a red hot Swizz Beatz helming their album, the benefits of RR being one of the hottest crews and that album still failed to be huge like you are trying to make it seem.
In terms of impact and influence, We Are The Streets had zilch which was my point.
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
don't tell me how to conduct my threads.
my threads do numbers, while I cant think of one thread that you've ever made.
I'm not even from new York. I see what youre trying to do. trying to minimize them into a local phenomenon. youre funny.
I didn't concede to chit. and I corrected you and the other dude on this multiple times already.
I said, if you consider it an east coast classic, that fair, but it got heavy play outside of the east coast too. I didn't agree to it being just an east coast classic or anything of that nature. so stop trying to force the narrative that I did.
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
yes, you can, if you can carve out a niche. ll cool j has been borderline old school since like '93. he dropped 15 years worth of endless hits since then.
but yea, otherwise its rough - hence, mobb deep's follow-up album going nowhere and they were done.
and as for newer fans, most young bucks coming up at the time in middle/high school, weren't checking for mobb deep like that, unless they were longtime rap fans like myself & remember the infamous era. or maybe if theyre from NY or something. other than that, they were your big brother's music at best. same thing with M.O.P. & the CNN reunion.
it just wasn't there time. LET IT GO. its not that serious.
I'm not even gonna waste time arguing with you about the LOX impact. youre not even qualified to speak on that type of chit.
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Infamy wasn't Mobb's biggest album, but still successful. Mobb didn't border on old school until they started hopping on trends first with crunk and outsourcing their production to the hit makers of the time i.e. Kanye produced "Throw Your Hands" and they still didn't get results. I like the album, but it was their worst one until Blood Money.
Yes, there were teens at the time that became Mobb fans on the strength of "Quiet Storm" and "It's Mine". And if we really talking about albums setting up solos, Murda Muzik set up Prodigy especially coming off the original "Quiet Storm".
