Your least favorite hip hop narratives

[Tommy Gibbs]

Agree that the East Coast coming back was a movement, from the underground, to the gold and platinum level, but BIG was the face of it.

I can say as someone who was on the West Coast during this period and didn't get heavily into East Coast shyt until late 1994 and into 1995, BIG was the superstar and the face of East Coast hip hop after Juicy and Big Poppa took off. He was the face of the movement. Nobody else really approached that level until Nas in summer of '96.

But one act that always gets slept on in these conversations is Naughty By Nature. They got a lot of play out west.

yeah. them too!!! Hip hop Hurray was 1992 on their 2nd album. around the same time as the Chronic lol. Regardless if biggie was the face of the east coast, there were gold and platinum POPULAR hip hop albums after Death Row's rise and before RTD dropped. The narrative is that no one was fukking with east coast hip hop until RTD dropped, not if Biggie was the face of the east coast. Yo and Rap City from 92-95 wasn't playing just west coast hip hop.

 

[Mastamimd]

Speaking of Pac: him not "being lyrical" is probably the woat

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

em killed jay on renegade

It was a song where both rappers were talking about their clashes with the media and critics. nikkas weren't in a freestyle battle

I feel like it kicked off the most basic, low hanging fruit discussion you can have about rap especially on tracks that don't even warrant it. nikkas be on the internet talkin bout who killed who on still tippin

 

[spliz]

Kanye West has one of the best discographies in hip hop is one of the worst imo. If we stopped at MBDTF I might agree, but Ye, JIK, Yeezus, and the Dondas are all in the decent to mid of not worse range.

A nikka told me Ye got 6 classic albums. Lmao.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

"the game has the best discography of the last twenty years"

 

[Cladyclad]

"the game has the best discography of the last twenty years"

We need real narratives

not crazy people making up things

 

[Easy-E]

I’ll bite: “The south killed hip hop”

At this point; the South won. Who really is saying this, anymore?

 

[Deltron]

A nikka told me Ye got 6 classic albums. Lmao.

it's worst on youtube if you're in anything Eminem...them fukking stanleys said he got like 8 classics

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

em killed jay on renegade

It was a song where both rappers were talking about their clashes with the media and critics. nikkas weren't in a freestyle battle

I feel like it kicked off the most basic, low hanging fruit discussion you can have about rap especially on tracks that don't even warrant it. nikkas be on the internet talkin bout who killed who on still tippin

Jay fukked up by not writing to the beat and riding it like eminem. Eminem and Royce rode the beat. Jay placed a pre-written verse he already had on the beat which was awkward already and it just felt out of place.

 

[-DMP-]

Jay fukked up by not writing to the beat and riding it like eminem. Eminem and Royce rode the beat. Jay placed a pre-written verse he already had on the beat which was awkward already and it just felt out of place.

I never knew this. I always thought Em sounded more natural on the track but I just figured since he produced it, it fit his pocket better.

 

[MaxBundles]

Ask any nikka they top 5:
Big
Pac
Jay
Nas
Em


Andre 3000 is a GOAT

 

[imfromthesouthside]

“The Game brought the west back.” Not true yeah he blew up but it took years until 2012-2013 until K Dot and YG really brought the plaques home.

 

[Deltron]

I never knew this. I always thought Em sounded more natural on the track but I just figured since he produced it, it fit his pocket better.

i remember it dropped on a kayslay tape not long after BP dropped.

and I think in one of those histories of the Blueprint type of vids/articles, I remember reading/hearing that Em wanted to give him an original beat, but either Jay or him was on tour or some shyt, so he just sent renegade minus Royce

 

[Mastamimd]

Ask any nikka they top 5:
Big
Pac
Jay
Nas
Em


Andre 3000 is a GOAT

I hate that they're the defacto one but it ignores an entire region...Andre is usually mentioned because he's one of the most prolific from the South. I don't see why guys like Common, Scarface, Ice Cube and so many more people aren't mentioned more in these lists(hell Big Boi too).

 

[Deltron]

DJ quick being a legendary producer

he a legend...you don't fukk with quik's grooves?