Your Top 10 Albums Of 1999

[mobbinfms]

im like the culture-shock boogeyman to some of you dweebs.

this dude in here talking about "mos def's album was the soundtrack to our lives." LOL. man if you don't GTF with that chitty-chit.

Mos’ album really was the album that brought the backpack Rawkus scene mainstream. I’ve never heard anyone in real life or online speak as negatively of it as you did here.

 

[mobbinfms]

their top-seller because the remix was their biggest hit and it occurred in the midst of the sales boom.

The remix wasn’t their biggest hit.

it wasn't infamous.
not even close to "hell on earth

So? What does that have to do with them being perceived as slightly old school?

and theres was a new generation of stars & styles that pushed them to the side.

I agree that hip hop had changed dramatically since HOE, but not to the point where Mobb Were pushed to the side.
Plus havoc updated the sound. MM doesn’t sound like HOE.

just saying it should come as no shock that theyre not in my top 10.

It’s not surprising to me. Your top ten is South heavy. I wouldn’t expect Mobb to be there.

 

[mobbinfms]

and youre conveniently dancing around the part that they lost steam in comparison to their two previous albums.

The album as a whole wasn’t as good as HOE, but Quiet Storm felt bigger than the singles from HOE even though they charged higher. It was their first platinum plaque. It got good reviews. P got rhyme of the year in the Source. How did they lose steam?

see that youre not even willing to admit that they fell out of the top-tier in their own town

Mobb Deep was still top tier NY rap in 99.

 

[Wacky D]

What does Missy and Timbaland have to do with this discussion? Poke fun all you want, but if you want to throw them out there like that, Timbaland is a huge part of the reason The Lox was "poppin" in late 1999 going into 2000.

that garbage ass "ryde or die chick" song??

that bullchit was just the token mainstream single.

 

[Wacky D]

Mos’ album really was the album that brought the backpack Rawkus scene mainstream. I’ve never heard anyone in real life or online speak as negatively of it as you did here.

that's because the only people that care enough to speak about the album are his fans.

further proof that the chit wasn't really poppin like that. cuz when youre poppin, you become a general topic with people who aren't necessarily fans and so forth. youre gonna acquire haters as well.

also, rawkus already had the mainstream exposure before that.
and they were backed by some old rich guy's son or something.

 

[mobbinfms]

of course if an advanced copy comes out early, people are gonna be on it. that doesn't mean that they were top-tier.

There were multiple different versions of the bootleg. People were starving for more Mobb. That doesn’t happen with a group that’s not in the top tier

 

[Wacky D]

There were multiple different versions of the bootleg. People were starving for more Mobb. That doesn’t happen with a group that’s not in the top tier

they were in the top-tier when they LAST dropped an album.

and their last album was great. so of course people are gonna be starving for a follow-up.

whats your point?

 

[The_Third_Man]

internal affair- Pharaohe Monch
Things Fall Apart- The Roots
Murda Muzik- Mobb Deep
Slim Shady Lp- Eminem
Dr.Dre 2001- Dr.Dre
Focused Daily- Defari
Beneath The Surface- Gza
Black on both sides- Mos Def
I am- Nas
Then there was X- DMX

 

[Wacky D]

The album as a whole wasn’t as good as HOE, but Quiet Storm felt bigger than the singles from HOE even though they charged higher. It was their first platinum plaque. It got good reviews. P got rhyme of the year in the Source. How did they lose steam?

Mobb Deep was still top tier NY rap in 99.

with the exception of bad boy, just about everybody on the east coast sold more in '99 than they did in '96.
sales-boom crazy.

quiet storm REMIX with lil kim was their biggest hit, but why didn't the original prodigy solo video blow up?? it had the same exact beat.

top-tier NY rappers in '99??
DMX
jay-z
nas
the lox
noreaga
big pun
busta maybe?

that's already too many rappers to fit into one tier. i might have to drop a couple names.
and they were all hotter than mobb deep in '99.

with that said, maybe NY had an extra hometown affinity for mobb deep, that im not aware of. but from a regional perspective, they weren't a top-tier act coming out of NY.
and that's not even counting the rest of the east coast acts. sheesh.

 

[Wacky D]

The remix wasn’t their biggest hit.

So? What does that have to do with them being perceived as slightly old school?


I agree that hip hop had changed dramatically since HOE, but not to the point where Mobb Were pushed to the side.
Plus havoc updated the sound. MM doesn’t sound like HOE.



It’s not surprising to me. Your top ten is South heavy. I wouldn’t expect Mobb to be there.

what was their biggest hit then?

the game still shifted quick back then. it was still about the hot new chit.
and by '99, we were in a whole new era. all-new flavor, tons of new stars.
meanwhile mobb deep still kicking that old chit and not even doing it nearly as well as they used to. of course theyre gonna fall down a few pegs. so did wutang, BCC, my Onyx, and pretty much everybody else who peaked years prior. it was a new day bro. LET IT GO.

im not saying they were completely brushed to the side. of course not. but they weren't big dogs anymore.

and yea, havoc updated his sound but a lot of people weren't on that type of time anymore bro. their whole sound, style, delivery, flow, bars, etc. all that chit was dated in comparison to what was REALLY going on in the streets.

i got the cassette out right now, and it still smells like a brand new tape.LOL.
looking at the booklet, and theyre posing like the older guys that just came home in a club full of youngns

 

[Wacky D]

nikka New York is where shyt HAPPENED. It’s where the labels n everything was at. Most of the time if it was poppin here. It was poppin everywhere. Especially a fukkin platinum album. U was on the East Coast too. U should know better. And by the way. My mentor was doing gigs across the world. Even in Africa. I wasn’t runnin wit no local nikkas.

you always come up with these elaborate scenarios.

now this un-named dude was DJ'ing in Africa.

this reminds me of when he had that PAUSE argument cuz i said treach was considered a bigger sex symbol than pac.
then suddenly, you mother-in-law, who allegedly knew 2pac, just-so-happened to be roaming around your house at one in the morning on a weeknight and stopped whatever she was doing, to interject in our message board argument, in favor of pac.


COLI CLASSICS

 

[mobbinfms]

"yo i could never get enough of it, yo that's my chit, i need that chit to boost my adrenaline. yo rock that chit. that real life chit"

Take a walk jerk
This ain’t Levert
Sweat and Johnny Gill
This is rap for real
Something you feel

 

[spliz]

you always come up with these elaborate scenarios.

now this un-named dude was DJ'ing in Africa.

this reminds me of when he had that PAUSE argument cuz i said treach was considered a bigger sex symbol than pac.
then suddenly, you mother-in-law, who allegedly knew 2pac, just-so-happened to be roaming around your house at one in the morning on a weeknight and stopped whatever she was doing, to interject in our message board argument, in favor of pac.


COLI CLASSICS

Fam. I do NOT have to front or lie for ANY of u internet nikkas. U understand me? Don’t try to shyt on my name real talk cause I’m one of the realest nikkas on this board. I consider u to be 100 too so if u disagree with me fine do that but don’t try to play me. We can end this shyt right here.

 

[Wacky D]

Fam. I do NOT have to front or lie for ANY of u internet nikkas. U understand me? Don’t try to shyt on my name real talk cause I’m one of the realest nikkas on this board. I consider u to be 100 too so if u disagree with me fine do that but don’t try to play me. We can end this shyt right here.

im not gonna lie.

i blushed ta the bolded.

 

[JustCKing]

that garbage ass "ryde or die chick" song??

that bullchit was just the token mainstream single.

"Bu, bu, The Lox were poppin' in 1999", yet you're in here dissing the only song they remotely had poppin at the tail end of 1999. .