Your Top 10 Albums Of 1999

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"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. :camby:.


if you think that's the only song that they had poppin, then you need to respectfully excuse yourself from this convo.
 

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if you think that's the only song that they had poppin, then you need to respectfully excuse yourself from this convo.

Then list the songs they had poppin in 1999. I'm talking Lox songs that were bigger than what Mobb Deep had going in 1999.
 

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Then list the songs they had poppin in 1999. I'm talking Lox songs that were bigger than what Mobb Deep had going in 1999.


its not gonna reasonate with you.

youre a mainstream guy.
 

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its not gonna reasonate with you.

youre a mainstream guy.

This has nothing to do with what resonates with me. Drop the songs.

And if you look at the list I dropped in this very thread, it nullifies me being a "mainstream guy".
 

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This has nothing to do with what resonates with me. Drop the songs.

And if you look at the list I dropped in this very thread, it nullifies me being a "mainstream guy".


the fact that you even have to ask, says it all.

youre just wasting my time with this.
 
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So they didn't have anything in 1999 that was poppin on the level of "It's Mine", "Quiet Storm" (OG and remix)?


all you did was list singles. this is why Im saying that youre out of your jurisdiction here.
and aside from the remix, the rest of that stuff wasn't poppin like that.

as for the lox, they destroyed just about every feature, freestyle & underground cut that they touched.
 

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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.
Or it means that everybody fukked with the album and thought MOs was dope.
I’m obviously not saying that he was as big as Jay and Nas or Mobb Deep, you know, top tier N.Y. guys at the time :mjlit:
Or anywhere near as big, but he was the biggest artist in his lane.

What was the Rawkus album as big as Black on Both Sides, before BOBS?
 

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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?
My point is they were top tier in 99.
 

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My point is they were top tier in 99.


:martin:

and I just gave you an over-crowded list of rappers from their own city who were hotter in '99.

and theres nothing wrong with that. only person from their class who was still top-tier was Nas, and his ass was on life-support not long afterwards.
 
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Or it means that everybody fukked with the album and thought MOs was dope.
I’m obviously not saying that he was as big as Jay and Nas or Mobb Deep, you know, top tier N.Y. guys at the time :mjlit:
Or anywhere near as big, but he was the biggest artist in his lane.

What was the Rawkus album as big as Black on Both Sides, before BOBS?


theres no such thing as an album that everybody f*cked with.
like I said, if an album skates away free of criticism, then it aint important.

and ima keep it a bean, we weren't really f*ckin with that rawkus chit outside of certain songs. thats when backpack rap got corny.
only live cats I knew that rocked with it heavy, were basically the last of the original backpackers that wouldnt abandon ship. other than those types, most people didnt really care about mos def & them like that outside of certain songs. they weren't even a topic. that was just some chit that was going on 'all the way over there'.

those were some of the rappers that I talk about on here, when im referring to people who were upset after they spent money on an album because it got high ratings in a magazine. then come to find out, the album is weak.
 
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all you did was list singles. this is why Im saying that youre out of your jurisdiction here.
and aside from the remix, the rest of that stuff wasn't poppin like that.

as for the lox, they destroyed just about every feature, freestyle & underground cut that they touched.

If we're talking about killing features, I could give you a plethora if artists who were doing that in 1999. That doesn't mean they were exactly "poppin". Nearly 100% of their features in 1999 were crew records on the Ruff Ryders compilation.
 

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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.
Nah. Most of the artists that you’re saying were old school by 99, like Wu for example didn’t sell more. Tribe didn’t sell more either. Mobb was actually one of the few artists who didn’t chase the trendy sound who ended up selling more.
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.:whistle:
The OG Quiet Storm was a hit though. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t have remixed it with the same beat.
top-tier NY rappers in '99??
DMX
jay-z
nas
the lox
noreaga
big pun
busta maybe?
So this obviously isn’t a list about sales or mainstream reach since you’ve got the Lox on here.
I don’t dispute X, Jay and Nas.
The Lox weren’t top tier in 99. They were heating up, but they were still under the shadow of the MPR album. The argument for them is much stronger in 2000 when the album drops.
Nore - I enjoyed the 98 album but I wouldn’t put him in the top tier based on that. Melvin Flynt was 99 and that album flopped. I don’t see how he’s top tier at all. Or over the Mobb in 99.
Pun had a huge single and a platinum album in 98. The album was really dope and he was one if the best new rappers to come along that year. 99 was the terror squad album which didn’t do numbers or generate a hit. 98? I can see it. 99? Nah. Not over the Mobb who actually dropped an album.
Busta - I would argue Busta was never top tier, despite the platinum plaques, the hit singles and the fact that he was dope. Just never had the album to put him on that top tier.

So who does that leave as the top tier for NY for 99?

X, Jay, Nas and the Mobb.

Out West the only person you could argue was Dre.
Down South Juvenile?
Eminem maybe for the Midwest?
 

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The Lox weren’t top tier in 99. They were heating up, but they were still under the shadow of the MPR album. The argument for them is much stronger in 2000 when the album drops.

Boom. This was the point I was making in regard to The Lox.
 
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