Your Top 10 Albums Of 1999

[spliz]

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.

The OG Quiet Storm was a hit though. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t have remixed it with the same beat.

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?

Busta was def top tier at multiple points in his career. I don’t even think that can be argued bro. Lol

 

[FunkyFresh]

Streets iz a Mutha is my favourite album of all time.

2001
ghetty green
no limit topp dogg
Warren G - I want it all


Great year for hip hop

 

[OHSNAP!]

I don't get what y'all argue about. Lox was a non-factor in 99 for the mainstream music world. They had the Bad Boy/Ruff Ryders controversy, but little heat musically besides their Ryde Or Die cuts. Jada had some solo buzz. They were far from TOP TIER. Neither were Mobb Deep, them and Nas had some mainstream appeal and success in 1999, but nowhere near DMX, Puffy, Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Busta, Missy, Jay Z or Juvenile/Cash Money or even Silkk The Shocker. MD and Nas were a notch below actually, just like Eve or Mase. Lox & Terror Squad were tier 3 maybe, with Trick Daddy or Kurupt or TRU or Bleek

 

[spliz]

I don't get what y'all argue about. Lox was a non-factor in 99 for the mainstream music world. They had the Bad Boy/Ruff Ryders controversy, but little heat musically besides their Ryde Or Die cuts. Jada had some solo buzz. They were far from TOP TIER. Neither were Mobb Deep, them and Nas had some mainstream appeal and success in 1999, but nowhere near DMX, Puffy, Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Busta, Missy, Jay Z or Juvenile/Cash Money or even Silkk The Shocker. MD and Nas were a notch below actually, just like Eve or Mase. Lox & Terror Squad were tier 3 maybe, with Trick Daddy or Kurupt or TRU or Bleek

nikka u crazy?? Nas went double plat with I Am and 1.5 with Nastradamus that same year. On top of that Hate Me Now was the first track Flex ever dropped a bomb on and that mixed with the controversy of the video and Diddy beating up Steve Stoute. Nas was def top tier in 1999. U nikkas be trippin. A nikka who sold 3.5 million records in one year ain’t top tier? Where at? Lol. I Am was number 1 on Billboard when it released.

 

[mobbinfms]

nikka u crazy?? Nas went double plat with I Am and 1.5 with Nastradamus that same year. On top of that Hate Me Now was the first track Flex ever dropped a bomb on and that mixed with the controversy of the video and Diddy beating up Steve Stoute. Nas was def top tier in 1999. U nikkas be trippin. A nikka who sold 3.5 million records in one year ain’t top tier? Where at? Lol. I Am was number 1 on Billboard when it released.

Not to mention I Am had a higher first week than Vol 3.
Can’t believe the Puff and Silkk mentions.

 

[mobbinfms]

I don't get what y'all argue about. Lox was a non-factor in 99 for the mainstream music world. They had the Bad Boy/Ruff Ryders controversy, but little heat musically besides their Ryde Or Die cuts. Jada had some solo buzz. They were far from TOP TIER. Neither were Mobb Deep, them and Nas had some mainstream appeal and success in 1999, but nowhere near DMX, Puffy, Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Busta, Missy, Jay Z or Juvenile/Cash Money or even Silkk The Shocker. MD and Nas were a notch below actually, just like Eve or Mase. Lox & Terror Squad were tier 3 maybe, with Trick Daddy or Kurupt or TRU or Bleek

Nas Had a higher first week than nearly everyone on that list. And ended up outselling most of them too.

 

[spliz]

Not to mention I Am had a higher first week than Vol 3.
Can’t believe the Puff and Silkk mentions.

nikka crazy. Lol

 

[spliz]

Nas Had a higher first week than nearly everyone on that list. And ended up outselling most of them too.

Peep how in the other thread the nikkas who was hating on Nas IWW the most and love Roc Marci. Like Big Mel. But saying people ain’t fukk wit IWW. Peep what I posted about what Roc Marci said about that album. nikkas quiet as church mice.

 

[OHSNAP!]

Nah u both some doofus morons. I lived thru that, and Nas wasn't top tier, many above him, his singles weren't that big, Jay had a bigger smash a few months into 2000 with Big Pimpin, Mobb Deep had a bigger hit, Silkk/Mystikal had a bigger hit, Puffy was still a household name. You both just some smallminded numbers airheads

 

[spliz]

Nah u both some doofus morons. I lived thru that, and Nas wasn't top tier, many above him, his singles weren't that big, Jay had a bigger smash a few months into 2000 with Big Pimpin, Mobb Deep had a bigger hit, Silkk/Mystikal had a bigger hit, Puffy was still a household name. You both just some smallminded numbers airheads

No ur a fukkin idiot. I not only lived thru it but I was a fukkin DJ at the time. fukkin goofy. A nikka with a number 1 multiplat album ain’t top tier only in a retards eyes. Not even including Nas’ features that year.

 

[Wacky D]

I don't get what y'all argue about. Lox was a non-factor in 99 for the mainstream music world. They had the Bad Boy/Ruff Ryders controversy, but little heat musically besides their Ryde Or Die cuts. Jada had some solo buzz. They were far from TOP TIER. Neither were Mobb Deep, them and Nas had some mainstream appeal and success in 1999, but nowhere near DMX, Puffy, Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Busta, Missy, Jay Z or Juvenile/Cash Money or even Silkk The Shocker. MD and Nas were a notch below actually, just like Eve or Mase. Lox & Terror Squad were tier 3 maybe, with Trick Daddy or Kurupt or TRU or Bleek

it wasn't a mainstream argument.

and as far as your mainstream rankings go, Eve was bigger than a lot of these names, and by 2000, she was bigger than most.

 

[Wacky D]

Not to mention I Am had a higher first week than Vol 3.
Can’t believe the Puff and Silkk mentions.

silkk the shocker was a big star.

don't get caught up in the coli's revisionist rhetoric.

 

[Wacky D]

Nearly 100% of their features in 1999 were crew records on the Ruff Ryders compilation.

you don't know what you're talking about. LOL. just stop already.

 

[Wacky D]

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.

The OG Quiet Storm was a hit though. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t have remixed it with the same beat.

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?

SEMI-old school is the term.
but yea, tribe was str8 up old school. I never mentioned them.

the original quiet storm was a minor hit at best. couldn't even crack the top 15 on the rap charts?
do you think the album would've went more than gold if the remix didn't exist?
they didn't even drop the album til after the remix hit. usually, the remix comes after the album.

and youre tryinhg too hard. trying to put mobb deep in the same sentence as X, jay & nas is laughable.
I get it. theyre your favorites, but please stop.

as for the LOX, they were the actual group that was right up there with X, jay & nas.
if youre not knowledgable about east coast affairs, then theres no way that you could grasp their popularity.
you cant rank a coasts' hierarchy if youre not up on whats REALLY going on within the coast.
sure you can rank them in terms of mainstream success, but that's not what we're arguing about here.
case in point, how can you put Eminem on top of the Midwest when his own city wasn't even on him like that?
EDIT: now in fairness, im not a new Yorker. this is moreso the hierarchy of NY rappers in the eyes of philly/south jerz/Delaware/etc etc. so maybe mobb might've been a tad bit higher from a new Yorker perspective but we're not that far away for it to be an extreme difference, and aint no new Yorkers in here saying otherwise so........

also, I wasn't ranking who had the best years in '99. that's for the next thread, which I see that I need to make right away.
I was just giving you the hierarchy at the time.
and as far as big pun goes, he kept his momentum from '98 going.
as did NORE, until he dropped Melvin flynt. now I will say this, I though Melvin flynt dropped in the fourth quarter. I didn't realize it dropped during the back half of the 3rd quarter. with that said, you can take NORE off of my list.

 

[Wacky D]

we gotta do a better job at separating church from state.

we gotta be mindful to separate the mainstream from whats really happening. otherwise, it gets too tricky & just creates confusion.

great job in this thread tho fellas. this chit LIT.