Alley boy is the perfect example of why it sucks to be a "gangster" rapper

[FreshAIG]

because once people stop believing you, your career is over. Dude had a nice little buzz going. But first it looked like the softest nikkas in NYC (G4 Boyz) had him, not shook, but the fact that they felt comfortable talking crazy about him and Ducktape hurt his rep. Then the video of him getting herbed by two pedestrians in Cali and then running away put the nail in his coffin

The sad shyt is, Alley really was in the streets too but perception is everything. But once the perception of you being this untouchable gangster is gone, then your career as a "gangsta" rapper is too. Unless you've just been in the game for so long it doesn't matter (Prodigy for example) and even that hurt him too.

 

[Grizzly]

two pedestrians

 

[FreshAIG]

Two White looking pedestrians too

two pedestrians

 

[blizzard man]

receipts

 

[Grizzly]

Two White looking pedestrians too

nikka got beat up by two Uber drivers

 

[FreshAIG]

My son Trouble took all of Alleyboys buzz

 

[No Homo]

nikka got beat up by two Uber drivers

It also didnt help he burned bridges and his music wasnt THAT poppin to do so

 

[No Homo]

My son Trouble took all of Alleyboys buzz

Trouble is much better..fukking with alley boy messed him up

 

[FreshAIG]

Agreed. I did fukk with that "Definition of fukk Shiit" 2

Trouble is much better..fukking with alley boy messed him up

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Nothing was special about Alley Boy in the first place. Nothing wrong with being a gangsta rapper, but you just can't be a basic one

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Isn't it really everyone in Hip Hop though? Ras Kass comes to mind....never a gangsta rapper but lost credibility though people still will check out his music. Then you have Dr Dre who pretended to be a gangsta rapper, got his card pulled, and then nothing happened.

When you are Alley Boy and 40 Glocc, where your rapping is nothing special, you lose your cred and you lose your appeal.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

went from Nip shouting him out on TMC to Nip not even answering his calls now

When I'm in ATL, I'm hollerin' duck tape
Ricardo, Alley Boy and Black, dem nikkas nothin fake

 

[FreshAIG]

Isn't it really everyone in Hip Hop though? Ras Kass comes to mind....never a gangsta rapper but lost credibility though people still will check out his music. Then you have Dr Dre who pretended to be a gangsta rapper, got his card pulled, and then nothing happened.

When you are Alley Boy and 40 Glocc, where your rapping is nothing special, you lose your cred and you lose your appeal.

To an extent by its kinda different. Plus Ras buzz had been died by then. He was kinda an afterthought and he's one of my faves but that's just reality. Guys who perpetuate that tough guy act really get hurt career wise. like if Chance the rapper got punked nobody would really care. Drake got punched by Diddy and nobody cares. If say Trouble or Lil Boosie got herbed out like that, they'd be fukked.

 

[mortuus est]

Alley boy could of been something if he kept the street shyt on low, he had bars and had stuff to say

 

[hustlemania]

them dudes who robbed him were far from "pedestrians"..

and, what was he supposed to do.. take a few lumps & shots for thecoli.com so he could look like a "gangsta".. man lived to see another day.. aint nothin in the world wrong with that..