Best Rapper Alive - 1999 (IF YOUR MVP CHOICE ISN'T ON POLL, MAKE A REQUEST IN THREAD)

[mobbinfms]

Voted P.

Mike Tyson style
animal dunns, we live wild



@mobbinfms what did he get a "quotable of the year" for ? verse or the line/rhyme? (which one)

The first verse of Quiet Storm.
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[Regular_P]

Between 1998 and 1999, nobody was bigger than DMX and he had three quality albums to boot. Flesh came out at the tail end of 1998 and ...and Then There Was X came out at the very end of 1999. Basically book ends to 1999.

 

[mobbinfms]

Mos Def came from the same circles as them especially J-Live. You rarely hear the word backpacker these days but it was real prevalent in 99. The Roots and Mos Def were the first from that scene I remember to get regular radio play. I remember seeing the Roots right around this time and Common was performing as a member of the Roots and he already had 3 albums out. But he became a star off the strength of them

But that scene, let's call it the lyricist lounge for simplicity, carried on after Mos and the Roots broke through.
The Roots didn't get radio play in Baltimore prior to that?
And J-Live never left that scene.

 

[shopant]

The first verse of Quiet Storm.
From this issue

props! I cannot say which one of 3 QS verses is the best. Every one has it's own strenghts. P was ahead of the game...

 

[MidnightMercenary]

Oh btw my fav songs on BOBS are Mathematics, Ms. Fat Booty, Know That, Brooklyn and Speed Law.

Shoutout to May-December too. Beautiful instrumental.

Might be a perfect 10/10 album

 

[BmoreGorilla]

But that scene, let's call it the lyricist lounge for simplicity, carried on after Mos and the Roots broke through.
The Roots didn't get radio play in Baltimore prior to that?
And J-Live never left that scene.

Not really. You Got Me was the first single they had on rotation here. I remember hearing Clones but it was always on a particular show

 

[mobbinfms]

props! I cannot say which one of 3 QS verses is the best. Every one has it's own strenghts. P was ahead of the game...

My favorite is the last verse. But goddamn that opening line

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Who did y'all think rapped better on the Blackout! album?

Red or Meth?

 

[mobbinfms]

Who did y'all think rapped better on the Blackout! album?

Red or Meth?

Prodigy

 

[shopant]

even jay-z had to admitt it in this interview. I'm pretty sure that he was talking about this period of P's career.



I think we can close the thread

 

[SpacelySprockets]

The first verse of Quiet Storm.
From this issue

Iconic magazine cover

 

[Suspicions]

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Vote For Prodigy

I love P but Mos def....

 

[mobbinfms]

I love P but Mos def....

This is no time to vote your conscience

 

[mobbinfms]

Iconic magazine cover

I had stopped buying the Source before this issue, but when I saw P got rhyme of the year I had to cop that issue
Wish I would have held onto all my old Sources

 

[mobbinfms]

Not really. You Got Me was the first single they had on rotation here. I remember hearing Clones but it was always on a particular show

What about What They Do?