Can someone break down the history of REDMAN's gangster and why so many rappers were shook of him?

[hex]

nikka seemed real convincing in the wire

Fred.

 

[Wild self]

Redman is top 10 on the mic and he came from a wild city in a wild era. He crazy and he more unstable than these gangstas that cats worship

 

[The Entity]

What Nas and Red had beef about? Or mobb deep and red?

 

[spliz]

your time line seems a bit fukked up, I'll Bee Dat was on Doc's Da Name from 98, the Aguilera track is from 2002 and Ill At Will is from 2004.

Edit..my fault.. My timeline was fukked up as well..lol

 

[H.I.M.]

Redman in Newark with his goons

Ahhhh smack dvd... The birthplace of modern day dry-snitching and Instagram/Facebook/Twitter thuggin.

 

[Self_Born7]

My teenage years in Newark back in the early to mid 90's was crazy. I could write a book about that era

man who you telling, i got stories for days, when i used to be chilling up in Hill Manor projects, and lil bricks. all of this we pre blood and pre crip era.

 

[Self_Born7]

Red used to be out in the streets chilling, sometimes rolling solo... dude was just that dude, and cats didnt fukk with him. Him and Tame from The Artifacts are first cousins.

 

[SunZoo]

i heard "yo fam. i like your coat." out of the darkness
and thought to myself... "here we go"

Worst fukking feeling in the world to be about to get robbed and only hearing a voice...I would rather 10 people run up on me so it at least looks like I HAD to back down, nikkas been jumpin out on cats long enough to the point where they have ninja skills

I got hit with that "come up off" from the shadows at a liquor store, I just stopped wearing jewelry after that shyt..either i'ma get killed, or have to kill you over this pretty piece of metal I paid too much for anyway...fukk it.

 

[boxfullofjoel]

i heard "yo fam. i like your coat." out of the darkness
and thought to myself... "here we go"

Real talk, I grew up in NYC in the 80's/90's and anytime you heard any variation

• " yo my man"
• "yo son"
• "yo dawg"
• "what size you wear?

you knew it was on.

 

[wizworld]

redman was definitely in the streets, breh.
anyway,...not much is known about his actual activity.
as it was a different day.
yet, back in the day before he learned how to humanize his draw.
he was regarded as the guy and whose crew you did not fukk with, at all.
on top of pack pistol posse,..being the go to imagery for the media's attack on rap from a content/visual perspective.

I for sure know from k solo, himself...
that red is and was always thorough.
him and k solo were/are regard of themselves like a brother from another.
so, I can say from a definite connection, from exposure to k solo.
that red is one of those guys, like that.



art barr

I said "deep in the streets". I'm talking about people who make a commitment to criminal activity as their way of making a living. He was a DJ, he went to college for a bit he wasn't a big time drug dealer, gangster or stick up kid. No doubt he's been involved with shyt and seen shyt because he's from Newark & he rolls with those types but I've never heard of him being any type of hood boss.

 

[Jerz-2]

Redman was a street nikka, but his gangster was because nikkas knew he wasn't frauding when he rapped, like he'd really come see you on some street shyt, plus he ran with some wild nikkas (The Twinz and the Pistol Packing Posse).

Red was a wild nikka back in the day. Like most nikkas for Newark are known to be.

This.

The Twinz was KNOWN to be some wild shorties, and they been his mens for years. PPP and all them Newark cats Red been rollin’ with – Gov Mattic, Diesel Don, etc. – them some real street dudes. Plus, Red got ties to the street related to his weed connects.

But like @FreshAIG said, Newark dudes – and alotta North Jersey cats in general - is just grimy like that to begin with, lol…

But yeah, there’s only two times I’ve ever heard anything about Redman and conflict:

1) When his truck got shot at riding through Brooklyn WAYY back in the day, in fact, I think it may have even been stolen (he raps about this in the song “Noorotic“ off of Dare Iz A Darkside, and also on another song on Muddy Waters, but I can’t remember it right now…but the line on “Noorotic” goes “…so what the fukk, I got clapped on for my truck/then I laughed, cause fukk the cash I just wanted my tape back…”

2) When (and this has never been OFFICIALLY confirmed, but it WAS reported in the “rumors” section of The Source once way back in the day), during the Canibus/LL beef, Canibus got onstage at the House of Blues in L.A. and started goin’ in on LL…and Red was in the house, supposedly dusted, and grabbed the mic and told Canibus to fall back cause LL was his mans, then proceeded to kick a freestyle that had a diss to Canibus in it, and in response Canibus LEFT the building.

 

[Jerz-2]

Newark is the Oakland of the east.

Clearly you've never been to Camden.....

 

[Jerz-2]

that's the reason why you have new yorkers scared to come over to newark. the funny thing is you have folks from jersey and newark scared to go over new york over the same shyt.

HA! This is how it is with Camden and parts of Philly, especially North Philly.

I got friends living in both places that be like "I AIN'T GOIN' OVER THERE, THEM nikkaS IS CRAZY!"

 

[the cac mamba]

2) When (and this has never been OFFICIALLY confirmed, but it WAS reported in the “rumors” section of The Source once way back in the day), during the Canibus/LL beef, Canibus got onstage at the House of Blues in L.A. and started goin’ in on LL…and Red was in the house, supposedly dusted, and grabbed the mic and told Canibus to fall back cause LL was his mans, then proceeded to kick a freestyle that had a diss to Canibus in it, and in response Canibus LEFT the building.

this shyt tho

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

I gave you some good advice already

Lmao you got me.

Unfortunately my cousins fiancé is a detective so he stays strapped 2X. I figure if there's static he'll be quick to let a nikka have it.