When was the last successful hip hop group?
Certain rappers would benefit from being in a REAL group
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Big Mel
@bigboss
Dipset. G Unit. D-12. Outkast.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Why do y'all keep mentioning this like the group format is the problem (or was this a real question
)...it's evident it's industry politics which in turn has influenced what up and coming guys do. Even on the mixtape/underground circuit, who are the groups/duos right now? Flatbush Zombies and Pac Div are the only that come to mind off topEverybody thinks they need to be the frontman, you got the fronting ass collectives trying to push 3-6 different dudes as stars when half of them cant stand alone and would be better served if the 2-3 best dudes just formed a group.
And to answer your question, tho not commercially successful, little brother was prolly the last group that had the ears of hip hop heads that wasn't formed pre-2000
Totally co-sign this Dozen.....HipHop as a genre would benefit from more groups...artists would suffer (financially), but we as fans would likely get a higher quality music than most of what's being pushed out right now.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Anybody can cut and paste bitten rhymes and skill morph piggyback off of nas's rhymes and cadence, breh.
Looks at username and comment,....
It makes sense you made a j.cole praise post being Stan nas stan.
Art Barr
wow great point...I totally agree...I too wish all of the unnecessary collabs and STRUGGLE REMIXES could be replaced with groups...im listening to meek mill tape now and I heard french and nikki on like 2-3 songs between the both of them so maybe they should be a group...I wish I had time to compile a list of which artists should be grouped together....
I'm sure it was past your bed time when you posted this but this makes literally ZERO sense
Hip hop groups are dead and I can't say that I'm that bothered by that
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
a lot of these new rappers don't even know chit about rap groups. them days is over.
at best, they know the crews like dipset, g-unit, etc. those aren't even groups.
at best, they know the crews like dipset, g-unit, etc. those aren't even groups.
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
those cats would need a feature on every track, Fat Lip could have pulled it off though, Tre is proven also
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
Even though they're fine as soloists and I've said this a million times before....an ASAP and Schoolboy Q album would beLike a real album not a "live in concert" type deal.
ASAP fits the profile the OP mentioned to a tee, an album with him and q would be dope though.
Uncle Kingpin
No Relation
Alot of rappers already do this on the low doe, instead of being in a formal group, every song got features. Most rappers nowadays cant even carry a lead single on their own.
A group would benefit a lot of these soloist. I do see money being the biggest issue, chemistry being the second biggest, but most of these people have to know that they are not stars, and are not creative enough to warrant full albums; just let them have one or two solo tracks per album. Actually it seems like more of today's artists are tailor-made for groups, but solos and crew compilations are all we get. Pusha is much better with The Clipse or Ab Liva, than he is as a soloist. I don't know that many people that even was begging for a solo album from him.
You can't tell me that Big Sean, Kid Cudi (even tho he is more than the others), Cyhi, are solo artists. Meek has been a soloist since forever, but he has always sounded better when part of a collective. He and Ross have excellent chemistry, he and Wale are cool, the old Bloodhounds...etc. I think that J Cole is a solo artist though. Honestly, it's been so long since there's been a real group that's it really hard to tell these days.
You can't tell me that Big Sean, Kid Cudi (even tho he is more than the others), Cyhi, are solo artists. Meek has been a soloist since forever, but he has always sounded better when part of a collective. He and Ross have excellent chemistry, he and Wale are cool, the old Bloodhounds...etc. I think that J Cole is a solo artist though. Honestly, it's been so long since there's been a real group that's it really hard to tell these days.
Nuh uh. Is it better to make $0 as a solo artist or a couple of dollars in a group
Here is the problem in a nutshell... rap used to be SKILL driven... in that context a group dynamic made sense, you and your boys would go back and forth and push each other skill wise
Now rap is EGO driven... so you have fakkits like Drake scared to be on tracks with nikkas who go harder than him. Everyone is a CEO. "This to all my enemies who see me gettin guap right now" - Big Shenehneh.
BUT, the wool is finally being pulled off of the rap community's eyes. We transitioned out of an era where if you said you were nice, you had to be nice... to an era where you were nice if you said you were and didn't have to prove or defend that claim.
Duckworth for getting nikkas back on their toes