I witnessed both Em's and Bis's careers in real time.

Canibus started popping late 96 and 97. By your own admission on your Favebook Page you didn’t even start listening to hip hop until 98. And even then you were a casual fan.
“Before hearing Illmatic, the album I was absolutely in love with was "Get Rich and Die Tryin" (still a great album). Looking back, I realize that getting into hip hop in '98 was good but hip hop was becoming quite poppy. I was right there as a listener when Neptunes & Timbaland started taking off and dominating the shyt out of everything. And radio started moving toward one kind of sound. The point is, I wasn't looking for nuance in records. Just whatever was catchy. I was collecting the hottest singles at the time. Whatever was mainstream in rap, I liked. I still heard Gang Starr, Mos Def/Rawkus stuff like that but only their singles because they made radio (and I loved the singles I heard). I never bothered to look into the albums because I wasn't really looking for anything deeper.”
On no planet is 100 bars wack. It's too brilliant of a song to dismiss it like that. And of course, being the shytposter you are, you have no receipts for why one of Canibus's most known songs (it's in his top 3), is wack.












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