Reed & Jihad had the glow at one point...Quilly looked like he might take off
It was never the same after haddy got dropped...even with people knowing what happened to breh afterwards, he couldnt shake that off his image
Hard to say. Just cause he was better than Meek or Meek "stole his flow" doesn't mean he was destined to be anything more than a mixtape rapper.
The Meek situation itself shows there is a large degree of luck and time and place involved with who blows and who doesn't
I remember hearing the dude who punched him AND the camera man got smoked behind that![]()
He had everything. He had the "It factor", a better rapper, charismatic, rode any beat. Labels were looking at him, but he was on the run...for something not even worth going on the run for.
We all did. But Charlie Mack got behind Meek after In My Bag made noise, and that's all you need. Had Meek stayed with TI, he'd still be where Reed is now.
Of course Reed was the best, Haddy was right there, but rode with Kiss...and Quilly had yet to establish himself on their tier with music. Cys was with Game. Ironically D Jones is runnin with Kiss now.
Anyone from philly at that time will tell u Jihad was next. Hell there were 3-4 people who had "next" before Meek.
Jihad
Reed
Ness
Quilly
Jihad was doing high school tours back then selling headshot dvds shirts and hoodies. Every school from King all the way to GDUB knew Haddy's shyt word for word.
The youtube slump was the end of it. My high school sweetheart brother was a good friend of Peedi. I remember we were chilling one day and he told me Peedi told him Beans was trying to bring Joey Jihad and Nina Ross to State Property. Obviously that never happened.
I always said Jihad should come get some of this battle rap money right now. He still got it.
One of the most legendary philly freestlyes ever. Every day we rapped this word for word on the bus back from school lol.