Flops and Hits You Didn't Expect

[Serious]

i'm a fan but i never thought big sean would get as big as he did.

Whenever I hear him on the radio I just:

His lyrics on this song are a prime example:

[ame="[media=youtube]dpLthO07LBY[/media]"]Ryan Leslie - Diamond Girl - YouTube[/ame]


Real talk R. Les might the most overlooked R&B artist of the generation.

I've always thought that Diamond Girl should have blown up an been much bigger than it ended up being.

Man R Les got sohh many underrated hits.


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If I Can't... last single off Get Rich or Die Tryin

In Da Club went #1
21 Questions went #1
P.I.M.P. went #3
If I Can't went #76

might've been the best song on the album too
and it didn't get a video

Idk if this counts

 

[Serious]

didnt really flop but why they didnt push this harder is

[ame="[media=youtube]87P3UiUUyB0[/media]"]Wiz Khalifa - The Race - YouTube[/ame]

Yeah I'm not a big fan of wiz khalifia, but when I copped his album I immediately thought this was on the trillest songs ever recorded.

But I'm surprised this song didn't get pushed harder. It's a typical mainstream, catchy, attention getting song:

How...?

yeah this was horrible. I was like 10 when this crap came out too, and I knew it was garbage....

To this day I still can't believe The Motto became such a big hit for Drizzy..when I first heard the record I really didn't think it was going to take off cuz it sounded so completely different then the rest of the album and it sounded more like a mixtape throwaway record more then anything..

Low and fukking behold it was the biggest record from the album ...To this day I still don't see the big debbal on the record...

Especially how he shouted out Mac Dre and The Bay and out here in the bay everybody was like but in reality it was just ONE line and I was just like

Then film a video out here and have Mistah F.A.B and E-40 in the background and NOT have them on the remix but instead have Tyga do a forgettable verse while rocking LA shyt with the bay bridge behind him like

Never liked that song, but that shout to the bay was hard....

But til this day I can't stand this song. The power of groupthink

 

[NSSVO]

shyt shoulda been huge with that wayne hype

Wayne fukking sucked so bad on this song.

Damn breh, been saying the same shyt.
He dropped I Love My bytches on the same night. nikka coulda had the streets with that and the radio with this. Neither caught on.

It's one of those things in hip-hop where it doesn't catch. He shoulda came with something harder than I love My bytches. Glad he recovered.

I wanted this to blow up so bad
Chief Keef missing the video shoot to possibly the biggest song of his career

50 needed that more than anybody. Such a great verse from him.

VIC wobble died then got reincarnated by senior citizens and fat trollups

Breh, go to Korea. EVERY fukkING CLUB EVERY fukkING NIGHT.

 

[swerve]

To me a single can't flop, Too many variables which makes it not catch on. Payola, bad timing, not enough push etc.
Album on the other hand can flop especially after having a few successful singles.

 

[Juanito]

To this day I still can't believe The Motto became such a big hit for Drizzy..when I first heard the record I really didn't think it was going to take off cuz it sounded so completely different then the rest of the album and it sounded more like a mixtape throwaway record more then anything..

Low and fukking behold it was the biggest record from the album ...To this day I still don't see the big deal on the record...

Especially how he shouted out Mac Dre and The Bay and out here in the bay everybody was like but in reality it was just ONE line and I was just like

Then film a video out here and have Mistah F.A.B and E-40 in the background and NOT have them on the remix but instead have Tyga do a forgettable verse while rocking LA shyt with the bay bridge behind him like

Same for me. I appreciated that he shouted out the bay and Mac Dre but I wasn't really feeling it. Out of nowhere this shyt is one of the biggest songs of the year and spawns YOLO which got annoying really fast. Every bytch with a tumblr/twitter/fb was posting that shyt everywhere and hearing it in public

 

[ThiefyPoo]

first thing i think of is JUelz

You won!!

Why wasn't home run a hit?


Guess it was a pop up

Real shyt it has almost 2 million views on youtube.

 

[Zach Lowe]

@Serious Yeah I've never seen that video good lookin out

I remember some interview saying 50 and Dre (or Eminem or whatever) picked In Da Club over it as the first single

I'm guessing by the time they put If I Can't out as a single it was time to promote the G-Unit album so they gave up on it

 

[Formerly known as...]

I didnt expect this to be a huge song, specially live.

 

[nairdas]

first thing i think of is JUelz

Real talk, I do not understand why homerun wasn't killing the airwaves. That song is flames and with Wayne killing the hook? shyt is crazy that it didn't blow.

 

[Serious]

@Serious Yeah I've never seen that video good lookin out

I remember some interview saying 50 and Dre (or Eminem or whatever) picked In Da Club over it as the first single

I'm guessing by the time they put If I Can't out as a single it was time to promote the G-Unit album so they gave up on it

I mean I don't blame them. In Da Club's buzz was epic on unprecedented levels, at last from my pov as a kid. Nothing in sight was really touching that song, for a strong 6 months, and it seemed like it was still in heavy rotation for about a year. The two hottest songs at the time were "In Da Club" and "Gimmie the Light". Sean Paul ate good too. Anyways by that time people were hunger for more from 50...

 

[Serious]

Im gonna be honest, I didn't think T Pain was gonna make it big when this song came out. It felt like a one hit wonder in the making.

Yeah especially considering how weak his follow up single "I'm in luv With a Stripper" was. Not going to lie, the remix went hard though. It was pure

I'm surprised this remix got the buzz it did. The original was song was iight, but the remix was horrible imo, from papoose to rah digga. Just an all around :

 

[JYoung24]

Sheek Louch ft Carl Thomas- One Name, Joe Budden- Put it down like you

 

[hiphopfanatic]

This in 2004. Even with the fascination the US was having with Reggae and Dancehall back then, I never thought a Soca tune would cross over like this.

 

[Chadisorad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YLx11xq6X7Q
Out of all the songs in Yeezus he should have pushed for a single such as Bound 2 or Bloond on The leaves to do a video too shyt looked like laggy gameplay from GOW on the ps2.

 

[FreshAIG]

Thought this Hero shyt wouldn't flop



Why get the hottest producer and one of the hottest singers doing hooks just to flop

Keri Hilson was never one of the hottest singers in the game