Props...this is also like 8 years after wayne did it on C1...that verse on the cube shyt is the imitation Jay Z I originally remember from Gil
your posts in here are a fountain of information.
imitation jay-z???
you do realize that jay-z bit major figgas, right??.......of course not. because you have no clue what youre talking about, but you want to type out essays.
Except Gillie ain't godbody

....hell I don't even think he's one of those fake ass philly sunni Muslims either...that was always a reach cause the tangible evidence ain't there...I'd say post Gillie tracks with 5% terminology but nikkas don't actually listen to Gillie songs...

At "the Figgas had major buzz back then... Gillie was supposed to be a star"...even on the scale of early aughts random eastcoast generic tough talk mixtape rappers he was a peewee ... During that run he had like a 5 part mixtape series during the heights of the mixtape era...exact same time Wayne was establishing his legendary run and bunch of other rappers built entire careers, and nobody outside of the philly metropolitan area gave a single fukk...nikka been rapping for 25 years but a couple year run being a weed carrier for Cash Money is what stopped him from being a household name?
the ONLY reason he was able to parlay his failed rap career into being a Internet personality was because of the visibility he got from beefing with wayne that allowed him to showcase how entertaining he can be by making funny faces
gillie is considered to be one of those guys who wouldve been a star if he had any type of push. i dont know where youre getting the household name stuff from, but he certainly had all the tools to be a rap star. same with the major figgas group as a whole. if they didnt turn down rocafella. you would prolly be jockin him right now.
you think lil wayne would be anywhere near where he is now if birdman wasnt obsessed with making him a star, even after YEARS of failed attempts?? wayne was basically the original hakeem lyons. im not even doing hakeem any justice with that comparison, cuz hakeem didnt have a bunch of writers.
"yea thats us" was a cool hit, not huge, but it was a big deal considering the success it had despite the lack of push from a still-born label and being blackballed by jigga. and it had reach. it was even chanted at the arena bowl that summer.
I've always said the exact same thing...and I say that as someone from Philly who was there at the time in Philly when this dropped.
I respect and like MF,but let them tell it today... and they are "legends" in Philly.... now imo that's all in their heads...especially Gils.
Yeah that's Us had a slight buz in the winter of 99"...it had some radio play but nothing crazy....me myself I was much more of a Ram Squad guy. But if I'm being honest Gil was never the stand out in the group...I thought Dutch & SpadeO together had the most potential, especially as a duo...AbLive and Gillie were straight but nothing special
But when MF album finally dropped after the single...it flopped imo...I liked it but it had like a ZERO buzz and went double wood...
Back when MF album came out...NO BODY was thinking about them like that...all attention was on Beans and Eve, and eventually State Prop...plus if I remember correctly Ram Squad finally went mainstream when they signed to Warner Brothers and Philly's Most Wanted had a buzz with Pherrel....at that time State Prop and PMW were WAY WAY more popular than MF in Philly...it's not even close
lol @ it being all in their heads. they changed the way people rapped.
how was state property more popular than figgas back then, when there wasnt even a state property yet??
most wanted was never as popular as figgas in philly.
figgas album still did aiird in the streets and they still had the popular mixtapes.
rap squad was semi-old school by this point, even tho they finally got some mainstream shine. they were still poppin tho, but not quite on that level. the '90s were over. btw, ram squad wasnt on warner bros. they were on universal. major figgas and no queston were on warner bros via ruffnation.