Honestly, which rappers have let you down? (Hip-Hop Busts)

[28 Gramz]

Webbie could have been right there with Gucci,Jeezy,Yo Gotti etc..as one of the south's biggest regional stars if he had Boosie's work ethic, anytime he dropped something from 05-07 nikkas were on that shyt HARD. Dude is just flat out lazy and after Boosie went to prison that nikka smoked his self retarded and ain't been the same since

 

[feelosofer]

Chamil,....
Has not fallen off skilwise.
His permeation in the marketplace is more his label not knowing how to work his record.
Riding dirty was a slow urn grassroots hit,...
That occurred after universal fukked up his initial draw.
Then tries to take credit for riding dirty becoming a hit.
When it was all word of mouth and the term, riding dirty being an buzz word that was poppin!.

Chamillionaire pretty much over performed after universal dropped the ball on him, more than once.



Art Barr

This Chamillionaire arguably dropped too much fire and I feel people appreciated it less.

I thought Charles Hamilton had next in 2008. Brooklyn Girls was a dope song and he sorta was ahead of the curve in that sense, but the the hip-hop game as a whole just ate him up.

Also Akir, back in 06 I thought that album was the spiritual successor to Illmatic in a sense, but didn't make the most out of his buzz.

Obie Trice just got done dirty by Shady Records.

The Cool Kids should be hot too but they got there heads swollen and dropped very mediocre solo tapes. They work as a unit, but individually they are so-so rappers.

 

[feelosofer]

Just strictly from the westcoast:

Sly Boogy
Crooked I
Ras Kass
Mack 10

Rass Kass is a cult hero at best furthermore he really only dropped one dope album and an okay album, plus the production he chose was middling.

If anything Mack 10 overachieved, dude was not nearly as talented as Cube or WC, his cred carried him as far as it was gonna.

 

[The Message]

I wont even ask you how

at the irony.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Mos def. in his prime he was one of the best all around rappers I've ever heard. He just never dropped anything close to BOBS or Blackstar again.

Everything after those were just average

 

[dem bath salts]

Canibus and it's not even close for me. thought he was going to create a new sub genre of hip hope, on some science fiction kinda of shyt

 

[WEKetchum]

Lupe is still writing and spitting at a high level. Its the fact that his production is terrible pandering tween pop and he appears to be an awful human being

He's definitely still performing at a high level lyrically. His song dedicated to the young girl who was killed was really incredible, his joint that sampled TROY was dope to me, and his verse on Wale's "Poor Decisions" is the best verse of the year. I didn't think F&L2 was too poppy, but it still wasn't what I was looking for from him production-wise. He's definitely earned my ear for his next album, though.

 

[Regista]

Slime Rothstein

Yeah Vado and Pusha-T are prolly up there to me, Jadakiss as well. Consignment was such fukking garbage

Jadakiss mixtape sounding like a Rick Ross throaway tape

Vado needs to give up trying to force hits, he just can't make a fukking Drake-type, Meek Mill-type single to save his life.

Pusha-T is doing the same shyt. He needs to accept he's not going to crossover unless he's a feature on a bigger track.

He keeps forcing these terrible, corny ass tracks and I don't know whether that's the label, but he should just drop a whole album of mixtape-sounding, lyrically-driven songs. He should appease his fanbase with what he's good at rather than alienating them and putting out lukewarm music

I was thinking Pusha-T might as well jump on a dubstep, euro club track if he wants that crossover money/fanbase and just ride with that tbh. He doesn't sound too bad on that type of stuff a la this track

 

[CM_Burns]

Plies, first mixtapes and album was powerful music, as time went on he still dropped some bangers but wasn't the same.

Jeezy's presence on tracks his first mixtapes and TM101 was crazy, imo he lost that on 102 and after.

Sly Boogy, Obie Trice, Tragedy Khadafi, didn't blow up but were nicer than most rappers who did.

Rock (Heltah Skeltah) killed those first 2 Heltah Skeltah albums, Sean P had a much better solo career. Rock was wack as on that last Heltah Skeltah album too "We ain't buds, Our taste buds will never taste buds together".

 

[torcher]

Cuban Link is one I forgot about. He actually had enough talent and commercial appeal to be a successful artist but he seemed more focused on getting revenge on Fat Joe then having a career

 

[The_Third_Man]

Method Man
Planet Asia
Shyne
Jadakiss
Ali Vegas

 

[Kliq_Souf]

I thought Jody Breeze woulda made more noise. When that Boyz N Da Hood album dropped, i felt he outshined Jeezy. Then Jeezy became a star, Jody just didnt have that charisma Jeez had.

 

[Calmye]

Lloyd Banks. I thought he was about to be back on top with the 5 or better series but he was way to lazy to capitalize

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

Agree w/ Mouse On The Track. Dude had club bangers "Rubbin On My Head", "What A Good Feeling", "Go For What You Know". Dude was like the Kanye of Trill Ent that never got that push.

Add:
C-Murder - couldnt leave street life alone
9th Ward - Jermaine Dupri and Nitti (producer of Its Goin Down) moved dude to the A after Katrina and I thought he was gonna blow with these:

Yung Joc - HAD TOM CRUISE DANCING ON 106. Then he dropped this:

Hurricane Chris - Aye Bay Bay was cool but I was really feelin "Playas Rock"
Gorilla Zoe - Future before Future but went too out of his lane
Fabo - He had the personality and was real eccentic

more to come. Great thread

 

[MilesTeg]

Lupe Fiasco. I used to love him and now I don't care. He went pop and never recovered. I hate his trolly political opinions too.

Canibus, for obvious reasons. He really needed the guidance of a producer or another MC and never got it. Now he can't even rap well anymore. What a waste.

Saigon. I heard The Letter P and True Story and thought he was going drop something sick. And he just dropped something decent. Dude is way too preachy. Didn't even download his second one. He's just a generic rapper with a weird name.

All of Slaughterhouse. Group-wise and solo-wise. They make all this dope shyt on mixtapes, and make you think their album's gonna be piff. Then their album turns out to be worse than all their mixtapes. And this happens over and over again, for like a decade.

Rakim & Big Daddy Kane. Listen to "The Watcher 2" and "The Man, The Icon." These guys could've made such great music in their 30's. But they just put out a couple random songs here and there. They're still legends with a bunch of classics. But still. They wasted like a decade, in their prime, doing nothing.