Papoose is a hell of an MC. He spits and has concepts see "Law Library"
The thing that killed Papoose and all these other so-called smart artists is they didn't read 48 Laws of Power, only skimmed the notes.
Ignored a cardinal rule. Less is More, don't overdue it.
He had alot of dope songs that got overlooked and he would have been in a totally diff space now if he had left the addiction alone.
What addiction? The addiction to MIXTAPES. shyt was like a bad drug for him. Packaging up 100 mixtapes full of songs.
Yes he got his buzz from the tapes at first, but fam, NO ONE wants to hear you rapping that much.
Think about it, Pap came out at a time where he go respected from the SMACK DVD/ streets crowd and mixtape crowd.
For every dope song on a mixtape there were 5 filler tracks with corny reeeeaaaaching punchlines. SO many that he became known more for corny punchlines than actual bars,
Pap did it to himself as far as why folks consider him a joke. If he would have left that mixtape addiction alone and just dropped bangers, his mystique would have lasted longer. Now when folks listen to him they looking for every corny punchline, not bars.