How was it when The College Dropout came out?

[Stick Up Kid]

@ people saying nikkas wasn’t listening to Kanye.

nikkas really mentioning diplomats?


Like Kanye want bigger than all them nikkas combined.

Like Kanye want bigger than every nikka in g-unit minus 50.

Kanye was the biggest rapper out not named 50, Eminem, OutKast and maybe Nelly. It was one of the big albums of the year. Sold and was critically acclaimed.

fukking dipset.

yeah because cac's in Idaho and Iowa/Kansas etc was listening to Kanye, that means Kanye got more love in the streets than Dipset/Lox/G-Unit in 2003

yall cac's are hilarious

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Kanye was never a real member of the ROC.
he was like A-Rod on the Yankees...nikkas wasnt bumpin no Kanye in 2003-2004 on the streets of New York or Philly... that was all Dipset/G-Unit/State Property

i know its cute to revise history, but stop it.

 

[Chris Cool]

yeah because cac's in Idaho and Iowa/Kansas etc was listening to Kanye, that means Kanye got more love in the streets than Dipset/Lox/G-Unit in 2003

yall cac's are hilarious

I’m from Cali. @ the thought of nikkas out here giving a fukk about dblock and dipset.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

I’m from Cali. @ the thought of nikkas out here giving a fukk about dblock and dipset.

yea cuz anyone, anywhere was listening to West Coast music from 1997 to until about 2012

 

[Kliq_Souf]

Kanye was never a real member of the ROC.
he was like A-Rod on the Yankees...nikkas wasnt bumpin no Kanye in 2003-2004 on the streets of New York or Philly... that was all Dipset/G-Unit/State Property

i know its cute to revise history, but stop it.

I like your imaginary generalization that niccas was only listening to those three artists in the streets.

 

[Chris Cool]

yea cuz anyone, anywhere was listening to West Coast music from 1997 to until about 2012

Has nothing to do with what I’m saying.


Kanye was popping out here, them other nikkas weren’t.

 

[Dolo]

I like your imaginary generalization that niccas was only listening to those three artists in the streets.

Right lmao nikkas was def fukking wit Ye in that era, heard Slow Jamz and All Falls Down so much growing up

 

[Monoblock]

Not to derail the thread, but that The Listening album literally prevented me from stop listening to hip hop. That is my fav hiphop album of all time and I listen to it on the regular. That album was the gateway of me discovering artist similar to them such as Strange Fruit Project, Skyzoo, Tanya Morgan, Oddisee, Kenn Starr, Kev Brown, Danny!, UNI and others in that same lane.

Totally off subject and not to throw the thread off but
Holy shyt you bringing up names making me reminisce like a MF. I use to chop it up with Kenn Starr all the time. That cat flow was . Those Strange Fruit Project albums From Divine, Soul Travelin, Kev Brown's-I Do What I Do, TheThyrday-The Perfection Experiment 2, Foreign Exchange-Connected (this album is so damn beautiful it had me in tears at one time. All time classic for me.) shyt even had me listening to R&B associated with them Darien Brockington-The Feeling and Somebody To Love. Median-Path To Relief, Legacy-Legsclusives and Project Mayhem I know I'm forgetting more but back in the early to mid 2000s music was so damn diverse and beautiful and the underground ran shyt. Not gonna even get into the Doom, Dilla, and Madlib stuff that was floating around back then.

 

[Zero]

Nothing really
2003-2004 was still the G-Unit/Dipset/Roc A Fella days

nikkas wasn’t listening to Kanye

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[Rozay Oro]

nikkas acted like it was the second coming of Jesus.
I didn't even have to buy it. nikkas just gave me copies because they thought it was that good.
I thought it was dope and I liked the non-street guy perspective.
What rubbed me the wrong way was his voice and delivery.
He rapped like a straight up batty bwai.
To this this day, I still think Ye is bi or fluid or something.
IMO, Ye was the gateway for all the femininity we've been seen in young Black males as of late.
Then I figured out that he had ghostwriters.
This was prior to the announcement that Rhymefest was writing for him.
I notice how his rhymes would be off the chain dope one minute and horribly wack the next.
Couple that with the story of how nobody at The Roc wanted to hear him rhyme and there you have it.

Wtf

 

[Zero]

Wtf

He aint lying though. Kanye would drop a verse that would make you go then verse on the next song was straight


But @Justus League saving seemingly everyone from tossing hiphop in the bushes in 2003

Those Just Us bootlegs still have a spot on my ipod

 

[King Kai]

I don't remember College Dropout having crazy crazy hype. Late Registration solidified him and then Graduation was where shyt really blew up into superstardom.

Jesus Walks was one of coldest singles of all time tho. I thought it was so powerful that he had a single with that subject matter blow up like it did.

 

[Rozay Oro]

That Chatter was killed when Kanye West dropped his mixtape in December 2002 Get Well Soon, that mixtape was hot, everybody was looking for that mixtape, from the mixtape everyone was anticipating College Dropout, and he dropped I'm Good Mixtape and it was a wrap he had the most anticipated album

Gonna have to check them bytches

 

[Rozay Oro]

He aint lying though. Kanye would drop a verse that would make you go then verse on the next song was straight


But @Justus League saving seemingly everyone from tossing hiphop in the bushes in 2003

Those Just Us bootlegs still have a spot on my ipod

It’s the weird sexuality part of the post. Idk tf he talkin about. Y’all talking about Rick Ross producers?

 

[Dontay Flaco]

I was 8, lol. I remember that era like it was yesterday! My mom used to play the hell out of that CD. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing "All Falls Down" and "Slow Jamz". I remember when he performed on 106 with the Louis V backpack. Good times!