How will you remember the Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit Era?

[Icantspell]

50 da gawd




what a legend

 

[Stone]

Aside from the fact I think 'Pateiently Waiting' is painfully dated, and hard to listen too at this point, I concede it's at least a solid track, and was def. somewhat of a game changer type track when it dropped...but what other 50/Em collabs, besides 'Spend Some Time', and the one from 'Encore', were dope? 'Gatman & Robin'? What was that garbage one from 'Curtis'? LOL....'Peep Show'...remember that shyt?

kinda funny considering your name....

Don't Push Me was also on Get Rich, plus Psycho from BISD.

 

[Busby]

They were running the shyt..simply as that, from 2001-2005 Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit had it all. The album sells, the lyrics, the popularity, the respect, everything. Especially Eminem, The Eminem Show leaked MONTHS in advance and he STILL went platinum just off the buzz alone. Not only that he had a VERY successful tour with the Anger Management Tour. Had the number one movie/soundtrack with 8 Mile, signed 50 Cent, had the mixtape game on lock with them Green Lantern mixtapes. Had Obie and D-12 go plat...

Then on top of that, the success 50 had with GRODT and then dropped the G-Unit album and had Banks, Buck, Yayo, and Game be successful with their solo joints.

These nikkas were

If I have a gif to sum it up

"WINNING fukkING WINNING nikka!! "

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Dre is a crazy moufukker.

He starters with Nwa, they died and he did his solo shyt and snoops shyt.
Signed Pac, that relationship died. Explored a few things came back with Eminem, Eminem died.
He signed 50, 50 about to die he signs Game. Game dies and he comes out with Kendrick.

For 25 fukking years.


Anyways Aftermath was a great period, the best thing Bout it being that the acts were in their peaks at different stages.. So at any given period he had rappers in their prime.

this is such a shamlessly glossed over summary of events lol. as if dre wanted no parts of pac being signed and wasnt the catalyst to dre leaving death row, as if dre wasnt about to drop game until jimmy and 50 stepped in. and lol @ explored a few things and came back with eminem.

eminem and dr,dre are both very fortunate to have found eachother. dre was releasing sub par music with a label full of c list rappers until he was introduced to em.

 

[semicko82]

Seriously. They ran gangsta rap to the point where it became predictable and even made Eminem from great into just a good MC in that time period. They raised that bullshyt beefs and ruined NY on top of ending the street dominated era. The only thing I hated more is them damn wiggers that gassed up Fif like he is better than the likes of Nas, Jada, Jigga, and Kanye. Them XXL magazine covers made me go every damn month.


Well, for every action, there is a negative reaction. The excessive beefs made the public tired of them. That is why the wack ass artists, mostly from the south, dominated at that time cause people wanted to party and hated all the problems that Fif had with other people for the sake of selling records.

yea you summed it up to a tee. i think the G-Unit era was the beginning of the end for hip hop as we know it. don't get me wrong they put out dope music and half of the music they put out was straight trash. 2001 was the best album to come out of Aftermath Records. On the low Roc-a-fella was making way better music during that time period,

 

[Harry B]

this is such a shamlessly glossed over summary of events lol. as if dre wanted no parts of pac being signed and wasnt the catalyst to dre leaving death row, as if dre wasnt about to drop game until jimmy and 50 stepped in. and lol @ explored a few things and came back with eminem.

eminem and dr,dre are both very fortunate to have found eachother. dre was releasing sub par music with a label full of c list rappers until he was introduced to em.

Dude, does it look like I'm talking about the fukking details. I could write a 500 page book about Dre's career.
All the things I mentioned happened, how they happened is another story.

Obviously Dr. Dre had help and luck, no shyt Sherlock.


Explored a few things as in starting a new label with new artists, dropping the firm on Aftermath and on.
Timeline
96-97 - Left Deathrow (which made it crumble) and started Aftermath (it's not like you start a label over a night) came out with the compilation of shytty tracks
Got married, had a kid, made his acting debut. Signed some artists which left cause he was too slow and dropped the Firm instead.
98 - signed Eminem and started working on 2001 and music for Snoop again.
99 - Eminem and 2001 launched.

I.e. 96-97 = explored things.

 

[Harry B]

And yes of course Dre is fortunate to have found Eminem, but Dr. Dre would still have dropped a classic, would still produce classic tracks and would probably look for other artists. He had found other artists before that and put them on before that as well. Eminem however.. well it's hard to speculate but one can assume that he would be working at GM or maybe Asher Roth status or maybe Redman status or whatever the fukk.

 

[Wild self]

yea you summed it up to a tee. i think the G-Unit era was the beginning of the end for hip hop as we know it. don't get me wrong they put out dope music and half of the music they put out was straight trash. 2001 was the best album to come out of Aftermath Records. On the low Roc-a-fella was making way better music during that time period,

They call blackballing "competition" and real Hip Hop . G-Unit, along with Lil Wayne, created the oversaturation of mixtapes and devalued music by releasing mass quantities of it in such a short time. Plus the CACs be gassing them all up thinking that they are better than any Hip Hop legend.

 

[Omerta]

Aside from the fact I think 'Pateiently Waiting' is painfully dated, and hard to listen too at this point, I concede it's at least a solid track, and was def. somewhat of a game changer type track when it dropped...but what other 50/Em collabs, besides 'Spend Some Time', and the one from 'Encore', were dope? 'Gatman & Robin'? What was that garbage one from 'Curtis'? LOL....'Peep Show'...remember that shyt?

Everything before Encore was dope. That is before Eminem starting ODing.

Patiently Waiting, Don't Push Me, Hail Mary, Warrior pt 2 and Bump Heads.

Then when Eminem returned to form during Relapse, that Pyscho song was piff as well.

 

[ThaRealness]

Dre is a crazy moufukker.

He starters with Nwa, they died and he did his solo shyt and snoops shyt.
Signed Pac, that relationship died. Explored a few things came back with Eminem, Eminem died.
He signed 50, 50 about to die he signs Game. Game dies and he comes out with Kendrick.

For 25 fukking years.


Anyways Aftermath was a great period, the best thing Bout it being that the acts were in their peaks at different stages.. So at any given period he had rappers in their prime.

Ya it is kind of amazing.. He doesnt deserve credit for Kendrick though, anyone would have signed the dude given the oppurtunity.

 

[DaveyDave]

overall i think it obviously had some great music from SSLP to GRODT & all the albums in between. but the thing i'm really going to think about is all the missed chances. Raekwon, Rakim, Detox, Em on drugs and all the other artists that were signed or supposed to be signed. most of all i've really missed Dre producing entire albums.

 

[Harry B]

Ya it is kind of amazing.. He doesnt deserve credit for Kendrick though, anyone would have signed the dude given the oppurtunity.

Anyone would sign him in 2011? And make him a star..
When Dre consigned him him in 2010 and begun mentoring him, I thought he was just some boring Joell Ortiz/Bishop Lamont aftermath signing. Now he's the illest and nearly biggest rapper in the game.

People forget that Kendrick was not even close to being a star until the months leading up to his album.

 

[Danie84]

The inequality era

 

[Triggamatic]

Dominant.

 

[intilectual recipricol]

as the Roc-a-Fella era