Is Rakim And KRS-One More Relevant Than E-40 Is?

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Nobody has surpassed Rakim.
Who are the modernized better versions of KRS, Rakim and G rap?

Give me Nas over Kool G
KRS One always compares 50 to himself, so fukk it the man said himself and I’d rather listen to 50
Rakim isn’t like Lupe stylistically, but Rakim was lyrically ahead of his time and Lupe was as well ... From a technical standpoint give me Lupe...

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

those 14 million viewers clicked on the video to see quavo & them other dudes.

this is the chit that I was talking about.






who am I dikk-riding? I have no horse in this race.
I don't even like krs-one, or biggie who you keep trying to bring up.

as for that bytch chit. we can hit the PMs & meet up. no more typing.

I'll keep calling you a bytch as long as you keep up with the name calling and if you want to slide in my DM's like a bytch you can feel free to.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

You don't understand how the music industry works. That's 1 of the issues...

I'm not gonna spend much time on people on here as they're lost and hopeless, a lot of better places to discuss Hip Hop, even online, however quickly...

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/krs-one-performance-footage-discussion.222351/page-4

This was a thread I made previously, the latter pages show videos of him performing infront of different size audiences from 100's to 1000'. KRS-One can still demand good money for features or shows. Know people who have booked him. Last big interview, Drink Champs was big, he also had an interview with Nick Cannon on his show. Has songs with over 23 million views. He performs all over the world, here are just some of the recent ones (I'll post that at the end of this). He does the small clubs as well as bigger festivals. He gets over a million Spotify plays a month, that's just on 1 of singular streaming outlet. And you mentioned HOT97, they begged him to come on the show, he refused. Not long ago he was at the Yo MTV Rap Reunion Tour. This isn't to mention he does lectures, writes books, and production. KRS is doing very nicely, he's made and is making a good living off Hip Hop. = Relevance, irrelevant is when no-one cares or wants to book you or interview you or talks about you. KRS-One is LEGENDARY, a true living legend in music. That's all that needs to be said.

April 5th: Slims - San Francisco, CA

April 6th: Jub Jubs Thirst Parlor - Reno, NV

April 7th: Whiskey dikks Lake - Tahoe, NV

April 11th: Aggie Theatre - Fort Collins, CO

April 13th: Cervantes- Denver CO

April 17th: 1904 Music Hall - Jacksonville, FL

April 18th: Respectables - WPB, FL

April 19th: Sky Bar - Sarasota, FL

April 20th: Club 1306 - Miami, FL

May 13th: Lemongrove, Exeter UK

May 14th: Trinity Centre, Bristol UK

May 15th: O2 Institute, Birmingham UK

May 17th: Brixton Electric, London UK

May 18th: MK11, Milton Keynes UK

May 19th: The Waterfront, Norwich UK

May 20th: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds UK

May 23rd: O2 Academy Newcastle, Newcastle UK

May 24th: O2Academy Sheffield, Sheffield UK

May 25th: Club Academy, Manchester UK

May 26th: The Welly, Hull UK

May 28th: 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool UK

May 31st: Doornroosje, Nijmegen Netherlands

June 1st: Annabel, Rotterdam Netherlands

June 2nd: Zinder Podium, Tiel Netherlands

June 5th: Paradisco Noord, Amsterdam Netherlands

June 6th: Metropool, Enschede Netherlands

June 7th: Simplon, Groningen Netherlands

June 8th: Victorie, Alkmaar Netherlands

June 12th: Kapu, Linz Austria

June 13th: Treibhaus, Innsbruck Austria

June 14th: Gare De Lion, Wil Switzerland

June 15th: L'Undertown, Geneva Switzerland

June 19th: Pumpehuset, Copenhagen Denmark

June 20th: Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg Germany

June 21st: Junkyard, Dortmund Germany

June 22nd: Faust, Hannover Germany

June 23rd: Zoom, Frankfurt Germany

June 27th: Technikum, Munich Germany

June 28th: Schräglage, Stuttgart Germany

June 29th: CBE, Cologne Germany

June 30th: Out4Fame Festival, Hünxe Germany

July 4th: Chip Shop, Brixton, London UK

July 5th: Chip Shop, Brixton, London UK

July 7th: St Ives Theatre, Cornwall UK

Musically, they are not reaching these type numbers like E-40. truth hurts. nobody has checked for them both in 20+ years.

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[Big Mel]

Yet every rapper wants to be relevant but you can't name one that's been able to do it since 86 while dropping music every year since 1986. If it was easy 40 wouldn't be the only one doing it. Look at how hard it is for Master P to try to get it back popping and he had waaay more resources than 40 and couldn't do it.

Don't tell me they have too much integrity because KRS and Rakim both sold out for a check before.

Rakim & Krs One are not jumping on songs with Migos you dope. Neither party would be interested in that union and the world is better off for it.


And E-40 hasn’t made a good album since Hall Of Game (which wasn’t as good as In A Major Way) despite whatever Hyphy movement he hopped on to briefly have a moment here and there.

And I really hope you aren’t saying 40 was relevant in 1986. The guy broke through with the Jive deal on The Mailman EP re-release and even then during west coast sales dominance was a Gold seller for a few albums.


Ra & Krs are rap behemoths. E 40 is the fat guy in sparkly clothes at Warriors games who makes up words for a living.

 

[areohbee824]

To answer your question about 40 being more relevant, absolutely and not to discredit what Rakim and KRS have done. The other thing with E-40 is it’s even more than just the music. He really is Charlie Hustle, the blue print of a self made millionaire

 

[The Ruler 09]

Musically, they are not reaching these type numbers like E-40. truth hurts. nobody has checked for them both in 20+ years.

337M Views


62M Views


37M Views


31M Views

You ignored everything I said lol. And you're point clearly is incorrect and wrong considering YouTube and Spotify aren't even that old.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Rakim & Krs One are not jumping on songs with Migos you dope. Neither party would be interested in that union and the world is better off for it.


And E-40 hasn’t made a good album since Hall Of Game (which wasn’t as good as In A Major Way) despite whatever Hyphy movement he hopped on to briefly have a moment here and there.

And I really hope you aren’t saying 40 was relevant in 1986. The guy broke through with the Jive deal on The Mailman EP re-release and even then during west coast sales dominance was a Gold seller for a few albums.


Ra & Krs are rap behemoths. E 40 is the fat guy in sparkly clothes at Warriors games who makes up words for a living.

Okay you dope. I'm done with the convo...you're right. Krs One and Rakim are both more relevant in 2019 than E-40...you win.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Yet every rapper wants to be relevant but you can't name one that's been able to do it since 86 while dropping music every year since 1986. If it was easy 40 wouldn't be the only one doing it. Look at how hard it is for Master P to try to get it back popping and he had waaay more resources than 40 and couldn't do it.

Don't tell me they have too much integrity because KRS and Rakim both sold out for a check before.

e-40 aint been out since '86. he came out in 93-94.

and e-40 is not poppin. just because he latches on to popular radio rappers, doesn't mean that hes relevant.
like I said, you dudes love illusion.

I'll keep calling you a bytch as long as you keep up with the name calling and if you want to slide in my DM's like a bytch you can feel free to.

im been done with the name-calling. I want all the smoke.

and i clearly said PMs. stop runnin..​

 

[KingSol81]

those 14 million viewers clicked on the video to see quavo & them other dudes.

this is the chit that I was talking about.






who am I dikk-riding? I have no horse in this race.
I don't even like krs-one, or biggie who you keep trying to bring up.

as for that bytch chit. we can hit the PMs & meet up. no more typing.

Who did the 62mil viewers come to see this time out? And how did an irrelevant local artist who never helped pioneer the independent hip hop game manage to get all these cameos for his video?

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Who did the 62mil viewers come to see this time out? And how did an irrelevant local artist who never helped pioneer the independent hip hop game manage to get all these cameos for his video?

I already mentioned that song myself. youre taking the thread backwards.

getting industry people to appear in your video has nothing to do with being a pioneer. BE SMART.

Musically, they are not reaching these type numbers like E-40. truth hurts. nobody has checked for them both in 20+ years.

only one of those videos did numbers because of him.

and the one that did, is the type of flukey hit that you would usually see being made by a one-hit wonder.​

 

[KingSol81]

e-40 aint been out since '86. he came out in 93-94.

and e-40 is not poppin. just because he latches on to popular radio rappers, doesn't mean that hes relevant.
like I said, you dudes love illusion.

im been done with the name-calling. I want all the smoke.

and i clearly said PMs. stop runnin..​

Hes had distribution since 88

He was doing shows at colleges and selling tapes out the trunk for a couple years before that.

 

[KingSol81]

Yet every rapper wants to be relevant but you can't name one that's been able to do it since 86 while dropping music every year since 1986. If it was easy 40 wouldn't be the only one doing it. Look at how hard it is for Master P to try to get it back popping and he had waaay more resources than 40 and couldn't do it.

Don't tell me they have too much integrity because KRS and Rakim both sold out for a check before.

Somehow its different when its KRS the teacher slanging carbonated sugar water.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Hes had distribution since 88

He was doing shows at colleges and selling tapes out the trunk for a couple years before that.

I know about all that.

clearly that chit doesn't count in regards to the claims dude was making.

cmon man. I shouldn't have to spell everything out on page 11.

 

[KingSol81]

I know about all that.

clearly that chit doesn't count in regards to the claims dude was making.

cmon man. I shouldn't have to spell everything out on page 11.

If you already know about that then why the fukk are you claiming he dropped in 93/94?? You keep changing the narrative and adding qualifiers and dis-qualifiers to your points. It has become clear there is no reasoning or having a logical debate with you. Its yeah he went platinum but only in a weirdo market, its yeah hes on these tours but KRS and Rakim are too pure hip hop to be on those type of tours, they could if they wanted to though, its yeah KRS and Rakim are more relevant in 2019 but I didnt say they were more relevant currently...you just contradict and backpedal and juelz..its obvious ur just a Rasheed wallace type dude...

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

r, I said that I never saw e-40 as being a relevant rapper period. more of a fringe artist with a rabid die-hard fanbase.

How can you have a rabid fan base and not be relevant?