Legend Has It... Campaign (Nas, Slick Rick, GFK, Rae, Mobb Deep, Big L, De La Soul albums otw)

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Awesome Wells said:
Truth.

50 spoke a lot about how much of a fan he was, of Mobb. It was a really weird time. Dude was winning so much that everyone wanted to do business with him. I remember LL was working on music with him too, and dressing like him, at one point, lol. A few of those records leaked, but they sounded like 50-fueled Cool J tracks.

I think for the kinda music that Mobb made, that era was just mad challenging.
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I remember when Nas dissed them for aligning with 50 and said “Mobb Deep is my babies! They should sign with me! I know how to make a REAL Mobb album.”


Crazy how shyt comes full circle.
 
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hex said:
2. I might get crucified for this....but I think they should've used AI to clean up Prodigy's voice. The 2nd half of his career he sounded groggy as hell and that snippet seems to be from that era.

Fred.
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Yeah...the AI move would be crazy. They'd get ripped apart for doing that. P sounded dope, man. I dunno. His last album Hegelian Book One is in his top 5 projects. Lotta people loved that album and he sounded just fine on it. Albert Einstein and HNIC 2 are also beloved projects that were in the 2nd half of his career and his voice sounded fine on those.

IMHO a lot of people just don't like the style change that he made. And that's fine. But I definitely do think it was a chosen style change and not a decline or him trying to rap how he used to but just not being able to. Those are 2 different things. A lot of people think he was trying to rap like his old self, but couldn't. I think the reality is that he just chose to use more a spoken word conversational talking type flow and less of a conventional rapping flow.

I used to try and sell people on why I thought it was dope but It's not for everyone and I accepted that a while ago. :manny:
 
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If that's the cover it's definitely kinda lazy but whatever...actually now that I think of it most of their covers are fairly bland and not very creative for how dope they are.

Most of their covers are just their faces. That's a trend I'm happy that's been on the way out. Someone just putting themselves on the cover is lazy af these days. Gotta be more creative than that.

It made way more sense when everyone watched music videos and you'd be in the CD store and be like "Oh, I recognize that person from the video". But people keep doing it in this streaming era.
 
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If that's the cover it's definitely kinda lazy but whatever...actually now that I think of it most of their covers are fairly bland and not very creative for how dope they are.

Most of their covers are just their faces. That's a trend I'm happy that's been on the way out. Someone just putting themselves on the cover is lazy af these days. Gotta be more creative than that.

It made way more sense when everyone watched music videos and you'd be in the CD store and be like "Oh, I recognize that person from the video". But people keep doing it in this streaming era.
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Its 100% the cover. I’m not in LOVE with it but Mobb were never known for having amazing cover art. It kind of reminds me of an inverse of The Infamous cover with Prodigy now in the forefront
 
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