Little Brother would have had more successful if they weren't so unlikeable

[EBK String]

Phonte and 9th are both divas whose egos are not in line with their actual accomplishments and pooh is also a prick to fans online when he is a third wheel and very average artist.

Its not a surprise they broke up and couldn't get along with all of their violatile personalities and that documentary they made them look worse with their pettiness.

I can't even really listen to their music anymore after following them on social media for over a decade and seeing how they move.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Phonte and 9th are both divas whose egos are not in line with their actual accomplishments and pooh is also a prick to fans online when he is a third wheel and very average artist.

Its not a surprise they broke up and couldn't get along with all of their violatile personalities and that documentary they made them look worse with their pettiness.

I can't even really listen to their music anymore after following them on social media for over a decade and seeing how they move.

what they do that you don’t like?


also…… per coli Drake is unlikable….. but checking his stats or career is extremely successful

So not sure if like-ability is an important factor.

There are a bunch of folks success that aren’t likeable

 

[EBK String]

what they do that you don’t like?


also…… per coli Drake is unlikable….. but checking his stats or career is extremely successful

So not sure if like-ability is an important factor.

There are a bunch of folks success that aren’t likeable

Drake is a former actor so he knows how to be charismatic and get people to like him.

All three of those dudes be catty on social media going back and forth with fans and acting like their opinions are gospel.

 

[Ziggiy]

The music is dope thats all that matters.

I follow Pooh and he can come off a little prickly at times but hey thats what happens when interacting with REAL human beings, sometimes they can be gracious, sometimes they can be a$$holes.

Phonte doesn’t come off as that all bad in his interviews in my opinion.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Drake is a former actor so he knows how to be charismatic and get people to like him.

All three of those dudes be catty on social media going back and forth with fans and acting like their opinions are gospel.

Na…. Just cuz you a former actor don’t mean you’re likeable…. There are countless actors that are P.O.S.

and again, he not a US hollywood actor.

 

[Conan]

Phonte and 9th are both divas whose egos are not in line with their actual accomplishments and pooh is also a prick to fans online when he is a third wheel and very average artist.

This was the case in 2010 (around the first breakup)?

Its not a surprise they broke up and couldn't get along with all of their violatile personalities and that documentary they made them look worse with their pettiness.

The documentary was well received across the board.

I can't even really listen to their music anymore after following them on social media for over a decade and seeing how they move.

Why would you let social media get in the way of great music?

 

[Neuromancer]

I didn't know anything about personal issues between the group until I got in the Internet. They're a dope group, I think they would have been more popular if the weren't actually good emcee's and made more ignorant music.

 

[Low End Derrick]

My playlist would be 20 minutes long if I only listened to music by people who are good, upstanding, and/or friendly people.

 

[Da_Eggman]

They just weren’t that special really

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I never really liked them coming into the game on some, " We're junior versions of actual dope groups." Was wacky to me. And then I really hated how they blogged and were speaking on artists superior to them. They were mad Mobb Deep signed with G Unit. I'm no 50 fan but don't fukkin' crap on artists for business decisions. It's like they would rather Hav and P sit home broke or something. And to do it in blog form is even worse. Get on the mic and say that shyt, but you won't because you don't want that kind of smoke. They just came off as toys as @Art Barr would say. lol

 

[Pressure]

Nah, they are just fat.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Maybe…I don’t think it matters from an audience facing standpoint because it seems to me they were liked enough by their fanbase , but maybe on some behind the scenes type shyt…I think about some one like French Montana, who a week or so ago I called a legendary social climber, who has had success that greatly exceeds his perceived talent…and I chalk it up to him being the type of person that for whatever reason people (within the industry, peers and others) just really like personally …we have no way of knowing this so it’s all speculation, but hypothetically if they’re more likable they end up more intertwined in that Kanye era of Rocafella and it gains them more acclaim and success…or something like that

 

[Ziggiy]

I’ll also say that being “likable”, while a nice trait, isn’t the end all be all to success. Great business acumen and building the right team are much more integral.

Lupe Fiasco is more successful by every metric than Little Brother and he comes off WAYYYYY more pretentious and assholl-ish than either Pooh or Phonte. He had a great business manager in Chilly, who set him with a great deal at Atlantic before he went off to prison. A deal so good that Lyor Cohen wanted to renege on it after Lupe’s second album and force him into a 360 deal.

Jay-Z is reported to be the most arrogant person on planet earth and look how astronomically successful HE is.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

They weren't unlikeable at all, but you had to buy-in to their brand and message, and the vehicle to do that wasn't mapped out yet

They literally blew up on forums like this. Imagine if Twitter/IG existed, and YouTube and podcast media/streamers to help amplify them? They could do skits and content, and were already doing that on smaller platforms

The average consumer did not care about that at all in 2005. And theyre supposedly wagging the finger at them? A lot of folks didn't even realize it was satire, but suddenly everyone loves Dreamville and the Tyler aesthetic...

Phonte is a hilarious dude and very intelligent as are 9th and Pooh. They had a whole team and movement, but the labels were only willing to do the bare minimum and they were trying to jam a round shape into a square hole... Magazines like The Source were too caught up in their own bullshyt to even review the project in good faith

They didn't have any real traction with legacy media, and new media hadn't truly emerged yet. They had a sound that was unpopular (and swimming upstream) back then, but has a whole lane now of folks doing it

They were truly before their time

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Less to do with likability and more to do with the fact they didn't appease to mainstream standards. They came up during the worst time too. Nothing they were doing would've tracked well because of the state the rap game was in during the early-to-mid 00s. They were 10-15 years too late (or too early, depending on how you look at it).