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Reds a great lyricst but meth made much better songs imo
I can't say that meth made better songs than red.
As culturally red never sold out.
Nor, did he appease any commercially fueled based style music that was not culturally based music.
Red made strictly cultural based music.
If red made a commercial submission.
It was out of extreme like from a performer like xtina and in that regard.
red gave an all time best commercial performance for a culturally based emcee.
Where for some odd reason the destruction of the draw for xtina was just grafted onto her erroneously.
So, it never resonated in the manner it should have as far as a pop explosion draw wise for dirty.
Yet, I would hope people would pay attention to what red supplied and the element in which dirty was created.
To realize it is an excellent collab and a brilliant pick for a guest star by xtina on the same level of jody Whatley challenging rakim.
Leading to rakim bodying the rnb artist based hook with cultural acceptance.
For red to be able to do that in a complete pop realm without altering. or sacrificing himself, as Redman in artistry culturally.
While, perfectly fitting in on dirty was a commercial rap skill triumph.
Meth was used as a defjam flagship artist and rightly so.
All because meth was the styles war visage of the black man like rakim, and bdk were in the golden era and spawn of the new school way of thought. So, meth was asked to be more in overall scope than red.
Plus, meth culturally had a crew.
where he could possibly re-establish any bad marks culturally from poor direction. Yet, surprisingly in that meth never flodge and preyed on that.
Yet, in all that meth had a period where he struggled in the sonic landscape change.
before he figured out the technical puzzle for that landscape.
Once he was able to do that,...he rebounded back into being what we call method man for real.
So, that is the only thing that hurts method in that time Period.
Red man was arguably the best in all of rap song to song verse to verse and able to shift into tonite's the nite remix super saiyan level every verse in the technical revolution era.
Plus red also was a sleeper best of all time closet dark horse mix tape era emcee as well.
Plus, later in his career you could say he also had an album of the year and mix tape of the year in the same year just recently in what was that 2011, or 2012, I wanna say, too. While also single release wise making some of the best true to yourself singles in the turn up age.
Where his material made from his own original steez and skill.
Was better than anything that dropped that entire year on two occasions as well.
Well after 421 crushed the buildings and was an album of the year, as well.
Method does not have an entire album of performances like on protect ya neck.
While red in that era, had the longest running debut artist streak for blow ya mind on the MTV and rap city countdown.
Plus, followed that up with the remix video to blow ya mind.
that ruled for and set a record for weeks in a row back then.
Which was only broken by common sense's take it eZ debut video.
Method does not have a singular solo record as fun, funny and outlandish as rated r.
Nor, does he have a superman lover series of records, how to roll a blunt, or any of the hilarious I got aids bytch records, and no basically....
Method does have sub crazy and tical and feature verses all over 36, and even the craziest performance on cash still rules and he was the go to hook guy like future would be first in rap as well.
So, method has performances but he did not hold it down with red man's work load as a true solo artist to say meth was better.
Plus, Redman has the fukk'n funniest catch you off guard skits.
Like the airplane skit and just him say oh uNh ...is so fukk'n funny I remember that shyt vividly to this day.
If method was originally a solo artist and no disaster to the first tical.
Maybe we could say,....
Yet red never had that issue and also red is the type of artist that his workrate and output was next level.
That he was so good he almost seemed like he never gave you the apex of what he could potentially do every record like on tonite's the night remix.
While virtually stealing the show in the same volume of frequency as his features and albums.
Art Barr