Nipsey didnt deserve this. [possibly NSFW]

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Troy Ave sold 9,000 first week. Nipsey sold 56,000 first week. Try again. :unimpressed:
Both these nikkaz been around for hella long.
They get respect where they're from and a few other places but they aren't stars.

I don't give a shyt what numbers you googled bro..
There aren't too many people in NY or the tri-state area that could have picked Nipsey hustle out of a line up, before he died.

Not too many people on the east coast that could have recited one of his songs before he died .

This isn't even a debate...that's just plain facts

If Nipsey was alive he'd give you nikkaz the :stopitslime:

For y'all fake fukkery
 

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Never said anything about being independent. What I was saying, which we agree on, is that he wasn't regional.

"Racks in the Middle" was a smash hit and, even before he died, within one month of that single being released, it had more than triple the amount of YouTube views as the next biggest song off of Victory Lap. Off the strength of that song and the grammy nomination alone, Victory Lap was on track to sell more units. Would it have gone gold? Maybe, maybe not. The fact is he was clearly on the edge of a major crossover. And before people say the single was big because of Roddy Ricch, The Box didn't drop until 10 months later and he was nowhere near being a household name of any sort at that point. It was a hot single and the type of record that was about to be a radio hit regardless of Nipsey's passing. Nipsey was poised to be a breakout artist in 2019 no matter what.

For reference, you'll never hear this regional talk said about a rapper like Freddie Gibbs in spite of the fact that he's NEVER sold a fraction of what Nipsey did while he was alive on any album, Alfredo, Bandana and Pinata included. They were both in the same XXL Freshmen class and their careers have lasted roughly the same amount of time. Freddie Gibbs, right now, does not have a single youtube video with as many views as what Racks in the Middle got in a month (11 million). Nipsey's viewcounts on his videos before Racks in the Middle were exactly the same as Gibbs's. Is Gibbs regional now too? Is he a very minor artist?



I feel you. I was just saying that Atlantic deal helped get thau extra push before he died. As far as Freddie Gibbs, Nip was definitely bigger than him. :yeshrug:
 

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Breh you a fool if you don't believe that if given the opportunity to make $500 million, that Nip wouldn't have been open to that.

Yes, he was authentic. But if he could remain authentic and get that money too, he would have done it.

You need to stop it.







I didn't say Nip didn't have any love. Yes, he had his die hard fans, but his name wasn't coming out of everybody's mouth like it was after he died.

And you a fool if you think he was the biggest west coast rapper after Kendrick Lamar.

Y'all victims of the narrative. I'm done with this convo.

If you think I'm wrong, I dare you to search the coli and see how many Nipsey Hussle threads folks were making before he died. Then look at how many were made AFTER he died.

That will prove my point right there.
Your first part is wrong as hell. Ross even said he was shopping Nip around and every label wanted him, but he wanted to own 100% of his shyt and wouldn't back down. He would have been another artist on MMG right when Meek and Wale was going plat and he turned it down. Turned down deals with Dre and Hov cause he wanted 100%.. That's why his first album took 10 years of grinding to get out. Doing the $100 tickets and shyt to build up his leverage until he could own his masters from the first record on....

So yea.. He could have took that 50/50 check and had the machine push.. Or given them 90% on a 360 deal and they'd have made sure he popped. Or been fake indy like most artists with a label secretly behind them. He chose not to do any of that shyt
 

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:scusthov::scusthov::scusthov::scusthov::scusthov::scusthov::scusthov::scusthov:

Hold on this the bytch cats are sweating?
 

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No Nip slander will be allowed…:stopitslime:


Erm was a personal friend & classmate of mine

My girl went to elementary with him & we met in 9th grade…


His impact and hustle and vision is why he’s so greatly admired and respected. The rap shyt was cool, the the moves he was making outside of that were even bigger.


The fake love after his passing is some sick shyt and lame shyt. But sadly this happens to all icons when they reach a certain level.

My nikka Erm man…:to:


2018-20 was heavy as for the city and me personally…

I reconnected with Erm at the Laker / Rockets game (when Rondo punched cp3) and we got to talk before the game. Told him how proud we all were & for him tk keep doing his shyt.

Met Kobe shortly after that at the Lakers practice facility and spoke with him…

shorty after that, reconnected with another friend from high school who fukked with me & Erm down in Venice.


He dies of an overdose at Venice beach

Erm is killed

Kobe crashes


The city will never be the same.


I just feel very blessed and fortunate that I was able to speak to all three of them shortly before they made their transition. This shyt is kind of surreal when I think about it sometimes.
Woah, so brehs were dropping dead after you meet or reconnect with them? :mjtf:. You need deliverance, breh.:picard:
 

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I’m still laughing at possibly NSFW when it’s a picture of a man with a thumb in a woman’s a$$hole :mjlol:
 

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Never once heard him mentioned outside LA before his murder

I was on Nip back in my college days. He was a part of the new school rappers that emerged in that 2009, 2010 period…Kendrick, J Cole, Drake, Dom Kennedy, Big Sean, Nipsey, Phil Ade, Logic, Big KRIT, Wiz Khalifa, etc. Nip never blew up though like some other names did. But he was known to anyone on the mixtape underground circuit.
 

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One more thing I never see brought in in the Nipsey popularity discussion

the man got a DJ Khaled album placement with a video before his death…since when does Khaled put no name rappers on his shyt? Khaled is all about the hype, he only puts rappers that have some clout. If he puts regional rappers it’s only from Miami on some hometown shyt

Nip was well known when he was alive y’all stop with the foolishness. How many posts were in the Victory Lap album thread when he was alive? Now how many albums in 2021 have that many posts even before his death? Only the big ones like Nas Drake Cole Kendrick etc etc
 
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