He damn sure wasn't top 5..lol
Nore:"In 1998 I was The Hottest Rapper In The World"
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People didn't even know of DMX until the Mase album..no one heard of Cam'ron until the Horse and Carriage record. Harlem World went damn near 5x platinum...superthug doesn't compare to that.
Newark88
Superstar
nikkas Done Started Something actually came out 2 years or so prior on the mixtapes before X debut. By the time the album came out, the song was already old but it was still getting heavy play on the streets and mixshows. I never said Mase wasn’t popular in 98. He was. But compared to his run in 97, he wasn’t the top (or one of) the top dogs amongst his peers anymore in 98.
Yes Busta had the Flipmode Squad and dropped ELE at the end of 98. ELE was successful no doubt but Gimme Some More wasn’t as big as Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See a year earlier. Tear Da Roof Off was more so a hit in the Spring of 99.
Newark88
Superstar
Dmx was known after Harlem World came out.
lochead
All Star
From an NY perspective it was 1. X, 2. Jay, 3. Nore/ Pun….. Other New York rappers
National, it was 1. No Limit, 2. Roc/ RR, 3. OutKast/ Lauryn
National, it was 1. No Limit, 2. Roc/ RR, 3. OutKast/ Lauryn
Newark88
Superstar
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Busta has the two longest drawing real grassroots club records in probably music history.
So trying to give nore fake payola oversaturated prison industrial communications act more shine than what it is.
Is a disservice to this pillar based culture called hiphop.
Plus was a real first rap industry successful long term drawing entry.
That would be misappropriated wrongly by defjam. Then universal.
to become the sales spike era.
So still trying to give nore full credit wothout the full narrative is completely wrong based upin your nostalgia from commin toy sales or dubs. As opposed to real bboys in the pillar's grassroots draw from the real eight minth sales cycle solo artist in busta. In the sales envelope of the coming to disaster strikes alone. Not to mention the long burn draw of rhe best club song in history and follow up with put ya hands and dangerous.
Not telling the full narrative.
Plus this exact wack artist nore.
Is exactly why hipgop does not produce a real profit at all whatsover. When originally it was the most profitable model in record industry history. Which is how and why it still is wrongly misappropriated into genres. Who vehemently were against this business of rap originally. While misappropriating every thing possible from the business derived from the pillar wrongly amd purposefully.
Not to mention,...
The culture of hiphop was in a place.
Totally derived from the actual pillars.
of the culture of real skilled bboys and bgirls in the new school way of thought in hiphop.
Art Barr
Not know who dana owens is and post a movie clip breh.
On a hip hop pillar based message board breh.
In a thread about ghost written pixar based talent.
Plus not know which pixar styke rap artist.
who was a female and way better in every talk show host meets pixar movie level voice over rapper.
Plus her real name breh.
You wack face it.
You sellout enablers half way c00ns in here a joke.
nikkaz talking about the first blatant rap oversaturated method payola artist.
after the glass ceiling was shattered by proxy from the death of big.
With reverence and wonder why it is what it is.
Until you nikkaz really become skilled.
in a pillar and leave the house and show and prove frfr.
It is always gon be this wack.
Simply because you enablin this culture thief wack shyt.
To the point that you they victimizing you.
in every possible way from applied knowledge from this enabled misappropriation.
Art Barr
nikkaz mired in misery.
Yet failing to realize.
Their endorsement.
Including included misled culture thief enabled nostalgia.
Has fed the exact reason.
why we have been preyed upon with no power till now.
Plus they have applied knowledge.
Then gon make it even worse.
Keep having a victimized sharecropper mentality.
Instead of the prescient urban intellectual culture based and skilled mind.
Which if you respected hiphop.
even as a noob.
you would enjoy a much better day and make it better for everyone else.
I did a part of my part.
You on it.
I will not sit by.
Then watch you be ignorant on the part i made a draw for you by making it into a real profit gainer.
Then try to make it like i am talking nonsense.
When i am the grassroots next skilled headliner frfr.
So all that other praise be to these wack nikkaz.
You gon keep wondering why shyt wack.
It is because you allowing wackness to thrive and enablin it.
For a quarter century now too tho.
When y'all gon wake up and listen to the roy Ayers third eye nikkaz.
Art Barr
Yet nikkaz wanna champion a fukk'n no talent sellout and not keep shyt real.
At the end of the day.
I still own you.
As you got to go search on products i made profitable.
for yo dumb ass to go look up any piece of film.
In yo huff ass life bytch.
Now lemme give you the dana owens.
Art Barr
Dana owens : you wack enablin face ass nikkaz need to face it.
u're wack.
face it.
next
Art Barr
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ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
Pretty much
1 No Limit (MP/Silkk/Snoop...)
2 Jay & X (Roc n RR were built on their successes)
3 Lauryn
4 Kast
5 Pun
6 Mase
Etc
Ehh, MAYBE top 10. No Limit, X, Jay, Kast, Lauryn were bigger than Busta n Mase in 98
True
RR Anthem and How It's Goin' Down were just cherry on top of the cake for X and RR and Def Jam. X was already massive
I don't have Mase nor Busta over X, Jay, or Lauryn. Busta was near the bottom of my list. I only included solos, so I didn't have Kast on my list and I split Silkk and P because they had their own thing going even though it was still No Limit.
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
He explained it.. OP lying