Oldheads who ran 1995: biggie or tupac

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He still was big as hell. He owned the charts and his album sold 3 milli
It was an empty success tho, kinda the way fetty wap owned the charts last year. Some folks can put out hits without having fans (kid ink being another example) or without people really caring about them.
 
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No doubt, but you can't deny the corniness to them in retrospect. Kinda like "can't touch this"...or even some nelly songs, they're full of good memories but a bit cringeworthy :manny:
I think they're dope still. And i still appreciate U cant touch this. Every nelly song i ever like ,i still like.
 

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No doubt, but you can't deny the corniness to them in retrospect. Kinda like "can't touch this"...or even some nelly songs, they're full of good memories but a bit cringeworthy :manny:

What's funny it is considered corny because of the video with the stupid ass everyone jumping out the trunk at the beach part but the lyrics are not all that corny or different than music at the time. I think people forget that Coolio was talking about Crippin on the record and he himself was more connected than your average 'hardcore' rapper.
 

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What's funny it is considered corny because of the video with the stupid ass everyone jumping out the trunk at the beach part but the lyrics are not all that corny or different than music at the time. I think people forget that Coolio was talking about Crippin on the record and he himself was more connected than your average 'hardcore' rapper.

Yeah, if you read the lyrics to that song it's actually kinda deep.

I'm tryin to find a place where I can live my life and
Maybe eat some steak with my beans and rice
A place where my kids can play outside without livin in fear of a drive by

:wow:
 

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How is gangster's paradise corny?
I think some of the lyrics are corny (or maybe it was his delivery of those lines) and overall i simply stopped liking the song due to how played out it was. I haven't been able to sit through it since, the same thing happened with the fugees "killing me softly" whenever i play the score i skip that track.
 

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i was born in 91. Was coolio really popping like that????
Coolio was definitely popping like that..that song was probably the song of the year and it was anticipation built for that too hot and that 1-2-3-4 joint he had, it was a big deal being the follow up to gangsters paradise..coolio was getting love...esp on MTV ..he up and vanished tho..he was poppin one min, gone the next..
 

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I think some of the lyrics are corny (or maybe it was his delivery of those lines) and overall i simply stopped liking the song due to how played out it was. I haven't been able to sit through it since, the same thing happened with the fugees "killing me softly" whenever i play the score i skip that track.

cuz they went from being on urban stations to being played on old school vh1 and country stations

these muthafukkas in this thread exposin themselves :popcorn3:
 

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Coolio was huge and how he put it down is very underrated but biggie just had too many looks to be put under anyone.
In my memory,the most beloved albums round my way were MATW,e1999 eternal. C-bo shyt,TRU true
Honestly nikkas wasnt talking about RTD like that till later. Even though it's a classic album. Biggie in 94/95 was similar to ma$e first roll out. Was all over the radio and tv with classic shyt. Had a dope album moving units but was NOT the main album the streets were raving about. Those who knew,KNEW,those who didnt,DIDNT.
nikkas need to understand that biggie had one of the greatest singles/features runs ever for that time and anytime before him.
Every single from rtd was a classic with classic video to match.
Juicy's reign was more of a 94' thang.
But then came
Big poppa
Total's can't you see
Craig mack's flavor in your ear remix
Jr mafia's players anthem
One more chance remix
Warning
Jr mafia's get money
On top of that he was on Michael jackson's album
Did "runnin" with pac,stretch and dramacydal
Did Da b side with da brat (whom was huge coming off funkdafied and give it to you,first plat female solo rapper)
Also had dropped who shot ya.
nikka was on fire

As I said already, it was more like Bad Boy's year... or should I say anything Bad Boy affiliated. Biggie had a bigger year by default, mainly because of 'Pac being in prison. Keep in mind that 2pac WAS the biggest story throughout that entire year especially his release and signing to Death Row, and it was without QUESTION he ran 1996 which pushed hip hop into a civil war. But who's the say that could of NOT happened in '95? But let's be real here, Biggie was having moderate success UNTIL that "One More Chance" remix hit that spring. He had several singles that were popping but nothing that catapulted him out there like that... the biggest Bad Boy hit at that time was Craig Mack's Flavor in your Ear and the remix. So, yes....BAD BOY as a collective was running the charts in '95 with the extension to Junior Mafia. But if you speaking about hip hop and the streets, it was WU-TANG that was ruling all of that. And if you speaking as the BIGGEST STAR of 1995.... that was COOLIO.

This is straight in context. Biggie ruled '95 moreso because Bad Boy was hitting and Biggie was the face of Bad Boy. But in truth, Coolio was the biggest star and Wu-tang ran the STREETS like noone biz...
 
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