Oldheads who ran 1995: biggie or tupac

[gluvnast]

They're equal to me. Both remakes with coolio providing unforgettable rap vocals on both songs. He did a great job

I think he was talking about the albums that went by the same names.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

I'm 29 old heads will tell u bra. Big was lyrical giant but that don't appeal to south and west like the east coast

Bro. Im 29. As the BIGGEST head from my age group i can easily say that people our age were too young for that ahit and didntbeven really catch on til 98. I was into hip hop in 95 but how the fukk were we at 8 years old sposed to really know how the streets liked this ahit. Lets be real. People our age cant speak on this here.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

I think he was talking about the albums that went by the same names.

I think you dont know what you're talking bout

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

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?

Who cares bout shoulda coulda woulda,biggie ran it. I'm sure pac being imprisoned played a part in stifling him but so what. Whatever happened,HAPPENED and biggie had it hands down

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

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. .

Juicy hit
Big poppa was huge and the common denominator to this whole shyt is biggie. Biggie ran hiphop in 95'

 

[DANJ!]

nikkas are really tryin' to throw Coolio in the mix with BIG & Pac...

Next we gonna have a '98 thread and toss Will Smith in between Jay, DMX, and Master P... "Miami" was poppin' right?

'95 was BIG's year, we can count nikkas' sales off one single and all that shyt, but BIG dominated that year in real time, not with one hit, but with several.

Far as this Wu-Tang thing, for those who may not see what was so great about their popularity that year... these dudes all went gold and/or platinum, as did a lot of artists. But the difference between them and most of the others- Wu sold those records and gained all the fans they had WITHOUT a bunch of radio hits. By the mid-90s, that wasn't happening. You needed a radio/MTV hit to go gold or platinum more often than not. They mostly had street hits, with the occasional "All I Need" or "Ice Cream" that'd break thru. Check the wikis... they weren't known for runnin' radio with big singles, and yet they managed to sell and had a bulletproof fanbase for the next few years until things got unglued. Granted, they might not have been favorites in every single region, but it's kinda tough to downplay their success given that they were makin' damn near nothing mainstream and were still solidly popular, established brand loyalty with their fans, and were worldwide...

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

i was born in 91. Was coolio really popping like that????

Non hip hop fans loooooved coolio. Loved him! Don't know why but they did. The man went multi plat on two consecutive albums.

Personally I always thought gangstas paradise was cheesy as hell. Same thing with fantastic voyage

 

[morris]

BIG...won all those sauce awards and was winning the East coast ...then the car accident..then Pacific got shot..then big got shot

Game over. Everyone loses

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

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.

It was exactly that.

Also crossroads was like that too.

No diss to bone because they had true fans BUT crossroads really crossed over to mainstream non hip hop fans who usually didn't listen to rap.

 

[MostHatedBox]

greatest or best rapper by year list

.......
1993: Snoop Dogg
1994: Nas
1995: The Notorious B.I.G.
1996: 2Pac
1997: The Notorious B.I.G.
1998: DMX
1999: Jay Z
..........​

Please tell me you didn't grab this from Cacplex

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

nikkas are really tryin' to throw Coolio in the mix with BIG & Pac...

Next we gonna have a '98 thread and toss Will Smith in between Jay, DMX, and Master P... "Miami" was poppin' right?

'95 was BIG's year, we can count nikkas' sales off one single and all that shyt, but BIG dominated that year in real time, not with one hit, but with several.

Far as this Wu-Tang thing, for those who may not see what was so great about their popularity that year... these dudes all went gold and/or platinum, as did a lot of artists. But the difference between them and most of the others- Wu sold those records and gained all the fans they had WITHOUT a bunch of radio hits. By the mid-90s, that wasn't happening. You needed a radio/MTV hit to go gold or platinum more often than not. They mostly had street hits, with the occasional "All I Need" or "Ice Cream" that'd break thru. Check the wikis... they weren't known for runnin' radio with big singles, and yet they managed to sell and had a bulletproof fanbase for the next few years until things got unglued. Granted, they might not have been favorites in every single region, but it's kinda tough to downplay their success given that they were makin' damn near nothing mainstream and were still solidly popular, established brand loyalty with their fans, and were worldwide...

WILL SMITH
Title: BIG WILLIE STYLE
Certification Date: July 20, 2000
Label: COLUMBIA
Format: ALBUM

 

[IntellectualViolence]

Big, easy

Who Shot Ya

 

[patscorpio]

I listened to The Show sndtrk more than anything else that year.

Dope soundtrack that doesn't get enough mention

 

[patscorpio]

But the artist of that year in 1995 was definitely COOLIO.... "Gangsta Paradise" was THAT HUGE of a record.

This...you cannot front on Coolio esp in 95...I'm not saying Big was a slouch but Coolio was everywhere too

 

[karim]

nikkas are really tryin' to throw Coolio in the mix with BIG & Pac...

Next we gonna have a '98 thread and toss Will Smith in between Jay, DMX, and Master P... "Miami" was poppin' right?

'95 was BIG's year, we can count nikkas' sales off one single and all that shyt, but BIG dominated that year in real time, not with one hit, but with several.

Far as this Wu-Tang thing, for those who may not see what was so great about their popularity that year... these dudes all went gold and/or platinum, as did a lot of artists. But the difference between them and most of the others- Wu sold those records and gained all the fans they had WITHOUT a bunch of radio hits. By the mid-90s, that wasn't happening. You needed a radio/MTV hit to go gold or platinum more often than not. They mostly had street hits, with the occasional "All I Need" or "Ice Cream" that'd break thru. Check the wikis... they weren't known for runnin' radio with big singles, and yet they managed to sell and had a bulletproof fanbase for the next few years until things got unglued. Granted, they might not have been favorites in every single region, but it's kinda tough to downplay their success given that they were makin' damn near nothing mainstream and were still solidly popular, established brand loyalty with their fans, and were worldwide...

nobody said coolio was the best Artist. But he ran shyt in 95, it is what it is