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the whole 14 shots album was some fake shyt.....everyone and their mother shooting vids in front of trash can fires, wearing hoodies and swinging aluminum bats and shyt. LL was just one of 5000 other rappers who hopped on the hardcore wave with hammer, vanilla ice, granddaddy iu, etc.....
14 shots to the dome is the record where he first suffered journalistic backlash.
that was overprocessed and built in retaliation to events with press in a perceived manner for LL.
Which combined with a changing landscape and content direction change that challenged the cowboy edict.
Made it so a more aggressive and style leaning LL was criticized for leaning on hardcore based sentiments.
Yet, LL hardcore sentiment from previous albums was also ignored dually.
Including one of rap'a all time lyric content based song from a conscious level in all we got left is the beat.
Plus, ll could also be considered the father of emo as a genre on this album as well.
Plus, created an extension of the mama said series of records as well. Yet the large pop permeated draw of mama said to 14 shots created a splintered fan base.
That soon became apathetic, to ll's drww
Which swelled out of control, till LL fell out of relevance culturally and as a pop draw.
till the complete direction change in delivery LL achieved on pnk cookies.
Becoming his consistent base rubrick skillwise as an emcee.
Where bsides and rarities combined with the impact of flava in ya ear remix gave LL another change of direction.
Pink cookies is the single that signaled the change and the remix and twelve was the call sign for things to come for ll.
via a direction change in overall delivery and tonal aptitude.
Art Barr
