Rapper Agallah having a meltdown on IG and Twitter

[Wild self]

gotta acknowledge 2 chainz

nikka got hot at age 35, gold album, two singles that went double plat from the album

If you break down your music to weak punchlines, hot production, and a Kanye Co sign, you can make it far back in 2012.

 

[King Ming]

8 Off wasnt the type of rapper to "blow off" like Canron, jay z and them. He should have stayed in his lane like Sean P, Immortal tech, Rea, Mf Doom, Rasco, Murs etc and be underground.

Dudes are doing well in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia touring. Keep your niche feed and you make a lot of money doing shows. Thats how most of those MCs i mentioned above are making it.

 

[The War Report]

Agallah just doesn't have much appeal outside of the dusty dudes on the block. His was shot making it as a producer and expanding his sound.



It's amazing how Joey Bada$$ is successful the way he raps because trends say he's not suppose to. Maybe Agallah would of been more successful if he came out during the internet age.

 

[360dagod]

nikka can easily get his grind on..

Find one of them white female executives, do a line of coke, and cook her some lamb..

That shyt look...He can get a bodega job with OCK off the rip

 

[Kalik]

Added him to my Spotify....hope he get some stream money...

All I could do for him...

 

[Pseudo]

Hip-hop desperately needs a Pitchfork type website. One that prides itself on discovering talented artists and giving them a push.

We got too many trend followers and not enough taste testers. The Coli should be a place to discover and discuss new artists but folks in here would rather gossip about instagram pictures and Twitter beefs.

 

[scorpino]

I remember this dude rapping like Cookie Monster back when I was in high school. I'm 35 now

 

[Harry B]

You obviously could't have any less of a smidgeon of an idea about electronic music cause many people are eating and gaining recognition and don't have to go through any of the BS rappers go through.

Goddamn it. I hate the coli sometimes, it's where people who admittedly don't know shyt about music outside of hip-hop, pop, and R&B think they actually hold tepid knowledge of other music, their artists, their scenese, their histories, and inner workings when really they don't know what they're talking about but want to come off as some expert or authority.

They should just fall back, do some research and stop spouting wholly uneducated opinions.

90s electronic pioneers like Orbital, The Orb, Chemical Brothers, Underworld etc still play Coachella and Glastonbury.

DJs like Stacey Pullen and Kevin Saunderson who were old school Detroit techno legends and still play the new stuff on radio stations in Europe like BBC1 manage to rock crowds.

Only in hip-hop and R&B are long term artists who made an impact disrespected and ignored by their fans and discarded for the next new disposable trend. It's POP now. Cause the majority of hip-hop fans now are POP fans. POP fans don't know dikk about music, hence why they have to have watered down crap spoonfed to them cause they never developed a palatable taste of their own.

Lowkey, this is why alot of people don't fukk with hip-hop like that anymore, cause the fans are the most ignorant and intolerable music fans in all of music.

You are still talking shyt, Dr Dre and Snoop headlined Coachella, Jay-z is one of the biggest artists out, Nas is doing big stage festivals, outkast headline and on. These are the best artists of all times according to both pop fans and the so called real hiphop heads Chemical Brother released a #1 album last year, Aghalla has not even been on the charts and these are the people you are trying to compare.

If we go by what I listen to it's 1. Rock and alt pop, 2. Minimal techno and tech house 3. Hiphop 4. Jazz 5. RnB and other types of electronic music. Your old ass is in here mentioning pop artist like Chemical brother they probably have more top 20 hits than Britney Spears. The people headlining the biggest electronic and tech festivals are ass, and people who are getting the most props are playing clubs or being hipsters doing random shyt but nothing major like Nicolas Jaar. In trance we had big dogs like Tiesto and Van Buuren but they were not getting radio play and shyt until they started making pop music. Same with the Scandinavian cats doing progressive house. Kendrick Lamar is the best emcee in the game and also top 3 biggest artist and he was the biggest when he dropped his best project.

Furthermore you can't mention DJ's playing other people's music and compare them to big artists. You might as well mention cats like Funk Flex and compare him to Eminem . Or Tim Westwoods flabby and sick ass too, DJ's are just as hiphop as rappers and old head DJ's still play events.


It's obvious that people only are trying to hate when they compare the biggest artists of one genre to nonexistent wack artists from another to make a point that doesn't exist .

 

[NYK Loyalist]

That IG post is really sad. I feel for him but at the same time how did he not realize he needed a regular job 10-15 years ago ? He should of been working a job and doing music on the side. I can understand going full time in music from like 95-00 after Ghetto Girl but after that music should of been his side hustle. Now he's probably 40+ with no skills other than rapping and producing neither of which will earn him enough to make a decent living.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

God bless him. Most of you guys don't understand, and that's okay. But I remember seeing a crack-ish looking young latino demon tear heads off at Rocksteady Park 20+ years ago. The legendary freestyle battle MC Breez Evaflowin' kinda caught that work from Agallah that day. I shared a laugh with Breez about it a few years back.

Agallah never seemed to recover from the Ghetto Girl thing. That wasn't him. And his pen hasn't evolved much, but the musical talent is still there. Even if you don't care much for his rapping, a lot of his beats are undeniable.
It's just sad, because this type of thing only seems to happen with hip-hop/rap. If he were gifted in any other art he would be a lot more comfortable now, or at least better appreciated. But rap is very trendy, so like @Exit 9 just said, he may very well may feel like he wasted his whole life. That's not funny at all.

This thing is not exclusive to Hip Hop...It is just a part of life...The majority of talented humans will not be recognized as such...At any given point, the media and fan base only pushes a selective few...

There are people even MORE talented than Agallah who are not even being recognized at the level of a internet forum talking about their art...

Van Gogh was never recognized as a talented artist when he was alive...There are MANY white boys who can play the guitar but their little rock bands never made it to any critical acclaim level...

 

[mortuus est]

Hip-hop desperately needs a Pitchfork type website. One that prides itself on discovering talented artists and giving them a push.

We got too many trend followers and not enough taste testers. The Coli should be a place to discover and discuss new artists but folks in here would rather gossip about instagram pictures and Twitter beefs.

we could do that but it takes dedication, time, effort

i feel you tho

 

[wizworld]

Can anyone name another genre of art where the so called fans are insanely callous towards talented artists simply because they aren't hot? You see hip-hop artists getting openly bashed and derided on a regular basis by fans. The concept of "falling off" is pretty exclusive to hip-hop. Legacy acts are far more appreciated in other genres.

You guys are fools if you don't think hip-hop is a special case. I'm not being above it all, because I've clowned people too. But the lengths that many hip-hop fans go to just to shyt on people they don't like is unprecedented. The competitive aspect of it part of hip-hop, but at the same time it devalues the art form somewhat.

 

[Baracka Flocka Flame]

Agallah is dope.
But yeah many of you are right. He should stay on that Rawkus Sean P type wave. If they don't appreciate you here, go elsewhere. Tour the Netherlands.

We get it poppin, gun go, taliban gladiator mixtape, keeping it gangsta, all classics.


And yeah as far as Purple City, shiest bub really fukked with him, he was their in house producer. Was never really affiliated with Dip Set. He did a song with jimmy, and juelz and Jim jumped on the gun go remix but that's more less that. Those LES people caught him slipping for the purple city chain because honestly Agallah just roles Dolo and not with a squad like tru life's people did. Victim of the circumstance. I wish him luck. I still have his songs on my iPod.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

The game is the game, Aggy should know that by now and all you nikkas telling him to get a 9-5 it's not that easy and what he's doing however much of a struggle probably pays more depending on what 9-5 it is obviously. I don't see what's wrong with being a local rapper and living off the royalties you can do shows in small clubs get paid for features and beats. The limelight is not that important, nikka has somewhat of legacy he has a wikipedia page and was featured on the GTA 3 soundtrack Agallah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 

[Deadman187]

Didnt he ghost produce Onyx's second album? Majority of the the credit went to Fredro Starr, but he never produced anything before or after that one album