Rappers who came out during the wrong time periods

[kingjones29]

Ja Rule and MC Hammer would have had longer and more respected careers if they came out around 2007-2010.

i disagree they would not have sold the amount of records now that they sold then

 

[Still FloW]

Red Cafe & Papoose...

 

[Clark Kent]

The Cool Kids

Lupe even set up the lane for them, they just somehow couldn't capitalize on the shyt like Cudi did.

 

[Sugar]

O man

The potential of that alias

 

[Northern Son]

i disagree they would not have sold the amount of records now that they sold then

True but they'd have longer careers.

 

[EA]

If Elzhi came out in 96, he'd be widely regarded as one of the greats.

If Little Brother came out in 96, they'd be held in the same regard as OutKast and Phonte would be on Andre 3000 status.

If Blu came out in 2009, he'd be up there with Kendrick, Cole, Drake, Wale, etc.

 

[Wacky D]

how when he did pretty well for himself during his run

he was just seen as a commercial rapper.

lmao real shyt nikkaz overrate Max B in NY like Atlanta with Gucci

im not from either city.

gucci had an awesome run.

max b is great.

Lupe even set up the lane for them, they just somehow couldn't capitalize on the shyt like Cudi did.

i dont see the correlation between the cool kids and those guys.

 

[DarkmanX]

Camp Lo- I think these brehs were way ahead of their time. I fukks with Camp Lo HEAVY. Uptown Saturday Night is a top 3 rap disc for me. Still sounds relatively fresh today. These brehs had a sharply cultivated image and sound that I think would really have worked in today's 'everything has to be prepackaged and image based' times, but with the added bonus of the brehs actually having the ability to spit and evolve their sound. I could see them keeping NYC more alive than NYC's current crop of young cats

Add on......

Yaknow..i feel the same way. Love that album. Love the homage they paid to Marvin with the cover too. Alot of blaxploitation references on the album with a dope vibe and groove through it, real dope. The essential part IMO was that they necessarily didn't fit into a mold. Image wasn't "gangsta", "drug dealers" or all the way to the other side either. It was just a smooth album, original content & style, dope references, dope sound and what they rapped is all them. They really are & move like that, with their own steez. I like that.

But they had some dope and slept on cuts and albums beside that joint though, but i guess most of us slept on em.

 

[TXTrill1]

im not from either city.

gucci had an awesome run.

max b is great.
.

Neither am I and I listen to both of em..but they're just overrated in their cities which is no big surprise

 

[Wacky D]

Neither am I and I listen to both of em..but they're just overrated in their cities which is no big surprise

i have to disagree with that.

gucci is kinda hit or miss but has IT. hes like a high-volume shooter.

and max would be on top right now. alot of these dudes on the radio are cheap imitations with no authenticity.

 

[DosCadenaz]

lmao real shyt nikkaz overrate Max B in NY like Atlanta with Gucci

dont u ever call Gucci overrated

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Yaknow..i feel the same way. Love that album. Love the homage they paid to Marvin with the cover too. Alot of blaxploitation references on the album with a dope vibe and groove through it, real dope. The essential part IMO was that they necessarily didn't fit into a mold. Image wasn't "gangsta", "drug dealers" or all the way to the other side either. It was just a smooth album, original content & style, dope references, dope sound and what they rapped is all them. They really are & move like that, with their own steez. I like that.

But they had some dope and slept on cuts and albums beside that joint though, but i guess most of us slept on em.

There was too much heat during that time. Lot of albums got missed. Mic Geronimo was kind of the same way (though he was a shameless Nas ripoff)

 

[Bumrush Bros.]

If Kool G Rapp came out in the mid 90s

 

[nieman]

@Wacky D Papoose was the style of the late 90's only era he could have thrived in. He just lucked up by getting the deal he got at the time.

He was on Roots of Evil and Alphabetical Slaughter was like '99

 

[CACarot]

@nieman I know..but he aint really get on the scene until 2004