Rappers who came out during the wrong time periods

[Hawaiian Punch]

Good one, it's crazy how he got clowned, then by the late 90's/early 00's every rapper was trying to be the face of everything non rap.

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Today success is only vauled at how much you sell, how many hustles you got and what you getting paid. Whether that's good or band hammer laid the groundwork.

 

[reserved_one]

Little Brother came out like 3 years too late...If they came out around the time underground alternative hip-hop was resurging in the late 90's, they would had faired better imo.

U-N-I. They came out a few years too late right before the swag/hipster shyt had become mainstream. The same with The Cool Kids. They started all that shyt way back in 2007.

Digable Planets, Camp Lo and Pharcyde were way ahead of their time imo.....They would do well if they come out now.

 

[Northern Son]

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

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Big KRIT if he came out somewhere in the 00's before or after the ringtone era just when southern bass music was the in thing he would be big

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Ionno about time but:

Mos Def: came out in wrong universe
Jay Elec: came out in wrong planet
Ab Soul: came out in the wrong century
Tyga: came out

 

[JustCKing]

A lot of Underground Atlanta rappers. Cool Breeze, Kilo, Ghetto Mafia, Baby D (Oomp Camp), and several others would've possibly been huge if they'd debuted just 5 years later.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Redman

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[Wild self]

Lupe either 5 years earlier or 5 years later...

Yeah, debuting 2006 when everyone was on that snapping and c00ning shyt on top of trap music emerging was the worst time for a lyrical rapper to come out. If he came out in 2011 with Cole, he would be a major success.

 

[RTF]

Aaliyah was never a priority when she worked with Dream, Polow etc. she got the leftover beats. Aaliyah pretty much got first dibs on those Missy/Timbo songs with Ginuwine.

 

[RTF]

Yeah, debuting 2006 when everyone was on that snapping and c00ning shyt on top of trap music emerging was the worst time for a lyrical rapper to come out. If he came out in 2011 with Cole, he would be a major success.

I think Cole and his ilk benefited from Lupe coming before them.

 

[King Ming]

Busta Rhymes should have come out in the 2000s

 

[Killalex]

lupe came out at the perfect time. i think yall just expect more out of him than what hes worth.

max b getting his props in here. alot of lesser talents running with his chit. but how about another guy that was poppin at that time?
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YUNG LA. dude shouldve blew but grand hustle pretty much low-balled him like they did young dro. tons of rappers have been riding his wave ever since.





with that said, and since we're on the topic of r&b singers, i think aaliyah was before her time.

she couldve come closer to the success that noobs think that she had, if she came out 10 years later. cuz it was too much competition in her lane in the '90s, and she laid the over-achievement blueprint down for chicks like ciara.




its cuz hes indie.

I ain't did shyt bruhhh


Dude is a walking L, the duck face tattoo fiasco

 

[Free White & 21]

her and kelis are two who had their who swag jacked. ke$sha actually monetized the kid sister swag (nicki to an extent as well) and we know rihanna jacked 2006 kelis's swag something serious. kelis would've been a more viable artist today than when she dropped in 99/00

Actually kesha jacked Uffie

 

[L&HH]

I think Cole and his ilk benefited from Lupe coming before them.

Ive always said Cole took Charles Hamilton's place. He def benefited from Hamilton, Kanye, and Lupe.

 

[The Emperor]

Lot of rappers in the game had the right product but the wrong timing.... here are some I can think of

Saigon- he had a little wave with his GSNT unreleased album, but he is a classic mid 90s NYC jail nikka who came out during the ATL ringtone era. Back in the 90s when being in and out of prison was cool he probably would have been a legend on the level of Capone N Noreaga or whatever. Plus he wouldn't have been exposed as a confused simp like he was on that reality show he did

Max B- another NYC prison product with more range. I think he could have been the Harlem equivalent to Big Pun, making big hits that a wide range of people could appreciate, along with being able to hold his own with pretty much anybody of those times. "Dey be thinkin Im a Fabio... but Im the type a nikka let the Tommy go :biggapls:"

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......

I feel like if Lil Flip had blown up at the age Soulja Boy was and at same time as him he would be as big as Lil Wayne today...