Rappers Whose Influence Is Greater Than Their Music

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Bald Head Ba$tard said:
G....you trying to hard. 3-6 influence is more underground than mainstream. They started off underground. Got deals with Loud Records, Sony, Reletivity and still pushed gold and plat albums. This is fact. nikkaz was going gold and plat WAY b4 "Stay Fly" blew them nikkaz up nationwide. Then the Oscar came for their contributions to Hustle And Flow soundtrack and it was a wrap.
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They were nationwide from Tear The Club Up 97 breh.
Fact is, 36 doesn't have a classic album. :yeshrug:
 
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Kilimanjaro said:
Dude, in who's eyes? There's no council that sits and votes on what we consider a classic, it's all by cultural mention, but that means nothing. If I consider Reasonable Doubt classic, then it must be something personal to me, otherwise why am I putting this type of label on it. Just because I don't get into a circle with you guys and entertain your circle jerk, that doesn't mean what I'm saying is wrong. Maybe your eyes, but OP asked for our opinions, not your opinion on mine.

They're not underground, why would you consider a genre whos core fanbase pays attention to these type of MCs underground, when they pay more attention to them than the ones in the mainstream? If that's the case then 90 percent of the genre is underground. Face it, MC's we talk about on here are considered underground by people who don't follow the genre, but in actuality they're not underground, you're just not fans of the genre.
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its called objectivity.
 
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Bald Head Ba$tard said:
G....you trying to hard. 3-6 influence is more underground than mainstream. They started off underground. Got deals with Loud Records, Sony, Reletivity and still pushed gold and plat albums. This is fact. nikkaz was going gold and plat WAY b4 "Stay Fly" blew them nikkaz up nationwide. Then the Oscar came for their contributions to Hustle And Flow soundtrack and it was a wrap.
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this is false.

not that sales matter, but they didnt go platinum until the "stay fly" album.

you say they won an oscar and it was a wrap? well i guess so, because none of their albums have sold well since then, despite the newfound crossover notoriety.
 
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Mainstream/Commerical Hip-Hop would sound drastically different if these 3 didn't exist.
 
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mobbinfms said:
:dwillhuh:
They were nationwide from Tear The Club Up 97 breh.
Fact is, 36 doesn't have a classic album. :yeshrug:
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Personally I feel they do but I wouldn't argue against anyone disagreeing because I could see why they'd feel that was..

They were definitely influential as fukk, though. A lot of artists these days flows, Samples. Adlibs, aesthetic etc. come from them. a lot of stuff in the 00s that sprang out of The south was real heavily influenced by them. Now, there influence shows from all over. Florida, NY, Chicago, Cali, ATL, etc.
 
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explain.:popcorn:
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For Clams Casino he doesn't have a large enough body of work to be considered "great" but there is no denying that his small body of work has been influential on mainstream production especially within the so called PBR&B genre. His spaced out distorted style has pretty much laid the foundation for that genre, and in hip-hop Drake and A$AP's albums have been influenced by Clams sound.

K-os influence is probably most apparant in the work of Kanye and Cudi, the singing MC over non-traditional hip-hop semi theatrical beats that were kinda pop, kinda rock, but still had enough bass and knock that you didn't feel guilty/weird listening to it. And just his fashion/style influenced cats he was on that asymmetrical shyt before it was mainstream.

You can't imo listen to these joints and not see the influence...






 
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