Rappers you thought would be big that didn't quite make it

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Breh when BBB dropped I thought he caught second wind & prob should be wearing king of NY mainstream wise. Then these fools fail to drop start it up as a single. Don't deserve had a great reception imo. At that point tho all was lost

Shoulda been Beamer/Start it up/Don't Deserve You/Joint with Eminem

Fast toward to 2013 he drop mixtape of year contender but no visual & no promo:scust:

Forgot that BBB and Start it up came out in the same year

What were these nikkas doing:mindblown:
 

Neil McCauley

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Papoose, I was young at the time and this dude Kay Slay was hyping him like :wow:

Also Ya Boy (was signed to BWS at one point I think :francis: )

and I remember that dude Reed Dollaz having millions of (legit) views on his videos when Youtube was new back in 2006, I was skeptical if he could craft an actual song rather than battling and I guess he couldn't :francis:
 

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Papoose. That dude has killer bars even up until now while he is still killing it underground. He had mad potential to make to the big leagues back in the mid-2000s.
 

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YO, word up to that! those two mixtapes were fire fr. They were dope af, no doubt. I'd say Nipsey is still big in the independent scene. He has sure garnished a mass following independently no doubt about that.
 

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Chamillionaire(Had a spark when he started...but that ninja just vanished :mjcry:)
Killer Mike (found his niche, but coming from the outkast lineage I thought he would be bigger)
Joe Budden (coming off various dope mixtape verses I thought he was about to be right there with Fabolous...sadly it was a wrap mainstream wise after his debut)
 

FrankieLymon757

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Papoose, I was young at the time and this dude Kay Slay was hyping him like :wow:

Also Ya Boy (was signed to BWS at one point I think :francis: )

and I remember that dude Reed Dollaz having millions of (legit) views on his videos when Youtube was new back in 2006, I was skeptical if he could craft an actual song rather than battling and I guess he couldn't :francis:
Reed got knocked out on camera...career over...i would say MIMs tho...
 

acri1

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Saigon.

I'm still trying to figure out why dude never blew up. :wtf:
 
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