Rappin' 4-Tay Doesn't Seem Too Thrilled With Drake Using His Lyrics In New Track with YG

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

You could ask 100 people and 95 of them wouldn't know Dru Down was on that song so you can't use that. On top of all that, you realize that is charted at the same spot 'Only God Can Judge Me Now' and 5x as many people own the album it was on than Operation Stakola?

Rappin 4 Tay is not only bigger in the Bay but the bigger artist all around.

and those same people that dont know dru down are the same people that dont know rappin-4-tay. hell, alot of them wont be able to spot richie rich or even spice-1 in that video either.

i dont know how much it sold. people werent hung up on sales back then. i know that "5 on it" is bigger than any song that any of them dudes ever did.

im not even arguing about 4-tay being a bigger artist than dru down. thats pretty trivial. lol. the point is, theyre on the same boat.

and i dont like this argument period. i dont like arguing "against" these guys. its the reason why you think im downplaying. in reality, im on rappin 4-tay's side. drake should pay homage. but we seem to have ventured too far off from the topic.

 

[Taadow]

hes bigger outside of the bay area where? in other parts of the west coast? im not saying that he didnt have a lil bit more success than dru down, but theyre both in the same batch.

That is what you were saying. You said 4-Tay was "no bigger than Dru Down or Richie Rich"...and that's not true.

Them being "in the same batch" is something else.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

That is what you were saying. You said 4-Tay was "no bigger than Dru Down or Richie Rich"...and that's not true.

Them being "in the same batch" is something else.

yea its the same thing. granted, i may be a lil too slang-heavy right now.

he had a lil more success but he isnt really much of a bigger name.

besides:
dru down's oscar-worthy performance in "original gangsters" >>>>>>>>> anything that all those rappers did.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

and those same people that dont know dru down are the same people that dont know rappin-4-tay. hell, alot of them wont be able to spot richie rich or even spice-1 in that video either.

i dont know how much it sold. people werent hung up on sales back then. i know that "5 on it" is bigger than any song that any of them dudes ever did.

im not even arguing about 4-tay being a bigger artist than dru down. thats pretty trivial. lol. the point is, theyre on the same boat.

and i dont like this argument period. i dont like arguing "against" these guys. its the reason why you think im downplaying. in reality, im on rappin 4-tay's side. drake should pay homage. but we seem to have ventured too far off from the topic.

Sure they do because Rappin 4 Tay had a bigger solo song and he was on Tupac's diamond album. 5 On It was just as popular as Only God Can Judge Me, numbers don't lie. They charted at the exact same spot. The hottest verse didn't even come from Dru Down either.

@Taadow dow is saying the same thing I am, Ill wait for @StillNotSoft to chime in.

Drake should have shouted him out but I think the Internet did a good job of spreading around the information it came from 4 Tay.

 

[SunZoo]

@ a "obscure regional rap song" being a top 40 pop hit in 1994... There wasn't a goddamn thing obscure nor regional bout playaz club. ..it's a seminal west coast classic that dropped during a time when the west ran hip hop...I grew up like 1000 miles from the bay and heard this shyt on the radio and watched the video on the Box everyday for the better part of a year

The song hit but on an overall scale 4-tay was far from a household name, especially to be sharking from like general fans are gonna make that connection.

I could still barely tell him and Dru down apart. Had to do a perm by perm comparison.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

The song hit but on an overall scale 4-tay was far from a household name, especially to be sharking from like general fans are gonna make that connection.

I could still barely tell him and Dru down apart. Had to do a perm by perm comparison.

As a Pac stan I don't see how you can over look 'Some playa shyt with 4 tay...'

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Sure they do because Rappin 4 Tay had a bigger solo song and he was on Tupac's diamond album. 5 On It was just as popular as Only God Can Judge Me, numbers don't lie. They charted at the exact same spot. The hottest verse didn't even come from Dru Down either.


@Taadow dow is saying the same thing I am, Ill wait for @StillNotSoft to chime in.

Drake should have shouted him out but I think the Internet did a good job of spreading around the information it came from 4 Tay.

so he was big because he was on a 2pac record?

lol @ that song being as big as "5 on it". numbers and hip-hop dont mix. numbers usually tell less than half of the story.

honestly, i dont even remember dru down & 4-tay being on pac album. i thought you were talking about dru down's appearance on "5 on it". those bay collabos on pac album dont reasonate with across the board like that. and they werent meant to. thats one of the reasons why AEOM's classic status is forever disputed.

The song hit but on an overall scale 4-tay was far from a household name, especially to be sharking from like general fans are gonna make that connection.

I could still barely tell him and Dru down apart. Had to do a perm by perm comparison.

EXACTLY!!!!!

and thats all im saying. i dont know why im getting the 5th degree on here.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

The song hit but on an overall scale 4-tay was far from a household name, especially to be sharking from like general fans are gonna make that connection.

I could still barely tell him and Dru down apart. Had to do a perm by perm comparison.

Yeah...we can all just cut the bullshyt and the pretense and just flat out say "we're gonna pretend to be extra bothered by a rapper making a fairly obvious call-back to a classic westcoast track on a westcoast act's song that any rap fan with any knowledge of westcoast 90's music will recognize as such....because it's Drake, and he's a "big bad modern day mainstream rap star" and it's the type of sh!t we're supposed to cry about on messegeboards"...Drake's hated enough where that we can stand on that and nobody would trip...no need to make these ridiculous, patently false distinctions (like the song was some obscure song nobody ever heard, instead of the westcoast classic that was a hit) to make some fairly mundane shyt seem more nefarious

nikkas that know anything bout rap know the name Rappin' 4tay...and playaz club is pretty much his signature song

 

[Olu Dara]

By comparison, this song currently is at #36 on the Billboard charts with over 14 million views on youtube.

First time hearing that song breh

 

[SunZoo]

yea its the same thing. granted, i may be a lil too slang-heavy right now.

he had a lil more success but he isnt really much of a bigger name.

besides:
dru down's oscar-worthy performance in "original gangsters" >>>>>>>>> anything that all those rappers did.

That nikka's perm

Ike turner status with the nikka hair flips and whips.





Braxton "broham" P hartnabrig was in the movie?

That comedian Godfrey

I haven't seen this shyt in forever, i'ma have to throw this on sometime.

 

[Bay Area]

First time hearing that song breh

Ive never heard it either but it has close to 20 million views all together (if you search the same song on youtube). My point was that a top 36 song is more than regional. We have never heard that song because it isnt in a genre we would listen to..

 

[SunZoo]

Yeah...we can all just cut the bullshyt and the pretense and just flat out say "we're gonna pretend to be extra bothered by a rapper making a fairly obvious call-back to a classic westcoast track on a westcoast act's song that any rap fan with any knowledge of westcoast 90's music will recognize as such....because it's Drake, and he's a "big bad modern day mainstream rap star" and it's the type of sh!t we're supossed to cry about on messegeboards"...Drake's hated enough where that we can stand on that and nobody would trip...no need to make these ridiculous, patently false distinctions (like the song was some obscure nobody ever heard, instead of the westcoast classic that was a hit) to make some fairly mundane shyt seem more nefarious

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Ive never heard it either but it has close to 20 million views all together (if you search the same song on youtube). My point was that a top 36 song is more than regional. We have never heard that song because it isnt in a genre we would listen to..

i dont think some of you realize how many hits and more importantly - popular songs would drop at once back then.

songs like "players club" got lost in the shuffle all the time.

in alot of markets, he was just some permed-out west coast dude in rotation on rap city and NEVER hit their local radio stations. and thats not to downplay the west. because the same could be said for alot of east, south & midwest rappers that got spins on rap city.

hip-hop was too big back then man.

yall up here acting like rappin 4-tay made "gin & juice".

 

[Bay Area]

i dont think some of you realize how many hits would drop at once back then.

songs like "players club" got lost in the shuffle all the time.

in alot of markets, he was just some permed-out west coast dude in rotation on rap city and NEVER hit their local radio stations. and thats not to downplay the west. because the same could be said for alot of east, south & midwest rappers that got spins on rap city.

hip-hop was too big back then man.

yall up here acting like rappin 4-tay made "gin & juice".

Then how did a nikka from Toronto hear the song and jack the lyrics?

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Then how did a nikka from Toronto hear the song and jack the lyrics?

i doubt that drake was anywhere near hip-hop at that time. so there goes that theory.