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Real talk: How was Chingy ever popular?
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OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
Because no matter how bad back packers / underground heads want Hip Hop to only be deep, super lyrical MCs over pure samples with basic drums these type of catchy party songs will always have a place in Hip Hop. The artist may not but the idea of random songs getting popular because people were partying to them is Hip Hop because it's party music.
Not every song needs to be classic and not every artist a legend. If that was the case barely anyone who put out music and you would listen to Jay-z and Nas all day right now.
Not every song needs to be classic and not every artist a legend. If that was the case barely anyone who put out music and you would listen to Jay-z and Nas all day right now.
Chingy's existence was the first time I felt hip hop take a blade to the gut. There was Nelly and Missy, but they were sorta street. And they added to hip hop in their own creative ways.
But there was nothing remotely street about Chingy. His shyt sounded 100% like a pop record. Beyond sugary. Like a suburban tween white girl trapped in a Black man's body.
@OnlyInCalifornia real talk. Though I think Chingy was sugary on a level we hadn't seen before.
But there was nothing remotely street about Chingy. His shyt sounded 100% like a pop record. Beyond sugary. Like a suburban tween white girl trapped in a Black man's body.
@OnlyInCalifornia real talk. Though I think Chingy was sugary on a level we hadn't seen before.
He was nellys replacement when he stopped making bangers
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Straight up...2004 really felt like the year hip hop was really becoming wack. Imo...last good year in hiphop. Tons of great albums....but really the game started to get super corny.
It all started with Lil Jon and the east side boys in 2003 though...
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True...
My college roommate and good friend (rip) would play chingy during parties...but that was it.
Probably the first real ring tone rapper.
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People say this...
But I kind of find it funny that this line surfaced around the time Chingy got caught on camera having a tranny feel up on his junk at the 2004 AVN awards.
The early 2000s had nothing to do with "bangers" or "party music" or anything relevant to musical tastes. It was all about major labels making decisions to make easy money. This is right at the tail end of the CD "everybody gets to go platinum" era so the industry was all about cashing in.
Chingy
J-Kwon
Pretty Willie
Murphy Lee and the rest of the Lunatics.
All of them got on cuz Nelly went diamond and they were from the same city. Talent was not important cuz every major album followed a the same formula any ways. Street Song, Club Banger, Song for the Ladies, Neptunes song repeat.
Mixtapes were really all that mattered
Chingy
J-Kwon
Pretty Willie
Murphy Lee and the rest of the Lunatics.
All of them got on cuz Nelly went diamond and they were from the same city. Talent was not important cuz every major album followed a the same formula any ways. Street Song, Club Banger, Song for the Ladies, Neptunes song repeat.
Mixtapes were really all that mattered
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2003-2008 might as well of been the dark ages of mainstream hiphop...and probably hiphop in general.
I blame the South.
2000-2002 was just weird. It felt like every song had cheap casino keyboards and bootleg/wannabe neptunes/swizz beats production.
The only real standouts at that time were just blaze, heatmakerz, and kanye...but then as the years past they had two billion copycats...especially kanye with the sped up vocals on dawn near every track
Ding, ding.
Dude was on at least 75% of girls' BlackPlanet pages along with B2K and Pretty Ricky.
Act like women were out here bumping lyrical, miracle, punchline gun rhymes on their way to the mall to shop for jersey dresses and flower flip-flops.
Terrible fukking song.
I fukking hated that stuff. Chipmunk soul is one of the corniest trends in hip hop history.
You can't blame the South entirely because New York was falling the fukk off by the early 2000s. In fact, after 50, you got a slew of SMACK DVD trash rappers with no personality and gun bars. All with fitteds.
And of course, the rise of Dipshyts.