Successful Hip Hop Comebacks

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

I mean, LL's rep took a slight hit but everyone knew he was still very much the man. especially after he dropped 'jack the ripper'.

Yeah but the whole point of 'mama said knock you out' is to let people know he hadn't fallen off. It's the very definition of a comeback single...and the whole story about how the song came into fruition was that he was in diseray over his career and believing it was over, going to his grandma's house looking for comfort and elderly advice, and that advice was to "just knock 'em out"

hence, the song.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

2 chainz

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

when did ll fall off though. 14 shots to the dome everyone says was his worst selling album. but it still went gold. and had hits like pink cookies and back seat. then he came out with the mr smith album

breh

this isn't disputable. It's fact. The whole reason 'mama said knock em out' exists was a response to everyone saying he was done. That track was around just when public enemy and all of them afrocentric black power were at the peak of their powers, and there was a hip hop summit about something I forget, and the crowd booed LL when they announced he was there because they didn't believe he was a correct representative of that movement. It's all in documentaries about LL.

 

[SpacelySprockets]

50 my nikka n all but he ain't made a comeback

Im being optimistic, Animal Ambition breh:smug50:

 

[Big Mel]

Yeah but the whole point of 'mama said knock you out' is to let people know he hadn't fallen off. It's the very definition of a comeback single...and the whole story about how the song came into fruition was that he was in diseray over his career and believing it was over, going to his grandma's house looking for comfort and elderly advice, and that advice was to "just knock 'em out"

hence, the song.

sure. i agree. the guys i initially mentioned were pretty much out of the hip hop consciousness though. LL was still a superstar.

 

[STFU]

Prodigy twice.

Return of the Mac then Albert Einstein.

 

[razassin]

its damn near impossible to be a superstar and make a comeback though...cats like Twista never hit his ceiling so he didn't so much have a comeback as he got a bigger shot,and got bigger

Dre n Nas were superstars.. You could argue cash money didnt hit their ceilng back in the late 90s but they still aint dropped an album thats outsold 400 degrees

Nas neva reached it was written commercial success after either

 

[JQ Legend]

Rakim made a pretty strong comeback in 97

First thing that came to mind actually

I agree with Wayne making a comeback even tho he never really left, his Carter era pretty much carried Cash Money

If that nikka woulda left after Carter 2 (like he was considering at one point) Cash Money woulda died shortly after

 

[MouseTeeth]

Pharrel, even tho he never left , 2013 was a huge year for him

 

[razassin]

Pharrel, even tho he never left , 2013 was a huge year for him

Pharrel been a pop icon breh

 

[Still Benefited]

Dre n Nas were superstars.. You could argue cash money didnt hit their ceilng back in the late 90s but they still aint dropped an album thats outsold 400 degrees

Nas neva reached it was written commercial success after either

Im missing where Dre fell off though...maybe people just look at fell off differently,ill give u Lil Wayne,he came out the gate big and his success regressed and it looked like he would just be a kid rapper who couldn't make the cut as an adult. Nas I wouldn't say fell off either,maybe as far as perception but success wise he was comin off a plat album and "You Owe Me" which made noise. Cube had a greater comeback with Laugh Now Cry Later,at least he was comin off a long hiatus. Comin fresh off a dud and other nikkas shinin more than u I don't know if I can call that a comeback. If that's the case we'd have to call LIG a comeback bcuz he came off a string of duds imo and that album made noise.

 

[No1]

Does Common count with Be, even though he then fukked it up again

 

[JuvenileHell]

Camron?

 

[JuvenileHell]

2 chainz

Should've been the first post in the thread. What makes it crazier is that he came back, in his mid 30s...he successfully reinvented himself

 

[Methodical]

LL Cool J, Slick Rick, Nas, Dr.Dre, are the right answer and I would consider Common's come back with "Be"

How about Twista?....his come back with Kamikaze