T.I. "If 50 was from the Midwest he would be Nelly"

[thephatmack]

I have never liked any of them talent or catalogue wise.
Nelly had great producers. 50 was given a golden ticket with In Da Club. The ultimate golden ticket.
50 is better than Nelly though when all said and done.. Nelly is maybe talent wise the luckiest guy in hip hop based on his plaques.

BUT TI’s catalogue and talent as an MC is leagues above anything from those guys!
You will really see how much I’m Serious and Trap Musik were worshiped if you go to Atlanta. Those albums were almost Outkast level of good.

PS - I think Nelly is probably a nicer human being than 50 and TIP. I will say that.

 

[King Sun]

I have never liked any of them talent or catalogue wise.
Nelly had great producers. 50 was given a golden ticket with In Da Club. The ultimate golden ticket.
50 is better than Nelly though when all said and done.. Nelly is maybe talent wise the luckiest guy in hip hop based on his plaques.

BUT TI’s catalogue and talent as an MC is leagues above anything from those guys!
You will really see how much I’m Serious and Trap Musik were worshiped if you go to Atlanta. Those albums were almost Outkast level of good.

PS - I think Nelly is probably a nicer human being than 50 and TIP. I will say that.

ehhh after what he did to chingy I don't know about that one

 

[darryl]

Let's say east coast
But that's irrelevant, I don't know a single person who knows even the names of more than half the songs on any Nelly album. I was probably the biggest Nelly fans in my circle in 2000, but I can't say that I remember even 1/4th of the tracks on Nellyville and half of the tracks on country grammar.

Oh so that's why you hate tupac so much. Makes sense now. Continue..

 

[Budda]

50 is also a Pop rapper in the same vein that Nelly is. It is not a dumb comparison.

50’s more than just a pop rapper, Nelly doesn’t have a song like Ghetto Quran or Many Men, let’s not re shape the narrative.

 

[Budda]

It doesn't make it any less Pop though. "In Da Club" is a smash, 50 was out here doing melodies and adopting sing songy type flows no different than Nelly. Not to mention, he had kind of a slurred flow similar to Mase (who again was kind of in the Nelly lane). And speaking of Mase, he had that Southern kind of tone to his raps, but he wasn't dismissed for it because he was from NY.

Lol at Mase being in the Nelly lane..why cause the girls liked him?

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

T.I. - NY got some of the best lyricists on the Planet
Ebro - And sooooo does Atlanta

Man, he had to say that hey?

This is exactly what people been saying about Ebro

 

[jilla82]

and if T.I. was from Alabama he would be Rich Boy.

Everybody can play that game.

 

[Born2BKing]

Did Nelly have a legendary mixtape run before and after fame? 50 and Nelly are 2 different entities fam.

50's mixtaped were based off his melodies and song writing abilities, not his lyrics.

 

[spliz]

50's mixtaped were based off his melodies and song writing abilities, not his lyrics.

No. Just no fam. Lol

 

[Born2BKing]

No. Just no fam. Lol

Come on now.

 

[spliz]

I see both sides of this.

You can't really compare 50 to Nelly because 50 was relatively well known in the underground off mix tapes, etc.

However, the vast majority of people that copped "GRODT" wasn't the same fans as the mix tapes. Dude went 9x plat.

Hell, the average person I talked to that owned "GRODT" never even heard "How To Rob". I had to retroactively tell people about all that shyt.

Fred.

And it’s still a terrible comparison. 50 had songs like HEAT, U Not Like Me, Many Men, and Back Down on his album, It’s not the same kinda music or nothin. It’s a horrible comparison.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Woulda
Shoulda
Coulda

shut the fukk up Tip

 

[WSFGDan]

I know he's hated right now, but Kanye would have something to say on that

Nellly sold way more records than Kanye West

 

[BK The Great]

 

[FlyRy]

this subforum is on the daily full of gossip ass threads about dudes that were relevant 2 decades ago. shows how much modern rap sucks ass.