The Houston Movement is far more of a movement than a Snowman T shirt getting banned from high schools especially in regard to music. Having an impact =/= having a movement. A movement is more of a ripple effect. One small ripple growing to become something bigger. "Still Tippin" was just one song that ballooned into Houston taking over.
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Lets not forget to give Lil Flips success its proper credit as far as Houston having a movement....,thats kindve just what happens when a artist from a particular city or region blows,especially back in the day...I do see Wackys point in the sense of how many of them nikkas actually stuck and had everybody fukkin with them?It may have been moreso a lot of Houson nikkas getting chances due to Lil Flips and the overall success of the south....Kinda like when all those rappers like J Kwon and Chingy etc came out of St Louis after Nelly,i don't know if I would exactly call that a movement
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Far as this question its a hard one,I still remember first hearing T.I on his single with Beanie Man after seeing the video,thinkin he was a star
....I actually bought the Im Serious album based soley on his performance on that song and the blatant arrogance shown
...Only to have the numbers come back that he caught a brick
I kept putting nikkas on to him but they wouldn't listen until 24's dropped,and I finally had these nikkas attention and they was willing to listen
....And he came back with a new and improved style as a emcee that made him even betterthan I thought he was.
Its hard for me to pick because I like Jeezys catalogue better overall,but nikkas in here downplaying what T.I did like a mafuka....from Trap Muzic,Down with the King Mixtape,Urban Legend that's 3 classics right there breh....not to mention folks not mentioning T.I's run as an EMCEE,if you wanna talk about Jeezys musical ouput and the quality of majority of it,T.I need some extra credit for being one of the greatest emcees to ever bless us...Dude was killing everything he touched lyrically for a nice period of time....I listened to Urban Legend recently and realized I didn't appreciate what I was hearing as much as I luved T.I at the time,nikka was incredible
...I think yall need to go back and listen like I did,I'm a T.I stan and realized I didn't appreciate T.I's run enough at the time.
Gave it to you from every level,as a emcee,musical quality,giving us a protégé in Dro,cockiness unmatched,and cant forget the fukkery of course
,he was the total package,a throwback to what rappers used to be...and not only a throwback to what southern emcees but he had a piece of every region combined in one rapper,the shyt that made east coast emcees great,west coast emcees and southern emcees,he had it all
It all kindve came to a end with King for me though,I don't know what happened,maybe went a little too commercial?the sound?or just other nikkas started releasing better music,i don't remember my reason for feeling that way but I remember things not being the same.
I might have to call a tie,i think I been saying Jeezy,but after going back over T.I catalogue recently?i cant say that as confidently
and re-writing history left and right to put Jeezy on T.I.'s level.
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....But what about T.I.P
