T.I vs Jeezy vs Gucci vs Future..whose had the best run?

[BigSteve]

Have to say T.I. but Jeezy's come up was my favorite. I still remember listening to that Streets Is Watching and his voice immediately had my attention. Trap Or Die dropped and it was fukkin over. He pretty much put Drama and his whole movement on to where everyone wanted to do a tape.

Accurate

 

[I AM WARHOL]

TI got me into rap.

I listened to rap before but TI really pulled me in. That King album . Takes me back

 

[H. Selassie]

Going purely by success it's T.I. of course but in terms of quality music for me personally it's...

1. Jeezy 2. T.I. 3. Future 4. Gucci

I can honestly say I've bumped every project Jeezy has dropped (except Church in the Streets). We ain't even gotta talk about TM101, 102, or The Recession. Jeezy got classic mixtapes most cats best albums can't even fukk with (Trap or Die, Can't Ban the Snowman, Trappin Ain't Dead, It's Tha World 2, etc.)

T.I.'s great music run started with Trap Muzik and ended with Paper Trail. Everything after that has been weak and gotten the skim treatment.


DS2 is the only Future project I've bumped front to end. The rest of his catalougue, I just pick and choose songs. One could argue that Future has the best collection of hits/single songs of the group. For a quick listen, I'd take Future over the others .

Outside of the State vs Radric Davis and the rare mixtape joint, I've never bumped Gucci like that even during his "run". Gucci is probably the realest of the group (Jeezy and T.I. both fraudulent as hell) but the discussion is quality music.

 

[HeavyTheDon]

Gucci influenced this entire generation of trap rappers..he's had more impact than TI and Jeezy culturally.

So who paved the way for Gucci?

 

[28 Gramz]

So who paved the way for Gucci?

Project Pat

 

[Wacky D]

reading thru the thread, people are too caught up in sales.

whats funny is, jeezy kept it street and was still as big as tip when tip was doing the most unapologetic crossover records possible. between that & tip getting a bigger push from his label, while jeezy was getting snubbed from even the BET awards when he was the biggest thing out. thats the only reason why tip eventually sold more records.

jeezy was a better genuine seller. TIP needed crazy industry backing & parades for his album rollout just to match jeezy's sales. and then tip went str8 to the crossover after that.

I'm not sure how old some of yall are. cuz it seems like a lot of yall don't remember all this.

then theres people who do remember this, but are dancing around a bit because they like T.I. more but they know wassup.

jeezy run was that of an industry plant..everything about it was cuttthroat..then when the very regime he was runnin around representin..he denounced em all....n they were the sole reason for his existance

gucci didnt take none of the blackballin shyt jeezy did to stop em.,..like it did jody breeze..the street shyt jeezy thru at gucci didnt stop em..

he held his ground..n held his own..against not only jeezy n his tactics..but ti's as well

not too mention the rappers who came from under guccis umbrella..stood longer than anybody that came from under ti or jeezy together...

industry plant? I think you meant to say something else. he was the opposite of a plant breh.

what tip do? didn't Gucci start that one?

 

[Fani Willis fan]

TI was almost as hot as Wayne and Ye, before shyt went down

 

[Wacky D]

Project Pat

nah.

pat was a niche artist in the national scope.

truth be told, jeezy un-intentionally did the most to pave the way for Gucci, on the national tip.

Explain what I'm not getting. Just because I don't agree with your warped opinion.

You do know that arguing in favor of Coolio here completely contradicts the argument against me that you just co-signed. Dude basically said that I would be saying that Coolio's album would be >>>> Me Against The World if this were '95. Did you not co-sign that statement? Now you're using the same statement to disagree with me. Then again, you don't remember or even know what you're quoting half the time because you argue for the sake of arguing.

nobody is arguing in favor of coolio.

hes saying that YOU would be arguing in favor of coolio over pac if this was 20 years ago.

its not rocket science b.

I don't even see how TI isn't the obvious choice. TI sold more records for one, he went gold in a week twice, and birthed their styles. Gucci has classic songs and Trap House was a regional classic but he shouldn't even be mentioned with TI and Jeezy.

its sorta like putting 50 cent over DMX.

thats analogy is for the folks that don't like the pac/coolio analogy.

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

THANK YOU.

and yea, props to flip. hes the one that sparked that run and was the only one that actually stuck. too bad he got blackballed tho.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Prime t.i. and its not even close

 

[Still Benefited]

I was listening to Trap Muzik the other night and it's amazing how people on here try to slight that album. I mean, yes Trap or Die and Thug Motivation did much to expand to enhance the trap sound, but to act like Trap Muzik didn't open a lane and introduce that style to the mainstream is laughable and an uneducated opinion. It's a history re-write if there ever was one. I mean, you can't listen to "Look What I Got" and not see that it gave Jeezy the swag you hear throughout Trap or Die and Thug Motivation especially when compared to what he sounded like previously. I mean, just take some of the lines from "Look What I Got" (not only the lines themselves, but how T.I. is actually delivering them):

You best invest in some skis
I sell slopes of snow

Not even those lines alone, but also the hook.

Then you have a song like "Bezzle", which musically helped pioneer the kick drums you hear in trap beats now.

cosign,and to add on...cats giving Jeezy and Gucci extra credit for influence,but lets be honest and think about this for a second....It was faaaar easier to rap like Gucci Mane and Jeezy than T.I....Cats aint want that type of responsibility

 

[H. Selassie]

T.I definitely gave Jeezy a style to run with. Just listen to "Be Easy" on Trap Muzik. That's Jeezy's whole style in a nutshell (Trap or Die, TM101 Jeezy).The "Aaayyye" ad-libs, the slow-flow game spittin style

"I'm 22 and a vet in the gaaaaame
Said I'm super cool, still a threat at the saaaame"

 

[BreezyH]

jeezy had best movement, tip had a great run. future is the has the streets like gucci and some of the hit savvy of tip.

 

[H. Selassie]

Jeezy sounded like a Trick Daddy clone before he adopted T.I's style

 

[Wacky D]

I was listening to Trap Muzik the other night and it's amazing how people on here try to slight that album. I mean, yes Trap or Die and Thug Motivation did much to expand to enhance the trap sound, but to act like Trap Muzik didn't open a lane and introduce that style to the mainstream is laughable and an uneducated opinion..

nobody is slighting TI.

its just that some of us know who he is and who he isn't.

as for tip introducing the style to the mainstream, sure he did that. but jeezy made everybody jump on it.

cosign,and to add on...cats giving Jeezy and Gucci extra credit for influence,but lets be honest and think about this for a second....It was faaaar easier to rap like Gucci Mane and Jeezy than T.I....Cats aint want that type of responsibility

you act like tip is some sort of lyrical juggernaut.

 

[Still Benefited]

nobody is slighting TI.

its just that some of us know who he is and who he isn't.

as for tip introducing the style to the mainstream, sure he did that. but jeezy made everybody jump on it.






you act like tip is some sort of lyrical juggernaut.

Neither was prime Snoop,that don't make it any easier to be prime Snoop,you know better than this....T.I had the intangibles you cant teach

And nobody can be as cool as prime Snoop,but T.I is right up there,and he is definitely in a different league on a technical level.....And compared to Jeezy,Gucci and 95% of the south T.I is definitely a lyrical juggernaut.