D.O.C was the only rapper of that day
that could be mentioned in the same breath
as Rakim..
if you ask me he was better.....learn your hiphop
history breh.
If, doc got to make that definitive girl song like mahogany and followed it up with know what's on ya mind type of record.
I could say, he could have potentially been more commercially viable than rakim.
Which was more the perception and being able to squeeze around the cowboy edict and get a positive rub from the ruthless afiliation.
Yet, I don't think doc had the capacity to go in the realm of depth.
that rakim went into outside of the hardest content to write and be exactly convincing is the girl record.
Especially for that time and sonic landscape.
I am not sure doc could have answered the jody Whatley I bet you can't write this type of record for with me exercise.
That rakim took the challenge and succeeded in doing back then.
The thing that makes ra the second best all time.
is his ability to make the most difficult content base records and not lose any layer of convincability.
or sacrifice any of his technical base or artistry.
I am not sure doc could have done that and continued to expertly do it the way Ra has.
in the small but large volume sample size of straight classic girl records back to back to back without fail that Ra has dropped.
Including the girl records masterfully written on the master and also seventh seal.
So, in that is where the question marks form in comparing him to Ra.
As doc would have if he went unharmed.
would have had to eventually make especially after mahogany to keep pace with the overall goat argument outside of krs.
Krs, who never has to make a girl record and won't be judged on that criteria.
which is what makes him the goat culturally overall.
In the case of the doc, rakim, Kane and LL.
those dudes physically feature wise are the actual visage of the black man in living color.
To the point even shante says that exactly about Kane on actual quotes over her career in print, and tv.
That they would be subjected to that criteria unfairly.
Especially after Ra took and ovelry excelled at the Whatley challenge.
While, krs would not be subject to that criteria culturally.
Which is why krs is the goat.
as that content is not required of krs, to make at all.
All because he ushered in the new school way of thought and put the rnb based content out to pasture.
That plagued the quality of rap moving forward in the ol school way of thought..being under attack by the likes of guys like the force md's.
Who were making rnb and trying to package it as rap.
Art Barr
. Lmao & smh at the post-death 2pac fanatics and/or fake post-death 2pac dikkriding that the likes of Snoop has been doing for 20 years.
How many times is he going to fall out with Dre and reunite with him before he realises that Dre only cares about himself, and basically uses people as long as its beneficial to him? The worst thing is every time he and Dre have their annual "break-ups", DOC doesn't even put himself out there to work with other artists, or build his own shyt. He just fades away until Dre decided to call him again
. I also had that same look when I found out he got a piece of Badu...
