kool g rap is a top 10 rapper ever cannon. not just some guy that dropped a dope album back in the day.
anyway, the lox were basically the kool g. rap of their era.
yea, that whole 1st half of that tape is the most popular part.
Lol it's not popular at all. Wacky i know you're somewhat of a historian and i've grown to respect you. But that shyt you're saying is weak,REAL WEAK.Your lox fascination is based off emotion. You have nothing solid to stand on when it comes to your lox claims. I know you said you were riding with the HB's but you didnt feel it was a "blow out" type situation and the lox deserved more props. DO they really? Let's analyze and compare.
You got B.G: a young nikka whom was sellling 250,000 a project prior to the major deal,not only that he was dropping dope projects back to back and played a huge role in them getting the major deal they got. I had nikkas stepping to me quoting B.G. etc before i knew who he was and i used to kick it with hood rats whom had them records and were quoting the phrases etc prior to me being a fan. He dropped another dope album after the deal.
You got juvey: A nikka that delivered in devastating fashion,once they had the deal. Dropped a huge classic album that killed the streets and radio. The album was straight gutter shyt that crossed over cause it was that dope and cashmoney became a major player. Solja rags is dope too,by the way. Comes back with tha g-code which is a dope album but in my opinion is was rolled out wrong. They had better songs they could of used as singles.
Then you got lil wayne: This lil 4 foot millionaire was a star in the making at a very young age. I was telling nikkas he'd be the man when he was 16 and although i wasnt a huge fan of the direction he took as an artist,he did d o just that. When his crew went belly up,he didnt run or show cowardice. He got on his shyt. Hit them streets hard. I remember what them squad up tapes meant in the street. Started killing features too. ANd blew cash money back up bigger than ever after they went through a time of being cold. Absolutely remarkable
Turk: not worth talking bout but i bought his album day 1.
In the midst of this they drop their second Hot Boy$ album which is classic and has songs like
We on fire,shoot first,i need a hot girl,help,tuesday & thursday etc
Now you got the lox: 3 dusty nikkas that were blessed to be signed to bad boy and dropped their first album in the time period that Bad boy had just released hiphop albums that went on to sale 11mil,7mil and 4 mil. That's an average of 7 million. The lox were featured on all 3 of these albums. They come out (10 months after big,7 months after puff and 3 months after mase) and sale 1mil. THat stinks. Even after selling out,spinning around in shimmering green overalls, and putting this single out
they FLOPPED! despite putting out the classic Money power respect (song). Guess people felt they werent shyt.
Later after their flop,dmx whom comes from the same camp blows up and drops albums that would go on to sale 4 mil,3 mil and 5 mil in a year and a half time frame. Eve does 2mil with her project.
The lox are desperate to get out of their contract with puff. Not only is the ship sinking,they're watching their team mates sale millions with the street vibe they wanted to display in the first place.
SO instead of riding like wayne did to blow back up cash money,they run off to get under dmx's nuts where they thought they'd fair alot better. (to their credit,the label was ran by their managers/mentors etc Dee & wahh.)
They get there and put out the uneventful album WE ARE THE STREETS,possessing no classic songs and being boring as watching paint dry. The album sales gold even though eve and x are killing it.
They put out some solo projects having more success than they did as a group but still fail to become power houses. They consider running back to puff,jada trys to run to jay-z but in the end they just end up being overrated NY mc's whom their fans make excuses for their underachieving ways. THE END
and lets ignore how they changed the way people rapped - all the way up to biggie & ma$e.
pretty much
Never liked their style.
