Versuz: The Lox Vs Dipset 8/3 9:30PM ET

[Easy-E]

Like 75 ppl voted this morning and 50 nikkas changed they're votes why do yall always do this after

I thought ya'll were exaggerating

It's 70/30 Lox, now

 

[BXKingPin82]

Y’all gettin carried away now. The amount of content g unit has that was poppin is ridiculous. Their mixtape shyt went mainstream. Would be close maybe but the unit just had more shyt poppin.
And that’s with just 50, banks and yayo. Wouldn’t even be fair if buck or game was still around.
50 always has the crowd lit. Just went to a banks show in Brooklyn. Dude had the crowd goin crazy.
NY fukks wit them HEAVY. We all know yayo is hyped all the time.

I swear on ALLAH i thought that one LL song that "Love You Better" shyt was a 50 Cent original.

 

[Figaro]

When Jada said that he really be on the hood, i had to go back to watch this video

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

I meant fukking with them to the degree like the Lox had NY on lock.

I was around big goons throughout the 90s and 00's. It was always our wants that dictated radio play and it was always based on your entire team spitting bars. That shyt changed when Dip Set got big. Jim J and Juelz would NEVER have been given a mic in the 90s yet were big in the 00's. They rep NY street's loosening grip on what was hot. Real talk....

Tell 'em.

NEVER, EVER saw the appeal of Dipset. And what you said about Jim Jones is 100% spot on.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I think it might be a generational thing too. Dipset was big with High Schoolers. They were getting outta that Ruff Ryders street phase. Also if you're from Uptown, it's pretty much Dipset land. I was already in College when Dipset blew and they were getting play in the clubs but the Lox music was huge too but also overshadowed at the time by BIG, Puff, Mase, DMX, Nas, Jay-Z. They came through at the time when it was really crowded. Dipset had a clearer lane.

Just saying, you guys all arguing but as a matter of perspective you're both right. In High School, Dipset was definitely bigger. Lox ran with it for longer but they were overshadowed by absolute GODS of hip hop.

I never really got that impression. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I always thought songs like 24 Hours, Last Day, Reservoir Dogs, Blackout, Benjamins, Started Something, etc, all sounded just as much like Lox songs as anyone else. That was an era of posse cuts and crew joints, and if anything I think a lot of those songs in my mind are more Lox songs because they've got 3 verses on most of them, and in some cases wrote verses for other cats on the same songs.

Money Power Respect, We Are The Streets, Kiss The Game Goodbye, and Gangster and a Gentleman all seemed like big albums to me.

I mean, I agree that there's a definitely a difference in hindsight between Lox and Jay or Nas for example, but in the moment it never felt like it was a huge difference to me.

 

[greenvale]

THIS IS KISS! I'M OUTSIDE

 

[ThirtyPlus]

I don't know about yesterday or tomorrow, but Jadakiss is the King of NY today!

 

[THE MACHINE]

Now I want to see LOX versuz G-Unit just to see Jada shyt talk them

If that Checkmate track start and you hear that Jada "We gon' handle this like grown men....."

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I meant fukking with them to the degree like the Lox had NY on lock.

I was around big goons throughout the 90s and 00's. It was always our wants that dictated radio play and it was always based on your entire team spitting bars. That shyt changed when Dip Set got big. Jim J and Juelz would NEVER have been given a mic in the 90s yet were big in the 00's. They rep NY street's loosening grip on what was hot. Real talk....

I like Dipset and I never thought about it this way, but I think you might be right.

Another way I thought about it is that Dipset kind of reminded me of a "New York's homegrown" version of other regional shyt that was hot around the same time. Like, down south and midwest had their scenes that were less lyrical and not as focused on bars, and Dipset to me always represented New York's first crew that was more dumbed down. I don't even say that as an insult either. Everyone in The Booth knows I'm not a listener that's here for bars and only bars.

But yeah. I thought Dipset was kind of like NY's own version of less lyrical and more anthem based music that was trending in other parts of the country.

EDIT: And I also thought Cam dumbed down his bars a little bit with Dipset.

 

[The War Report]

All I think about when seeing him is him getting clapped by my people.

I was about to say, dude was about to get his kufi smacked permanently that night.

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Star just said "Lets bow our heads and give a moment of silence to some Dusty Harlem ni**as"

 

[NYC Rebel]

I was about to say, dude was about to get his kufi smacked permanently that night.

It was some Crown Heights/Nostrand Ave goons who robbed and shot him back in 03'. I had long gone from hanging out with them dudes because it was too much policing to stop their goonery.

Niqqa....I literally stopped some of yall favorite rappers from getting robbed at the Tunnel by some of these dudes...

 

[Tony D'Amato]

Dips been an embarrassment

 

[aceboon]

This Star intro is hilarious right now, this nikka killin them lmao

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Y’all gettin carried away now. The amount of content g unit has that was poppin is ridiculous. Their mixtape shyt went mainstream. Would be close maybe but the unit just had more shyt poppin.
And that’s with just 50, banks and yayo. Wouldn’t even be fair if buck or game was still around.
50 always has the crowd lit. Just went to a banks show in Brooklyn. Dude had the crowd goin crazy.
NY fukks wit them HEAVY. We all know yayo is hyped all the time.

This was all so long ago though. Half the Unit members have beef with each other currently. Banks just dropped a song like 2 months ago dissing 50. When's the last time that G-Unit rocked a show together? Their last time reuniting and releasing music clearly showed the chemistry was missing. If this was a Versuz during loickdown and it was just MP3s being played, then maybe G-Unit would have a chance. But in a live show format here in 2021?

G-Unit would have no group cohesion or chemistry to handle The Lox. It would be a murder.