What keeps Ice Cube from being labeled the GOAT rap artist?

[Booker T Garvey]

Em has no club bangers

i've heard crack a bottle in the club when it first came out
he doesn't have a "GET LOW" by any means but the shyt spun in the club

Making pop records has nothing to do with hip hop.
Making club records is not a prerequisite to being a legend.
Neither is making a street record.

Your view of hip hop is all fukked up
Then you post a pic of Eminem?

^^^ look at this cornball

so we acknowledge that there are PARTY rappers, STREET rappers, CLUB rappers, and CROSSOVER RADIO rappers

fukk your little emotions: acknowledge that in the 40 years of hip hop's existence these things exist.

so wouldn't it make sense that ANY RAPPERS that have found success in ALL of these categories should get some props?

KRS, MOB DEEP, RAKIM, CUBE, none of them can say this.

once again, fukk your emotions of who you think is the GOAT on your terms..REALITY says otherwise. eminem and LL cool J are the only rappers that can say they've done this.

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Boots get knocked from here to Chechoslyvakia

Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

crazy how two years after he talked about it, it had a peaceful dissolution allowing for independent state establishment

Cube's influence is worldwide

 

[Ol’Otis]

You either die a rap legend or live long enough to see yourself star in family comedies

 

[Booker T Garvey]

This dude claiming that Eminem made a street record

Only thing he's done successfully is battling

His radio pop songs are

right because the streets wasn't fukking with this at all.

 

[MidnightMercenary]

right because the streets wasn't fukking with this at all.

We're talking about Eminem here. You really think his verse is a street song?

 

[Booker T Garvey]

We're talking about Eminem here. You really think his verse is a street song?

so what is this then, smooth jazz? this is bubble gum pop!?

everybody was bumping this when it dropped, hood nikkas included

you wanna sit up here and lie about that shyt TOO!?

 

[Da King]

He had the GOAT albums and GOAT rap run, left to make millions doing movies. Something every rapper WISH they could do


not his fault rap fans are trash and have no respect for the legends unlike other music genres

 

[mobbinfms]

i've heard crack a bottle in the club when it first came out
he doesn't have a "GET LOW" by any means but the shyt spun in the club


^^^ look at this cornball

so we acknowledge that there are PARTY rappers, STREET rappers, CLUB rappers, and CROSSOVER RADIO rappers

fukk your little emotions: acknowledge that in the 40 years of hip hop's existence these things exist.

so wouldn't it make sense that ANY RAPPERS that have found success in ALL of these categories should get some props?

KRS, MOB DEEP, RAKIM, CUBE, none of them can say this.

once again, fukk your emotions of who you think is the GOAT on your terms..REALITY says otherwise. eminem and LL cool J are the only rappers that can say they've done this.

Your arms must be tired from moving all those goalposts.
First you said this:
A GOAT is somebody who can make a hot club record, a street record, a radio pop record, and come in a cypher and hold their own

these are the only 2 cats that can say they've done that

Now you're walking that back and saying rappers who excel in different categories should get props. I don't have an issue with that.

Plus you spell Mobb Deep with one B
How long you been listening to hip hop?

 

[MidnightMercenary]

so what is this then, smooth jazz? this is bubble gum pop!?

everybody was bumping this when it dropped, hood nikkas included

you wanna sit up here and lie about that shyt TOO!?

Lol ok I never said it wasn't hip-hop. I guess I can't deny it wasn't played in the streets, but that was probably because the actual song had Dr. Dre's name attached to it.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Your arms must be

so in otherwords: rappers that have classic records that span all facets of hip hop CAN'T be considered GOATs.

a simple yes or no fam. all the joking and buckdancing for daps is not necessary.

Lol ok I never said it wasn't hip-hop. I guess I can't deny it wasn't played in the streets, but that was probably because the actual song had Dr. Dre's name attached to it.

that's a fair argument but it doesn't negate my point

at the end of the day, you can put eminem and LL on just about any type of hip hop track whether it's underground, pop, club, and you're good.

not every rapper can say this, not even CUBE.

Biggie is up there but his career was too short IMO

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Good thread

 

[BK The Great]

Cube's a legend, nuff said.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

The 2nd westside connection album wasn't that bad though.

"so many rappers in love on the radio..."
both albums were dope

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

because CUBE isn't, and has never been seen as a lyricist.
he's a legend no doubt, has many classic albums and tracks that will live on forever

but is he really seeing REDMAN lyrically?

nikka he's waaaaaaaaaaaaay past redman lyrically,do you know what a lyric is?
Guess you think lyrics = talking about nothing,rhyming in circles and being a dope head clown like red.
Cube raps waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than red,it's not even close

 

[Still Benefited]

because CUBE isn't, and has never been seen as a lyricist.
he's a legend no doubt, has many classic albums and tracks that will live on forever

but is he really seeing REDMAN lyrically?

a GOAT is somebody who can make a hot club record, a street record, a radio pop record, and come in a cypher and hold their own

these are the only 2 cats that can say they've done that:

I agree versatility should be considered when discussing goats...but how the he'll u gonna post Eminem and LL cool J,as if they more versatile than Cube...aww man that's funny,Cube is hands down the most versatile artist ever,and u in here questioning that with pics of Eminem and LL?Cube couldn't hold his own in a cypher?Cube didn't have club records,street records?couldn't battle?it's obvious 90% of the people talking in this thread are just ignorant to Cube....so that's the new answer to the op's question,plain ignorance