what would a top 5 list in 1994 look like?

[Jinx`]

Nas is my favorite rapper, but it is quite hard to put him or any of the guys who dropped debut albums in '94 over guys who had albums out with bigger impact prior to '94. Pac was already making waves with two albums.

I personally wasn't checking for Nas and wouldn't have put him in there

But I wasn't checking for MC Lyte either, lyrically I feel like people who heard the Nas LP wouldn't have him in the top 5 but above Lyte or Queen Latifah for sure.. Just wanted to make a point how crazy I thought it was to have MC Lyte in your lyrical top list

 

[Danie84]

Tupac
Snoop
Biggie
Nas
Method Man

...in no order from a 9-year-old perspective

 

[daze23]

The Coli got a Left Eye stan??? :prodigylol:

dude in here calling her by her government name and shyt

RIP

 

[smokeurobinson]

I don't see why people are dismissing Snoop. There was "Deep Cover", his appearances on Chronic, his own Doggystyle album. Snoop was making some iconic moves that positioned him in the upper echelon of rap. Dude had performances and videos that were crazy. I didn't even mention Murder Was the Case soundtrack.

Nas is my favorite rapper, but it is quite hard to put him or any of the guys who dropped debut albums in '94 over guys who had albums out with bigger impact prior to '94. Pac was already making waves with two albums.

there were also a bunch of other rappers who had impact aside from the "usual suspects" who still had popular product up till 94. Dudes coming in here with a 2018 mentality not a 1994 mentality. a 2018 mentality will say Snoop and Pac. But what about the others in 94?





I dont see anyone going extra for Heavy D. Heavy did was still popping in 94 with this song.




Who's going extra for Heavy D?






Who's going extra for Sticky? I remember Sticky being a lot of cats top around the time when Wu Tang was popping.




Who's going extra for Treach? Naughty still had the game on lock by 94. I havent heard anyone going extra for Treach.



No one mentioned Kam from the west coast. Kam who was the most lyrical next to Cube.



No one was talking about ghostwriters in 94. Dudes exposed themselves in this thread. I say that cuz Bushwick Bill was acknowledged heavy by 94 along with Face. People forget how big Bushwick was at one point.


Twista had a semi popular song in 92. I see no one mentioning Twista yet if u ask now people would acknowledge him as a legend.






who's going extra for Common? Common had I used to Love Her by 94.







When dudes mention "the usual suspects" like Snoop and Pac and we talking 94 and they aint mentioning the "others" it stands out to me cuz I was there.



On another note, I didnt mention Slick Rick in the top 10 because he kept making duds in the 90's even tho i understand his circumstance contributed to the duds.

 

[daze23]

1994 had those Black Moon remix singles



hockey jerseys

 

[Wacky D]

LOL @ your response being Left Eye bars that never existed on the Brandy remix. Thats a fantasy not reality. Your fantasy is not what happened in 1994.

LOL @ your response being another fantasy as if dudes were bigging up Left Eyes verse on a song with Latifah and Lyte that came out 95 when the topic is about 94.

you mean like how youre pretending that dudes cared about the "wanna be down remix"???

most dudes could care less about female rap period.

and it aint no fantasy. anybody that's ever heard the panther song can clearly see that left eye destroyed everybody on that cut.

I don't think illmatic is better than either of Pac first two albums.
Thug life is waaaaaay b better than illmatic,but that's all subjective.
It's a fact that illmatic made less impact than pac's second album.
So how is that a big enough deal to make him top 5?

youre confusing the impact of pac's singles with the impact of his actual album.
singles artists don't crack the top 10. let alone top 5.

illmatic set the tone for the new era of emceeing,

 

[JustCKing]

there were also a bunch of other rappers who had impact aside from the "usual suspects" who still had popular product up till 94. Dudes coming in here with a 2018 mentality not a 1994 mentality. a 2018 mentality will say Snoop and Pac. But what about the others in 94?





I dont see anyone going extra for Heavy D. Heavy did was still popping in 94 with this song.




Who's going extra for Heavy D?






Who's going extra for Sticky? I remember Sticky being a lot of cats top around the time when Wu Tang was popping.




Who's going extra for Treach? Naughty still had the game on lock by 94. I havent heard anyone going extra for Treach.



No one mentioned Kam from the west coast. Kam who was the most lyrical next to Cube.



No one was talking about ghostwriters in 94. Dudes exposed themselves in this thread. I say that cuz Bushwick Bill was acknowledged heavy by 94 along with Face. People forget how big Bushwick was at one point.


Twista had a semi popular song in 92. I see no one mentioning Twista yet if u ask now people would acknowledge him as a legend.






who's going extra for Common? Common had I used to Love Her by 94.







When dudes mention "the usual suspects" like Snoop and Pac and we talking 94 and they aint mentioning the "others" it stands out to me cuz I was there.



On another note, I didnt mention Slick Rick in the top 10 because he kept making duds in the 90's even tho i understand his circumstance contributed to the duds.

This is way different. Snoop was bigger than everyone named. He had videos and performances, guest spots, and his own album to where he was in those discussions. I'm not looking at this with a 2018 lens. This is '94 and Snoop had two years of momentum of not just some huge Hip Hop moments, but nobody sounded like him.

 

[JustCKing]

you mean like how youre pretending that dudes cared about the "wanna be down remix"???

most dudes could care less about female rap period.

and it aint no fantasy. anybody that's ever heard the panther song can clearly see that left eye destroyed everybody on that cut.





youre confusing the impact of pac's singles with the impact of his actual album.
singles artists don't crack the top 10. let alone top 5.

illmatic set the tone for the new era of emceeing,

Pac was not some singles artist and in '94, both Pac albums were a bigger deal than Illmatic. Illmatic being the template that ot is came later. This wasn't the standard for emceeing in '94. That album was just being released. Meanwhile, Pac's albums are a part of a public cd smashing campaign, members of Congress are denouncing his music, and this wasn't the singles they were denouncing because some of them were tame in comparison to what the rest of the respective albuns offered. By the time Nas even drops Illmatic, Pac was already moving culture. Snoop was already moving culture.

 

[Jinx`]

dude in here calling her by her government name and shyt

RIP

How can you say "RIP" after that bullshyt.

You all really do piss me off with your fake sympathy. Bullshyt. Stop acting like you truly give a shyt. That's about the only shyt I can't stand from y'all.

 

[daze23]

How can you say "RIP" after that bullshyt.

You all really do piss me off with your fake sympathy. Bullshyt. Stop acting like you truly give a shyt. That's about the only shyt I can't stand from y'all.

honestly I think it's awkward to call her "Lisa", unless she was your personal friend or family

 

[Jinx`]

honestly I think it's awkward to call her "Lisa", unless she was your personal friend or family

That was her name

And that's what she preferred to be called. Since cats like OP usually related the "Left Eye" persona to her being a "crazy bytch"

 

[BlackMajik]

Cube would be #1

 

[Kool Kitty Kat]

Snoop would be on my list for sure. He dropped his best material before '94.

 

[daze23]

1994

 

[3rdWorld]

Rakim
Big Daddy kane
Boogie Down Productions
LL Cool J
NWA

Cannot disagree