What's the most disappointing thing that has ever happened in hip hop for you?
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Piff Perkins
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Nas' Def Jam run, for sure. The stage seemed to be set for something truly special. While those first albums were undeniably successful and he proved he still was still relevant (see: the crazy mixtape impact he had at the time) I feel like that first album HHID really missed the mark of what fans wanted. I bumped it a lot. I was in college at the time and have some good memories tied to specific songs but I feel like the stage was set for Nas to drop a classic album and instead he just dropped something that became typical for him on the label: a "meh" album that nobody really remembers.
As others pointed out in the thread...he was working with Premo again yet it never materialized. He was working with Just Blaze but it never materialized. We got 1 great Kanye produced track (Still Dreaming). Meh Dre/Storch stuff. I feel like that album would have been perfect to kinda do a tour of rap shyt, from 80s boom bap to west coast shyt to 90s east coast shyt to the dirty south and then to the present. I'd imagine that may have been the vision Nas had too but it didn't come out well .Premo could have helped with that, man. Large Pro could have helped with that. Dre could have helped with that (with better beats). Just a miss...
Same with Untitled. I thought we'd get some gutter shyt but instead it's an unfocused collection of songs and half baked concept records. Once again that was an album that Premo would have been perfect for. Maybe add in some Dilla type shyt. Oh well.
As others pointed out in the thread...he was working with Premo again yet it never materialized. He was working with Just Blaze but it never materialized. We got 1 great Kanye produced track (Still Dreaming). Meh Dre/Storch stuff. I feel like that album would have been perfect to kinda do a tour of rap shyt, from 80s boom bap to west coast shyt to 90s east coast shyt to the dirty south and then to the present. I'd imagine that may have been the vision Nas had too but it didn't come out well .Premo could have helped with that, man. Large Pro could have helped with that. Dre could have helped with that (with better beats). Just a miss...
Same with Untitled. I thought we'd get some gutter shyt but instead it's an unfocused collection of songs and half baked concept records. Once again that was an album that Premo would have been perfect for. Maybe add in some Dilla type shyt. Oh well.
OGBIGBOY187
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A$AP Ferg not sticking to his original sound. I couldn't get into his projects after Trap Lord
The fact that Dre got him and Cube's joint album just sittin in the vault collecting dust
The fact that Dre got him and Cube's joint album just sittin in the vault collecting dust
Playaz Eyez
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Just gonna mention a bunch of random ones:
1) Rappers’ falling off in general. I hate when you can 100% pinpoint it and you hope they can get back to their OG output and it never happens.
2) Lil Wayne calling himself the best rapper alive, and people enabling him to truly make him believe it. He was barely even equal to his purse in terms of sheer skill, but he beat people over the head so much with an outrageous amount of music that people actually believed he was great.
3) The general “came and went” era of today’s music. Doesn’t seem like people truly want to enjoy the music, they just want to be the first to comment on it.
1) Rappers’ falling off in general. I hate when you can 100% pinpoint it and you hope they can get back to their OG output and it never happens.
2) Lil Wayne calling himself the best rapper alive, and people enabling him to truly make him believe it. He was barely even equal to his purse in terms of sheer skill, but he beat people over the head so much with an outrageous amount of music that people actually believed he was great.
3) The general “came and went” era of today’s music. Doesn’t seem like people truly want to enjoy the music, they just want to be the first to comment on it.
Young Dolph frontin on being independent and turning down 22 millis
I really fukked with his movement till he got exposed
I really fukked with his movement till he got exposed
the original producer line up for Black Album not coming to fruition. not my most disappointing but the one i felt needed to be mentioned
ODB dying as he was working his way back from his issues. This was the death knoll for the Wu in the mainstream
ODB dying as he was working his way back from his issues. This was the death knoll for the Wu in the mainstream
Tommy Gibbs
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The rise of puffy. This mf starting to rap and NY ignoring how wack this nikka is and giving him a pass. This opened the floodgates for infinity of wack shyt to follow and this is where we are at today.
Tommy Gibbs
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primo also said he was supposed to do the whole album but he was on tour.
Tommy Gibbs
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But they did have a release
Jimmy Two-Times™
Coli Mods Catch Me If U Can Forgive Me Imma Ridah™
What's freaky is as I'm reading this I am listening to that Meth and Mary song that The RZA produced. How can you be mad at your brother just because he has the vision and you don't.The Wu/RZA friction after 93-97 GOAT run
That new Mary J Blige greatest hits is amazing. She remastered her old hits. Everything sounds so crispy.
Not the full album
BK The Great
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It let their corniness ooze out of their personalities.
It let their corniness ooze out of their personalities.