Where does the Roc-A-Fella era rank among rap dynasties?

[FreshAIG]

It's hard to describe if you're not from NY, but the Roc-A-Fella run from 1998-2002 was next level. It literally took NY by storm. They still had a good 2-3 years but that was the peak.

Everything from Volume 2-Blueprint 2 was knocking all through NYC. Sigel's albums you would think sold 3x platinum the way nikkas was playing his shyts. State Property as a whole got crazy play in NY. Then when Dipset came, it just extended the run.

To me, I have it after Death Row and Wu-Tang era. It's on par with Bad Boy to me, with a slight edge because it lasted longer. Bad Boy Era was really only 1995-1997.

Where do y'all rank it, personally?

 

[JoelB]

#1

Jay
Beans
Kanye
Cam
Freeway
Young Gunz (underrated)
State Prop
Dip Set (Diplomatic Immunity)

Not even counting the movies like Paid In Full under the umbrella

 

[FreshAIG]

#1

Jay
Beans
Kanye
Cam
Freeway
Young Gunz (underrated)
State Prop
Dip Set (Diplomatic Immunity)

Not even counting the movies like Paid In Full under the umbrella

Not mad at having it number 1 either. Their run was truly amazing. Damn near everything they dropped during that run got played all over the hood.

 

[JoelB]

Not mad at having it number 1 either. Their run was truly amazing. Damn near everything they dropped during that run got played all over the hood.

Man I forgot to put Bleek on my list. Roc-a-fella was the soundtrack to my teenage years. Driving through the city in my xxl jersey's, spending the lil bullshyt money i had, bumpin Dipset/State Prop/Backstage Soundtrack

No other time like that before or after

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

I remember watching this early am before heading to school

 

[classicmaterial]

#1 with Death Row as a close second

Gotta expand the time period from 2002 to 2003 though cause that year gave us:

Philadelphia Freeway
Diplomatic Immunity
The Black Album
M.A.D.E.

 

[Deltron]

#2 or 3

#1 gonna have to be DR

 

[AsTheWorldBurns]

The Roc was running trains on Mariah and had her pumping out hits with the team all over her albums

 

[OfTheCross]

GOAT

I'd say it's 98 - 03.

Y'all said it but the entire crew was raw. And they expanded to movies, clothes, shoes, liquor, they had big concerts, Collab albums, solo records, classic albums as well in that era.

I've never seen a label hittin on so many different fronts at once. All that shyt was good classic materiel

4 da Fam is their intro and One for Peedi feels like the outro to the empire.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Number 1 with Bad Boy being number 2

 

[BEN23]

Number 1…bad boy and death row wasn’t long enough.. to much bullshyt

 

[BmoreGorilla]

If we including R&B Bad Boy crushed everybody if we gonna keep it a buck

 

[-DMP-]

“DYNASTY… as promised…”

 

[OfTheCross]

“DYNASTY… as promised…”

The world's most infamous....Roc a Fella Records







Lol. I'm weird af. Whenever I play this shyt or the intro to Vol. 3 I roll my car windows down..

I want to feel the streets and shyt. Smell the shyt. Hear the talk.

 

[JustCKing]

The Roc was running trains on Mariah and had her pumping out hits with the team all over her albums

LOL. "Heartbreaker" was her only real hit out of the songs she did with The Roc. This was like the bottom of the bottom of her career at that point.