Who is the LUCKIEST Successful rapper ever?

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Fabolous and any of those other punchline mixtape rappers from that era.

Fab could rap but I don't think there was anything special about him to get the label push to be on features. Plus his debut album was mediocre at best.

He's definitely improved with age but had he came a generation later he'd be forgotten about with a quickness.

 

[Bugsmoran]

Fabolous and any of those other punchline mixtape rappers from that era.

Fab could rap but I don't think there was anything special about him to get the label push to be on features. Plus his debut album was mediocre at best.

He's definitely improved with age but had he came a generation later he'd be forgotten about with a quickness.

Fab was smart with his choices

After Ma$e left the rap game Fab filled that void... back when every rapper was trying to be the next PAC or Big nobody thought of trying to be the next Ma$e

And Fab going to Dj Clue to get put on played a big part in him blowing up also. Clue was the most popping Dj out back then

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Vanilla Ice..

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Drake- Dude was 4th lead on a teenage television drama where he was continually sonned and disrespected every single season. NOTHING about this dude screamed rap star. He got the right production team and the right Ghostwriters and blew ALL THE WAY up

RZA- the only reason I say this is because that nikka took NINE OTHER project nikkas, some who didn’t even like each other, and made them all International Superstars. I think people forget how absolutely amazing that is. Seriously, RZA is a talented brother, one of the greatest producers of all time, but he had God, Buddha, AND Allah on his side when he formed Wu-Tang.

Eminem- that white Boy should wake up every single morning praying to a Dr Dre portrait, cause that Co-sign let him pretty much take over Hip Hop for a period

Ayo

 

[Redwing80]

I remember all of that, the original run, the buzz but bottom line he wasn't known at all outside of hiphop circles and stumbled across the best launch single of all time.

Without that he would probably be Fabolous level.

Which is successful, a few good albums but not world famous.

You do know he had multiple hit songs on the same album right?

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Drake
Right time, right people

 

[AtomicUse]

Wiz Khalifa.

Black and yellow track came right when the steelers went for the big stage, and his song became their anthem, so he got a ton of exposure.

And ludacris. His style has aged terribly but back then when it was acceptable to rap like that he blew up.

 

[Harry B]

Birdman and P were smart business dudes, and let's be honest here Birdman came back like 3-4 times in different ways.
As far as P goes, it was a great tactic, like a Chinese manufacturer. I don't see how it's luck (although Ghetto D and TRU 2 da game were of above solid quality).

 

[thephatmack]

You do know he had multiple hit songs on the same album right?

Yup.. but with a jump off like In Da Club, any follow ups will be hits too.
It's the sophomore blessing.

Games debut was better right. Let's be honest.

Btw I had power of the dollar, how to rob.
I don't hate 50, it just all comes back to my original point..
His huge record sales which surpass Jay Z album for album.. they are all down to In Da Club.

 

[Harry B]

Drake
Right time, right people

? His own producers, own team and all.
People had been trying to sign him for years before he signed with Cash Money/Universal.

Of course he was lucky to have met someone who knew Wayne, but he was meeting several people who knew people.

 

[thephatmack]

Luda can rap! Had loads of hits and he is a good business man.
He deserves success more than most.

 

[thephatmack]

Birdman and P were smart business dudes, and let's be honest here Birdman came back like 3-4 times in different ways.
As far as P goes, it was a great tactic, like a Chinese manufacturer. I don't see how it's luck (although Ghetto D and TRU 2 da game were of above solid quality).

At the end of the day, everyone is lucky in some way.

These guys are multi millionaires through Music though!

Come on...

 

[Harry B]

At the end of the day, everyone is lucky in some way. It all depends on how you want to flip it, like you can say that Cube was lucky that he met Eazy and Dre, that Jay was lucky that he's from Brooklyn, that Nas is lucky that he wasn't better in school or whatever the fukk. Cause the reaching in here is taking it to those levels. As if Drake meeting a connected person makes him the luckiest.

 

[revan]

Damn y'all hate Drake.



I'm going to go with The Game, he's a talented dude but the G-Unit affiliation and fallout kept his name buzzing even after his music lost it's consistency.

 

[Harry B]

These guys are multi millionaires through Music though!

Come on...

Of course that's nice, but what is luck?

Bill Gates is rich of computers, why is that less luck? He's lucky that his father gave him access to computers when few people had it.

Eminem for example, Dre found his EP in the trash or something, that is super luck but could he have made it in any event? Who knows. There's causes for everything and if it leads to something good that's "luck". As far as ranking luck, one could say that Bleek is luckier than Jay cause if Jay didn't know Clark Kent none of them would be here.