"There's a couple of people that slipped thru the cracks for a year or 2 with no lyrics" - Illdoctrine
Point in case Nelly. Nelly sold 8.5 million units in the year 2000, but Eminem debuted his album that same year and sold 10,204,000 units. So it will be interesting to hear Trev's take on this.
nelly (i'll even throw ja rule in there) put together a nice run (doubling the 2 yr mark) but i think his time is over..... thank goodness... i remember when i first heard country grammar... that was a horrible day
i often wonder and hope flo-rida's run is near the end. honestly i like for anyone to be able to sustain a living doing what they love especially if their music is relatively harmless (case and point flo-rida). but his following bugs me more than anything.
Jsmooth is totally right, u have to be at least a good rapper to have a long career. Unless u have a hook (think 2pac's raw emotion or Too $hort's persona), u really need to be great at this rapping stuff to have a long career (greater than 3 albums). Gimmicks won't do it if you're not good, whether they're a great flow won't get u there (that's Nelly 2 a T), distinctive voice won't get u there (Willie D found out he needed FaceMob), this new found swagger, etc...
As far as Gucci, I stated my case on the BURR posting last week. Dude blew his shot at a long career by not making an album that sounded like a best of the 2008-2009 mixtapes. The State Vs. Radric Davis is a good album but u can't have mixtapes (Gucciamerica, The Movie #2 & possibly Burrprint 3D) better than the album. Also, getting thrown back in jail for not doing community service is a failtastic way to "fuck my money up and rap career like pacman jones". Sad really, dude can actually rap (check out Classical for the proof)
where does gucci fit... i think he will be insignificant in two years... similar to young jock or this is why i'm hot dude...
ReplyDeletei will leave it to trev to tell us different.
"There's a couple of people that slipped thru the cracks for a year or 2 with no lyrics" - Illdoctrine
ReplyDeletePoint in case Nelly. Nelly sold 8.5 million units in the year 2000, but Eminem debuted his album that same year and sold 10,204,000 units. So it will be interesting to hear Trev's take on this.
nelly (i'll even throw ja rule in there) put together a nice run (doubling the 2 yr mark) but i think his time is over..... thank goodness... i remember when i first heard country grammar... that was a horrible day
ReplyDeletei often wonder and hope flo-rida's run is near the end. honestly i like for anyone to be able to sustain a living doing what they love especially if their music is relatively harmless (case and point flo-rida). but his following bugs me more than anything.
Jsmooth is totally right, u have to be at least a good rapper to have a long career. Unless u have a hook (think 2pac's raw emotion or Too $hort's persona), u really need to be great at this rapping stuff to have a long career (greater than 3 albums). Gimmicks won't do it if you're not good, whether they're a great flow won't get u there (that's Nelly 2 a T), distinctive voice won't get u there (Willie D found out he needed FaceMob), this new found swagger, etc...
ReplyDeleteAs far as Gucci, I stated my case on the BURR posting last week. Dude blew his shot at a long career by not making an album that sounded like a best of the 2008-2009 mixtapes. The State Vs. Radric Davis is a good album but u can't have mixtapes (Gucciamerica, The Movie #2 & possibly Burrprint 3D) better than the album. Also, getting thrown back in jail for not doing community service is a failtastic way to "fuck my money up and rap career like pacman jones". Sad really, dude can actually rap (check out Classical for the proof)