official hip-hop litmus test: hip-hop's greatest year

the question was whether or not 2009 was a good year for rap music, not whether either of those artists are analogous to canonized rappers.

but i can tell you 100x over that the last killer mike isn't touching records released by either of those two in 2009

There's literally no year that doesn't have a few good rap records, good work working Max B into the convo

"1988 was a great year for rap... Ultimate Force, Original Concept, Alliance.... "

You have Max B tourettes dude

max b is just a littttle bigger of a deal than original concept

Would you say Max B who's never had a video on MTV is as important as Stetsasonic

Original Concept > Max B btw

i like original concept aite but no

Poll

you can play this game all day but dude is one of the best rappers of the last half decade imo. whether or not someone like that can ever be important as stezo is a pretty boring argument, but acting like hes a marginal figure is dumb

I mean he's important and all, but he's like the 70th biggest rap story in the year of Blueprint 3 and Original Concept was def top 30 for 88

but he's like the 70th biggest rap story in the year of Blueprint 3
no

There's def people who think Stezo was one of the best of his era too

I dont even think he made the Skillz 2009 rap-up

max's importance is in his influence : he's a direct influence on one of the biggest selling artist of 2011, on the current biggest ny rapper (not named jay-z) & on the most hyped rookie of 2011.

Max is a rapper's rapper i guess

Max B: The Talk Talk of rap

if max was released today it would crash rap radar. his popularity grew since his trip to prison

more like grandmaster caz

i honestly haven't gotten any sense of max's popularity growing in the last year or two, outside of deej posts it seems like people talk about him way less now than a couple years ago

it would crash. rap. radar.

i honestly haven't gotten any sense of max's popularity growing in the last year or two, outside of deej posts it seems like people talk about him way less now than a couple years ago

― seasonal thug (some dude), Monday, January 9, 2012 8:20 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why do you think french montana is the hot prospect this year, dude

it would crash. rap. radar.

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 9, 2012 8:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=spin.com,+rapradar.com&sa=N

i mean, sure, max's buzz isn't what it was when he was actually releasing music in terms of web presence, but basically anyone i know who is into rap irl knows max b now, and that wasn't the case in 2009

& to head off that zing, not because of me

if you asked rap fans in 1988 who Original Concept was, they would know too tho

you do a good job of comparing things that weren't compared. that part was in response to al's point, not yours

original concept made one album. max b made like 12

one of the five most popular rappers in america never claimed original concept as a primary influenec

i literally haven't heard anyone credit french montana's current success to max b or even bring him up since dude got a hit song

Original Concept was sampled on like two of three most important rap albums of 1988, but OK

stfu whiney, if they didn't make more albums last month than lil b they DON'T MATTER

When did I say they didn't matter?

Arguing with you guys is ridiculous, its like youre going out of your way to get me to say something most ppl disagree with to discredit the thrust of what I'm saying.

And french montana's buzz certainly existed before he had a hit. Kanye was trying to sign him prior to that iirc?

So.....1988 or 1993?

MAX B

The point I made w the catalog size comparison us that max had a five year career and released tons of songs widely considered classics among rap fans. Original concept had one album. The comparison is apples and oranges already, but the scope of max's career is much larger

Lol whiney you chose this argument! I mentioned him in passing and you decided top make a national issue about it

Original Concept has released TWO classic songs. I have no idea what Max B songs "rap fans" consider as "classics"

Max B's wikipedia page doesn't even name one song anywhere, but OC's page is littered with references to "Can You Feel It"

lol 'discredit', again with the haughty politician talk

Lol @ you citing wikipedia

\o_o/

max b having "tons of songs widely considered classics among rap fans" is pretty hilarious

i know wikipedia's not nearly as reliable a source as "all the rap fans I know IRL"

Ok dudes if you say so. I certainly trust friends irl over hipster puppies, al and wikipedia

And....once again it's Manos: The Hands of Fate

deej we already went over how i actually knew max b's music better than you before you got all superfan

how come al doesn't get a mean nickname

https://twitter.com/#!/MaxBiggavelli
38,725 Followers

whoa, slow down there Ashton

if twitter was around in 1989, like Kwame would have 100k+ followers