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

thems fightin words

Lol Asher Roth

fucked up or the oh sees?

you really have zero concept of how popular hip-hop actually is, do you

really capturing the zeitgeist with this one

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:23 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i guess for someone who's head is so far up the brooklyn media butthole it might seem this way

i thought Rick Ross was cool...?

i mean not to me...thats what i thought ppl round here thought...

Max B is obv more popular than fucked up; I'm just saying thats how it looks compared to like the Foo Fighters and people that actually make records that chart on Billboard

I know the way "hip-hop works" in your world of young people is that Max Biggavelli is "street famous" in ways that makes Lil Wayne look like Aesop Rizzle

with all those undisputed classics

looking at that list whiney posted, it's a lot of legacy artists. like, guys who had been popular a decade earlier. imo this doesn't really say much about which emerging artists were hot in hip-hop then, particularly since most of those artists weren't releasing traditional CDs but instead lived primarily off of mixtapes, which naturally aren't reflected in those totals, and includes boosie (who released several mixtapes IN ADDITION to his album) and Max B

jacka of course suffered the bay area curse, although Tear Gas sold reasonably well considering

deeper than rap is good !

i don't really get why the biggest selling artists should define hiphop's best year.

looking at that list whiney posted, it's a lot of legacy artists. like, guys who had been popular a decade earlier. imo this doesn't really say much about which emerging artists were hot in hip-hop then

wow it's almost as if we were having a conversation about the biggest artists in a particular year instead of what emerging artists were hot back then

Or more specifically a conversation about when the emerging hot artists and the biggest selling artists overlapped.

Which they did in 1988 and 1993 for the most part, and no fucking way in 2009.

you're making the assumption that biggest selling artists = biggest artists

wherever would I get that idea

or that eminem or will.i.am's popularity is anything but tenuously related to their status in hip-hop

when was the last time you heard 'love the way you lie' played on a rap station?

wherever would I get that idea

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:58 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not recognizing that the millions of dat piff downloads might have an impact on sales patterns is probably not the swiftest

100,000s of datpiff downloads

Cool, he;s as famous as TYGA and JAY ELECTRONICA

WHAT A GREAT YEAR FOR RAP

COCONUT JUICE A GOT ME REAL LOOSE

Max B got a cover line on XXL, which makes him as famous as Bow Wow

WHAT A GREAT YEAR FOR RAP

or that eminem or will.i.am's popularity is anything but tenuously related to their status in hip-hop

when was the last time you heard 'love the way you lie' played on a rap station?

... Earlier this week?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8CD6cz-Ttw

Also, I spent some time listening to NYC hip-hop web radio this Xmas and had to turn it off because it was The Drake Show

... Earlier this week?

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, dan, a rap station that YOUNG RAP FANS listen to....

man the myth that young rap fans like eminem has to really cease.

Meanwhile, back in the thread...

1988

How many Max B joints came out that yr

... Earlier this week?

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:03 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how embarrassing for wherever you live

i think dan lives in the home of Benzino

not the city, i mean literally he lives in benzino's house

he is benzino

btw sorry if i went hard on a hoy hoy itt was feeling defensive

1988 was Max B deficient. But 1989 had a load of Max Q.

man deej, u are never gonna be unsigned hype :(

... Earlier this week?

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:03 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how embarrassing for wherever you live

― somebody call the brinks truck (D-40), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:14 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha this

lol America?

... Earlier this week?

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:03 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how embarrassing for wherever you live

― somebody call the brinks truck (D-40), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:14 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha this is - wait for it - Boston, right?

^^doesn't know where benzino live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6zf7P8eTRI

jesus christ this is "Critical Beatdown" vs. "Kill My Landlord" stfu about Max B

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big ups to the heads up the brooklyn media butthole

http://recogthereal.blogspot.com/2012/01/source-magazine-fat-tape-september-1993.html

http://recogthereal.blogspot.com/2011/12/source-magazine-fat-tape-march-1993.html

http://recogthereal.blogspot.com/2011/12/source-magazine-fat-tape-april-1993.html

"love the way you lie" was a bad example, that was one of the few eminem songs that DID get in heavy rotation on most rap stations (hit #7 on the r&b/hip hop chart)

^^^dope find xp

"love the way you lie" was a bad example, that was one of the few eminem songs that DID get in heavy rotation on most rap stations (hit #7 on the r&b/hip hop chart)

― seasonal thug (some dude), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:03 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

aite you pay more attention that stuff but i imagine that was the rihanna aspect rather than the eminem

that doesn't really matter, does it?

anyway eminem is a weird case because EVERY mainstream hip hop fan pays lip service to him being a genius etc. but he was never really big on rap radio