If you could bring one rapper back into their mainstream prime who would it be?
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Ja Rule...
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Ludacris
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DMX
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Eminem cause no one fell off worse like he did after MMLP. Wayne too
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X and Em.
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D.O.C.
Give him his voice back and he coulda been the greatest to ever do it -
DMX or Ja Rule...he was done ? by the fans, they went from loving his singing to hating it and gravitating to his rival that was also singing.....lol
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All the old school MCs from the early 80s that never made albums.
I was actually thinking about this last night. I met Grandmaster Caz about 10 years ago at a Zulu Nation Anniversary Party. I got to chop it up with him for a good 20 minutes. He said that when Cold Crush was doing shows in Harlem and The Bronx he didn't understand that the rappers and groups that were making 12" singles were reaching the whole nation off one song. Groups like Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 and Kurtis Blow were performing on Soul Train because they had a record out, or several records out. Kurtis Blow made several albums between 1980-1984.
Caz said that people were telling him to go to the studio and make a record but he didn't understand what was going on outside of the Bronx so he and his crew were doing 3 shows per night and getting paid like that. But now that its 30 years later the only thing they have to show for it is some cassette tapes of their shows that sound like they were recorded over the telephone.
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Outkast
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Eminem
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Eve
Honorable mentions:
Dolla (RIP)
X
Bizzy Bone
Ceelo
Cassidy ( I just learned he wrote "Got it All" by Eve and Jada)
Jadakiss
Krit
Wyclef
Ja Rule
50
Buck
Missy
Kim
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Scarface
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KANYE
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Lil jon
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Rubato Garcia wrote: »KANYE
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Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »DMX
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DMX brah...imagine hearing a "let me fly" "feel it coming" , "ruff ryders anthem" today
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50 cent. that run was so epic.
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Bone Thugs from 94-97 their run was epic. I'd even stretch it out to 2000.
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DMX
Ja Rule
Cassidy
Juelz
Joe Budden
Bobby Shmurda -
All the old school MCs from the early 80s that never made albums.
How can you be mainstream if you have no album? -
Bobby should've never gotten that look imoLogical Truths wrote: »DMX
Ja Rule
Cassidy
Juelz
Joe Budden
Bobby Shmurda
Budden And royce
Cyhi
Banks
Skyzoo
Styles p
In exchange i would get over my undying hate for wack ass Wayne........ promise
