>high water mark: "vans"
>low water mark: "i'm a pretty bitch"?
>
>i actually think the based era as a whole is his high water
>mark, and he's riding that wave 'til it breaks. who said there
>are no 2nd acts in america?

it's hard for me to put it into words
but he got his second act off his "based" material, which at the time was a big "WTF" and the worst stuff he had out

there's someone else that reminds me of this but it isn't a hip-hop example I believe