...mainly because the artist fell off, or never made it big.

Yeah, we talk about a lot of the flops from big artists, or the albums that we say didn't live up to the hype because we still talk about them. Such as a Canibus "C True Hollywood stories" which people will always talk about for this reason.

But it's a lot, especially from the 90's and early 2000's, that had a LOT of hype, and we completely forget because they haven't been mentioned since then. Some of them were actually good/decent albums...just that they didn't live up to the hype.

What are some that you can remember, even if they were more Regional/Local?

Burg died and it was a regional thing, however him and DJ Quik were on it i felt them joints.

alot of cats that never get it right on the mainstream release is because they are burried in there own release or they just don't have the money tracks.

Cassidy is a great example after "Hotel" hit with him and R.Kelly then he got stuck doing that joint with Mary J Bliege. and he never recovered.

whole focus and fanbase. I knew he was a battle rapper, but wasn't a fan before...so I heard Hotel and said hell nawwww.

With Mausberg, the album didn't get a whole lot of hype here, but us "hood" folks looooved it. "Get nekkid" was a major hit at the HS and hood clubs, and still gets play at Long Beach type spots

Mind you, I've always been a fan since the Wake Up Show days (and somehow a lot of those freestyles ended up on his albums) and banged his albums pretty regularly. But I can't remember that much push on 'Here To Save You All' despite being on American and with I Told You So getting pushed back so often I can't imagine that did any serious numbers (though it had some kick ass tracks there, the first verse of Nunca is still a personal favorite).

Maybe it was being on the East Coast, or I just missed it. I still ride for him, don't get me wrong, but I don't think the hype quite translated or was shown out here.

they ran 40 billion ads for that in The Source

style with all those ads back then. i think Percy Miller had to have been checking them out or something with the ad campaign going down

i'm still hyped.

back in Columbia, SC...

i thought the album was gonna be good...i was wrong...

This may be biased since I was in St. Louis when the Lunatics hit, but Murphy Lee had as much hype as anyone in '01/'02.

I can't even remember a song off that album.

City spud kill the hook. I still say that shit today. I can't even find it on youtube now tho.

Yea that album was awful but that song was banging.

i mean he had folks asking about him being a Vegetarian and whatnot like they were deep into his thing like that.

however he came and went without any buzz.

sorta like the same way Loon went on Bad boy as well.

up next when somebody comes outta nowhere like that...and people felt like "Murphy can actually Rap!"

*shudder*

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and the only thing Can I Bus is remembered for is his mix tape diss on LL COOL J. after that dude came and went. Can I Bus was happening for 2 weeks in 98 and then we all forgot about that turkey.

That album actually has a few good songs in it, but yeah it didn't come close to meeting expectations.

Promo for his album was everywhere (it was initially called "Walk With Me"), and he was supposed to the successor to Jay-Z. They pulled the plug right after he dropped the "Fire" video, but they were busting their collective asses to get his name hot before that. The only misstep imo was not putting out a budget video for "Focus" before dropping "Pump It Up". Jay-Z himself didn't help, as he murdered the "Pump It Up" beat and really made the idea of Budden being Jay's successor look kinda silly.
Def Jam really thought dude was going to be dropping club banger after club banger, it's pretty hilarious in retrospect.
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And they were trying to make him the next Jay. Pump it up was great to me, and even with Jay "killing" him on it (which was ALL politics) I feel Budden held it down as a club song...but his other ones like "Fire" ONLY hit in the East Coast. And then he just lost it on that side, started making horrid shit like "Club song" for the club.

And also, 50 Cent being TOO big basically killed any chance he had that year.

and then 50 blowing the fuck up and shitting on Joey and Joey label not being behind him and Joey seeming like a depressed asshole didn't help him.

Its amazing that Joey still around making good music tho. HE really had an infulence on these new rappers reinventing yourself with mixtapes and social media.

I remember being shocked at how badly Budden flopped in light of the mega-hit that was Pump It All and the HEAVY promo that the Def Jam machine cranked out.

Yet, in retrospect, it makes sense that Budden never experienced the mainstream validation that DJ thought he would.

Budden, like most of the rappers mentioned in this thread, is technically very talented but doesn't "it".

Def Jam was doing more work for Joe than him, so Keith threw a fit in the office....then Def Jam let him drop "Candy Bar" and killed what was left of his commercial career.

From 2002:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOVGZ3SKJWs

A year later, from Keith Murray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-s0r3GaNrk

And they both stink.

DJ Khalil is great, but what was he thinking with that one??? I'm sure he was trying to get paid, but surely he couldn't have thought was the way...

Before this I didn't know he knew how to make a wack beat....SMH. That's a bad sample choice from the jump, I don't think anyone could not make that sample corny.

G-Unit album had dropped...people were all saying "Banks is better than 50!" so he had high expectations.

I think the album was super regular decent okay, basically how most Jada albums are. It for sure didn't make him a star, but wasn't a flop either...so people just forget about it. But it sold a lot, and the singles got a lot of play. I feel that in the future, people who weren't there will see album sales for that time period and be like "damn, Lloyd Banks had something that sold that much??"

was hyped to have huh?

I Mean Banks was on a buzz and then what?

EVeryone in G-Unit hit a glass ceiling, ensuring they were under 50 Cent. He gave them enough promotion and shine to make them stars, but it was always clear who the captain was and would remain.

because Afro Puffs and her hype was high for a minute until she ended up doing that gig on the Steve Harvey show. i never understood why she didn't blow up because she could spit.

same goes for Queen Pen. she had some hype for a minute.

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I'm from Harlem though, Back Like Cooked Crack Vol. 1 was killing the streets at the time. Still a little shocked that he was able to put that album out through Def Jam without dropping a real "radio" single.
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just a long string of disappointments, it took those three a whole fuckin' decade to figure out how to make dope full length projects. Thank god for mixtapes or Jadakiss' career would've been such a waste of time.


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IMO and the Lox mess was horror and bull

the one with Ruff Ryders had to because RR was HOT-hot at the time

"We can freak it" from outta that project

>"We can freak it" from outta that project

I mean I wasn't personally affected when Jay killed Range Rover 4.0's & BMW X5's so I wasn't tripping. But damn y'all could even buy jeans!
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Nigga threw it in there outta nowhere too.

Coming off the heels of Doggystyle, Indo Smoke, and the whole Death Row affiliation..."Regulate" dropped as a single and was huuuuuuuuuuge huge. So people were very hype for it...not at a Doggystyle level, but probably the highest for a West Coast album between Doggystyle and Dogg Food (not counting Soundtracks).

And I think it did what many albums on this list did. Was decent-good..a few great tracks, some fillers, some blahs, so nobody was really disappointed by it, but it didn't become classic either.

it's one of the biggest selling rap album's in the genres history.

not to mention, it's a really tight top to bottom album.

every few years i'll throw on this dj or you don't see or so many ways and still really enjoy them.

east coast rap critic gatekeepers tried to put the clamp down on that by burying it and comparing it to kenny g and whatever else they did and failed massively.

however to me Warren G was always like the Mark Jackson of Rappers cool with the dish, however he didn't have that it as a solo artist,however Def Jam scored big with him.

Warren G though had a cool flow, however his hook on "ain't no fun" to me was his prime and peak.

i liked him in a cool laid back thing he did like on "Smokin me out" with Ron Isley.

but the South loved him for sure. He was bigger than Quik everywhere outside of L.A., especially at this point.

got love on the east coast, much more than say...Dogg Food, there wasn't that full-scale coastal acrimony yet anyway.

That was still part of the roll from The Chronic & Doggystyle, those cuts were on MTV heavy-rotation daily and the album was on Def Jam.

The Doggfather - just remember after Doggystyle everyone was hyped for the sophomore album, rumors of Snoop and live band and lots of stuff, album isn't bad but pretty disappointing


Nate Dogg's solo - heard rumors that Nate also rapped and was gonna be bigger than Snoop cuz he had the double threat with singing, not sure where that came from lol I like his solo but didn't generate the hits expected

major flop, although some folks are starting to feel/recognize that it's not really a bad album...just wasn't half of Doggystyle.

I'd say Nate counts a lot more...people probably were hype because he'd been on so many different classic songs. And his singles were strong too, especially "Never leave me alone"

he never struck me as a guy that could hold down an entire album on his own, even if people liked the songs
he had decent stuff I guess but nothing that stuck with me

We knew the production and features would be great, and he'd killed 95% of the hooks AND verses he had. And even his full songs like "One more day"...so it makes sense to why you'd think his album would be good/decent.

"Music and me" was pretty dope

he doesn't have a great voice and only one phrasing so song after song of that isn't really going to come out well artistically

who have nothing to show for it
i don't even know if either of those dudes have studio albums
Peedi Crack kind of falls in line with this too
these dudes might be even worse off then cats who were super hyped and flopped with a debut
at least those guys got to ball off advance money for a couple months or whatever

>who have nothing to show for it
>i don't even know if either of those dudes have studio albums
>Peedi Crack kind of falls in line with this too
>these dudes might be even worse off then cats who were super
>hyped and flopped with a debut
>at least those guys got to ball off advance money for a couple
>months or whatever

If that's true that was the biggest heist ever.
And I remember Peedi Crakk admitting that he got a decent sized advance (from Def Jam) and blew through it.
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all of those State Prop niggas had a serious problem with success and took that 'we on now' mentality too far
they forgot to do the actual work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTAYp_4ebIw

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People stil talk about it online from time to time but before it was about to come out, it was a lot of hype for it but then once it came out it was all about done. He did a performance for it on SNL and had that mini movie for one of those videos but after that it was a wrap.

The Taylor Swift interruption didn't help matters at all though.

top album list of the year. Was one of the best sellers of the year. And, like you mentioned, is STILL being talked about today. C'mon.

neither did anything despite the hype machine.

That album had a ton of guests - Kanye, Gwen Stefani, Jay Z, etc. and did NOTHING. I still liked it though.

>That album had a ton of guests - Kanye, Gwen Stefani, Jay Z,
>etc. and did NOTHING. I still liked it though.

Starts off a little bumpy, but it's pretty damn solid as a whole. I feel bad that it bricked.

I think since that bricked Will I Am's musical output has been 100% trash. Sure he'd do the Black Eyed Peas thing, but he'd work some decent shit on to those albums. And he was making some great beats for Nas, John Legend and Common. Then Songs About Girls came through (with a lot of pop sensibility/hit potential) and nothing took off (seriously it's a goddamn crime "Heartbreaker" wasn't huge), so he just got on that EDM and has been caking off of that ever since.

Songs about Girls is a banger.

I just wish it was better quality

And he looked like Dre!

He's like a cocky Dr. Dre clone.

Those are probably his biggest "hits."

He was also the first producer to work with Master P when he came out to the Bay to get his start. I've seen an old EA Ski & CMT single with an early version of the No Limit Tank logo on it.

Beyond that, he's probably best known for his "Blast If I Have To" track on the Friday soundtrack, which was dope.

Beyond that, he's produced cuts here and there for lots of Bay Area artists. I know he planned a group project with him, CPO Boss Hogg and another dude who's name escapes me. Last group that he really put on with The Frontline. One of the dudes from the group, Locksmith, went on to record a whole album with Ski of Dame Dash/Original Flavor/Camp-Lo/Curren$y fame.

I've met/interacted with dude a few times. Even interviewed him a couple of time. He's a sharp cat and he's funny as hell. But yeah, he's got an ego.

Yea it's weird, like....his name is bigger than most of his work it seems. He's the type who's a legend because of his body of work, but it's not much that EVERYBODY knows about that came from him aside from "Trigga's got no heart"

I remember Frontline for sure, didn't know he put them on.

He had two-page ads in The Source for years, hyping his album. I don't think it ever released.


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looking like a bootleg Redman. smh.

I was kind of interested in listening to this album cause yep he did look like a clone of Redman (but he did have production from Erick Sermon and Rockwilder on it plus Redman did guest appear on it too) but when I saw it in the record store I was hesitant about buying but never listened to it even though I could have.

Basically the Source & Rap Pages was a good way for underground rap artists to get some exposure back then cause you didn't need a video on MTV or BET or radio play from HOT97, just a magazine ad and some play on a college hip-hop show.

......even though I had never heard of him haha.

I thought the name sounded PHAT, plus he had the E. Sermon, Rockwilder, and Redman connect.

Still have never heard the album before.
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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

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away after that one album.

"Got some teeth" was a HORRID single choice, that was a straight Eminem type of song

same with most of G-Unit.

The fact that Obie Trice's debut album went platinum is a miracle of Eminem/Interscope marketing.

>"Got some teeth" was a HORRID single choice

That was me and my boys' anthem back when it dropped. lol

they were pretty good albums but people forget about them because of everything else but the music

I gotta revisit em now.

Fresh off "The Score" I feel like he had a good amount of hype for this album. And I didn't hear anybody say they were disappointed, but it isn't seen as a classic or anything on that level. And you NEVER hear "Gone til November" anymore, even though that song was huge at the time.

when it was released.

His sound will probably come back. He had a lot of energy/color with his sound. Wasn't for me mostly but it had SOMETHING.

Wyclef is so serious on sound. But that was an era of lot's of good sound.

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co-signs under it has me like "Damn really????"

I never heard it then or now. I can actually see this being said by guys...I don't think it's any women who would feel this way. Or even any R&B fans who prefer R&B more than Rap. But damn

but a great record....

Far Far Far Far Greater.

Hell the skits are way better than L Boogie's skits. BISHIP!

i felt like this at times. 'clef really delivered, especially on the final suite of songs. there's something for everyone on this one.

it not being played doesn't mean it isn't/wasn't good

now the followup?

THAT was turrible

a classic. Except Chris Rock

carnival was great (I'd call it classic) but pretty much everything after was so bad you're tempted to half apologize for bringing his name up

being so big, but dissing him, for sure made him look bad to a lotta folks.

Can-I-Bus had insane hype, even the second one had some hype to see how he recovered, however the album after that when he had gotten dropped by the label & was trying to rap from the perspective of Stan got hyped?

I never knew anyone that actually had that album.

And sheer bewilderment due to the fact that 'Bis made an album that largely centered around Eminem's Stan character. It just seemed weird, and kinda creepy. That album, and the press it generated was the nail in the coffin as far as commercial press went for him. At least that's how I remember it.

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It flopped badly, if I'm remembering right...

that led to Tim giving up on him, then him trying to reinvent himself with that Ying-Yang 'Ms New Booty' record.

everyone was hype for that album i feel like. i mean it was good but it was stil kinda dissapointing

and blu is one of my fav MCs....

I can't even remember the named it or the circumstances. Is that cuz it flopped so hard???

>I can't even remember the named it or the circumstances. Is
>that cuz it flopped so hard???
>
>

Dude was in jail at the time of it's release. 'twas ass.

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Back when I was only on the OutKast.com boards, we had run out of shit to talk about in the time between SB/TLB and Idlewild. That, and it was up in the air if they were gonna do that "10 The Hard Way" album that was rumored at the same time.

I think it was supposed to be called "Break ups to make ups" or some shit at first....and it was set to be a full album from Dre and Snoop. It got downgraded to just two songs from them...and both were great to me, almost classic, but the soundtrack got completely slept on and only "Bad intentions" got play.

"Me & so&so met for 2 minutes backstage and talked about working together for 10 seconds of those 2 minutes, so yeah, the album's coming soon!"

always be busts some how.

I remember Timbaland and Dre talking about one around the time that JD "dissed" them...I was just like "LOL"

SUPERGROUPS GALORE!!!

Albums released: maybe 1 or 2.

I think that Mercedes album had a deal to get advertised in every one of those booklets though.

>SUPERGROUPS GALORE!!!
>
>Albums released: maybe 1 or 2.
>
>I think that Mercedes album had a deal to get advertised in
>every one of those booklets though.

Like, collectively, do we give a hot monkeyfuck what her voice sounds like? Nope. Are we still buying NL albums weekly, as a group to see that ass in EV-UH-REE case? Fuggin right.

Did her album even come out? And if it did, was it good?

I just remember her standing there with the ass in ads for like a year or more...

By then we were fully onto Cash Money.

That was going to be the name of the Dre/Timbaland album.

but yeah the actual song the wash was the shit.

I haven't listened to this since it came out but in retrospect I don't know why it didn't work. Even them rapping at 40% over those beats should have been doper. Maybe we've just lowered our expectations since then

I remember seeing a massive ad for them in Times Square thinking "Oh shit they're gonna be as big as 50 now"

As a diehard Mobb Deep fan (theyre probably my all-time favorite rap act of all time), I was so worried about them being G-Unit-ized. Its one thing when its a new artist like Banks, Buck, Game, etc. But the Mobb had a Deep legacy.

I remember feeling like, damn, 10 years in the game and they have to sign with someone else to get hot, that's what it's come to? Shouldn't they be bosses? Of course, 8 years later these kinda moves are becoming commonplace (Busta to YMCMB comes to mind) and don't get nearly the same backlash.

And then the "Outta Control" remix dropped. I shut my ass up. This shit was bananas, classic killer Dre beat, catchy 50 Cent hook (back then he was what I guess someone like Drake is - the hip hop hook KING), and some cool Mobb Deep rhymes. Yeah, they were spitting some shit about the ladies, but it didn't feel corny the way the 112 joint did. It was gangsta yet smooth.

The first single was cool. Kinda ordinary, but fine, did nothing to tarnish the Mobb sound or feel. I thought, hey, maybe this won't be so bad.

Then the album leaked. It was our worst fears come true!

You said you hadn't heard it since it came out but didn't know why it didn't work? All it would take for you to realize why could be accomplished by putting it on.

Sure, they had a few great songs ("Pearly Gates" belongs near the very top of any Best of Mobb Deep list), it felt and sounded so wrong. One Alchemist beat. No Big Noyd. 5 appearances from 50 Cent. In fact, zero 0 zero QB artists. But Banks, Buck, Yayo were all on there.

C'mon.

And those songs didn't work for the most part. The Nate Dogg joint is so god damn corny and shitty and unoriginal, it's low key as much of a blemish on their discography as the 112 joint that everyone cites as the alleged Mobb Deep falloff point/evidence Jay had P shook/whatever else is said (I still say the beat bangs, but it was too much of a diversion from their norm, we as a fan base weren't ready for that)

Anyway, it sucks.

>I haven't listened to this since it came out but in
>retrospect I don't know why it didn't work. Even them rapping
>at 40% over those beats should have been doper. Maybe we've
>just lowered our expectations since then
>
>I remember seeing a massive ad for them in Times Square
>thinking "Oh shit they're gonna be as big as 50 now"

I remember it being absolutely terrible.

But I remember loving the first two singles (and I actually liked the Nate song from the GRODT soundtrack lol). More than anything, I was happy for them (or happy for how big they would potentially be). I was 17 at the time, so I didn't experience their entire career in real time but I was well aware of and a huge fan of their earlier stuff.

But yeah I listened to the mixtape they had in 03...Amerikaz Nightmare...and while it was obviously a fall-off from their earlier stuff it was still obviously serviceable. Take a song like this which is an absolute banger through a great Alchemist beat and half-assed Mobb lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3koWXFTKws

I figured, how much worse could it get with Dre on the boards?

I'm happy that Prodigy was able to bounce back. I heard Havoc's new album was dope too...however I will probably never listen to it

It was a Mobb Deep album but by time they released that album I kind of knew Prodigy & Havoc wasn't on the same level as their previous albums were going to be on even "Amerikaz's Nightmare" wasn't that good.

Wait...this actually came out?!?!? Was this any good???

Remember his storyline on Entourage?

I remember how hyped everyone was when Don't You Baby dropped. Only for them to put a neutered version with Jay on the album like five years later

Listened to this once, remember it being dope, never listened again. He was a monster back in like 2003 or 2004 though. I remember he had that one mixtape with "Stocking Cap" and a few others that made him seem like he was going to be the underground savior.

Funny thing is, even today, every feature I hear him on he's rapping his ass off. I gotta listen to this album again...it has to be dope with him and Just Blaze doing all the production...right? Right??

to be another Just Blaze insta-classic to go along with the Dipset, Freeway, and Jay songs.

however, he couldn't meet the hype w/ the trillions of delays he went through.

Dude promised that he wrote 100 amazing songs in jail...I'm still waiting to hear one of them lol. That Return of the Spit mixtape from 06 was nice though

Coming off her appearances on "I Shot Ya" (held her own with some real lyrical heavyweights, at that time all them dudes could rap awesomely), the Total remix, and "Ain't No Nigga", plus spots on Nas' big album, she was buzzing big time.

But they dropped the wrong first single. The joint with Blackstreet wasn't it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etx9exhS3v4

They smartened up with "I'll Be" (which lowkey, was one Jay's first big looks, shit was #7 on the Hot 100, his first feature in the top 10).

Blackstreet single was great for the "grown and sexy" style that came about around 1995...but it might not have been best for her. Still a dope song though, for sure...just wasn't "Crush on you"

Especially for what passes for great R&B and rap collabos these days.

But it wasn't what people wanted. They liked the sexy BK chick who could spit fire, look fly, and still have an element of ghetto fabulous to her.

Like I said, they got it right with the second single.

If Foxy stopped making records after "Broken Silence", she would have had one of the more impressive careers a female has ever had in rap.

>If Foxy stopped making records after "Broken Silence", she
>would have had one of the more impressive careers a female has
>ever had in rap.


she certainly never had another studio album on a major, I never really heard that old mixtape Koch put out.

she lost her hearing sometime around then.

And to me Fox's career can hang with just about any female MC ever regardless.

Dre's first R&B singer since Michel'le really, and "Contagious" was pretty big. Album was a dud aside from the other track Quik produced.

I thought she was going to blow up with Timbaland, glad I didn't buy that album. Ching Ching was banging.

wack ass cd.

HUGE hype for that album, and nobody talks about it these days.
It's pretty much forgotten, and with good reason.

I will defend this until the day I die

In a way, I lump it in with the hype he had for GRODT...but true, nobody really mentions THIS one and how much it was hyped up. We even mention Game's album more, since it was his debut

D.Dot aka The Madd Rapper, he was one of the main BadBoy Hitmen who made a ton of dope hip-hop songs for Puffy's artists and of course he had his crazy alias as The Madd Rapper with those skits on Biggie's and other people's albums, but when D.Dot got a deal with Columbia I guess I thought that Madd Rapper album was going to be big even with all the guest appearances on it plus they added the 50Cent joint "How To Rob" as a bonus track since 50's album never dropped, I doubt that album even went gold but it still was a good album.

I think Conyay did a lot of co-production on this album too but people hardly talk about that.

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"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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...is what immediately came to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z3bLRPOlrw

And it's funny cause it's true.