by indicating the actual fads that leant themselves to their hits.

>Dead Prez doesn't count because they had a chanting chorus?

I mean shit i don't even think of dead prez as lyrical. No dis... they cool an all dat, but it was a killer bass line and a club like chant that made their hit hit, not their exceptional lyricism.

>Xzibit doesn't count because he had a Dre-co sign (never mind
>the 200-300k fan base he had already built up prior to working
>with Dre)?

Did he even have a hit though? Why is he even a name that gets to Pimp My Ride? Lyrical prowess?

>Those seem like big reaches to prove your point.

I mean the alternative is saying that Dead Prez and Xzibit rose to the top on the fad that was lyricism. WHAT?

>Redman had no biggest hit during that era but he still managed
>to sell a decent amount of records.

Not even discrediting any of that.

>Some of the reasons that
>you pointed out come across as just nitpicking to try and make
>your point. Like with most artists in all genres it's never
>just one thing that helps an artist to have some level of
>success. It's usually a combination of things at the same time
>so I don't see why you would

Right which would make the most esoteric of them (from a mass media perspective) a most absurd reason to focus on.


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