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david bammer
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Tue Aug-28-12 09:56 PM

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"you ever wonder why some dope rappers wasted their 20's?"
Tue Aug-28-12 10:03 PM by david bammer

  

          

like where was camplo from 1998-2001?
where was rakim 93-96?
where was the pharcyde 1996-1999?
where was large pro from 1997-2000?
sauce money... the lady of rage...
i would even say buckshot...
and i'm just naming well-known rappers. i mean there's so many fly-by-night dudes who just dropped a few verses or 12" or ep or something and disappeared until the days of myspace.

the reason why aftertrhought, bench warmer rappers like talib kweli & common were still signed and around in the late 00's is because they never stopped releasing music despite the indifference and blandness of their contributions to the material...
they just kept going. despite the odds.
and as rap recessed down to near nothingness on a national mainstream scale - they somehow were in the fold filling a illusionary "niche" to some clueless record exec.

it's a shame so many actually DOPE rappers don't have more material from the most important years of their career.

weed and residuals are a helluva a pacifier.

  

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RE: you ever wonder why some dope rappers wasted their 20's?
Aug 28th 2012
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this nigga just called Common a bench warmer rapper
Aug 29th 2012
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or in Jay Electronica's case, their early 30s
Aug 29th 2012
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Nodima
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Tue Aug-28-12 10:35 PM

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1. "RE: you ever wonder why some dope rappers wasted their 20's?"
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>like where was camplo from 1998-2001?
Running out of ideas, as evidenced by every full length they've released since. Some nice cuts on there, but neither they nor Ski were on their A games anymore. Camp Lo got some nice checks from that Will Smith feature I bet.


>where was rakim 93-96?
Going to court against your partner in crime and getting jaded about the industry can be a bitch. Maybe if mixtapes had been as prevalent and normal back then...

>where was the pharcyde 1996-1999?
Drug addictions, in-fighting. Fat Lip gave me love on Twitter after I posted this review: http://rateyourmusic.com/collection/Nodima/rating42546509




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astralblak
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Wed Aug-29-12 02:26 AM

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2. "this nigga just called Common a bench warmer rapper"
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lofl

and proceeded to name Sauce Money, Buckshot and Lady of Rage (all good rappers) before him

i mean your fuckery is just inexcusable some times

  

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Wed Aug-29-12 04:03 AM

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