Deathrow vs Bad Boy

[Tommy bilfiger]

These Groupies got splattered against the wall wit facts.When you have More classic albums,better talent,goin plat with hip hop and Rnb acts,sold more records,and made more dough and are still in business in 2013 you've clearly been the better label.

Bad Boy>>>>>>>Death Row

#factsonly

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

My opinion aint trollin bruh.I've consistently said them albums are wacc and it's laughable to think biggie isn't a better mc and had 2 albums better than everybody on death row roster.Lemme guess daz,snoop,rage,pac and dr dre compare to big right?

Foh

Nobody said they were better than Big's albums. The only ones to make that case is Doggystyle, The Chronic, and All Eyez On Me. But Big was Bad Boys entire meal ticket while Deathrow kept filling the airwaves with hits. There is no comparison. Deathrow and its legacy shits all over Bad Boy. Big was the only reason that company stayed afloat .

This couldn't be further form the truth. Bad Boy in 1997 alone had a plethora of hits. All of them from the Rap artists on the label. "Hypnotize", "Mo Money, Mo Problems", "Been Around The World", "It's All About the Benjamins", and "I'll Be Missin' You" all peaked in the Top 3 of the Billboard 100 in 1997. All of those either featured Biggie or were about Biggie, but "Can't Hold Me Down" was a #1 hit, Mase's "Feel So Good" peaked at #5 and "What You Want" peaked at #6.

Bad Boy's legacy is arguably greater than Death Row's for the fact that it transcends Hip Hop. Bad Boy at one point was Urban music. How many R&B artists and even Pop stars like Mariah had a Bad Boy remix? Jay Z and LL both had The Hitmen (Bad Boy's in house producers) to helm their albums in '97.

After Biggie died, Puff was going 7X platinum and Mase was 3X platinum. Shyne and Black Rob both had platinum albums in 2000.

People are seriously underrating and downplaying Bad Boy's dominance, legacy, and significance to Hip Hop (not only Hip Hop, but music period).

Yea after Suge was incarcerated, pac was murdered, and the company went to shit. All them niggas you named were one album wonders. During Deathrow's glory days, bad boy wasn't holding a candle to Deathrow.

I agree that Death Row ran it from '92-'94. Bad Boy didn't give them any real competition until '95 when Ready To Die really started catching on, but didn't really dominate until 1997.

As for the one album wonder thing:

Dre dropped one album on Death Row and bounced to start Aftermath

Dogg Pound only had one successful album on Death Row

Pac and Snoop dropped about the same amount of albums on Death Row as Mase dropped on Bad Boy

Dogg pound are the only argument you have as one album wonders. Them bad boy niggas disappeared off the map when they left the label.

So Dr. Dre dropped more than one album on Death Row?

Dre ain't a rapper, he's a producer. He produced everything that came out of Deathrow from 1991 to 1996.

 

[georgia boi]

My opinion aint trollin bruh.I've consistently said them albums are wacc and it's laughable to think biggie isn't a better mc and had 2 albums better than everybody on death row roster.Lemme guess daz,snoop,rage,pac and dr dre compare to big right?

Foh

Nobody said they were better than Big's albums. The only ones to make that case is Doggystyle, The Chronic, and All Eyez On Me. But Big was Bad Boys entire meal ticket while Deathrow kept filling the airwaves with hits. There is no comparison. Deathrow and its legacy shits all over Bad Boy. Big was the only reason that company stayed afloat .

This couldn't be further form the truth. Bad Boy in 1997 alone had a plethora of hits. All of them from the Rap artists on the label. "Hypnotize", "Mo Money, Mo Problems", "Been Around The World", "It's All About the Benjamins", and "I'll Be Missin' You" all peaked in the Top 3 of the Billboard 100 in 1997. All of those either featured Biggie or were about Biggie, but "Can't Hold Me Down" was a #1 hit, Mase's "Feel So Good" peaked at #5 and "What You Want" peaked at #6.

Bad Boy's legacy is arguably greater than Death Row's for the fact that it transcends Hip Hop. Bad Boy at one point was Urban music. How many R&B artists and even Pop stars like Mariah had a Bad Boy remix? Jay Z and LL both had The Hitmen (Bad Boy's in house producers) to helm their albums in '97.

After Biggie died, Puff was going 7X platinum and Mase was 3X platinum. Shyne and Black Rob both had platinum albums in 2000.

People are seriously underrating and downplaying Bad Boy's dominance, legacy, and significance to Hip Hop (not only Hip Hop, but music period).

Yea after Suge was incarcerated, pac was murdered, and the company went to shit. All them niggas you named were one album wonders. During Deathrow's glory days, bad boy wasn't holding a candle to Deathrow.

I agree that Death Row ran it from '92-'94. Bad Boy didn't give them any real competition until '95 when Ready To Die really started catching on, but didn't really dominate until 1997.

As for the one album wonder thing:

Dre dropped one album on Death Row and bounced to start Aftermath

Dogg Pound only had one successful album on Death Row

Pac and Snoop dropped about the same amount of albums on Death Row as Mase dropped on Bad Boy

Dogg pound are the only argument you have as one album wonders. Them bad boy niggas disappeared off the map when they left the label.

So Dr. Dre dropped more than one album on Death Row?

Dre ain't a rapper, he's a producer. He produced everything that came out of Deathrow from 1991 to 1996.

But that still doesn't change the fact that he released only one solo album on the label.

 

[Undergroundraplegend]

Deathrow no doubt.

 

[MR Josh]

everybody talking about the pac era,deathrow actually changed the game and culture with THE CHRONIC and DOGGYSTYLE not all eyes on me....and for dude saying Big didnt do anything 96,big had his own artist going platinum 96(hardcore) he had a smash single with his own gruop(get money remix)...what badboy did 97/98 bettered what deathrow did 96,check the albums both companies dropped between 96 and 98.we talking all eyez on me,the 7th day theory and Tha dogg father going against life after death,no way out and harlem world..

overall i give the edge to deathrow off the strength of the chronic and doggystyle..they laid the blueprint with those albums.even though i believe badboy was more balance as a company

 

[LUClEN]

Just cause badboy still exists

 

[_Menace_]

These Groupies got splattered against the wall wit facts.When you have More classic albums,better talent,goin plat with hip hop and Rnb acts,sold more records,and made more dough and are still in business in 2013 you've clearly been the better label.

Bad Boy>>>>>>>Death Row

#factsonly

Bad Boy has more classics than deathrow???

HELL NO

 

[DR. JEK]

Deathrow had a deeper and overall made more timeless Bad Boy at least is still somewhat relevant today.

Bad Boy isn't that relevant, like I said on the last post they might as well rename the label Diddy Records because he puts out more shit then his artists.

Death Row is somewhat relevant thru Aftermath Records and Snoop Dogg/Lion

Death Row has nothing to do with Aftermath. That's a huge reach to claim that Death Row has any semblance of relevance. Eminem, 50 Cent, The Firm, Kendrick Lamar, The Game, nor Truth Hurts had any ties to Death Row. In fact, Death Row distanced itself from what Dre was building through the disses that Pac was releasing.

Even if Bad Boy was never relevant again, what has Death Row done post '97 that was relevant?

The bolded is one of the reasons the people that voted for Bad boy is gettin this thing all wrong. You have to throw 97 out because by then Dre left tha row, Snoop bounced, Pac died and i think Dogpound was breakin up. I see niggas in here talbout what has Death Row done since then while Badboy is still around. You have to start at 93 and cut it off at the end of 96 When both were relevant at the same time for this comparison. If niggas use from 97 to now thats just tryna win by forfeit because there was no deathrow by then,they crumbled . If you compare them when they both had full rosters at the same time The Row was killin on Bad Boy.

 

[DR. JEK]

Who's your favourite?

Wich label had the best roster?

Why?

It's on you

This was the original thread premise

So actually by counting from 97 on you're derailing the thread because who had the deepest roster no longer can apply with Death Rows big four (dre,snoop,pac,dpg)all either dead or broke away from the label

 

[ohhhla]

You guys are going off premise here.

The topic doesn't care what Bad Boy did after '96.

We are talking about in both of their primes.

The Row easily wins and it's not about being a groupie or Pac dickrider.

 

[5 Grand]

My opinion aint trollin bruh.I've consistently said them albums are wacc and it's laughable to think biggie isn't a better mc and had 2 albums better than everybody on death row roster.Lemme guess daz,snoop,rage,pac and dr dre compare to big right?

Foh

Nobody said they were better than Big's albums. The only ones to make that case is Doggystyle, The Chronic, and All Eyez On Me. But Big was Bad Boys entire meal ticket while Deathrow kept filling the airwaves with hits. There is no comparison. Deathrow and its legacy shits all over Bad Boy. Big was the only reason that company stayed afloat .

This couldn't be further form the truth. Bad Boy in 1997 alone had a plethora of hits. All of them from the Rap artists on the label. "Hypnotize", "Mo Money, Mo Problems", "Been Around The World", "It's All About the Benjamins", and "I'll Be Missin' You" all peaked in the Top 3 of the Billboard 100 in 1997. All of those either featured Biggie or were about Biggie, but "Can't Hold Me Down" was a #1 hit, Mase's "Feel So Good" peaked at #5 and "What You Want" peaked at #6.

Bad Boy's legacy is arguably greater than Death Row's for the fact that it transcends Hip Hop. Bad Boy at one point was Urban music. How many R&B artists and even Pop stars like Mariah had a Bad Boy remix? Jay Z and LL both had The Hitmen (Bad Boy's in house producers) to helm their albums in '97.

After Biggie died, Puff was going 7X platinum and Mase was 3X platinum. Shyne and Black Rob both had platinum albums in 2000.

People are seriously underrating and downplaying Bad Boy's dominance, legacy, and significance to Hip Hop (not only Hip Hop, but music period).

Yea after Suge was incarcerated, pac was murdered, and the company went to shit. All them niggas you named were one album wonders. During Deathrow's glory days, bad boy wasn't holding a candle to Deathrow.

I agree that Death Row ran it from '92-'94. Bad Boy didn't give them any real competition until '95 when Ready To Die really started catching on, but didn't really dominate until 1997.

As for the one album wonder thing:

Dre dropped one album on Death Row and bounced to start Aftermath

Dogg Pound only had one successful album on Death Row

Pac and Snoop dropped about the same amount of albums on Death Row as Mase dropped on Bad Boy

Dogg pound are the only argument you have as one album wonders. Them bad boy niggas disappeared off the map when they left the label.

So Dr. Dre dropped more than one album on Death Row?

Dre ain't a rapper, he's a producer. He produced everything that came out of Deathrow from 1991 to 1996.

Nonsense. Dre didn't produce everything on Deathrow from 91-96. I know he didn't produce All Eyes on Me or Mackevelli. I don't think he produced the Dogg Pound album either but I'm not sure because honestly I've never heard it.

DEathrow may have been the stronger label from the very end of 92 when "Nuttin but a G thing" came out. The Chronic LP came out in the early part of 93. But I don't even thing Bad Boy existed then. I don't think Bad Boy really existed until 94 when "Flavor In Your Ear" and Juicy" were released. Biggie's album came out in late 94, and in mid 95 you had "Can't You See" by Total feat Big, "Player's Anthem" by Junior Mafia feat Big and the "Once More Chance" (Remix) and the Flavor in Your Ear (Remix) that got rereleased with everybody on it. Bad Boy owned the summer of 95 and that's undisputable. I think Dr Dre had a few songs out at the time like "Keep Their Heads Ringin" and "Natural Born Killers" with Ice Cube.

There's no question that Pac stirred up the pot when he got out of jail and dropped a double LP and later released "Hit Em Up". But if we're talking sales, I don't think there's any comparison

Ready to Die - 4 million

Juicy (single) - Gold

Big Poppa (single) platinum

One More Chance (Remix single) - Platinum

Funk Da World - Gold

Can't Nobody Hold Me Down (single) - 2X platinum

Life After Death - Diamond

No Way Out - 7 million

Total - Platinum

112 - 2 million

Harlem World - 4 million

Feels So Good (single) -platinum

Money Power Respect (song) - gold

Money Power Respect (album) - platinum

Forever - Platinum

Faith - 1.5 million

Double Up - Platinum

Keep the Faith 1 million

Born Again - 2 million

Faithfully - Platinum

Life Story - Platinum

Shyne - Platinum

Dream - Platinum

Part III - Platinum

We invented the Remix - 2 million

Bad Boy Soundtrack - platinum

And it keeps going. To be honest, Bad Boys best years were from 94-98 whereas Death Row's best years were 92-96 but Bad Boy kept it moving without Big and have released legitimate product since the mid 90s (Danity Kane has two platinum LPs on Bad Boy) Death Row released The Chronic 2000 which according to my research didn't go gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boy_Records

 

[Weazel]

True indeed , it was about the roster (from both labels)

If folks wanna talk about 97/98/etc etc, it's fine with me

Because even now, Bad Boy can't surpass Deathrow's roster

Who they gonna bring?, that wackass French Montana?, lmao

 

[5 Grand]

Really, you guys think Death Row can assemble 3 MCs that could battle Big, Jadakiss and Ma$e circa 96/97?

 

[Weazel]

Really, you guys think Death Row can assemble 3 MCs that could battle Big, Jadakiss and Ma$e circa 96/97?

Kurupt

Crooked I

(90s) Snoop

 

[5 Grand]

Really, you guys think Death Row can assemble 3 MCs that could battle Big, Jadakiss and Ma$e circa 96/97?

Kurupt

Crooked I

(90s) Snoop

Who's Crooked I and why are you comparing him to artists that have gold singles?

 

[_Menace_]

My opinion aint trollin bruh.I've consistently said them albums are wacc and it's laughable to think biggie isn't a better mc and had 2 albums better than everybody on death row roster.Lemme guess daz,snoop,rage,pac and dr dre compare to big right?

Foh

Nobody said they were better than Big's albums. The only ones to make that case is Doggystyle, The Chronic, and All Eyez On Me. But Big was Bad Boys entire meal ticket while Deathrow kept filling the airwaves with hits. There is no comparison. Deathrow and its legacy shits all over Bad Boy. Big was the only reason that company stayed afloat .

This couldn't be further form the truth. Bad Boy in 1997 alone had a plethora of hits. All of them from the Rap artists on the label. "Hypnotize", "Mo Money, Mo Problems", "Been Around The World", "It's All About the Benjamins", and "I'll Be Missin' You" all peaked in the Top 3 of the Billboard 100 in 1997. All of those either featured Biggie or were about Biggie, but "Can't Hold Me Down" was a #1 hit, Mase's "Feel So Good" peaked at #5 and "What You Want" peaked at #6.

Bad Boy's legacy is arguably greater than Death Row's for the fact that it transcends Hip Hop. Bad Boy at one point was Urban music. How many R&B artists and even Pop stars like Mariah had a Bad Boy remix? Jay Z and LL both had The Hitmen (Bad Boy's in house producers) to helm their albums in '97.

After Biggie died, Puff was going 7X platinum and Mase was 3X platinum. Shyne and Black Rob both had platinum albums in 2000.

People are seriously underrating and downplaying Bad Boy's dominance, legacy, and significance to Hip Hop (not only Hip Hop, but music period).

Yea after Suge was incarcerated, pac was murdered, and the company went to shit. All them niggas you named were one album wonders. During Deathrow's glory days, bad boy wasn't holding a candle to Deathrow.

I agree that Death Row ran it from '92-'94. Bad Boy didn't give them any real competition until '95 when Ready To Die really started catching on, but didn't really dominate until 1997.

As for the one album wonder thing:

Dre dropped one album on Death Row and bounced to start Aftermath

Dogg Pound only had one successful album on Death Row

Pac and Snoop dropped about the same amount of albums on Death Row as Mase dropped on Bad Boy

Dogg pound are the only argument you have as one album wonders. Them bad boy niggas disappeared off the map when they left the label.

So Dr. Dre dropped more than one album on Death Row?

Dre ain't a rapper, he's a producer. He produced everything that came out of Deathrow from 1991 to 1996.

Nonsense. Dre didn't produce everything on Deathrow from 91-96. I know he didn't produce All Eyes on Me or Mackevelli. I don't think he produced the Dogg Pound album either but I'm not sure because honestly I've never heard it.

DEathrow may have been the stronger label from the very end of 92 when "Nuttin but a G thing" came out. The Chronic LP came out in the early part of 93. But I don't even thing Bad Boy existed then. I don't think Bad Boy really existed until 94 when "Flavor In Your Ear" and Juicy" were released. Biggie's album came out in late 94, and in mid 95 you had "Can't You See" by Total feat Big, "Player's Anthem" by Junior Mafia feat Big and the "Once More Chance" (Remix) and the Flavor in Your Ear (Remix) that got rereleased with everybody on it. Bad Boy owned the summer of 95 and that's undisputable. I think Dr Dre had a few songs out at the time like "Keep Their Heads Ringin" and "Natural Born Killers" with Ice Cube.

There's no question that Pac stirred up the pot when he got out of jail and dropped a double LP and later released "Hit Em Up". But if we're talking sales, I don't think there's any comparison

Ready to Die - 4 million

Juicy (single) - Gold

Big Poppa (single) platinum

One More Chance (Remix single) - Platinum

Funk Da World - Gold

Life After Death - Diamond

No Way Out - 7 million

Total - Platinum

112 - 2 million

Harlem World - 4 million

Money Power Respect (song) - gold

Money Power Respect (album) - platinum

Forever - Platinum

Faith - 1.5 million

Double Up - Platinum

Keep the Faith 1 million

Born Again - 2 million

Faithfully - Platinum

Life Story - Platinum

Shyne - Platinum

Dream - Platinum

Part III - Platinum

We invented the Remix - 2 million

Bad Boy Soundtrack - platinum

And it keeps going. To be honest, Bad Boys best years were from 94-98 whereas Death Row's best years were 92-96 but Bad Boy kept it moving without Big and have released legitimate product since the mid 90s (Danity Kane has two platinum LPs on Bad Boy) Death Row released The Chronic 2000 which according to my research didn't go gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boy_Records

That's it? and You added singles to that?

The Chronic-8Mill WW

DoggyStyle- 5x Plat

Above The Rim SoundTrack-2x Plat

Murda Was The Case-2x Plat

Dogg Food-2x Plat

All Eyez On Me-Diamond

California Love (single)2xplat

How Do You Want It (single) 2xplat

7 Day Theory-4x Plat

DoggFather-2xPlat

Gridlock Soundtrack-Gold

Gang Related Soundtrack-2xplat

2Pac's Greatest Hits-Diamond

Until The End Of Time-3xPlat

Better Dayz-3xplat

I didn't even list all the albums released on The Row.

But they easily outsold BadBoy

 

[a_list]

Deathrow mightve been the better rap label, but Badboy was better overall and is still running

 

[5 Grand]

My opinion aint trollin bruh.I've consistently said them albums are wacc and it's laughable to think biggie isn't a better mc and had 2 albums better than everybody on death row roster.Lemme guess daz,snoop,rage,pac and dr dre compare to big right?

Foh

Nobody said they were better than Big's albums. The only ones to make that case is Doggystyle, The Chronic, and All Eyez On Me. But Big was Bad Boys entire meal ticket while Deathrow kept filling the airwaves with hits. There is no comparison. Deathrow and its legacy shits all over Bad Boy. Big was the only reason that company stayed afloat .

This couldn't be further form the truth. Bad Boy in 1997 alone had a plethora of hits. All of them from the Rap artists on the label. "Hypnotize", "Mo Money, Mo Problems", "Been Around The World", "It's All About the Benjamins", and "I'll Be Missin' You" all peaked in the Top 3 of the Billboard 100 in 1997. All of those either featured Biggie or were about Biggie, but "Can't Hold Me Down" was a #1 hit, Mase's "Feel So Good" peaked at #5 and "What You Want" peaked at #6.

Bad Boy's legacy is arguably greater than Death Row's for the fact that it transcends Hip Hop. Bad Boy at one point was Urban music. How many R&B artists and even Pop stars like Mariah had a Bad Boy remix? Jay Z and LL both had The Hitmen (Bad Boy's in house producers) to helm their albums in '97.

After Biggie died, Puff was going 7X platinum and Mase was 3X platinum. Shyne and Black Rob both had platinum albums in 2000.

People are seriously underrating and downplaying Bad Boy's dominance, legacy, and significance to Hip Hop (not only Hip Hop, but music period).

Yea after Suge was incarcerated, pac was murdered, and the company went to shit. All them niggas you named were one album wonders. During Deathrow's glory days, bad boy wasn't holding a candle to Deathrow.

I agree that Death Row ran it from '92-'94. Bad Boy didn't give them any real competition until '95 when Ready To Die really started catching on, but didn't really dominate until 1997.

As for the one album wonder thing:

Dre dropped one album on Death Row and bounced to start Aftermath

Dogg Pound only had one successful album on Death Row

Pac and Snoop dropped about the same amount of albums on Death Row as Mase dropped on Bad Boy

Dogg pound are the only argument you have as one album wonders. Them bad boy niggas disappeared off the map when they left the label.

So Dr. Dre dropped more than one album on Death Row?

Dre ain't a rapper, he's a producer. He produced everything that came out of Deathrow from 1991 to 1996.

Nonsense. Dre didn't produce everything on Deathrow from 91-96. I know he didn't produce All Eyes on Me or Mackevelli. I don't think he produced the Dogg Pound album either but I'm not sure because honestly I've never heard it.

DEathrow may have been the stronger label from the very end of 92 when "Nuttin but a G thing" came out. The Chronic LP came out in the early part of 93. But I don't even thing Bad Boy existed then. I don't think Bad Boy really existed until 94 when "Flavor In Your Ear" and Juicy" were released. Biggie's album came out in late 94, and in mid 95 you had "Can't You See" by Total feat Big, "Player's Anthem" by Junior Mafia feat Big and the "Once More Chance" (Remix) and the Flavor in Your Ear (Remix) that got rereleased with everybody on it. Bad Boy owned the summer of 95 and that's undisputable. I think Dr Dre had a few songs out at the time like "Keep Their Heads Ringin" and "Natural Born Killers" with Ice Cube.

There's no question that Pac stirred up the pot when he got out of jail and dropped a double LP and later released "Hit Em Up". But if we're talking sales, I don't think there's any comparison

Ready to Die - 4 million

Juicy (single) - Gold

Big Poppa (single) platinum

One More Chance (Remix single) - Platinum

Funk Da World - Gold

Life After Death - Diamond

No Way Out - 7 million

Total - Platinum

112 - 2 million

Harlem World - 4 million

Money Power Respect (song) - gold

Money Power Respect (album) - platinum

Forever - Platinum

Faith - 1.5 million

Double Up - Platinum

Keep the Faith 1 million

Born Again - 2 million

Faithfully - Platinum

Life Story - Platinum

Shyne - Platinum

Dream - Platinum

Part III - Platinum

We invented the Remix - 2 million

Bad Boy Soundtrack - platinum

And it keeps going. To be honest, Bad Boys best years were from 94-98 whereas Death Row's best years were 92-96 but Bad Boy kept it moving without Big and have released legitimate product since the mid 90s (Danity Kane has two platinum LPs on Bad Boy) Death Row released The Chronic 2000 which according to my research didn't go gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boy_Records

That's it? and You added singles to that?

The Chronic-8Mill WW

DoggyStyle- 5x Plat

Above The Rim SoundTrack-2x Plat

Murda Was The Case-2x Plat

Dogg Food-2x Plat

All Eyez On Me-Diamond

California Love (single)2xplat

How Do You Want It (single) 2xplat

7 Day Theory-4x Plat

DoggFather-2xPlat

Gridlock Soundtrack-Gold

Gang Related Soundtrack-2xplat

2Pac's Greatest Hits-Diamond

Until The End Of Time-3xPlat

Better Dayz-3xplat

I didn't even list all the albums released on The Row.

But they easily outsold BadBoy

No way, here's a link for just the singles that Ma$e released that went gold or platinum. I didn't have time to list them in my initial post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mase_discography#Singles

 

[_Menace_]

Deathrow mightve been the better rap label, but Badboy was better overall and is still running

French Montana and Machine Gun Kelly?

Bad Boy aint running shit with those 2

 

[south4life]

My opinion aint trollin bruh.I've consistently said them albums are wacc and it's laughable to think biggie isn't a better mc and had 2 albums better than everybody on death row roster.Lemme guess daz,snoop,rage,pac and dr dre compare to big right?

Foh

Nobody said they were better than Big's albums. The only ones to make that case is Doggystyle, The Chronic, and All Eyez On Me. But Big was Bad Boys entire meal ticket while Deathrow kept filling the airwaves with hits. There is no comparison. Deathrow and its legacy shits all over Bad Boy. Big was the only reason that company stayed afloat .

This couldn't be further form the truth. Bad Boy in 1997 alone had a plethora of hits. All of them from the Rap artists on the label. "Hypnotize", "Mo Money, Mo Problems", "Been Around The World", "It's All About the Benjamins", and "I'll Be Missin' You" all peaked in the Top 3 of the Billboard 100 in 1997. All of those either featured Biggie or were about Biggie, but "Can't Hold Me Down" was a #1 hit, Mase's "Feel So Good" peaked at #5 and "What You Want" peaked at #6.

Bad Boy's legacy is arguably greater than Death Row's for the fact that it transcends Hip Hop. Bad Boy at one point was Urban music. How many R&B artists and even Pop stars like Mariah had a Bad Boy remix? Jay Z and LL both had The Hitmen (Bad Boy's in house producers) to helm their albums in '97.

After Biggie died, Puff was going 7X platinum and Mase was 3X platinum. Shyne and Black Rob both had platinum albums in 2000.

People are seriously underrating and downplaying Bad Boy's dominance, legacy, and significance to Hip Hop (not only Hip Hop, but music period).

Yea after Suge was incarcerated, pac was murdered, and the company went to shit. All them niggas you named were one album wonders. During Deathrow's glory days, bad boy wasn't holding a candle to Deathrow.

I agree that Death Row ran it from '92-'94. Bad Boy didn't give them any real competition until '95 when Ready To Die really started catching on, but didn't really dominate until 1997.

As for the one album wonder thing:

Dre dropped one album on Death Row and bounced to start Aftermath

Dogg Pound only had one successful album on Death Row

Pac and Snoop dropped about the same amount of albums on Death Row as Mase dropped on Bad Boy

Dogg pound are the only argument you have as one album wonders. Them bad boy niggas disappeared off the map when they left the label.

So Dr. Dre dropped more than one album on Death Row?

Dre ain't a rapper, he's a producer. He produced everything that came out of Deathrow from 1991 to 1996.

Not everything was produced by Dre.

Dat Nigga Daz, DJ Quik, Johnny "J", Sam Sneed, Big D, Hurt-M-Badd, QDIII, Devante Swing from Jodeci, Rick Rock, DJ Pooh, Soopafly and L.T. Hutton produced for Death Row as well.