Flip fell off hard musically after he dropped Underground Legend, him and Hump stopped messing with each other and he switched his whole style up. He got more into that gun/trap/hustle talk and kind of got away from what made people like his music. I Need Mine is an underrated double album imo though.
I feel what Keke was saying but like what T. Sanford said what was he supposed to do?
Texas was already in the process of whoring out our culture and T.I. came along and hopped on the wave by aligning with Slim Thug and Paul Wall(two of the faces of Texas music at the time) as well as Trae, Lil 3rd and Hump. Scarface is top 5 d.o.a but he definitely pulled a hoe move acting like he didn't know Flip when he tried to sign him when became president of Def Jam South.UGK was neutral for the most part and were doing songs with both artist but they appeared with T.I. a lot during this time too. So it looked the entire state was riding with the outsider and T.I. was going at Flips neck while he sat back and let it happen for the most part. He dropped some freestyle disses/mixtape but he didnt respond like he should have and like how people expected because of how he broke off 3rd, Lil Flex and ESG.
The only people that were really holding down Flip were Z-Ro, Chamillion and The Botany Boyz. Everybody else turned that back on him or kind of gave him the Mike Jones treatment even though if you look at his first album you see ESG on it, you see Slim Thug on it as well as a lot of other dudes he gave a good look to by putting them on his album.
