Mobb Deep - Drop A Gem On 'Em

[Javon803]

Drop a gem on em came out just before pac died. Of course the song won't take off. Who would care about some hip hop beef at that point when dude just died

Nigga hit me up took off the minute pac dropped it quit your caping smh

Caping? nigga the only time I ever see you post to defend pacs honor, other than suck pac dick what else do you do on the IC?

Anyway, its not "caping" its true, what DJ or radio station is going to keep playing a diss record about someone that JUST died? especially a beloved rapper like pac with a the biggest bitch ass fanbase that youre proving to be true? smh youre a moron

Nigga it's true in your delusional ass mind smh and I do post in other post on here just not all the time I don't have time to be on the ic all day oh so it's a bitchass fan base when it ain't sucking New York niggas dicks and telling the truth huh? But keep telling yourself those lies so you can believe them smh

 

[5 Grand]

you have a lot of hip-hop knowledge 5g, but to call CA a "hick-town" is just dumb east coast-bias. L.A. is the industry capitol and Cali had hip-hop on smash in the 90s to now. Not just DR. Yes NYC had a mix-tape scene culture but that shit was LOCAL until 50 and the internet blew that up in the 2000s. fall back.

First of all, you claim that Cali had "hip-hop on smash in the 90s to now". Once again this is a clear case of regionalism. Because from 1996-2016 there have been only 5 West Coast albums to get any run on the East Coast and I can name them;

1. All Eyes On Me,

2. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

3. Chronic 2001

4. The Documentary

5. Good Kidd Maad City

Second of all, the mixtape scene in New York wasn't that local because I was getting them in Boston and ANYBODY that went to a HBCU was exposed to mix tapes from New York. If you read the Doo Wop interview I posted, even Angie Martinez (Hot 97 radio personality) said she had a 2Pac interview where he had taken offense to something Q Tip said on one of Doo Wop's mix tapes. (Now that I think about it, that might have had something to do with The Source Awards fiasco)

 

[smp4life]

Another way to look at it was Hit Em Up was like the Pearl Harbor attack. It came out of nowhere and devastated Hawaii.

But in hindsight, the Pearl Harbor attack wasn't THAT devastating.

C'mon brah.

Casualties and losses

2 battleships totally lost

2 battleships sunk and recovered

3 battleships damaged

1 battleship grounded

2 other ships sunk

3 cruisers damaged

3 destroyers damaged

3 other ships damaged

188 aircraft destroyed

159 aircraft damaged

2,403 killed

1,178 wounded

4 midget submarines sunk

1 midget submarine grounded

29 aircraft destroyed

64 killed

1 captured

 

[Built 4 cuban linx]

Drop a gem on em came out just before pac died. Of course the song won't take off. Who would care about some hip hop beef at that point when dude just died

Nigga hit me up took off the minute pac dropped it quit your caping smh

Caping? nigga the only time I ever see you post to defend pacs honor, other than suck pac dick what else do you do on the IC?

Anyway, its not "caping" its true, what DJ or radio station is going to keep playing a diss record about someone that JUST died? especially a beloved rapper like pac with a the biggest bitch ass fanbase that youre proving to be true? smh youre a moron

so it's a bitchass fan base when it ain't sucking New York niggas dicks

No kid dont overthink, its a bitch ass fanbase just cause your bitch ass is in it and other niggas of your breed. FACTS

 

[Javon803]

Drop a gem on em came out just before pac died. Of course the song won't take off. Who would care about some hip hop beef at that point when dude just died

Nigga hit me up took off the minute pac dropped it quit your caping smh

Caping? nigga the only time I ever see you post to defend pacs honor, other than suck pac dick what else do you do on the IC?

Anyway, its not "caping" its true, what DJ or radio station is going to keep playing a diss record about someone that JUST died? especially a beloved rapper like pac with a the biggest bitch ass fanbase that youre proving to be true? smh youre a moron

so it's a bitchass fan base when it ain't sucking New York niggas dicks

No kid dont overthink, its a bitch ass fanbase just cause your bitch ass is in it. FACTS

Quit your bitchass bitching bitch nigga lol go back to sucking mobb deeps dick and living in fantasy land smh

 

[Built 4 cuban linx]

Drop a gem on em came out just before pac died. Of course the song won't take off. Who would care about some hip hop beef at that point when dude just died

Nigga hit me up took off the minute pac dropped it quit your caping smh

Caping? nigga the only time I ever see you post to defend pacs honor, other than suck pac dick what else do you do on the IC?

Anyway, its not "caping" its true, what DJ or radio station is going to keep playing a diss record about someone that JUST died? especially a beloved rapper like pac with a the biggest bitch ass fanbase that youre proving to be true? smh youre a moron

so it's a bitchass fan base when it ain't sucking New York niggas dicks

No kid dont overthink, its a bitch ass fanbase just cause your bitch ass is in it. FACTS

Quit your bitchass bitching bitch nigga lol go back to sucking mobb deeps dick and living in fantasy land smh

I dont speak your fuck boy language so leave out the feelings on your next reply so ill understand

thanks in advance

 

[Javon803]

I don't give a damn how many mix tapes y'all dropped didn't none of that shit bang as hard as any album Death row dropped in the 90's. Regardless to how y'all wanna re-write history, Drop a gem on em and whatever mixtape y'all dropped didn't have the global and cultural impact that Hit em up or anything that Pac did in 1996. Point blank period.

Yeah but you guys (the other 47 states) didn't even know what was going on in the Tri-State. And people in the Tri-State didn't know or care what was coming out on Death Row or the other 47 states.

You can rep your set, throw up gang signs and crip walk all you want, but cats in New York didn't care about the West Coast. If ya'll dropped something hot it would make a mixtape, otherwise the Tri-state had its own culture and buying West Coast rap albums wasn't something that we did.

That's the ether that burns so slow; The fact that the New York didn't care about the West Coast. Its not like a New York nigga would buy a West Coast album and not like it, its more like a New York Nigga would pick up a copy of The Source and see some West Coast cat with a perm and think 'what the fuck?' The West wanted to go back and forth and make diss records while New York rappers had their own culture that the West didn't even know about. A New York nigga would go to 125th st and cop some mix tapes while everybody in the other states are waiting in line at Sam Goody or Tower Records on a Monday night waiting for 12:01am to be the first person to buy a retail album.

^^^ @ the bolded. If you didn't catch that then you weren't there.

Just cuz NYC is listening to their little mixtapes that NO ONE ELSE in the country is listening to doesn't mean they are winning.

Told you niggas to stop speaking for the whole country, this was just proven to not be true on the page before this of this thread

try again

It's true you hoe ass nigga just because two people from other places was fucking with it doesn't mean most were so no the rest of majority of the country was not sucking ny dick like you want so bad to believe lol niggas had they own music and cultures in others places

 

[Built 4 cuban linx]

I don't give a damn how many mix tapes y'all dropped didn't none of that shit bang as hard as any album Death row dropped in the 90's. Regardless to how y'all wanna re-write history, Drop a gem on em and whatever mixtape y'all dropped didn't have the global and cultural impact that Hit em up or anything that Pac did in 1996. Point blank period.

Yeah but you guys (the other 47 states) didn't even know what was going on in the Tri-State. And people in the Tri-State didn't know or care what was coming out on Death Row or the other 47 states.

You can rep your set, throw up gang signs and crip walk all you want, but cats in New York didn't care about the West Coast. If ya'll dropped something hot it would make a mixtape, otherwise the Tri-state had its own culture and buying West Coast rap albums wasn't something that we did.

That's the ether that burns so slow; The fact that the New York didn't care about the West Coast. Its not like a New York nigga would buy a West Coast album and not like it, its more like a New York Nigga would pick up a copy of The Source and see some West Coast cat with a perm and think 'what the fuck?' The West wanted to go back and forth and make diss records while New York rappers had their own culture that the West didn't even know about. A New York nigga would go to 125th st and cop some mix tapes while everybody in the other states are waiting in line at Sam Goody or Tower Records on a Monday night waiting for 12:01am to be the first person to buy a retail album.

^^^ @ the bolded. If you didn't catch that then you weren't there.

Just cuz NYC is listening to their little mixtapes that NO ONE ELSE in the country is listening to doesn't mean they are winning.

Told you niggas to stop speaking for the whole country, this was just proven to not be true on the page before this of this thread

try again

It's true you hoe ass nigga just because two people from other places was fucking with it doesn't mean most were so no the rest of majority of the country was not sucking ny dick like you want so bad to believe lol niggas had they own music and cultures in others places

huh?????????????

 

[smp4life]

you have a lot of hip-hop knowledge 5g, but to call CA a "hick-town" is just dumb east coast-bias. L.A. is the industry capitol and Cali had hip-hop on smash in the 90s to now. Not just DR. Yes NYC had a mix-tape scene culture but that shit was LOCAL until 50 and the internet blew that up in the 2000s. fall back.

First of all, you claim that Cali had "hip-hop on smash in the 90s to now". Once again this is a clear case of regionalism. Because from 1996-2016 there have been only 5 West Coast albums to get any run on the East Coast and I can name them;

1. All Eyes On Me,

2. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

3. Chronic 2001

4. The Documentary

5. Good Kidd Maad City

Second of all, the mixtape scene in New York wasn't that local because I was getting them in Boston and ANYBODY that went to a HBCU was exposed to mix tapes from New York. If you read the Doo Wop interview I posted, even Angie Martinez (Hot 97 radio personality) said she had a 2Pac interview where he had taken offense to something Q Tip said on one of Doo Wop's mix tapes. (Now that I think about it, that might have had something to do with The Source Awards fiasco)

1st DR having hip-hop on smash nationally isn't mutually exclusive. Obviously NYC will always have good music poppin. But that list above is laughable. I wasn't in NYC at the time so I'll take your word for it but I feel sorry for yall that you missed all those classic records like The Chronic (which biggie stated he was influenced by), Doggystyle, Ice Cube's whole discography, Streetz iz a Mutha, Xziibits first three records and plenty of other cool stuff.

 

[smp4life]

P from Am I Crazy:

"I told you, me and Pac would've worked it all out

Because Majestry and Stretch would've dead that now

And we would've all been brainstorming wow

Imagine life with an army like that right now"

 

[5 Grand]

you have a lot of hip-hop knowledge 5g, but to call CA a "hick-town" is just dumb east coast-bias. L.A. is the industry capitol and Cali had hip-hop on smash in the 90s to now. Not just DR. Yes NYC had a mix-tape scene culture but that shit was LOCAL until 50 and the internet blew that up in the 2000s. fall back.

First of all, you claim that Cali had "hip-hop on smash in the 90s to now". Once again this is a clear case of regionalism. Because from 1996-2016 there have been only 5 West Coast albums to get any run on the East Coast and I can name them;

1. All Eyes On Me,

2. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

3. Chronic 2001

4. The Documentary

5. Good Kidd Maad City

Second of all, the mixtape scene in New York wasn't that local because I was getting them in Boston and ANYBODY that went to a HBCU was exposed to mix tapes from New York. If you read the Doo Wop interview I posted, even Angie Martinez (Hot 97 radio personality) said she had a 2Pac interview where he had taken offense to something Q Tip said on one of Doo Wop's mix tapes. (Now that I think about it, that might have had something to do with The Source Awards fiasco)

1st DR having hip-hop on smash nationally isn't mutually exclusive. Obviously NYC will always have good music poppin. But that list above is laughable. I wasn't in NYC at the time so I'll take your word for it but I feel sorry for yall that you missed all those classic records like The Chronic (which biggie stated he was influenced by), Doggystyle, Ice Cube's whole discography, Streetz iz a Mutha, Xziibits first three records and plenty of other cool stuff.

1. All Eyes On Me,

2. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

3. Chronic 2001

4. The Documentary

5. Good Kidd Maad City

I'm talking about the past 20 years. Homey's claiming that "Cali had Hip Hop on smash from the 90s til now." All I'm saying is that over the past 20 years, that's the only peep I've heard from California, and I have family out there. I visited California in 1997, 2001 and 2003, they didn't have much of a Hip Hop scene from what I could see. To be honest, I was the East Coast cat with the mixtapes.

 

[DR. JEK]

I don't give a damn how many mix tapes y'all dropped didn't none of that shit bang as hard as any album Death row dropped in the 90's. Regardless to how y'all wanna re-write history, Drop a gem on em and whatever mixtape y'all dropped didn't have the global and cultural impact that Hit em up or anything that Pac did in 1996. Point blank period.

Yeah but you guys (the other 47 states) didn't even know what was going on in the Tri-State. And people in the Tri-State didn't know or care what was coming out on Death Row or the other 47 states.

You can rep your set, throw up gang signs and crip walk all you want, but cats in New York didn't care about the West Coast. If ya'll dropped something hot it would make a mixtape, otherwise the Tri-state had its own culture and buying West Coast rap albums wasn't something that we did.

That's the ether that burns so slow; The fact that the New York didn't care about the West Coast. Its not like a New York nigga would buy a West Coast album and not like it, its more like a New York Nigga would pick up a copy of The Source and see some West Coast cat with a perm and think 'what the fuck?' The West wanted to go back and forth and make diss records while New York rappers had their own culture that the West didn't even know about. A New York nigga would go to 125th st and cop some mix tapes while everybody in the other states are waiting in line at Sam Goody or Tower Records on a Monday night waiting for 12:01am to be the first person to buy a retail album.

^^^ @ the bolded. If you didn't catch that then you weren't there.

You guys kill me wit the bullshit. You will say New York niggas dont care about whats poppin on the west coast, yet buy a mixtape YOU POSTED with 4 songs that was on All Eyes On Me. Well which is it? Yall fucked wit us more than Elitist like you will ever want to admit or otherwise the hate wouldn't be so strong. You would be able to admit the West had their time whether New York niggas was tryna tune it out or not that they had they period where they was running the game. This is what I cant stand about you revisionist, the fact you gotta be bias Revisionist also. Everybody know the south took over in 98, everybody know NY had the game on lock from 1990 until the chronic dropped. And then the west had it right until late 96 but its like yall niggas wanna just deny us our time only. Not yours, not the south, Just wanna act like the West Coast didn't Contribute nothing and what you don t apparently realize is shit like that make niggas like you look petty and look like you still in your feelings about some kicked over buildings in a video type shit 20 years later

 

[its....JOHN B]

I don't give a damn how many mix tapes y'all dropped didn't none of that shit bang as hard as any album Death row dropped in the 90's. Regardless to how y'all wanna re-write history, Drop a gem on em and whatever mixtape y'all dropped didn't have the global and cultural impact that Hit em up or anything that Pac did in 1996. Point blank period.

Yeah but you guys (the other 47 states) didn't even know what was going on in the Tri-State. And people in the Tri-State didn't know or care what was coming out on Death Row or the other 47 states.

You can rep your set, throw up gang signs and crip walk all you want, but cats in New York didn't care about the West Coast. If ya'll dropped something hot it would make a mixtape, otherwise the Tri-state had its own culture and buying West Coast rap albums wasn't something that we did.

That's the ether that burns so slow; The fact that the New York didn't care about the West Coast. Its not like a New York nigga would buy a West Coast album and not like it, its more like a New York Nigga would pick up a copy of The Source and see some West Coast cat with a perm and think 'what the fuck?' The West wanted to go back and forth and make diss records while New York rappers had their own culture that the West didn't even know about. A New York nigga would go to 125th st and cop some mix tapes while everybody in the other states are waiting in line at Sam Goody or Tower Records on a Monday night waiting for 12:01am to be the first person to buy a retail album.

^^^ @ the bolded. If you didn't catch that then you weren't there.

You guys kill me wit the bullshit. You will say New York niggas dont care about whats poppin on the west coast, yet buy a mixtape YOU POSTED with 4 songs that was on All Eyes On Me. Well which is it? Yall fucked wit us more than Elitist like you will ever want to admit or otherwise the hate wouldn't be so strong. You would be able to admit the West had their time whether New York niggas was tryna tune it out or not that they had they period where they was running the game. This is what I cant stand about you revisionist, the fact you gotta be bias Revisionist also. Everybody know the south took over in 98, everybody know NY had the game on lock from 1990 until the chronic dropped. And then the west had it right until late 96 but its like yall niggas wanna just deny us our time only. Not yours, not the south, Just wanna act like the West Coast didn't. Contribute nothing and what you do t apparently realize is That shit make niggas like you look petty.

DMX DMX'd the game in 98, South didn't take over till 02-03

 

[DR. JEK]

Honestly, I always thought Big's Last freestyle on The Wake Up Show was the highlight of the beef. While the beef escalated from the Dogg Pound's trailer getting shot up, to 2Pac getting robbed at Quad City, to Pac thinking Who Shot Ya was about him, to Hit 'em Up to Drop A Gem On Em, I thought Big reciting those two verses from Long Kiss Goodnight and You're Nobody Til Somebody Kills You on the Wake Up Show was the grand finale of the beef. Those two verses were clearly subliminals about 2Pac. Everybody in the room was thinking the same thing whilee Big was spitting those verses. You can hear the reaction from the people in the room.

And I always thought those verses sounded better over the Hell On Earth beat than the Life After Death versions (Its interesting to note that Big was rapping over Mobb Deep's Hell On Earth Beat).

Long Kiss Goodnight

Uhh.. I'm flamin gats, aimin at, these fuckin

maniacs, put my name in raps, what part the

game is that? Like they hustle backwards

I smoke Blackwoods and Dutchies, ya can't touch me

Try to rush me, slugs go, touchy-touchy

You're bleedin lovely, wit'chyo, spirit above me

or beneath me, your whole life you live sneaky

Now you rest eternally, sleepy, you burn when you creep me

Rest where the worms and the weak be

My nine flies, baptize, rap guys

With the Holy Ghost, I put holes in most

You hold your toast shaky, slippin tryin to break me

Look what you made me do, brains blew

My team in the marine-blue, six Coupe

Skied it out, weeded out, cleanin out -- the block

for distances, givin long kisses BITCH

You're Nobody Til Somebody Kills You

Niggaz in my faction don't like askin questions

Strictly gun testin, coke measurin

Givin pleasure in the Benz-ito

Hittin fanny, spendin chips at Manny's

Hope you creeps got receipts, my peeps get dirty like cleats

Run up in your crib, wrap you up in your Polo sheets

Six up in your wig piece, nigga decease

MWA, may you rest in peace

With my Sycamore style, more sicker than yours

Four-four, and fifty-four draw

as my pilot, steers my Leer, yes my dear

Shit's official, only, the Feds I fear

Here's a tissue, stop your blood clot cryin

The kids, the dog, everybody dyin, no lyin

So don't you get suspicious

I'm Big Dangerous you're just a Lil Vicious

As I leave my competition, respirator style

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

Hold y'all breath, I told y'all -- death

controls y'all, Big don't fold y'all, uhh

I spit phrases that'll thrill you

You're nobody til somebody kills you


I know this has been done a million times but that Wake Up Show Freestyle was a perfect way to go out. If you're gonna go out, go out with both guns blazing!!!

And I was listening the night he did that. I still got it on tape 20 years later. I heard it that night and didn't need a doo wop tape to hear it because the Wake up show was on the WEST COAST!

 

[5 Grand]

You guys kill me wit the bullshit. You will say New York niggas dont care about whats poppin on the west coast, yet buy a mixtape YOU POSTED with 4 songs that was on All Eyes On Me. Well which is it? Yall fucked wit us more than Elitist like you will ever want to admit or otherwise the hate wouldn't be so strong. You would be able to admit the West had their time whether New York niggas was tryna tune it out or not that they had they period where they was running the game. This is what I cant stand about you revisionist, the fact you gotta be bias Revisionist also. Everybody know the south took over in 98, everybody know NY had the game on lock from 1990 until the chronic dropped. And then the west had it right until late 96 but its like yall niggas wanna just deny us our time only. Not yours, not the south, Just wanna act like the West Coast didn't Contribute nothing and what you don t apparently realize is shit like that make niggas like you look petty and look like you still in your feelings about some kicked over buildings in a video type shit 20 years later

^^^ Now thats bullshit

1973-1992 - New York was the undisputed Mecca of Hip Hop

1992-93 - California and Death Row came with a new sound (Ice Cube, DJ Quick, MC Eiht, Snoop, Dre, The Chronic, etc.)

1994-1996 - New York City releases THOUSANDS of mix tapes. California responds with Doggystyle, Dogg Food, All Eyes On Me, Murder Was The Case Soundtrack, The Doggfather and The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory.

1997 - Bad Boy sells 30 Million records

1998 - No Limit releases 30+ albums but doesn't sell anywhere near as much as Bad Boy in 97

1999 - Two regions battle it out for the next 5 years; New York vs The South.

2006 - The South takes over

I'm not a hater. I was living in Boston up until 1997. I'll admit that The West Coast had a new sound in 92-93 and New York wasn't really poppin like they were in the late 80s. But by 1994 when Illmatic, Ready to Die, 36 Chambers, Hard To Earn, The Sun Rises In The East along with all of those mix tapes that started coming out, there was a renaissance in New York and ya'll missed the boat. It wasn't in Vibe magazine or The Source and it wasn't on MTV or BET, it was on 125th st and was sold in the form of 90 minute cassette tapes.

I can't count how many blunts me and my team smoked listening to 95 Live.

And seriously, you guys should stop bragging about the so-called West Coast dominance. There was really only a two year span (92-93) when The West Coast was on top. Nas, Biggie, The Fugees, Wu Tang Clan, Puff Daddy, Ma$e, DMX, Jay Z outsold the West Coast when you add all the numbers up.

 

[DR. JEK]

Are you sayin illmatic out sold those death row releases? Reasonable dought? Hard knock life vol 1? Diddy and X came out in 97 after I said the West cost run was fizzling. Pac dropped two classics in 96 tha fuck you talking bout just 92 and 93.

Whatever man. You sound jealous. Dont come in here acting like your Jeru tha Damager was killing Pac and Dre in sales. Wtf nigga

 

[_God_]

Are you sayin illmatic out sold those death row releases? Reasonable dought? Hard knock life vol 1? Diddy and X came out in 97 after I said the West cost run was fizzling. Pac dropped two classics in 96 tha fuck you talking bout just 92 and 93.

Whatever man. You sound jealous. Dont come in here acting like your Jeru tha Damager was killing Pac and Dre in sales. Wtf nigga

Diddy been around since 92 n it don't matter when he started rapping. , x dropped his debut in 98 after big n pac and whatever tupac came out in 96 it don't matter, he was a weak mind. He went to jail then thought he was tough for catching a sodomy case. Dog pound video got shot up in New York. Hatian jack put pressure on pac n it he couldn't handle it. Tupac snitched on camera numerous times to save his career. If hit em up was so viscous why sidnt make New Yorkers or bigs ppl look at him funny after that? Especially after not responding by name? Bc pac wasn't respected like that which why those two classics in 96 you speak of , in 96 nobody playin that shit everywhere, New York ? Biggie? Was doing shows in sacremento in 96, the times Deathrow made appearances on New York platforms for the east to see , nobody knew them. Pac said it also, if the air waves are consumed with the bevy of local ny talent that actually prospered ( Jay , nas, fugees, mobb, wu...) unlike the west coast bc the west love to name all these niggas but none of em actually prospered.

 

[5 Grand]

Are you sayin illmatic out sold those death row releases? Reasonable dought? Hard knock life vol 1? Diddy and X came out in 97 after I said the West cost run was fizzling. Pac dropped two classics in 96 tha fuck you talking bout just 92 and 93.

Whatever man. You sound jealous. Dont come in here acting like your Jeru tha Damager was killing Pac and Dre in sales. Wtf nigga

If we're talking about sales, you're right MC Hammer outsold everybody on the East Coast.

If we're talking about quality of music, do yourself a favor and cop one of the following mix tapes:

1. Somethin For That Ass - DJ S&S

2. 95 Live part 1 &2 - Doo Wop

3. Summer Jam 96 - Doo Wop

4. The Best of Biggie - Mr Cee

5. 4,5,6 - DJ Clue

6. 50 MCs - Tony Touch

 

[_God_]

Diddy opening a school. East coast won

 

[5 Grand]

Diddy opening a school. East coast won

Yeah but 2Pac said "I fucked your wife" 20 years ago