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jay83;736125 said:50 cent was a combination of alot of factors but one big reason was timing. Right when many folks were gettin tired of Ja-rule over saturation of the airwaves, 50 came out and never looked back.
But are there any artist that Could have done nice nubers but just had bad timing. Maybe they could have came out a few years earlier or later???
Miltown Marauder;737400 said:Jae millz!!!!
American Loo VII 3D;736626 said:Had Lupe dropped in the late 90s his career would have lasted longer.
LB shoulda came out a few years after Tribe
tri3w;738628 said:Lupe Is still hot though............
sionb55;737152 said:Rappers that shouldve blow up but didn't b/c the timing wasnt right:
Saigon: He had the gritty street image that was absent from the game, the machine pushing him & the producer who made roc-a-fella famous behind him - to top it off he was on the #1 hit show Entourage for about 3 seasons as Turtle's unsigned artist. He even had the innanet goin nutz after punching Prodigy in the face (at the time G-unit was not to be messed with). But what happened tho ? he came out in a year where only 2 albums barely went platinum (lil wayne's the carter 2 & T.I.'s King album) , the industry was paying top dollars on their biggest artists only to get back lukewarm sales & wen that happened a lot of artists got shelved or had marketing budgets cut. Saigon couldnt have dropped at a worst time in Hip-Hop. his debut album Greatest Story Never Told, really became an example of life imitating art.
Tony Yayo: G-unit was on top of the world from 2002 to 2006... w/ banks, buck & game sellin 4 mil, 2 mil & 7 mil respectively, the pressure was on for Yayo to show & prove. most ppl felt yayo would sell atleast 2 mil but to his chagrain he old sold a mere 500k (gold - which is still good). Yayo may not have had uber lyrics goin for him or bitches goin wild for him but by the time he got out of prison G-Unit seemed unstoppable & record after record was certified platinum so surely he wouldve gone multi plat too rite ? I always felt yayo's album was rushed, he just went into the studio had dope beats & Godly cameos to oversell his album but by the end of the day it felt like mediocore sexy w/ an ugly hooker that made u feel equally ugly for smashing. If yayo's album wasnt rushed, he took his time & the 2nd G-unit CD (which still sold 4 mil worldwide) got pushed back his numbers wouldve have been significantly higher. I still like Yayo as a G-unit fan tho, Pimpin was my favorite track off his debut album.
Murphy Lee: co-sign wat my nigga said. Murphy Lee had it all goin for him, He was Nelly's right hand, had a babyface that all the bitches loved, bubblegum lyrics, had the hype riding off of Nelly his first album shouldve gone atleast platinum - especially in an age where 3x plat was like goin Gold for some artists (if Chingy could sell 5 mil why not murphy lee ?). Too bad though, the public was just growing complacent of Nelly & Nelly was just about finished recording records & on his way to enjoying his money. No doubt his album still went gold but had the timing been right Murphy Lee couldve prolly sold 2 mil easy.
Papoose: After shocking Hip-Hop w/ his 1.5 million dollar deal w/ Jive everyone felt that Trigger Happy Pappy would for sure reach platinum heights but it didnt translate like that. He was on the biggest remix of the last 5 years & had the streets on lock (there was no competition on the mixtape market for pap other than G-Unit & Dipset) but he stil fell off. His highly anticipated Nacirema Dream was suppose to be the album of albums & even Source had felt that it was the #7 album most favored to score 5 mics. What happened tho ? When Pap & Kay Slay couldnt come to creative terms with Jive the deal got scrapped & the project shelved. Papoose later dropped most of the tracks on follow up mixtapes afterwards & his girlfriend (now wife) Remy Ma got incarcerated for assault all of which deterred his success. I doubt theres still hope for Pap in this day & age about a year after this ordeal he got into an altercation w/ fat joe & hasnt been heard from since. Soon this nigga gonna be poppin up on milk cartons smh. keep in mind Pap is hitting 36 this year.....
Slim Thug: Why is it that wen huge booms happen in the game theres always that one artist w/ just as much (if not more) than his predecessors that doesnt go plat ? Slim Thug was platinum in the streets, he had the support of texas, he was warring w/ lil flip (a vet in the south) & he managed to do wat all of his peers couldnt & even cross over into white america in a big way by featuring on Gwen Stefani's Neptune produced Luxurious. Yet despite all these things Slim Thug's album Already Platinum barely beat out 600k. So what happened ? Hard to say tho Chamilionaire, Mike Jones, Paul Wall came out in 05 & promoted all the way into 06 & went platinum. Slim Thug dropped his album in a harsh music environment of 2006. Had he have came out in 2005 perhaps things wouldve been diff't.
Maaann is a lotta niggas who came in at the wrong time & only a few who came out at the right time. For the future artists lets hope they dont fuck this up & miss. Some of those cats listed above couldve changed the game in a major way. Just imagine Papoose couldve brought back NY and taken the rock back from the south , Slim Thug couldve been the next Luda, yayo couldve been the Game & game yayo - thered be no west coast like there is now. at the end of the day timing is everything. Too much saturation brings the price down, too little exposure & ppl forget u were even there. Appealin to the masses is never easy. & even the heavyweights (wayne & 50 w/ their disappointing sales) can hit or miss. Lets hope the newcomers like Drake, J.Cole & anyone after can capitalize n hit in a big way. These up & coming rappers can really change the face of the game if their timing is right.