Rappers that failed to live up their potential

THE_R_ wrote: »

saracenwire wrote: »

Method Man. He's the Rasheed Wallace of Hip Hop. Someone who had goat potential but settled for being merely good.

HE TOOK 4:20 TOO SERIOUS...4 ALBUMS IN 20 YEARS

smp4life wrote: »

d.o.c.

Sion wrote: »

My Top 10 Artists Who Had Million Dollar Deals but NEVER lived up to the hype:

10. Asher Roth -- this dude was seen as the great white hype, he had a nice buzz when he first dropped and lyrically he was smooth. I think Asher's problem tho was having no experience with the industry politics. His albums were horribly marketed and he never really pushed consistent singles.

9. Lil B -- he had a crazy cult following but then it got stupid. I thought it was his way of using the internet to put the medicine in the candy but he squandered that. Now he's just stupid and wack SMMFH. He could have leveraged that in a big way if he was smart.

8. Jae Millz -- this dude was killing mixtapes in the early 2000s and was thought to be Harlem's next best thing. I heard he turned down deals from Rocafella and Dipset SMMFH. He was a battle rapper I believe. Crazy cuz I think if Jae Millz came out NOW the way he did back then he could have really used the Battle Rap platform to catapult himself to stardom.

7. AZ -- ? can hate me but I think AZ's biggest mistake was letting Nas drop first. AZ was signed before Nas was. And personally I think his first album is a classic. Not only that but AZ is incredibly dope. Not sure why he never kept pushing. Always felt perhaps his personal life and the streets kept getting in the way.

6. Young Chris -- this ? maaad talented and at one point I remember ? reaching and sayin that Jay was copying his style. This dude should have been what Drake, Wale and J.Cole are now but back then. Not only that but he had the machine behind him in a major way. I feel that Young Chris had the best chance on the Roc outside of Freeway, Beans, Cam and Ye to blow and be a major artist in music.

5. Papoose -- getting signed to Jive and Kay Slay & Busta Rhymes for $1.5 million, an incredible mixtape catalog but just couldn't nail a radio single to get the album green lit. So Jive eventually dropped him and he became a tax write-off. Lyrically I thought Pap was dope and as much as the IC clowns him he was in 2005/2006 looked at as New York's potential savior. I think he dropped Narceirma Dream as a mixtape, needless to say it was quite satisfying.

4. Saigon -- Truly the Greatest Story Never Told.... even with Mark Whalberg cosigning him and putting him on Entourage he still couldn't get signed on the show as a rapper SMMFH LOLOL. How life imitates art, Saigon had a million dollar deal too but once again, his lack of being able to drop a radio single hindered his chances of getting his album green lit. Just Blaze produced that whole album and in the end, it never dropped. I think he dropped it as a mixtape too but I aint check it. Last I heard of Saigon he lost to Joe Budden in a battle over nothing.

3. Chamillionaire/Mike Jones -- Chamillionaire was on the right track but what ? him up is when he dropped that album with no cuss words. That was his biggest demise. He gets an A for effort but what I didn't understand was why do that when all albums already come with a censored version anyways ? SMMFH. And what's ? up is Chamillionaire has a platinum album, he jinx himself on his second album. Mike Jones was just an idiot who believed his own hype. As a result, he lost his respect, I dont even think Houston really ? w/ Mike Jones like that anymore.

2. Beanie Sigel -- this ? played himself too, going to jail too many times SMMFH. He had a lot of businesses that were successful but Beans not being able to leave the streets killed all those opportunities and his money for lawyer fees and eventually led to him getting cut off by Jay-Z at one point. Ironically the same guy along with Dame and Biggs who green lit his projects and because of their effort even allowed Beans to get the connections and platform he had. You cannot get a bigger opportunity than that. Beans had a successful clothing and shoe line, a successful record label, a cartoon, movie production company, a solid catalog and a radio station. A dayum shame.

1. Shyheim -- Some of yall might be too young to remember this cat but he was a Wu affiliate at like 14 and not only that got to share the stage with BDK, 2Pac and Biggie in Brooklyn for that infamous "Where Brooklyn At!?" Freestyle. He had it all, he was all over music videos, lyrically he was very gifted, all the girls loved him, all the young boys wanted to have it like him, he was learning from the Wu Tang Clan, he had RZA executive producing his albums which still did well on the charts, he had a cosign from Big & Pac and also had a nice career as an actor which back in the 90s was a big deal if you could get it. He was what Lil Wayne was before Lil Wayne. He had so much potential but once again like Beans got caught up in the streets and ended up losing all of that. Imagine what could have been.



Lastly, I don't see how Lauryn Hill didn't live up to her hype when she has 2 diamond albums (1 with The Fugees and her solo and unplugged albums). She has grammies too, iuno I'd say she more than shattered expectations. Juelz Santana I don't count either when he has gold/platinum records under his belt and was apart of one of the biggest movements out of NY hell in Hip-Hop. He was rapping for money not accolades LOLOLOLOLOL.

Busta Carmichael wrote: »

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