It's May 07, 2024, 03:30:25 PM
Lil Rob blew up? WTF? LOL.What about Mellow Man Ace, Frost, Cypress Hill etc.? They faired better than Lil Rob, especially Cypress.
The difference between lil rob and omar cruz right now is that omar cruz is gonna be on interscope so you know he is gonna be promoted. But lil rob came outta nowhere and was on the radio all day and was actually being played on mtv with no interscope and no dre beat.People all over the u.s. now know lil rob. Before it was mostly just cali. And he still kept that same chicano sound.
Back in the WC Killaz days, I wrote an article about Latin Rap, and how artist like Frost, Lighter Shade of Brown, Cyress Hill, Mellow Man Ave and Proper Dos blew up in the mainstream. Too bad that sight is gone, but anyways.Right now, even though no one wants to admit it, the Latino artist that reopened the doors to westcoast Latinos is Baby Beesh... I mean Baby Bash. Baby Bash had Suga Suga before anyone else had something else, and his originally a Bay rapper, though now he lives in Texas. I remember the summer of '03, I was listening to Power and I heard him on there noon show, and he was talking about this being his first commercial single, which would come out 3 months later, and everyone was like, THAT'S HOT, and they'd played it, that's what did it. After that, Lil' Rob did it right, and came out with Summer Nights, which shocked me to hear it in Minnesota, and Baby Bash is still making singles, but now as a Texan/Southern rapper. Beesh sold out and is now Bash, but Lil' Rob had a couple of singles since, and Omar Cruz is looking to make some noise, and that's what's important. So what if one artist sold out the west, the rest are coming. And I said last time, it's not being racist, but the west needs it's Latinos to pick up some slack to comeback, because Frost, Lighter Shade of Brown, Mellow Man Ace and Proper Dos were all at least gold back then, and Cypress Hill was platnum quite a few times. So now the west needs a Lil' Rob, and Omar Cruz and others to get that status up, and help the west out.
wait let me get this str8,frost gets hated on now by chicanos for braiding his hair? theres GOT to be more to it than that man