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Jayo Felony had all his chips in place in summer of 1998. He had a bangin single that really should of blown up on radio and video with "Whatcha Gone Do", but even though it didn't blow up it still received a decent amount of play. The song had a feat. from Method Man and from DMX who was the most popular rap artist at the time. I'm not a DMX fan, but I can say for sure DMX gave his 100% on the track, and his rhymes were on point; and Method Man was still at the top of his game at the time.Def Jam is partly to blame for this album not blowing up. Even Russel Simmons admits that they didn't do a good job of pushing their West Coast artists back then, he mentioned Warren G's label with Twinz and Dove Shack as an example. Still, there is little doubt that it was because of Def Jam that Method Man and DMX both recorded a song and video for the album, and also the rest of the album really fell short of expectations. I doubt that Def Jam would tamper too much with the material Jayo was coming up with at the time, I would think that his joints just weren't tight enough.
That im too sexy for my hood shit was gay though.
def jam isn't good for west coast artists...
west coast niggaz are either go waaaaaay to hard for the mainstream appeal but when they actually DO DO the mainstream shit, its fucking gay as hell, unprofessional and cheesy,.Why cant a West coast nigga stay in the middle like Jeezy,Ross,T.I,Jadakiss just sold 400k with not much gay shit?These rappers are all in the middle, not to gay and soft and at the same time dont sound like a 40 year old broke ass bum ass crackhead glue sniffer on the mic.99% of West Coast Mc's that never broke the public are some paint chip sniffing/child molesting(wattup Dresta you fuck)/Herpies infested/not being able to read low life losers...Who da fucj would wanna look upto somebody like that?We Got Snoop/Dre/Cube and Game. The rest are in the hood raping girls/abandoning children/making kids sell drugs and shoot guns/sniffing glue and robbing older women for 300 dollars and telling us that they are real and Game and Snoop are fake for taking care of their kids,helping people out and making a change...If back in 2000 it was cool to be from the hood, these days its the other way around...Nobody wanna look upto a child molesting/super turbo gangsta nigga that has no money and nothing to loose...Its 2010, a decade of Go to School and Get a Degree....Get Great Job and Hot Women...Its not 1997 of We are in the hood becoz there is no change/white people force us to be here/DPG Gankstaz,Fa Life,We banning/We Ridin/We SmokinUneducated dumb ass/bum ass niggaz.
Quote from: amazing25 on July 06, 2010, 03:57:48 PMwest coast niggaz are either go waaaaaay to hard for the mainstream appeal but when they actually DO DO the mainstream shit, its fucking gay as hell, unprofessional and cheesy,.Why cant a West coast nigga stay in the middle like Jeezy,Ross,T.I,Jadakiss just sold 400k with not much gay shit?These rappers are all in the middle, not to gay and soft and at the same time dont sound like a 40 year old broke ass bum ass crackhead glue sniffer on the mic.99% of West Coast Mc's that never broke the public are some paint chip sniffing/child molesting(wattup Dresta you fuck)/Herpies infested/not being able to read low life losers...Who da fucj would wanna look upto somebody like that?We Got Snoop/Dre/Cube and Game. The rest are in the hood raping girls/abandoning children/making kids sell drugs and shoot guns/sniffing glue and robbing older women for 300 dollars and telling us that they are real and Game and Snoop are fake for taking care of their kids,helping people out and making a change...If back in 2000 it was cool to be from the hood, these days its the other way around...Nobody wanna look upto a child molesting/super turbo gangsta nigga that has no money and nothing to loose...Its 2010, a decade of Go to School and Get a Degree....Get Great Job and Hot Women...Its not 1997 of We are in the hood becoz there is no change/white people force us to be here/DPG Gankstaz,Fa Life,We banning/We Ridin/We SmokinUneducated dumb ass/bum ass niggaz.wtf are u talkin about?The Westcoast blew up off of gangsta rap. But it wasnt just gangsta RAP....it was gangstas rappin. Back then, the fan base was mostly young males from the hood...and right when the West really took off, the fanbase was switching to young white males in the suburbs. They ate up that gangsta shit like they eat up the Mafia image. So everything was great for the West. As hip hop expanded and the fanbase changed to MTV kids and young girls, the "gangsta" shit became a fad. It became fashionable to be a gangsta, but the rap listeners (not knowin anything about the hood themselves) no longer knew...or even cared who was real about it. They just wanted a slightly more gangsta image then themselves, with music that you could shake your ass to. Westcoast artists have always felt pressure to stay true to the streets as a good amount of em are active. So thats why the East and even more so...the South really took off. Their rappers havent minded playing a gangsta on TV (even without bein one), and still makin music for little girls. There are real bonified street niggas down South....and on the East. But those muthafuckas dont blow up either for the most part.
Nitty Gritty was a better single IMO..
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