Is Nipsey Hussle catchin' fade?

[nortyhat]

I feel like this, there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes with these record labels. As far as Nipsey he probably didnt like the fact they were trying to change his image and music. Keeping it real would get you hated on, and held at a certain spot in the business but being true with yourself would take you a long way and a peace of mind. Dissing detox i cant say was a bad move because he was just speaking his mind something that a lot of these artists dont do. their so scared because it might not put them or keep them in the spotlight.

[rhythmalism]

Marathon 2 coming out...

[mrtonguetwista]

this nigga don't even know what the fuck he's talking about. son said is nipsey catching fade lol nigga do you know what catching a fade means ? its getting down, a fight. lol these niggaz listen too much west coast gangsta rap then they try using the slangs not knowing what the fuck it means.

Exposed.

Got 'em

[dubsmith_nz]

I'm still checking for Nipsey, hopefully he can end up on a dope indy like Jay Rock did with Strange

[kuruptlon]

Marathon 2 coming out...

I'm assuming you're just making stuff up right? Has Nipsey said anything about a Marathon 2?

I would be pumped.

I can't wait to hear some new Nipsey

[OG Jaydc]

I've never had much faith in Nipsey. He always came across as mildly average to me.

.   This. I've said from day one nipsey was never going to do anything but people on here were all over his nuts

[Get It Off Ya Chest]

I've never had much faith in Nipsey. He always came across as mildly average to me.

me too. never really understood the hype around him. not saying he's garbage, just don't rate him worthy of all the buzz he has had

[REPDATWESTCOAST]

Nipsey at his dopest>>jay rock & g malone

[Tutlock]

nipsey is ok but not on some detox shit imo

[Jimmy H.]

Very few independent artists are able to make it work these days.  You have to have an incredible work ethic to make any money and/or "noise" on an independent.  That's why most of em would rather have horrible major label deals than be independent.  Once he was dropped from Epic you knew it was over for him.

I'd have to agree to a degree. Just because you're independent doesn't mean it's all gravy. You're still in the industry. You still have to sell records. You're trying to compete in the same marketplace so you need someone with some dollars, distribution, and marketing to do that. Fans tend to look at everything like, "Hey, just go indepedent and you can sell more". But if it were that simple, all these guys who got dropped from labels like Death Row, Aftermath, and the like over the years would have been stayed dropping records. You may not have to answer to as many execs when you're not stuck on a major label deal but you still have to find away to generate interest in what you're doing as an artist. Fact is a lot of times that label on the back of your CD may be the gift and the curse. You may be saddled with making some tough decisions regarding your art but you're also having a lot of situations taken care of as well.

[BiggBoogaBiff]

Nipsey isn't over rated, he just didn't do too much.  He was on a hot streak and then yeah it's true, he needed 2 fall back for a season or two but he didn't stay consistent with his shit, he just fell into tha whole acting thing (i guess he thought he was gonna be the "new actor" or something).  Pretty much the entire 2010 my man was quiet as a mouse and then all of a sudden he dropped "Tha Marathon".  He should've kept his name out there heavy (maybe fucked with the MidWest or the East or something to keep it going and then did his thing, that way we could've seen him progress and some more shit). 


I mean 2010 was only last year but being quiet tha whole year didn't do much for him, I think it made his situation worse.  He could've went against the grain about "Detox" (which wasn't even noteworthy) if he was still out there like that doing his thing, him and Ross woulda made a tight track together and that would've been good (even if it seemed to ''some'' that it was on some bandwagon shit).  It was like how RBX went away in 93' and didn't pop up until 95' on some super underground shit (like a "black album").  Then when RBX came back out by that time people had already forgotten about him in a sense, same scenario with Rage after "Necessary Roughness" (besides the radio stations playing "Afro Puffs" every other throwback Friday you wouldn't even know who she was).


Nip still got time tho but he needs to find that track that'll bounce him tha fuck back heavy, if not then he'll just end up like Glasses Malone, which is most definitely cool but Nipsey has/had more potential than that.

[Cordozzar Drakko]

You might argue that some 2/3 were featurings but Nipsey's been in a hell of a lot of videos last year especially for a cat without even a debut album!
But fact is if you compare with Glasses or Bishop, they didn't do half as many vids as Nip... (again mostly featurings... but he was the man on all of these songs, he made them stand out.)

[Chamillitary Click]

No. He's overrated. People were claiming that he was going to be the next big thing on the West Coast, the next Snoop Dogg, this & that.

That's overrating somebody who isn't nearly that good.

[Cordozzar Drakko]

No. He's overrated. People were claiming that he was going to be the next big thing on the West Coast, the next Snoop Dogg, this & that.

That's overrating somebody who isn't nearly that good.

& Why? Maybe more because he LOOKED quite like a young Snoop, very tall & slim, same way to handle himself in his videos, same slow & easy type of flow, same gangsta vocab & subject matter... so much so that Snoop mentored him (& Problem at the time) & had him featured on his "mainstream" album, single & video & dvd, as well as let him ghostwrite for him.

As for the future, I wouldn't be surprised if Snoop had hired him again for a few tracks for "Doggumentary"! & It's quite possibly more good money in his pocket as he might have earned from a lousy deal with a major for a debut album not even going gold... (Don't mean due to a lack of quality, this we don't know, but simply due to free downloading killing his sales!)

[Action!]

I only like about 65% of the Marathon.