It's May 31, 2024, 10:12:46 PM
You make it sound like Mack 10 and the Luniz were all over fucking MTV and the radio then Pac and Biggie died and they dissapeared. Luniz had one major commericial hit. Saying that the East-West feud contributed to them not having more is like arguing that the L.A. Riots were responsible for the downfall of Hammer and Vanilla Ice. You've tried throwing out this theory before and it just doesn't hold water. Puffy and Bad Boy were all over MTV in 1994. They didn't pop up there after the fact. maybe the public didn't want to listen to rappers talking about murdering each other after two of the rap game's biggest stars were killed than the industry just decided to blackball the shit out of L.A. for no good reason.
Music is no more powerful than an R-Rated movie.
How can you say there was a lack of interest?
If anything everyone was talkin about it. Tons of people were fiending for more of it as there was a huge cult following for people trying to get unreleased death row and pac music in 1997-1999.
Mack 10 was huge with "Foe Life," "Only In California," "On Them Thangs," "Backyard Boogie," "Westside Slaughterhouse." After B.I.G. was dropped all of a sudden he was faded out and you didn't hear tracks like "Westside Slaughterhouse."
Luniz were huge with "5 on It," "Playa Hata (Too Short diss)" and the "5 on it remix." They went Platinum with that shit and then "Lunitik Musik" drops and they get no national airplay and still go Gold so people were lookin for it. "Silver and Black" was their big huge supposed to be smash with "A Piece Of Me" and "Oakland Raiders" and they played it in Cali but didnt give it national play and it was a bomb album.
Suge said in a 2000 interview that Jimmy and Interscope came to him and asked him to soften his lyrics and he said he wouldn't do it thus he left for Priority. Suge said you'll notice Dr. Dre soften his content with "Dr. Dre presents The Aftermath" and then it didn't sell like they thought it would so he went back to a harder approach for "Dr. Dre 2001."