Best albums by rappers over 40?

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

Id much rather listen to unreleased tracks from the 90s than new music even from OGs

this track was released in '97 but never heard it till this year

Infinite was this you spitting on this?

yep that's my style too homie...digging for past gems, I bump a lot of the unreleased shit as a part of that, an unreleased track like is way more worthy then that JT "coonin and goonin" shit that Doggfather was trying to get me to listen to.

[Sccit]

yeah... that's definitely me on the track.. I just don't mention it much because I want to make it on my own and not riding Kurupt's coat tails...  They wanted to sign me but they wouldn't let me keep my publishing and Suge taught me how important the publishing is.  The deal Kurupt had landed me with Sony would've given me a million up front and then a million album budget but I told Clive Davis to fucc off that if he ain't gonna let me keep my publishing then I'm not here to be anybodies slave.

sometimes u bet on yourself and you win


and sometimes u get nerlens noeled


 

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

sometimes u bet on yourself and you win


and sometimes u get nerlens noeled


 

you right homie I shoulda taken the cash but I can't go back to Clive and Sony now cause I'd look like a sucker..

[Soopafly DPGC]

DOC Helter Skelter

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DOC Helter Skelter

he was in his late 20’s maybe 30 tops when he released it in 1996

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

he was in his late 20’s maybe 30 tops when he released it in 1996

lol.. man I still laugh when I reflect on Too Short being 29 years old in 1996 and coming out with his swan song "Gettin It" riding off into the sunset of retirement, they feature his retirement on that classic Rhyme and Reason documentary--because back in 1996 we thought 30 was old.

Now look at it... Too Short still fucking rapping with that Mount Rushmore shit, and then wack ass Jay-Z and Master P used it as a marketing tool publicity stunt everyone forgets Jay-Z was calling his 98' album his "last album" and Master P pulled the same stunt that year when he released Da Last Don. 

But I think Too Short was really doing it for real, he just changed his mind

[Sccit]

lol.. man I still laugh when I reflect on Too Short being 29 years old in 1996 and coming out with his swan song "Gettin It" riding off into the sunset of retirement, they feature his retirement on that classic Rhyme and Reason documentary--because back in 1996 we thought 30 was old.

Now look at it... Too Short still fucking rapping with that Mount Rushmore shit, and then wack ass Jay-Z and Master P used it as a marketing tool publicity stunt everyone forgets Jay-Z was calling his 98' album his "last album" and Master P pulled the same stunt that year when he released Da Last Don. 

But I think Too Short was really doing it for real, he just changed his mind

now larry david doin the same ish with curb

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

now larry david doin the same ish with curb

sure it happens then too.   But it's kind of dumb no matter how it's done, in fact it defies logic.  Like hell, does a rapper retire and then they aren't allowed to be recorded while rhyming anymore?   Does a guy retire from basketball and then he doesn't so much as shoot a bucket in his front yard anymore?

Does Jerry Seinfeld retire and then he's not allowed to tell a joke anymore?  Or he can tell one, but he just can't be recorded doing it anymore?  Or he can be recorded, it just can't be distributed or sold in any format?

It's such a dumb topic.  People even get mad about it.  Like I remember with Brett Farve it was like, "He's making a mockery of the game, he should retire" when the Jets failed, but then the next year the Vikes almost made it to the Superbowl.  But every year it was this big argument over whether or not it was proper for him to play or not.

The only context I understand it in is Muhammad Ali had no business taking blows from Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick and that's sad he didn't retire in light of what happened later with his health.