Back in 2008 I asked the question ‘At what point did a particular rapper fall-off?’ in relation to terrible album releases. But there’s also a case to be made for actions outside of their own discography which made you loose all respoect for them – be it an ill-advised guest appearance, an interview where they proved themselves to be complete fuckybergs or maybe they just made the mistake of wearing Nike and Adidas branded clothing at the same time. Let pettiness reign!
An example of this scenario can be found in the original Pete Rock and CL Smooth interview in The Source, where Cory admonished other rappers for dressing bummy and standing on the corner drinking 40s while the accompanying photo for the article pictured him wearing a camo jacket while drinking a 40 in a brown paper bag. Or that time that MC Eiht decided he would wear a silk shirt and slacks on the cover of Last Man Standing and was doing interviews where he said he was too grown to be wearing khakis and Chuck Taylors before return to his old gear on the very next CD.
BOLO: Bum Of Loser Origins….lol
Like I be listening to The Main Ingredient…cuts like Sun Won’t Come Out (irony)…& be like CL flamed out like Johnny Storm and a bucket of water…sad
Dre’s ‘Been There Done That’ phase, until it flopped and he decided he was Still DRE.
Or the saddest of all time…… Big Daddy Kane!
The thought of him and Barry White still gives me shivers “No Kane, NOOOOOOOOOO”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV5Rde2tgps little bit of sick just came up.
Jay…definitely w/that beach chair song; getting mollywopped by Solange in the elevator; Magna Carta rapping to Marina Abramovic; going on tour w/Timberlake……and most importantly that Black Ken Doll costume FOH !!
Lol @ Cult…peace lord! Robbie where them new Roc Marci heatrox @
Memphis Bleek doing the L’Oreal commercial
Busta Rhymes going full ‘roid goon/coke rap for his Aftermath album.
Fat Joe shilling for that pyramid scheme in an ill fitting suit.
Big Daddy Kane in his ‘Prince Of Darkness’and purple attired ‘Don’t Curse’ video phase.He then redeemed himself( in my opinion ) with ‘It Looks Like A Job For’.And Queen Latifah releasing-‘Nature Of A Sister’after her LANDMARK debut-All Hail The Queen!Instant FAIL!
Run DMC doing that TV ad for Gap (though by ’96, they’d been shit/irrelevant for years).
Common working with The Jonas Brothers; MOP working with Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham; KRS working with Puff Daddy on that “step into a world” remix.
Ice-T appearing on “All-Star Mr & Mrs”
Anything/everything Ice Cube said/did from 1993 onward.
Chuck D making excuses for Professor Griff and Flavor Flav. Nobody’s buying the “it’s part of the natural balance” spin.
Canibus playing himself in that battle with Dizaster!
Lord Finesse never releasing an album since the 90s. (UNDERBOSS anyone?)
Jay Z Rocafella breakup
bboy, $yk, what up!!
Busta signing to Cash Money and gathering 200lbs. of dust on the shelf.
Common with that Drake beef
Redman droppin’ that lukewarm ass Reggie album
When Doug E. Fresh dressed up like MC Hammer and did that Bustin’ Out The Funk video.
Outstanding responses so far…
Xzibit when he started making music with Dre, Eminem, Snoop,……
Ghostface when he joined Def Jam and made a track with Missy….
krs dissing nelly and ice t dissing soulja boy – classic cases of old men yelling at the sky
rza saying he invented serato in the 90s
mf doom using stunt doubles for live shows
beanie siegel in 2016. – literally every move he pulled was smh
Eminem tested the patience for a long time but I think Ass Like That was the point of no return.
@Step One: For me it was the 2003 MTV Video Awards when he appeared with the Special Ed puppet from ‘Crank Yankers’.
The appearance with Elton John didn’t bother me half as much.
@Slappy White: What about when Marshall attacked Triumph The Comic Dog at the MTV Awards and then rapped using his voice on the next album in a failed attempt to prove he actually had a sense of humour. Too little, too late.
MC Lyte sold out with “When in Love” but could have come back, but then sold out again with “Ruffneck” but could have come back, but then sold out again with “Cold Rock a Party.”
Kool G. Rap and that white kid
Prodigy ‘exposed’in a ballerina outfit by Jay and getting snuffed by Keith Murray outside the Tunnel (?) club was pretty bad.
Xzibit who once made the song “Paparazzi” becoming exactly what he criticized halfway through his career
Xzibit,again, famously saying ON CAMERA..in a rap doc. that “you won’t see me doing commercials for deodorant or soda..I keep it real”..and then appearing in sprite and rite guards spots the following year. I wanna say the rap. documentary was “the mc…why we do it”
EVERY RAPPER who worked on the rap project by Phil Knight’s son…..and who then opened his mouth about Hammer or any other pop rapper.
CHILLY TEE aka son of nike owner phil knight had enough bread to pay all the “keep it real” rappers to work with him. ahahahahaha
KRS-One, my favorite rapper ever, halfway cooning it up on the song/video he did with R.E.M. “Radio”
baby baby……wow!!
Oh, and Sticky Fingaz getting roughed up by that skateboarder in that MTV boxing match–he could never be “HARD” again after that.
LAURYN HILL prophetically calling out pseudo religious chicks, who are sleeping around on “That Thing”…and years later having mad kids with Bob Marley’s son….not being married and going up at awards shows READING passages from the bible. Can’t make this up
Talkin out your neck like you’re a christian….indeed
Everybody who worked on the “Young Black Teenagers” album.
@getthesenets *dead*
Cam’Ron when he went on 60 Minutes and said he wouldn’t snitch on a serial killer (but he would move if he lived next door to one).
Baduizm needs its own special mention for ruining the careers of Andre 3000 and Common.
Don’t forget Kane’s broken arm from that “Don’t Curse” video.
Any 90s rapper who signed to G-Unit, although MOP seems to have recovered.
On the producer side, Scott Storch blowing all his Dre money on … blow. Pharrell when he started singing. Timbaland when he started lifting weights (and Missy when she lost weight).
Prodigy from Mobb Deep’s steady lyrical decline, After Jay-Z Roasted him
Consequence on Love and Hip-Hop
Keith Murray at the Rap battle vs. Fredro
RZA (“All live Matter, “criticizing hoodies that he always used to wear and unfortunately his production and music direction and can’t forget about man with the iron fist)
What’s the Kane broken arm thing about?
@Onearm: When he had his arm in a sling while wearing a tight, paisley suit in the ‘Don’t Curse’ video.
When it was revealed that 2pac had been paying child support on behalf of Nate Dogg and a grip of other deadbeat dads. Deadbeat dad rappers in general make it difficult to enjoy their records.
Nas for being a prick. A self-righteous, hypocritical prick.You can’t be talking all those pompous “Africa” platitudes while doing your wife and child wrong.
A day after Trump won the election, Wise Intelligent went on twitter/facebook to justify his electoral apathy with all that “independent Black politics….self sufficiency” fraff. He wasn’t the only one. A lot of “Conscious” types trying to put a positive spin on having abetted a fascist.
Pretty Toney album and The Man With the Iron Fists were both incredible works of art that caught unfair slander on here
Inspectah Deck releasing an entire dubstep album but then he redeemed himself with the fire Cynthia’s Son tape
Sellaband/Kickstarter/IndieGoGo/crowdfunding shysters: Elzhi, De la soul, Public Enemy etc, etc. Shambolic panhandling at best.
When Ghostface hooked up with Bob Perry to release “12 reasons to die” – I’m still waiting for my CD. That’s made it hard to enjoy anything Wu-related since.
“The man with the iron fists” is awful on every level: writing, direction, editing, fight coordination – just everything.
@Dino: Comment of the year candidate right there.
Real-time update: De La Soul on a float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
also the “Moor is the new Muslim” rappers.
Beating us over the head with the fact that they were Muslims a decade ago and now beating us over the heads with the latest trend…that they are Moors.
Mos Def aka Yasin Bey specifically…
I was disappointed that Will Smith had to move to Bel Air just because he got spun around on someone’s shoulders
How about Afrika Bambaataa? Formerly revered co-founder of hip-hop, now a reviled serial child molester. Unsurprisingly, KRS still defends him.
1/ Jay-Z in 96 : Reasonable doubt will be my first and last album,and then I’m gone”
2/ Schoolly D : From PSK to Am I enough black for you…..not credible
3/ Base how low can you go ? Can believe that Flav was high on dope
@Reds: Dizziness is no joke, he may have scuffed his knee afterwards!
@Mr Lo: Same goes for Ice Cube, who had promised to retired after his second album.
@Rashiiid: Why else would you join a gang in the 70’s if you didn’t want to spend all your time hanging out with shirtless, sweaty young men?
Terminator x when I found out he didn’t do all his own cuts.
Kanye for making good digger then marrying a kardashian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOWLHjUyNeM
dre&ed lover,positive k, and daddy o
The biggest let down was Keith Murry putting on a Dreadlock wig and saying
“Im KRS yall, Im KRS”
Eric B still frontin like he produced all those records when we all know Large Pro and Paul C (RIP) did