What would you think Weezy will be like now if he never went mainstream?

[marcusgettin]

Re: What would you think Weezy will be like now if he never went mainstream?

Lol, they were always big in the N.O. And when Wayne first came out Juvy had already brought the mainstream attention to CMB. Hot Boys and Waynes Tha Block is Hot were all succesfull with sales.. Which goes pretty much hand to hand with how mainstream you are.

I do agree that with C3 Wayne intentionally seeked a worldwide audience, but he was already mainstream to begin with. Huge amounts of features and a few club songs did what mixtapes did before C2. The OP has a point but I feel like his trying to blame the mainstream audience for ruining Waynes career. lol.

Yes in the fuckin N.O, that's not fuckin mainstream, and how big, because the achievement they made before they got a deal with Universal wasn't overnight, they put in work with those mixtapes or street EP's. the hotboys weren't the first motherfuckers in cash moeny. back when they had Lil Slim, Gregory D,Tec-9, Pimp daddy, Mr ivan, Kilo G and them, they werent even famous around the whole N.O yet. Yeah they sold some copies out the back of there trunk but nothing compared to what the hotboyz sold. No Limits were alot more known then them

[Nethurrr]

Re: What would you think Weezy will be like now if he never went mainstream?

Yes in the fuckin N.O, that's not fuckin mainstream, and how big, because the achievement they made before they got a deal with Universal wasn't overnight, they put in work with those mixtapes or street EP's. the hotboys weren't the first motherfuckers in cash moeny. back when they had Lil Slim, Gregory D,Tec-9, Pimp daddy, Mr ivan, Kilo G and them, they werent even famous around the whole N.O yet. Yeah they sold some copies out the back of there trunk but nothing compared to what the hotboyz sold. No Limits were alot more known then them

I thought we were talking about Wayne. I was just telling you how Lil Wayne with his first came out with his album and the hot boys, Cash Money was already made known by Juvy. And he was mainstream then and has been mainstream sence. And about pre that block is hot mixtapes that he were on might not have been mainstream, but I doubt the OP ment that.

[marcusgettin]

Re: What would you think Weezy will be like now if he never went mainstream?

I thought we were talking about Wayne. I was just telling you how Lil Wayne with his first came out with his album and the hot boys, Cash Money was already made known by Juvy. And he was mainstream then and has been mainstream sence. And about pre that block is hot mixtapes that he were on might not have been mainstream, but I doubt the OP ment that.

Yeah your true but I thought You were talking about cashmoney because you said cashmoney's always been mainstream.

[Lil_Tunechi]

Re: What would you think Weezy will be like now if he never went mainstream?

He could not have been able to build an empire like YMCMB, you need a wide fanbase to have such a megastar label. Anyway, He also didnt choose to go mainstream, he was the chosen one. Every once in a while... a rapper will rise for the throne, and if the public embrace you, then you automatically have no way around being mainstream because once magazine covers, features, awards,national tours, event appearance start popping, you naturally are mainstream regardless of your content. But for Lil wayne, his contnet is unlike Jay Z, Kanye or Drake. In my opinion he is actually the only gutta rapper in mainstream-(his content is still underground- money, bloods, hoes, drugs and shit like that).

Lil Wayne really isn't gutta anymore, so I don't think it's safe to say he's the only gutta rapper in mainstream. Yeah you can say he's from the gutta and that he used to be gutta, but no...there is no way in hell you can sit there and tell me he is still gutta to this very day.

And yeah, that content (money, cars, hoes & drugs) is still underground but the content has also diffused into the mainstream. Imo, the content of the underground has changed a lot over the past decade. There are a lot of very good underground rappers who think it's just a waste of time to rap about "money, cars, hoes & drugs" and even go so far as to criticize rappers who rap mostly about "money, cars, hoes & drugs" because, since it's now so widely used by many mainstream rappers, it has become such an unoriginal topic to rap about and it makes every rap song pretty much sound the same because EVERYONE raps about the same thing.

I thought we were talking about Wayne. I was just telling you how Lil Wayne with his first came out with his album and the hot boys, Cash Money was already made known by Juvy. And he was mainstream then and has been mainstream sence. And about pre that block is hot mixtapes that he were on might not have been mainstream, but I doubt the OP ment that.

You are correct, but I just want to clarify that CMR was already known throughout the N.O. because of UNLV, which is contradictory to what marcusgettin said, however when UNLV was around, that was the time when No Limits was the famous label in the N.O.... that is until Juvy came along. But Juvy was the one who brought CMR to fame across the nation itself.