Goat Rap One Hit Wonder Nomination Thread

konceptjones said:
It's a measure of how widespread the music made it into the mainstream. Personally Rakim is The God MC and greatest MC of all time as far as I'm concerned and he got tracks for days that should be revered as classics, but only one of his joints has ever made the Hot 100.


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I got to log off soon, but the core idea behind the idea of a one-hit wonder, in hip hop, is not well captured by the criterion put forward by the O/P. That idea revolves around an artist bursting onto the scene with a splash hit, only to disappear fairly soon thereafter. That is emphatically not what happened with Rakim, Nice & Smooth, etc.
 
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Gray Matter said:
Again, the criterion put forward by the O/P is not a good one.

And some of the y'all ain't no youngin. Y'all should know better.
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Nah, the criteria is solid in that it's a measure of how well a song did in the mainstream. And, yeah, hip hop in the 80's and 90's gave no fucks about the mainstream audience, but that ain't what's being measured. Cause no matter how you look at it, many rap artists from back inna day hit even the Rap 100 more than once, so then who would be left?
 
konceptjones said:
Nope, it didn't make it.

What's Up Doc and Breakdown did hit the Hot 100.
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You missed the point. Within hip hop, that song was a hit back then. I know; I am old enough. That it didn't register as far as the Billboards of the world is concerned is completely irrelevant.
 
konceptjones said:
Nah, the criteria is solid in that it's a measure of how well a song did in the mainstream. And, yeah, hip hop in the 80's and 90's gave no fucks about the mainstream audience, but that ain't what's being measured. Cause no matter how you look at it, many rap artists from back inna day hit even the Rap 100 more than once, so then who would be left?
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So why even play along with dude?

If taken seriously, not many artists from back in the day would NOT be a one-hit wonder.



Edit: If they're not a complete NO-HIT non-entity.
 
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As big as Kane was in the late 1980s/early 1990s, I doubt he had a Top 100 hit.

So according to this thread, he was a NO-hit, Non-entity in hip hop.

Which is blasphemous .
 
This thread got me like this....


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So much blasphemy
 
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Some of these names are disrespectful. Next thing you're gonna tell me Nas is a one hit wonder because If I Ruled The World is the only song Taylor Swift knows from him.
 
Gray Matter said:


As big as Kane was in the late 1980s/early 1990s, I doubt he had a Top 100 hit.

So according to this thread, he was a NO-hit, Non-entity in hip hop.

Which is blasphemous .
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I literally posted Kane's only joint to hit the Hot100 on the last page.
 
Gray Matter said:
Just seeing this now.

By now, you know what I'm gonna say.

But.... according to O/P, Kane is almost a non-entity in hip hop, the only thing saving him from that fate is this 'gem.'

Smh.
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No, Kane would be almost a non-entity in the mainstream, which is what's going on in this thread.
 
Gray Matter said:
WACKED.

Lords of the Undergound should NOT be on a list like this.


Neither should Nice & Smooth.
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Wait, you think theyre wack???

Otherwise youre not comprehending the criteria for this thread, as those tunes are classics and as far as Im aware the only tunes from them that hit Billboard 100 list...
 
konceptjones said:
No, Kane would be almost a non-entity in the mainstream, which is what's going on in this thread.
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Exactly.

From within hip hop, Kane was in no way shape or form a one-hit wonder.

What should count as a one-hit wonder in hip hop has to be determined by standards internal to hip hop.

What this thread is doing using a foreign/external standard to disrespect groups that should be highly esteemed within hip hop.

Which I why I said that if you are, or were, heavily into hip hop, you shouldn't fuck with this thread.
 
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