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Video Throwback: Mack 10 feat. Big Pun & Fat Joe - Let The Games Begin

silverfoxx said:
I just never understood the appeal of Mac 10 tbh. He always came off as hella generic to me.
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Really??? I thought he had a dope flow that was far from generic...

Ive always considered him as almost like a pioneer, one of the first crop 'mainstream' West Coast rappers of the late 90s early 00s along with the likes of MC Ehit and WC (as solo artists) and the 2.0 version of Snoop/Eastsidaz to really push that pure extra gangster West Coast banging music... The generation just after Ice T and first versions of Snoop, Cube and Dre and various West Coast groups like Bloods & Crips, CMW & Maad Circle etc, you could say the post Monster Kody era of westcoast gangsta rappers...

He was was a boss too, Hoo Bangin Records was trying to be pushed like Death Row, No Limit, Cash Money etc it never quite transcended the same way though, even though he did do indi movies etc...

Im tempted to add Quik to the list with Mack 10, Ehit, WC etc too but his style was a little less mainstream, I guess the association with Cube and the Westside Connection group really helped Mack too...
 
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Water Ur Seeds said:
Really??? I thought he had a dope flow that was far from generic...

Ive always considered him as almost like a pioneer, one of the first crop 'mainstream' West Coast rappers of the late 90s early 00s along with the likes of MC Ehit and WC (as solo artists) and the 2.0 version of Snoop/Eastsidaz to really push that pure extra gangster West Coast banging music... The generation just after Ice T and first versions of Snoop, Cube and Dre and various West Coast groups like Bloods & Crips, CMW & Maad Circle etc, you could say the post Monster Kody era of westcoast gangsta rappers...

He was was a boss too, Hoo Bangin Records was trying to be pushed like Death Row, No Limit, Cash Money etc it never quite transcended the same way though, even though he did do indi movies etc...

Im tempted to add Quik to the list with Mack 10, Ehit, WC etc too but his style was a little less mainstream, I guess the association with Cube and the Westside Connection group really helped Mack too...
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His flow was just never compelling, and you didn't really say anything or had bars like that. I thought I would enjoy his music more when I got older, but whenever he starts to rap I just get bored and usually skip his part. He doesn't have a ton of mic charisma or does anything unique which is why I call him generic.

Like in westside connection WC and Ice Cube carried the group, he was the Jay Millz of the crew.
 
silverfoxx said:
His flow was just never compelling, and you didn't really say anything or had bars like that. I thought I would enjoy his music more when I got older, but whenever he starts to rap I just get bored and usually skip his part. He doesn't have a ton of mic charisma or does anything unique which is why I call him generic.

Like in westside connection WC and Ice Cube carried the group, he was the Jay Millz of the crew.
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Have you heard Foe Life (Mack 10's first album) ?,Mack 10 is super underrated and had a bunch of hits, "Money's just a touch away","Only in California","Backyard Boogie" ...
 
silverfoxx said:
His flow was just never compelling, and you didn't really say anything or had bars like that. I thought I would enjoy his music more when I got older, but whenever he starts to rap I just get bored and usually skip his part. He doesn't have a ton of mic charisma or does anything unique which is why I call him generic.

Like in westside connection WC and Ice Cube carried the group, he was the Jay Millz of the crew.
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He was lyrical in the sense he could paint pictures with his rhymes and you could almost feel California ooooze out of his bars, like he could put you there with his extra hard westcoast accent and slang... For instance on 'Oh Them Thangs', where hes rapping about selling Daytons:

'Anybody want Dana's I got em for 8 c notes... All day long, gold or all chrome it's on, you ought to get 'em cause the tires come wit 'em but they ain't fo bustas only hogs roll D's', so keep yo on stocks if you caint fade these'...

Some rappers have that ability, like MC Ehit could make you feel like youre in Compton or Mobb Deep could make you feel like youre in NY...

Still, if hes not for you thats cool, just my perspective...
 
I admittingly thought of Mack as a lightskin Ice Cube meaning there wasnt enough to set him apart until around 2000 or so when he dropped Paper Route then started rollin with Cash Money
 
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