Cadillactica was a good album tho

One of the greatest albums of the last decade.

It was alright, the consensus opinion on that album has always been It didn't live up to the mixtapes tho, same with live from the underground

what Krit's classic album ???

4eva is a mighty long time is forsure one

You realize this s*** was always about sales right

Let’s be honest..if KRIT was in the “Big 3” in 2024, this thread would be titled

“How the f*** did we let Big KRIT take a spot in the Big 3 when J. Cole was right there?”

Like..J. Cole is obviously a far above average rapper. We critique him so harshly BECAUSE he’s in the company of all time greats like Drake and Kendrick. No disrespect to Big KRIT — he is forever cemented as one of the hardest rappers of that era — but there’s a reason J. Cole is in the spot he is. It’s earned.

Like That is still >>> 7 Minute Drill

I stopped listening to Krit right after Cadillactica

He took a long break after that album.

I'm gonna give 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time a listen.

I never got into his music growing up

What are his best projects? Where should I start?

I saw his first tape was in 2005? Should I just start there?

Calling something trash then putting on Eminem to combat it is psychotic behaviour

Def Jam sabotaged that man career.

Signing with a label and then 2 weeks later the whole building/staff changes so the people that supported you aren’t even there to back you, HURTS you dawg.

Ima tell yall niggas what happened (and @Kdogone you can eat a d*** for that lil snarky comment bro. I got an ipod classic with all krit mixtapes up to it’s better that way that niggas almost got kicked out of class in hs for listening to. Niggas bought live from the underground, cadillactica and krit wuz here when buying on itunes still meant something.)

A goat mixtape run to an underwhelming album (live from the underground) that def jam f***ed over from sample clearance issues (bro had to remake samples, remove songs, some features he couldn’t get, etc.) to mad delays (Money On the Floor single drops october 2011, it takes 8 months for the damn album to drop. That’s a lonnng time even back then for rappers to promote a project. The label was putting all they priority onto kanye then)

However the funny thing was the narrative around the time was “lol krit should rap on different production all his s*** sound the same”

So then we got Cadillactica, literally a new style with hella new production (including f***ing DAHI and raphael saddiq for damn sake)

But by that point the zeitgeist/mass media already made up they mind (even though Cadillactica LAPS Born Sinner by a long shot)

Why the reason? Beats me. Does jay z backing cole up help way more than krit signing to def jam at one of the worst times to sign there? Beats me.

K.R.I.T. a prime example of what happens when labels dont know how to manage an artist.

also paper bag test was in effect but even cole said in an article he does benefit off that lol

This album >>>>> 2014 fhd

Oh the vent is magical

Best 3 projects are:
Return of 4eva
Krit wuz here
4eva is a mighty long time

Start with krit wuz here i’d say

His best 2 albums are cadillactica and. 4eva is a mighty long time

His main 4 mixtapes: Krit wuz here, return of 4eva, 4eva n a day, king remembered in time

DISCLAIMER: do NOT play the streaming versions. All 4 of these mixtapes got DESTROYED via sample clearances and sound horrible now. Listen to the original mixtape versions on youtube

Before that he was already doing well commercially

The consensus opinion before cadillactica dropped was that krit should stop rapping over his own beats/change it up.

The consensus opinion dont f*** with lyrical southern rappers.

knew who this is gonna be about shoutout commie discord

Kenderick

I was going to say Danny Drown but it seems like we could have that 2010s top 10 but for non-mainstream rappers

feel like I failed yall it’s hard to live with it

Bro the way Live from the Underground went down HURT my dude dawg.

The only album in his catalog he talks about like that.

I hate that the fake woke and fake deep crowd is pushing cole into the big 3

one of the best rap songs of all time

I don't think u can just say that when the mixtapes received the acclaim they did.

People wanted him to evolve his sound but cadillactica wasn't a good showing of that.

The same can be applied to people wanting cole to evolve his sound but kod wasn't a good showing of that either