nah that was Pac

no, that's just talib kweli

Fredo would of stayed himself the flyest coolest one from og drill era maybe not the biggest but still the coolest

He would of still had his connections with industry and modeling etc. would still be dropping projects and doin shows

I miss Fredo man forever a legend and that mugshot is pop culture history

It's still gonna come out bro. That and the Hegelian sequel is on the way.

Look for "Joe the Engine Ear" on YouTube. He made the album with P and said he felt like the album got him killed. He's been posting videos dedicated to him every day for the past 4 years. The second book is coming soon.

he already did, people outside of the usa probably don't realise how influencial the man was, i'm a native portuguese speaker so i follow the rap scenes from all portuguese speaking countries and it was crazy seeing all these different rappers hopping on drill beats the following months after pop blew up.
I literally saw whole scenes going from not having a single drill song to becoming saturated with it
all because of pop, he popularized a whole new wave

You buggin late 2019 he was on fire Gatti didnt even drop yet and niggas was comparing him to DaBaby before he passed cause they kept saying they rather hear him say the same s*** over again

And Dababy gets memed the most he still a superstar

in late 2019, Hot 97 & Breakfast Club refused to give him interviews bc they viewed him as a novelty act. Dior was being mocked as a rehashed Welcome to the Party and Pop was perceived as a one-dimensional artist with no depth or versatility. War, Gatti, & Christopher Walking all underperformed and contributed to MTW2 getting postponed multiple times. Pop and his team felt so disrespected by their own city that they were already in the process of branching out.

this retrospective nuance is glossed over and lost after his death. instead, the narrative has become that he was on a continuous upward trajectory tragically cut short by his untimely murder, when it was ironically his own death that provided his dying career with a much needed stimulus.

and btw those DaBaby memes originate from the alt-right adjacent, s***posting corners of the internet that view hip hop as a degenerate and hyper materialistic low-culture

He would have crossed over with the UK mandem for sure, Pop Smoke was blowing up CRAZY before he died over here & made sense as he was working with 808Melo from the UK

thats what im saying

son felt betrayed by his own city but the love across the pond was heavy and felt, def was about to be his new home

Idk bout larger cus post makes hits hits. Do u think peep had cross over hit potential?

Big L probably would've had a high like a Dipset or Roc member then petered out. Same with Big Pun.

Does he have hits idk about?

What are they

They dont look like hits

im f***ing with you. I noticed the views and was blown away. Bro didnt even reach that full potential yet and was doing those kinds of numbers??? So many artist that would have surpassed drake died man. Damn.

Pac would be on twitter 25/7 traveling the world or putting on local talent in the meantime

Big would be the first great actor that came from hip-hop. would have a few rnb albums one of which would be viewed as his third classic/rnb classic

Big L would do a joint album with pun and prob be a pusha t type figure who's very popular with both old and new rap fans. definitely would do a trill/neptunes/kanye album at some point or something wild like that

Pun would be round Fat Joe/Khaled types, maybe did a joint album with Sean Price or something

Sean P would body twitter game and have one of the most beloved rap podcasts out there

Mac would be a huge celebrity, probably would do a ton of youth outreach/philanthropy. would post only his kids on ig for like two years straight. maybe disappeared from the public light at 30+ same way Donald Glover did

Nip would steadily grow to the hov/ross level, maybe getting to that next hip-hop billionaire bag a few years down the line

Dilla would go madlib route chilling with him 24/7 no phones no nothing. or putting on detroit, giving friends beats and s***. wed have a DOOM x dilla album for sure

DOOM would chill with dilla and madlib no phones no internet. aint nothing else other than chilling on his island or whatever. maybe dropped doomstarks in like 2027 bc f*** it

iunno about ODB but something tells me hed end up somewhere in the DMX area of being that great old rapper who doesnt do much later on other than getting in trouble

this got me super bummed ngl