Just stumbled across this guy's music again:

And remembered how much I was rooting for this guy to blow up back in the day, I remember making some threads on KTT1 about him too lol. I think he stopped rapping after a few EPs but dude's music was tight.

What are your favorite rappers that never made it?

I feel like Gemstones, the guy who was signed under Lupe back in mid-2000’s. Dude was shredding through the songs and went toe-to-toe with Lupe. Was supposed to drop his debut in 2008-09 but it never say the light of the day

Now he makes Christian hip hop

Dirtbag.

Florida rapper was signed to Violator thru Cool and Dre.

Always wondered what happened to dude.

@PNWlitty @AmplifiedGrammar

I remember really thinking these guys were next up. Idk what happened to them, but i was obviously wrong lol

I f***ed with these guys.

They have 2 EP's Ketchup and Mustard that were pretty dope as well.

From that early 00's blog era along with Dom, U-N-I and Diz Gibran, another MC from that era who I thought was dope.

But Sucker For Pumps is mad overlooked.

Sk La Flare

I overplayed Pre when I started gettin' into Earl music but never know what happened to the guy

I might have to check out their recent work. I never lost interest and I just forgot they existed until this thread popped up. Lol

I used to be obsessed with 2010's blog era rap. Bones, Wale, Rocky, Cudi, Main Attrakionz, Dom Kennedy, The Underachievers, etc.

Never heard of them before

We’re they co-signed by someone big by any chance?

Gunplay

No idea what happened but he was MMG signed, featured on Cartoons & Cereal and Ghetto Symphony and he did Bible On The Dash which is a great song

What happened to raury

They were part of L.A.'s scene back in the mid 00's.

Pac Div, Blu & Miguel all came up around the same.time.

Tbh, I'm not sure. They were just a rap group that I randomly stumbled across on TwoDopeBoyz during the Blog Era phenomena.

Broo the guy I was thinking of

What a song

Did vocals on so many the cool and f&l songs too had a really nice singing voice as well as being nasty with it

Living Legend was horrible.

He got dropped by Def Jam after it and has been putting out indie s*** ever since.

He had 2 tapes with Mozzy but aside from that he hasnt done anything of note musically in a long while.

Cocaine and court cases kinda ruined his momentum

The Dirtbag dude I was talking about.

I think this mightve been his first single or it was supposed to be a single for the 3rd Violator comp.

He reminds me of Drake tbh

Whatever happened to Cory Gunz?

This dude K Sparks from the lime wire/ Blog era

check out that song @Scouser just posted

Ab-Soul.

I'm sure they have zero idea what to do with this guy at this point.

Hes prolly waiting for that Black Hippy project.

Cause I cant see it making sense to put out another album from him.

That Lupe song? Just listened to it recently and I still love it

Gudda Gudda. Most people never gave him a chance but hes in my top 5 all time