Jadakiss has a wonderful song addressing this exact topic.

-What if Kanye never posted the "Death Con" s*** or did that Alex Jones interview back in 2022?

-What if Kendrick dropped that rock influenced album he was supposed to drop before COVID hit instead of MMTBS?

-What if MF Doom dropped Madvillainy 2 and the Starks collab album before death?

-What if Nas dropped the OG version I Am that was a double album?

-What if Pop Smoke/XXX/Juice still lived?

-What if Wayne never had to delay C5?

-What if Megan Thee Stallion never got shot?

-What if Lauryn Hill dropped more albums?

-What if Game and G-Unit never beefed with each other and remained a clique?

-What if Tha Doggfather still had Dre/Daz making the beats?

-What if "Watch The Throne" involved Kanye and Wayne instead of Kanye and Jay?

-What if "Views from the 6" dropped and lived up to the hype?

-What if Eminem beefed with DMX in the early 00's?

-What if Andre 3000 actually dropped rap albums?

What if Aaliyah chose to stay at the area of Rock The Boat video shoot and didn't leave prematurely?

What if Ja Rule didn't turn down 2 Fast 2 Furious?

What if Ice Cube's Cubevision became actually concrete and not just a placeholder? Would it have been just as big as Tyler Perry's media empire?

What if Jay Z and Dame Dash didn't fallout with one another?

What if Rakim dropped a solo album in the mid 90s, instead of a few years later?

What if XXL 2016 didn't occur and which artists would of have a better trajectory?

What if Ginuwine continued to stay and work with Timbaland post 1999-2000?

What if the NY chose to unify the entire East Coast with everybody outside of the Tri State area(Philly and NJ)? And decided to bring everybody from Boston, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, DMV, etc.?

What if the NY scene embraced the Toronto Hip Hop scene organically instead of shunning and ignoring them?

What if my two faves (Yasiin Bey and Andre 3000) had just 10% more conventional music industry approaches….

What if Cudi released the OG Indicud and never left GOOD

What if Relapse 2

How would Rick Ross career and legacy be perceived if he was never exposed as a C.O.?

Doesn’t really impact him anymore but for a good 4-5 years a lot of people wrote him off for it and downplayed how good his music was

Sure, Teflon Don was hailed as a classic but I’d argue Deeper Than Rap, Rich Forever, God Forgives I Don’t and Mastermind deserved more praise than they got

I just feel like his music had the “yeah he’s good but he’s a CO” asterisk on it and it affected the perception of what was an otherwise all time great discog imo

Also ofc what if QM IYRTITL refs never leaked?

Would Drake post Meek beef output be more appreciated by the culture?

what if chance never got married

yes ignorance is bliss

Adele

What if the blogs was still popping

this

i mean jace doing okay now but DAMN