Follow Me Home was a personal classic for me, just peak west coast laced gangster rap with a conscious edge. Then 90059 was a great follow up that showed Jay Rock growing creatively alongside the others in TDE

After that everything turned to mid. His team somehow tried to commercialize his sound for some reason, probably trying to capitalize off his hit song with Future. His gritty delivery and energy became more absent and Redemption ended up being very disappointing besides the odd gems in there

Early TDE Jay rock was something else man

Hard sell to most ppl outside of the tde/ so cal demo

He didn’t want it bad enough

He was poor man's game and didnt developped artistically

He is a dope rapper but there are like 100 other west coast rappers that sounds like him

Its impossible to make it just as a rapper these days. U gotta cross genres

I think he is a better rapper than nipsey was doe.

I think the balance between q, ken and jay was amazing and he couldve been way bigger if they worked as a trio more

Win was the worst thing to happen to him

Well he had to try to have a hit attempt even tho he wasnt cut for it

First, he got out the way and let Kendrick & Q eat when he was the artist lead head at the label

Second, he didnt work a whole lot after Q and Kendrick got settled

Then 3rd, when he did start working a lot for some time, he then got in a major motorcycle accident during his most consistent & mainstream (outside of the 1 year with Lil Wayne) era where he almost died, which completely took all his hype out due to recovery time and such

Now, hes just chilling and doing whatever for Top n Kendrick

Aside from that cringe inducing Jeremih song and maybe WIN (It grew on me), Redemption was a great album

Although I agree, 6 years for another Jay Rock album is ridiculous. And the fact that he went 0-4 on singles in 2023 has me worried how his newest album will turn out to be

idk did anything really go wrong

he's pretty successful for the type of music he makes

not bad for dropping a major label debut at like 35

@op

He never made it out of the trailer park, he’s still hanging with Julian, Bubbles and Ricky.

But nothing went wrong persay

He is forever eating & doing ish behind the scene kinda like Memphis Bleak with Jay Z, while having a pretty good Rap career nd one of the few that have stood closely besides Wayne and Dre

He played his part & lifted the entire label up his shoulders

There is no TDE & their artists without Rock & Rock was the first to break out of West durimg our down period after Game & Mac Dre - even before YGs Toot it n Boot it in 2009 which made the West mainstream again, and a lil b4 Tyga

You could say there is no modern day West Coast without Jay Rock

One of the worst hooks I’ve ever heard

Label mishandled him

He made WIN

90059 was 9 years ago and he has dropped 1 project since then. I actually like a few songs off of Redemption but he did not build the cult fanbases you need to drop one album in a decade

TIL Jay Rock is 62 years old today

Yea I don’t understand the question

Dude is chilling. Of course, he could be a bit bigger, but after Kendrick and Q blew up he was basically the TDE vet which is fine

Honestly he beat the odds

As someone whose been a Jay Rock fan since 2010, I agree with everything you said. Everything you listed is exactly the turning point of what went wrong with him during his career.

"Follow Me Home" will forever be his magnum opus.

Exactly this, it's not the 00s anymore. He's doing pretty well for himself.

He would have needed the best production out the group to make up for his lack of personality, wordplay, and storytelling Q, Soul, and Dot have.

Bad math

I loved 90059.
Redemption was mid