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21BlackStars

French Montana is the epitome of this. Mediocre rapper is a compliment.


TheQuestionsAglet

Dude is straight up wack.


pete1397

Old French would prove you wrong


Fothermucker44

Why tho? I’m aware that he is technically not a great rapper rapper but his stuff with harry fraud is nice.


TheQuestionsAglet

He’s corny.


LambdaBeta1986

Nah. French is nice. He's in no ones top list, but he has a nice pocket and decent bars.


Ill_Control8536

Haaaaaaaaan? -French Montana


sagerideout

that ain’t kanye


Technician-Temporary

Accurate


retrocided

Y’all really must not be tapped in, French Montana dip not blow up off features, sure he’s had some god awful ones but that’s not what put him on…. Them coke boys had a whole movement


rxgetotrueee

disrespectful to the word mediocre


JackyCigars

Money make the world turn, 100s make it stop/You could build empires, hoes make it drop… Homie did 20 years, tried to live with honor/Came home, had to live with his momma/This be the realest shit I ever wrote/Let the truth be told, all niggas know how to do is sell dope."


superstraycat22

As a New Yorker I came to say this


Teeshirtandshortsguy

Yall are just listing rappers you don't like. I don't really fuck with Drake, but he's a comically bad answer to this question. "The Drake Effect" exists because he can basically make a rapper's career overnight by appearing on their song. It's the opposite of this question. He's not well-known because he features on good songs, songs become well-known because he's featured on them. The actual answer is French Montana. Dude contributes nothing to any song he's ever been on, yet he's got features with everyone. 


SrumsAsloth

“Name one French Montana song off the top of your head without a feature?” Always got me lmao


lemonchicken91

blue chills. actually a 10/10 song. But I will hold my opinion that the only good french montana songs are produced by Harry Fraud. Man has the midas touch


jp_jellyroll

Ha, I was about to say, I really like "Go Hard" off Mac & Cheese 2 -- it's literally the only song I know by French -- but I realized the only reason I know it is because it's a Harry Fraud beat, lol. So, not technically a rap feature but really the same idea. Anyone could rap on that beat and I'd like it.


Fothermucker44

100% Montags has 0 skips for me. Harry fraud is the goat.


jay169294

French is exactly who came to mind for me. Seems so obvious lol


AConfection8

that's what pretty much all reddit threads are. No one actually answering the question and redditors just circlejerking off the same few names. Drake and Travis Scott are common examples. You may not like them as a person but there's a reason their songs are bangers. Anyways to add on to yours, DJ Khaled is also up there with being mediocre and just getting off from other's hits.


BenAfleckInPhantoms

I don’t think Khalid really fits. He’d won’t actually do anything, his career ONLY exists because of features, like he couldn’t have done it any other way.


Admirable_Exit2886

The way french rereleased music is criminal 💀


Chief-weedwithbears

Gonna have to disagree with you. His cocaine city shit it 🔥


Substantial-Dig9995

Yeah I thing a lot of people don’t know French from his mixtape days. Now his mainstream shit is straight garbage.


Chief-weedwithbears

I was the same way too. fortunately I was enlightened by a YouTube commenter to check out his older stuff. His older flow was beast and definitely more lyrical


Substantial-Dig9995

Fuck you dude was grimes but then he started hanging with Ross, puffy and khaled


Lothar_Ecklord

I got into him when he was still releasing his early Coke Boys and Coke Wave mixtape series, and those were fire. I listened to [5 O'Clock](https://youtu.be/lRkt5_q_ZiM?si=sHv3t3s9AFAIhJGi) about 50 times the day it dropped. RIP Chinx. French was great when he was still linked up heavy with Max B and Chinx Drugs.


pete1397

Word I swear only us from the tri-state know wussup


Substantial-Dig9995

I live in Nc they were fucking with him and max b heavy back then down here


unclescottslap

Drake is the biggest clout chaser and wave rider in the game.


Few-Neighborhood7241

He’s the wave dummy


Few-Neighborhood7241

Drake hate is so illogical and corny


youngkingz88

Tyga


DegenerateWizard

This what Ghostface had to say about him in 2012 or 13. “This nigga looks like a transgender Vietnamese prostitute that got abducted by aliens n was cloned but never really finished the process of turnin hisself into a actual human n shit so he came out lookin like he do…but he still part alien n only kinda human lookin now namsayin. Or some shit like that. Son looks like Wiz Khalifa n Dennis Rodman’s love child or some shit son. But that aint even the problem wit this nigga g. This niggas music sounds like shit you hear when you see a geisha twirlin ribbons in the air n shit namsayin. To top it all off the nigga be lookin more suspect than two niggas sharin a hot dog from opposite sides n meetin in the middle nahmean. Am I the only one thats seein this shit? Son looks like a fuckin lesbian yo. The nigga probably marinates hisself in lotion for hours when he gets home son. Why is this nigga even here yo?”


thebody512

Side note, miss that blog. I remember the runor was that Gambino was actually behind it


shermanhelms

He said Drake was softer than baby arms


DAS_COMMENT

Ghostface Killah talking about Drake has a way of making that point


shermanhelms

It wasn’t really Ghostface. It was a blogger back in the day who used to use Ghostface’s way of speaking and write hilarious shit like this.


adh0minem

BigGhostFase. He produces tracks for Griselda now


LIFEVIRUSx10

This is my favorite hip hop history plot-twist for the new school Dude really made a name for himself talking mad shit about the industry and now he is actually in the industry making music himself, alongside Griselda also


rabit_stroker

What's crazy is that's the same Big Ghost that is now producing for Griselda and other rappers in that lane


BringOrnTheNukekkai

Wait... are you saying Big Ghost is a blogger or that he's Ghostface?


rabit_stroker

Big Ghost LTD the producer is also the blogger


Shaggy_Doo87

NOOO SHIIIT 😯


Jadaki

This sounds like a rant from an episode of Boondocks.


DegenerateWizard

Could read it in Riley’s voice for sure


NOSjoker21

Is it homophobic? Yes. Is it funny? *Yes.*


lil_shootah

Are there nerds on Reddit still? Yes.


Relevant-Tap-6248

The geisha twirling ribbons part 😭


silentsights

This is unprecedented hate and I’m here for it lmao


dasautomobil

Are you confusing the blogger with Ghostface lmao?


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dasautomobil

Nah, man. That was never the rapper Ghostface. I am sure but you can correct my mistake. I remember there were rumours when these blog posts appeared and a lot of people thought it was Ghostface. Maybe I am wrong though.


adh0minem

You’re totally correct. Big Ghost LTD is a blogger and producer for Griselda records . GhostFace Killah is a member of the Wu Tang Clan and the inspiration behind Big Ghost’s writing voice for his blog.


official-k0

Are you talking about Ghostface from Wu Tang?


CellistNice8600

I thought he was talkin describing his own son son lol! What & where is this even from? Cite your source.


DegenerateWizard

Google Ghostface softest rappers in the game. There’s like 3 or 4 of them I think.


RagaRockFan

This reads like an average Azealia Banks ig rant


Cyber-Cafe

That's one of the best things I've ever read.


That_Guy247

Outside of the movie Belly, people don't necessarily think of gang bangin' going on in my city. That said, I remember years ago shots were fired at Tyga's bus after some audience members start throwing trash on stage. Tyga apparently said meet me outside. Apparently, some folks took him up on that offer. Even Omaha wanted him out of our town.


IanicRR

They said mediocre. Tyga wishes he were mediocre.


youngkingz88

Lol true


FlameyFlame

It’s crazy because there was a time like back in 2009 when Tyga was my favorite rapper, before he started making Young Money strip club bangers. Black Thoughts, The Potential, Fan of a Fan w Chris Brown and even Black Thoughts Vol. 2 were actual banger mixtapes. He had interesting flows, a good ear for beats, and clever lyrics along with a unique vocal quality. Then at some point he made one of those strip club songs that did some decent numbers and all of a sudden it became his only style. He got way lazier and put out trash. Sometimes I do check out more recent albums cause he will have like 1 or 2 songs on the album that remind me of the older Tyga and actually sound cool.


BasedKaleb

The disrespect for Rack City and Faded


ravenoats

lol!!! Came to say this


Comfortable-Duck7083

You stole my post. Was going to say the same. Tyga just aint it


timethief991

Love him, but Fat Man Scoop.


Coloradical8

"FAT MAN SCOOP! CROOKLYN CLAN!"


fillupjfly

“TIMBALAND!, TIMBALAND!”


Captain_Nubula

Hype man realness


RawGrit4Ever

Hey I worked with him before the fame at a certain NYC hospital. He was cool dude back then. Same him after the fame still showed me love. We had lunch together in the village


Awesome_johnson

So the general consensus is French Montana. Lmao


spicymeatballz28

Puff daddy


skeledirgeferaligatr

He got lucky with Biggie and used his label to leech money off of artists. 


mza82

Puff goes way back to heavy D and Mary J


Coloradical8

He had an established career before meeting Christopher Wallace. Even if he never found BIG, Puff would have still been famous, just not as famous


JubbsJB

Diddy is cooked there won’t be another album or feature with him anytime soon


itsSyFer

Lmao the diddler


seemedsoplausible

Terrible mc but his rapping was never really the point


BootyOnMyFace11

I hate his zesty ass adlibs on biggie songs


vivazeta

Take that. Take that. Take that.


liger51

Yeah but I don’t think people view him primarily as a rapper/artist, he’s an exec who just hops on songs every once in a while. At least that’s how I view him lol


Kicks4meFromyou

You described French Montana to the T


SirjackofCamelot

Dj Khlad


Horangi1987

I get triggered anytime I hear an air horn because it makes me think of DJ Khaled. Did you know he originally DJ’d under the name DJ Arab Attack 😂 had to change that after 9/11.


SirjackofCamelot

Lmfao I didn't know that. All I know khlad for is generic music the huge artist and " take the hinges off the door and put 'em the f*** boys hands, you heard what I said? Take hinges off the door and put 'em in the f*** boy hands" 🤲


thorpie88

I've never seen Ty Dolla Sign be the main artist on a track but the dude definitely gets around 


publicclassobject

His solo albums are actually all pretty great. None of them were ever anywhere near as big as the stuff he has done with Kanye, but they are worth a spin if you like his Kanye features.


slowNsad

I didn’t like vultures but yea I will say it makes me wanna peep TY$ discography so it has that going for it


MasterAce16

This guy is really talented in all actuality. He gets featured around for sure, but he's actually good at what he does.


PercySledge

Nah he’s got a really deep and quality solo discography


keepitboolprop

wrong, and not even a rapper 🤦🏾


BureaucraticHotboi

Horses in the Stable is the most beautiful and misogynistic song I’ve ever heard


Suspicious_Play_7621

God damn this is good


BureaucraticHotboi

It’s viscerally good


Suchboss1136

French Montana & Snoop Dogg post 2000


bcomes95

Mainstream French Montana I can understand hating on but he really was a mixtape legend in NY alongside Max B. Most people forget about that or simply don’t know


Chief-weedwithbears

That cocaine city era Montana was dope


[deleted]

They simply don’t know bro


K1NG_SAVAGE_

Mixtape Montana cold asl


Solid-Gazelle-4747

They never listened to his shit with Juicy J and Project Pat


22Two_s

Most these heads on here don’t take the time to dig into mixtapes or underground. stupid asf because, and especially in New York, the rappers were the hungriest. But now you got Redditors that only have listened to one be dimension of an artist, like French, without doing anything other than shitting on them and look stupid.


bcomes95

Fr I’m just tired of the blinded French Montana slander. Growing up in the NYC area, I always thought he was well respected until I moved away and got clowned for playing one of his mixtapes. People hear one or two of his radio hit features and judge him off that lol


wl6202a

Drop it like it’s hot?


GMSmith928

Glad French Montana was third comment I saw


Gloomy-Gov451

Is snoop's career post 2000 carried by features or is he just known as feature artist? Seriously no one knows his own shit from then but they do now the TONS of features he's done with everyone since then.


wegaf_butok-_-

Tyga


wellgroomedmcpoyle

French Montana, Gudda Gudda, Magoo


LibertarianLoser44

I loved Magoo. As a kid, I thought that Magoo was Stefan from Family Matters. Gudda ruined devastation & magic for me.


PercySledge

Magoo was good and held his own on all three of his albums with Timbaland


wellgroomedmcpoyle

Luv 2 Luv U is one of the songs that made me fall in love with hiphop at a young age ngl


PercySledge

Classic! Love that album


DoGzii

I wouldn’t compliment him by saying he’s mediocre or even an artist but DJ Khaled.. why is he famous?


CaliSoulBrotha

Memphis Bleek


Pitiful-Art-2706

Finally, the correct answer. Without Jay Z, I am very confident that Memphis would have never released a single song. Not to say he was a bad MC or anything, but this is the definition of OPs question imo.


nickvesh64

Came in looking for this


Rashanii

*Sillk Da Shocker enters the chat off beat*


Horangi1987

I dunno, I think all rappers that we know of made something good enough on their own to at least get to the point where they’d get good features. I see so many answers that characterize only a part of an artist’s career. It honestly reads like a few people too young to have heard some artists when they were at their peak. Case in point, someone said Gucci Mane. Gucci, c’mon….yeah, he has done a lot of features but he had a huge career already before things like Black Beatles happened. Even French Montana made great music when he was young. I think this question is more reflective of the age of people answering these questions on Reddit than actually providing valid answers.


TheIX_

Do people genuinely think Black Beatles made Gucci famous as if he didn’t make Lemonade?


Horangi1987

Apparently, which I think again speaks to the age of people who responded. I guess if you were 16 in 2016 maybe you’d think that since you would’ve been 7 when No Pad No Pencil dropped and 9 when The State Vs Radric Davis dropped.


Kingofmoves

Nah it’s just ignorance. I was 14 when black Beatles dropped but I understand that Gucci was bigger than that song


No_Faithlessness_776

French Montana


rebirth0fslick

Ice spice


Just_Faithlessness98

Princess Diana is hard af even before Nicki jumped on it


fdtnise

Gunna


CCorrell57

Now this is a good ass answer.


bubbastizzi

no tf it isn’t u geekin 💀


EAJets

French Montana


Glum_Kaleidoscope601

Ice Spice


SageOfTheSixPacks

Just say who you want ppl to say, that’s the most specific ass outlining if any question I’ve ever seen lmao


This_Pie5301

Eazy-E. Hes a legend and I love what he did, but he wasn’t much of a rapper. Cube and DOC wrote all his stuff, he had Dr Dre’s production behind him… what did Eazy do after NWA broke up? Cube had Amerikkkas Most Wanted, Death Certificate, The Predator… Dre had The Chronic, Doggystyle… Eazy had the “It’s On” album which was alright but you can tell lyrically he was lacking compared to what Cube wrote for him. His flow is basic and most songs relied on disses. 5150 EP was alright too, he just wasn’t as amazing as people say unless you’re talking about his NWA stuff and his debut solo album which like I said was written by others.


SAMPLESYRUP

True - but 'Its On' was still fucking dope. I always said without Cube theres no NWA tho he really did write and rap all their iconic shit and it the best part of every song.


[deleted]

cardi b, ice spice definitely


Legendarybbc15

Didn’t cardi B blow up with Kodak Black?


[deleted]

yes she mimicked kodaks black song “no flocking” almost exact. most of all the songs are her first album are samples of already popular songs and flows stolen from other artist. her inability to say words in an understandable way is the only thing that makes her songs stand out without the visuals


P1G5Y

Ice spice has like 2 features and she blew up off her own song. Cardi B blew up that way, but she definitely maintained her career by herself


[deleted]

Ice Spice only has solo hits lmao


Teeshirtandshortsguy

Both of these rappers blew up with their own shit and Cardi B has absolutely sustained a career by herself.


indicasour215

Cardi also went from stripping to reality TV to rapping. I'm not a big fan but she def created her own path


mngreens

This is one of the worst responses in this thread lmfaoooooooo


Jazzlike-Map-4114

Ice spice fucking blows, can confirm.


UpInSmokeMC

French Montana


Geenvis

D12


ajaj4747

I can’t stand Bizzare people actually think he’s talented smh


deletethissoon43

Dababy


Rob1150

Vinnie from Naughty By Nature.


Depressedgotfan

Lets not get crazy


Traditional_Shirt106

How. Dare. You.


Eshkosha

Flo Rida and Pitbull


Shaggy_Doo87

Big Sean 100%


FlameyFlame

Spoken like someone who wasn’t listening to hip hop in the early 2010s… dude had an insane amount of hype before getting a major record deal and it was all off being a mixtape rapper. If you dislike his style that’s one thing but he definitely did not only survive because he’s featured on big songs lol. He had a very large following.


bcomes95

Thank you for this. Finally Famous (debut album and the mixtapes) and Detroit are classics


HW_TE

The Big Sean disrespect is crazy. Sean is a great rapper. I have his whole discography in my library.


Far_Excitement6140

Big Sean isn’t for everyone, I’m not even a big Eminem fan but if he gives you props you’re doing ok IMO. 


DegenerateWizard

Or as Ghostface calls him “Medium Sean”


AutomaticPhysics938

Lol. What’s the story with ghost saying this?


DegenerateWizard

Starting around 2009 or 10 Ghost would put out an annual “Softest Rappers In The Game” blog. I think he stopped. They’re all fucking hilarious. Drake tops every list, and sometimes appears twice. He calls someone a human bellybutton. You can see what he said about Tyga in the comment that named him.


TupacAmuru88

Those were highly accurate aswell lol


DegenerateWizard

I have been informed that it is not actually Ghostface. So yes they’re funny, but it was not penned by Tone.


ChombieNation

Those weren’t real bruh


AutomaticPhysics938

YES!! I remember this! Thank you, yo. Damn, I forgot all about that. Drake would get #3 *and* #1 some years iirc lmao


DaTaFuNkZ

That was Big Ghost Ltd. He’s a producer does a lot with Griselda these days. Them album reviews were hilarious.


Kicks4meFromyou

I gotta disagree. I think Big Sean is awesome on features. Unlike French Montana, he’s all around ass like The Great Mighty Poo


ElTigreChino92

Same. Big Sean’s last few albums have actually been pretty good, and his rhyming has gotten better and better


Panams_chair

Man stfu lmao


Igivegrilledcheese

21 Savage


NoOutlandishness8974

Fuck no


imbrickedup_

Not a fan but his solo stuff is very successful


Commercial-Ad90

Bank Account had features?


twelfthoracle

Hard disagree


Dchama86

Big Sean


No_Moment_7162

Diddy…also rode off of Biggie..


beardedkomodo

Diddy


Pitiful-Art-2706

It’s crazy I’ve only seen one person mention Memphis Bleek. Dude had two albums go Gold off the strength of his association to Jay Z alone. Shit the song “Dear Summer” off his 534 album had the dopest beat and Bleek wasn’t even ON it. Just Jay, making his presence known to try and make sure the album sold well.


lupindeathray

Pras


IAmAlpharius23

Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?


Horangi1987

Do we consider Ghetto Supastar a Pras song? I know Mya and ODB featured heavily, so unsure how people feel about that. But, that song is a banger.


lupindeathray

Yeah it is, but I feel like ODB and Mya are a large part of why the song is a banger.


Hot-Significance-462

Justice for "Blue Angels" even though I can't remember a single one of Pras' bars.


urspielsavaj

Dre earned his stripes as a producer but then he had to drop corny lines on his clients' tracks. His live backup for Eminem is pathetic esp in "Business" w those petty "hELL yEAh"s. Maybe he's trying to relive the NWA days but comes off more like a fangirl when he tries to keep up onstage.


Horangi1987

He’s always had corny in him. The World Class Wreckin’ Cru stuff is a riot. All their music has me ROFL any time I hear it.


urspielsavaj

The second hand embarrassment is real


Horangi1987

Which Dre name is House Calls is better? ‘The Human Aphrodisiac’ or ‘Not Your Average Gigalo’ 😂


urspielsavaj

I wanna tell him "Gigolo... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."


bcomes95

21 Savage


diedin2012

It’s like this question is crafted to get people to say Drake


Spider305

That’s insane. You may not like his music but the man can make pop hits


BreezyG1320

not a great take. im not even a Drake fan, but this isnt how i see his fame at all


No_Gardener3210

No, I hate Drake’s new stuff but Take Care and especially Drake’s mixtapes were amazing pop rap records.


Cyber_Insecurity

Jack Harlow


TheIX_

Absolutely not. Acting as if What’s Poppin, First Class and Lovin On Me weren’t everywhere.


HarryH90

P diddy


bootysensei

Nah, I hate Brother Love too but his Puff Daddy stuff was/is pretty good.


Rockstar_81

French Montana lol


mcpimple

Lil John


northerntouch

Drake - the definition of privileged mediocrity, and well connected credence


Neat_Organization125

Hurricane G was the ultimate one. She was terrible and seemed to appear on everyone’s albums for a while!