I hated it too lol but I remember

Yeah but it was those monoculture days where you were gonna hear that s*** no matter how much you didn't want to

Only thing he polished was his nails

like it was UNIVERSALLY accepted that both 50 and Eminem destroyed that man’s career where now it’s still a debate that Kendrick was the winner for some people lmao

Drake had a big run during the monoculture days too though. TML - Views was definitely that time

I really wasn’t accepted at first. The effects of the beef didn’t hit Ja immediately cuz he still had hits post beef.

To be fair as a huge Drake stan if we had social media during that it would’ve looked a lot different

Literally the only Drake “falls off” is if the pedo allegations are true. That’s it lmao. But at least the stimulus is dead

IYRTITL and Views were 2015 and 2016 the culture was already splintering off cuz this was streaming and SoundCloud era

SAY MONOCULTURE AGAIN

What hits besides New York? If this is 2003 idk if he still had traction like that. I had the R.U.L.E album but nobody was rocking with Ja after 03-04

Lol yeah but Ja still had a little bit of life in him. It just wasn't the same fr

Nah but every party I went to played both of those projects and you could not escape Hotline Bling, Controlla, and One Dance. S*** even Work can be added to this

Partly but streaming had kinda started to fracture things off by that point iirc

It randomly crosses my mind how Coolee was the go to source for Kendrick info during the peak and no one from Kendrick's camp claimed to know him

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New York was his last time to shine but you can argue that Kiss and Joey Crack had a lot to do with that

Bro the same year he had New York he had the Wonderful song with Ashanti and R Kelly.

“If it wasn’t for the money card and clothes and all the things I gotttt” that s*** lasted till like 2005 lol

Meltdown >>

It's the same in sports, you get removed your titles if you get caught winning them by using performance enhancing substances

That’s my s*** but that’s kind of a deep cut ngl I don’t think it was that big of a song compared to the other joints he had back in the day

??? Ja Rule was a bigger commercial act than Jadakiss at that time bro

Fat Joe just came out with Lean Back to be fair. I’m sure that was the stimulus there helped him out at that time

It was Top 5 on billboard lol

Word? I didn’t know that lol but again it wasn’t as strong as the previous hits he had. I don’t think he recovered from 03