Music Debate: Which Hip Hop SOLO artist had the BEST debut single ever?
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Ok, I'll have to take your word for it, but according to several internet music sources, this album was heavily bootlegged but never officially released by Columbia House.
it might have been a NY thing - Hot 97 did give it spins
Really. We need to tighten the criteria a bit. Is it about sales or impact or putting the artist on the map or what?
I'm surprised this hasn't been posted. I don't think it was a huge hit but that beat is legendary, it introduced Snoop, and we knew some hot shit was coming later.
Damn, there's some heaters in here. I can't decide.
No Special Ed though? That shit was huge. If I Got It Made was his first single. Mufukas always got some information up their sleeves, lol.
This was a wonderful intro...
Great beat and one of the most unique flows ever.
Great debut and actually one of many great singles...
Its up there.
I think "how to rob" was 50s takeaway.
So Hard
Kurtis Blow, "Xmas Rap"
Schooly D, "P.S.K."
Nucleus, "Jam on It"
U.T.F.O. "Roxanne, Roxanne"
Whodini, "Magic's Wand" or " Haunted House of Rap"
MY BAD, Soloist. Kurtis & Schooly
Kurtis Blow, "Xmas Rap"
Schooly D, "P.S.K."
Nucleus, "Jam on It"
U.T.F.O. "Roxanne, Roxanne"
Whodini, "Magic's Wand" or " Haunted House of Rap"
MY BAD, Soloist. Kurtis & Schooly
OP wants a soloist and the Fresh Prince released "Girls" on the debut album. "Parents" is the "DJ, Rapper" 2nd album.
"Brenda" is the 2nd radio song
Ok, Olive Branch...been diggin around and Power of the Dollar would have been 50's debut cd and How to Rob would have been the debut single, however 50 got shot up before the album got released and Columbia dropped him from the label and shelved the cd. How to How to Rob was officially released as the first single...to The CD that never came out. The Cd has not been officially released to this day however it has been heavily bootlegged. With all that said, 50's first Officially released cd is Get Rich or Die Tryin and In Da Club is the first officially released debut single off of it. So I guess we both are kinda right.
There's a lot of wrong in this post.
Is this a joke?
too early ?
"Oh, Carolina" was a better song, IMO.
Drake best I ever had.
" buzz so big, i could prolly sell a blank disc"
- Drake
" buzz so big, i could prolly sell a blank disc"
- Drake
whaaa da fuck is wrong with yall..
method man
bring the pain...
I remember walkin in brooklyn the summer the song dropped, somebody pulled up
bumpin that shit, the whole fuckin block was singing along....and nodding
and the video bruh... real nyc shit!!!
method man
bring the pain...
I remember walkin in brooklyn the summer the song dropped, somebody pulled up
bumpin that shit, the whole fuckin block was singing along....and nodding
and the video bruh... real nyc shit!!!
5 years later i think this may be the answer
No what's wrong is the fact that a lot of the artist being named in this thread was very regional as hell,Nas,Jay-z,Big Pun they had good debut singles but in other places they weren't played like that I'm sure;Jay-z said it himself that in certain parts of the south he didn't get many sales so that's how Big Pimpin came about.
Many have had good/great debut singles,to many to count but the best debut single ever?it's a hard answer but my list is a lot better than most of the answers in here because at least I chose artist that had a great debut single that went from coast to coast that set them up for nothing but success...they couldn't lose even if they tried to.
You may not like the song or the artist but name someone else,shit I don't like em but facts are facts and if you choose to name a few artist I can bet that my artist singles out sold their total albums sales.....at the end of the day that's what it is about.
I’m glad this thread is back up; after many years of thinking about it I’ve come away that there’s only one correct answer to this question and it’s:
So look at it like this; in the mid 90s No Limit has started putting New Orleans on the hip-hop map. It was a new style of music that folks elsewhere hadn’t heard and served as a heads up that folks were making hip-hop in places other than the east and west coast, and at that time the Midwest had start putting out a few hitters out of Chicago like Twista, Da Brat, Crucial Conflict, Common, etc.
So is ‘Ha’ drops in 98. And upon the first watch of the video and hearing the beat, anyone who wasnt from New Orleans was like “what the fuck is this shit?” It was a sound that most folks had not heard of. But upon a second, third, fourth, fifth listen to the song into the video, most folks was like ”ok this shit goes!”
This song arguably is what blew the doors to New Orleans hip-hop wide open, it is responsible for, at minimum, the success that Juve and Lil Wayne enjoyed amongst others. And the video is arguably a top-five hip-hop music video of all time; rare that you saw a music video that showed the humanity and day to day of black folks in a city wrapped up in four minutes.
So look at it like this; in the mid 90s No Limit has started putting New Orleans on the hip-hop map. It was a new style of music that folks elsewhere hadn’t heard and served as a heads up that folks were making hip-hop in places other than the east and west coast, and at that time the Midwest had start putting out a few hitters out of Chicago like Twista, Da Brat, Crucial Conflict, Common, etc.
So is ‘Ha’ drops in 98. And upon the first watch of the video and hearing the beat, anyone who wasnt from New Orleans was like “what the fuck is this shit?” It was a sound that most folks had not heard of. But upon a second, third, fourth, fifth listen to the song into the video, most folks was like ”ok this shit goes!”
This song arguably is what blew the doors to New Orleans hip-hop wide open, it is responsible for, at minimum, the success that Juve and Lil Wayne enjoyed amongst others. And the video is arguably a top-five hip-hop music video of all time; rare that you saw a music video that showed the humanity and day to day of black folks in a city wrapped up in four minutes.
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