Remember When…

King Jerm November 13, 2008 7

Do you guys remember when The Diplomats were the hottest crew in Hip-Hop a few years back? Think about it, Cam’ron, Jim Jones, and Juelz were damn near household names. I never knew what Jim Jones did, but I damn sure knew his name. They had a 2Pac-like following, the base of their support was the 15-21 crowd. The internet following that they had was insane, rivaling only that white guy from 8 Mile road in Detroit. I know I kid around about Cam, but I’m being serious now, he was probably the only boss of a crew that made everybody else a STAR. Think about it…

Jay-Z/ Roc-a-fella
Bleek, Freeway, and Beans never really made it over the hump, but I’ll give you Kanye.

Eminem/ Shady
D-12 were looked at as a novelty, and Obie had the lyrics, but was catering to the wrong audience.

50 Cent/ G-Unit
Curtis and the Unit are more popular than the Set, but 50 always was at the top, never on the side.

Fat Joe/ Terror Squad
Come on, Joey was barely even making it. Cuban Link and Remy are irrelevant now.

Check out some of these videos and tell me that the Dips were not the hottest crew out at the time:

Let’s not forget the best performance at The Source Awards.

Check out Cam in this video

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The most opinionated of the group (Probably sometimes the biggest jackass too). Urban legend has it that he used to have a dying love for “project chicks”. Claims to have never listened to nothing but Hip-Hop. Sports (like most of us) comes a close second to Hip-Hop.

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  • P-Body

    Yeah I’ll give you that, Dip set was hot. I liked some of their cuts I gotta be real but that was it. I wasn’t a big big fan of them especially since all their beats started sounding the same with the sped up samples.

  • Fallen Angel

    Did’nt Camron used to rap with Big L?

  • http://nappyafro.com Guy Fawkes

    @Fallen Angel
    Yup, DITC… we got a hip hop head in the house!

  • Boricua

    remember when…you guys were suppose to do that “tronic” review

  • http://www.nappyafro.com King Jerm

    @ Boricua

    I ain’t trying to throw anybody under the bus or nothing, but…..
    *cough SBK cough*

    holler at that dude! But if you want to do it, we will post it up!

  • Frank White

    You guys should do a classic materials article on big L’s album lifestyles of the poor and dangerous and you should do the 100 greatest moments in hip hop list.

  • fromes

    yes cam’ron did rap with big L but not in DITC (diggin in the crates) that is fat joes old crew…Mase, Cam, and big L where called the childern on the corn

 
 
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