Ofcourse, dont school me on rap dude, please!kidshuffle wrote:Yeah but you see his hip hop songs got no exposure over here, regardless if he was on hot 97 or BET. I remember when Maths + English came out I had to specially order it from HMV because they weren't stocking it. The people pushing Amy may have been the ones pushing him, but its insanely hard for a foreigner to break into hip hop in the US, especially with the accent (changed or not) and especially at that point in time.
The only songs that saw success were shit like bonkerz, which is what I thought you were talking about, thus why I was talking about Europe. That shit was easily forgotten about over on this side.
I'm saying he prioritized having a go at trying to become a us rap artist, over maintaining his spot as a young fresh producer that even got a mercury prize for his work, that inluded him making the beats. It was never going to happen, but maybe he was apart from a few jamaicans and canadians the closest to maybe getting there, but it was a dumb decision not just artistically.
