The road to rap stardom is paved with pitfalls, false promises and blown expectations. The slightest misstep could mean a lost chance at a record deal, or a ruined career. Struggle rappers excel at making such mistakes, repeatedly.
Whether going honey baked ham against your rivals on Twitter and saying you got hacked (we’re looking at you, Big Guwop), getting your reputation slandered by the Feds or even the public coming to the realization that their bars were always deficient, the list of rap fails is quite varied. What some of these artists were thinking–crying on the line with 50 Cent is a can’t win–just boggles the mind.
Here’s a look at the 11 greatest struggle rapper fails in Hip-Hop. Feel free to let us know what you think we missed in the comments.
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Chief Keef Being Chief Keef
From baby mama drama to arrests for an array of stupid reasons, Sosa is the poster boy for rap struggle.
Canibus Rhyming Off A Pad In Battle
After inexplicably going at J. Cole, Canibus had a change of heart and apologized. There was also that time he read his rhymes off a notepad in a battle. Consider that a 2 for 1 struggle special.
A pair of rappers you never heard of called Da Youngfellaz got sued by their record label for allegedly blowing their advance on weed. True story.
Papoose Crashing The Summer Jam Stage
The only thing Kendrick Lamar was rewarded with by letting Pap get on stage at Summer Jam was a “Control (Freestyle)” where he said the Compton rapper ain’t the king of sh*t. So much for loyalty, eh? Hey, we got some hilarious memes out of it, though.
Dude That Battled Biggie In Bed-Stuy In ’88
The only King of NY lyrically destroyed this man in battle. To the victim credit, he couldn’t have known what was about to go down. But damn.
Young Buck Crying On The Phone With 50 Cent
We all know 50 is cold blooded when vengeance is on his mind. So Buck shedding tears on a very recordable phone line was pure folly.
Alfamega Revealed To Be An Informant
The Grand Hustle muscle got put on blast with paperwork saying he was a snitch. Not the guy T.I. wanted to keep close, so he was quickly curved from Grand Hustle, and the Hip-Hop game in general.
Amil Dropping The Ball
The Major Coinz rapper was the Roc’s sole female MC yet managed to get dropped after a solitary album.
Gucci Mane Using Twitter & Abusing English Grammar
Over a three day period, Gucci Mane has Tweeted greasy about Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, T.I., Jeezy and many many more. Log off bruh.
Any rapper that has signed to Bad Boy Records not named the Notorious BIG.
Diddy’s gift of gab must be incredible sicne he can still convince artists he’ll make them superstars. Four rappers in the Bad Boy history book have turned to religion after souring on the music business; Ma$e, Shyne, Loon & Craig Mack. Any questions?
