the most expendable rappers-an article from black planet

9 Most Expendable Rap Group Members Previous Click for More Post by The Urban Daily in Music on Aug 13, 2010 at 12:42 pm

Quick, name all of the members of Young Money. Taking you a minute huh? With the movie The Expendables opening today we began to wonder about those expendable members of the most popular rap groups.


What makes them expendable? If you can’t name them right way is an easy indicator, but if the group manages to do just fine without them that could be a sign that they haven’t made the strongest impression on the masses. Not to mention, quite a few of the members of this list had their expendable status established during jail bids.

Maybe they are doing a whole lot behind the scenes that we aren’t aware of but at least to the naked eye, here are the nine most expendable group members–ever.

9. Jarobi, A Tribe Called Quest

Yes, it’s nice to see him on stage during Tribe reunion shows but when he left the group to go to culinary school not one Tribe fan batted an eye lash.

8. Turk of the Hot Boys

Turk. He’s the one that’s not B.G., Juvenile or Lil Wayne. He’s been busy racking up felonies to increase his street cred for that all important comeback in 2020.

7.Everybody in Young Money except Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj



Take Nicki Minaj and Drake out of this picture and you pretty much have a high school talent show lineup.

6.Freaky Zekey (Dipset)




As Cam’s cousin his spot in Dipset is pretty much assured but if Jaffy Joffer, Juelz and Jimmy reunited without him would you really care?

5.Crunchy Black (3-6 Mafia)



Things have been pretty strained between dancer/rapper Crunchy and 3-6 of late and even they don’t seem to feel they need him around anymore.

4.Amil



Yeah, girls can get it too. While most crews just weren’t complete without a “first lady” she just couldn’t get it together. All she had to do was look cute and recite the rhymes written for her but Hov gave her her walking papers and she’s been MIA ever since. (Not MIA the singer…but GONE.)

3.Taboo (Black Eyed Peas)

Practically the Amber Rose of the Black Eyed Peas no one has ever heard him speak. But thanks to Will.i.am he’s probably rich enough to buy 1000 Nuvo bottle chains and make it rain in 5 states at once.

2. U-God (Wu-Tang Clan)

We thought his appearances on “Triumph” and “Cher Chez La Ghost” were great but if he were to go on another government vacation for this next Wutang album there are like 40 dudes from Sunz Of Man waiting to take his spot in a hurry.

1. Pras (The Fugees)

The undisputed most expendable group member of all. From the inception of The Fugees fans and critics alike called for his expulsion (or replacement with John Forte.) While we give him dap for introducing Lauryn to Clef in the first place we’d be just as happy if he stuck to making cameos with Sweet Mickey.
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who would you add to this list

 

HA!!!! Damn, Pras gets NO love from anybody.


I'll try to think of some useless members.


Go-Mack from Above the Law. Left after their second album. I think he was the DJ.

Maybe Eric B. Although he was the DJ, he didn't produce or do the scratches for it. Large Professor did the production Eric B. was supposed to have done and I forgot who did the scratches for him.

Lady of Rage, the one nobody cared about on Death Row.

 

Afro Puffs was mean kid lol

Everyone from Lost Boys except Mr Cheeks and Freaky Tah
Lil Cease from Junior Mafia
Freeway from the Roc
Everyone in Dipset except Juelz and Camron
Everyone in Harlem World
Havoc from Mobb Deep
Young Buck from G-Unit

I could do this all day lol

 

Afro Puffs was raw. I'll give her that.


I don't know of anything lil Cease mad outside of "Crush on You", but that was my shit in 2nd grade.

 

How they gunna diss turk like that? Turk had the best line on bling bling.

A lil nigga 17, playing with six figures
got so much ice you can skate on a nigga- turk

The bolded in my opinion is not true mayne. I'm not from new york but I even I know jim jones had a short lived big buzz. If you think about, juelz was the one without a cross-over hit. He did have streetbangers for days though.

I can see why you said that about the mobb.

And nah, if anybody in g-unit was the "what's his name again guy" it was tony yayo. Only people from south jamaica queens care about that dude.

 

Dude Yayo is raw he just wasn't successful commercially and Jim Jones had ballin and that's it and it was hot because of the chorus not cause that nigga could rap. Jim jones is worthless.

 

Nah.You need jim jones. Without jim jones it's not dipset. I can't imagine dipset without jim jones shit would be lame. His lyrical skills won't be missed but his presence will be, same way if their was no cam or juelz. As for yayo, he trash. G- unit was better when it was 50,game,buck,banks.

 

One clever line ain't gonna make a rapper useful to his group. And that so much I, you could skate on it line has been used so many times. Not sure if Turk was the first to say it(don't care), but I've heard it used so many times in the last 5 years, and I don't even go outta my way to listen to these types of songs. That line is overused like Stevie Wonder/Ray Charles references in rap lyrics.

 

Bizarre from D12-I'm not a D12 fan and I can't match up the voices of half the members, but I do know what Bizarre sounds like and dude is fucking wack. He tires to hard to be the "Shock the Audience" rapper and his over the top lyrics comes of as weak. Dude can't step to Brotha Lynch, Big L, Necro, Esham, Natas, Em, hell, even rappers like Immortal Technique, Biggie and Spice 1 when it comes to this kinda shit. The last three rappers don't even try to make as many shock lyrics as the others I listed and they do it better than Bizarre.

 

Your outta of your mind.

Freeway is nice...he would missed.

Dipset needs to keep Jim Jones(he brings the quality of Boss(Cam), Up in coming rookie(Juelz) and Hypeman(Freekey zeekey) all in one) Even though he backstabbed cam, it wouldnt be the same

Havoc??? Not even gonna say how wrong you are

Young buck is nice, I know everyone says Banks is the best of the G Unit. Listen to Beg for Mercy album. He kills almost every track, makes Banks look avarage.

 

Yeah he was the first to say it and co/sign about the ray and stevie references lol. All I'm saying is that Turk was more popular than weezy was in the 90's. The article is acting like he was the underrated member, when it was wayne who was the underrated one. But people forgot that when weezy went into beast mode in 2004-2007

 

At least Pras as a hit record (or two), I can't say the same about the rest of the expendables...

He's making his money overseas too.

 

why is half the wutang needed

 

Drae I was going to straighten out BA until I saw your list. Playboy you're a New York head with that?? C'mon son, the Havoc mention is blasphemy. Mobb would not have nearly the two dozen or so bangers without Hav....

 

....As a follow up is see my other NY head made sure you were blasted on for some of those ill references...

 

Havoc the Mouthpiece from South Central Cartel. Dude isn't a rapper, but the hype man for the group, but fuck is he annoying. And gangsta rappers don't need hypemen.


Fun Fact: Havoc, Havikk and Prodeje from SCC came out before Havoc and Prodigy of Mobb Deep. :smt023

 

the days of the hype man are gone because hip hop is dead and now it is just rap. total difference between a rapper and a MC.

raps best

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hip hop (MC)

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LIL wayne could fuck with these cats with all of his records lyrically and style. hell Im just grabbing the light weights in the hip hop game. dont let me get the real deal out on their assess

hell Let me get a smooth on ya

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Digital Underound is the shit. Shock G/Hump is hella funny. Straight P-Funk in them beats, too.

 

hell ya , tupac was a dancer for them before he went on his own. look for him in the video ...he is in there

 

Yeah, I remember that. DU took Pac in when he was broke and hungry and the rest is history. Most people don't even know that shit.