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[The Tens] 10 Failed Hip Hop Collaborations That Sounded Better On Paper
By now, everyone has heard the dud that was Jay-Z and Kanye West‘s highly anticipated single from their Watch The Throne album titled “H.A.M.” Unfortunately, the Lex Luger production ended up tasting more like “S.P.A.M.” and left much to be desired. But this isn’t the first time high profile names came together and chucked up a brick. TheWellVersed presents ten other collaborations that sounded better on paper than they did in real life.
Andreas Hale
The former editor of HipHopSite.com, HipHopDX.com and BET.com is both the Founder & Editor-In-Chief of TheWellVersed. He is also a producer for Jay-Z's LifeandTimes.com YouTube channel. You can follow him via his Twitter: @AndreasHale
I agree with everyone except Onyx & Wu Tang!! First off it dropped in 98 not 04!! And that shit banged then and it still does now. The way Sticky and Meth go back n forth at the end, that shit is hot, kid. “Yo stop frontin’ and use ya head.”
Don’t wanna insult you but did you actually read the post? It said “This is the perfect example of a song that would have been incredible IF it was like 1994 rather than 1998.” I capitalized the key word to help
I’m pretty sure it did say ’04 yesterday. You don’t have to clown the guy, especially if you edited it afterward.
The Worst was the best. And The Firm was a pretty solid album.
The Firm album was tight, how u gonna hate on Phone Tap, Desperado’s, and Affirmative Action. Even Firm Biz was fun.
I don’t know about the “Hit Em High” track. Maybe at the time you weren’t feeling it but that was a fun song that was dope. Sorry ! Zoom Zoom was the shit, I don’t know what you were listening to.
This is a decent list, but THE FIRM album was dope…
“Affirmative Action” > The Firm: The Album
11. Gucci Mane Ft. Talib Kweli – Poltergiest
true…
i think you could take hit’em high and the firm album off this list they had some decent songs on there…you could replace them with some of the DJ Kahled tracks that are out there
Zoom was actually meant to be with Snoop Dogg. I have it and snoop fits in alot better than Cool J
u buggin!! the worst was fire, dont know what u heard! i can almost agree with all the rest. Firm album had about 4-5 tight tracks, but yeah an overall dissappointment! how come lil wayne aint on this list … he has a plethora of failed collabos (madonna, enrique, shakira, baby, etc.)
Hit em High and Zoom were dope!
Except everyone loved H.A.M.
So…
http://www.complex.com/music/2011/01/whats-the-consensus-the-internets-top-tastemakers-react-to-jay-z-kanye-wests-h-a-m
There should be a top 10 list of ” top 10 most disappointmenting top 10 lists”
We’d see this on there. Why is this cat tryin to clown that space jam joint. It was the soundtrack to a kids movie, what the f*ck do you want it to sound like
this is dumb the firm is the shit you have no idea what your talking about you cant be a real hip hop head and not like the firm and nature what?!?!?!?! you must not of heard five mins to flush
I agree with most of it, but Hit ‘Em High was dope!!!
What about Jay-Z’s and R. Kelly’s ENTIRE “Best of Both Worlds” album? #donotbelievethehype.
Hit Em High is a nice song. Stan was dope. The Worst was dope. The Firm album was dope, just wasn’t the type of album people expected. Dre and Jay-Z have collaborated before. And the rest of your list didn’t sound good on paper to begin with (Beiber, really? You expected something cool out of that?) Why did you include We Are the World? I’m fairly sure no one rapped on there.
The idea of making this list sounded good on paper but failed miserably..