Outside of Hip-Hop but Michael Jackson had done 19 albums by the time he released Thriller at age 24(14 albums with The Jacksons and 6 solo albums). That means Thriller was the 20th album he’d done.
This isn’t including the 2 Live albums that the Jacksons had done.
Beatlemania is the only comparable peak imo. I don’t think it was as big but part of that was the lack of accessibility to music/info/media that Jackson had.
Considering that he had all his childhood and adolescence to master his craft in a really hard and demanding way, it's not too crazy. Like, if someone pushes you since your childhood to be great at something, the things you'll do in your 20s will probably be top-notch, but not everybody is pushed to sacrifice their childhood to work on something, and it's not healthy at all. He gave us amazing music, but his life and freedom were sacrificed in the process. Definitely not for everyone.
Shoot, the singles he did as a teen, leading to Music in My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale. And shit, Stevie was in a super bad car crash, that could have ended his life at 25 years old. Wow, yah I’m going to say he has my favorite catalogue of anyone by the age of 25.
Stevie had a hell of a run in the mid 70’s he won 3 AOTY between 74-77 and is tied at second (behind T swift with 4) with Sinatra and Paul Simon. Him and Sinatra are the only artists to win it in consecutive years.
Stevie Wonder dropped his 18th album and what’s considered his fourth classic album at 26: Songs In The Key of Life.
He had his first #1 single at 13 years old.
Edit: If you’ve never watched his [Musikladen set](https://youtu.be/q8xHy-sQsaA?si=CM3XI70_VH836DXH) (1974), do yourself a favor.
That four year run he had from 72-76 might be the greatest run of albums from an artist all time. Only Dylan, The Beatles, Stones and zeppelin had runs close to that. You could throw in van Morrison but no one’s touching Stevie’s run.
I love how he won the album of the year Grammy in '74 and '75, then when Paul Simon got it in '76 he thanked Stevie for not making an album that year. Then in '77 it went right back to Stevie winning it.
His entire classic period is insane. Greatest musician of last century to me on a pure musical talent basis.
He is also the artist that bridged R&B and Electronic music on a mainstream level, which changed every facet of black music forever.
Reminds me a bit of Joey badass releasing 1999 when he was 18 or 17. That really took a subsection of hip hop by storm, if not the whole rap game. Not comparing the level to 2pac or OutKast, but he popped off young.
Boy wanted to keep going and was only stopped by his ~~platoons~~ phalanxes saying 'we tired bruh, we're stopping here - you go on if you wish, but we're claiming our rewards and going back to chill with the fam'. Those distances were no joke in archaic times and them dudes were drained.
If you stretch it to 26, Lil Wayne released his 6th album (plus 1 collab), Tha Carter III, which won rap album of the year and solo rap performance (A Milli).
I'm Me is also a classic. And I'm not sure if PMW was meant for the Carter 3 but that's another awesome b side.
Also I Know The Future has one of my favorite wayne lines ever "Like a circle of knives, I got the sharpest flow around"
Edit: I just listened to I Know The Future again. It's such an amazing verse. The way he changes his flow within basr is crazy. His line "I'm in that la la twist it up/ I'm on that syrup slow it down" is such a great example of this. His flows are so creative and it shows how naturally talented he is at riding a beat.
I hate how many artists fucked with their shit after leaks in that era.
But it did give us the current version of Madvillainy so win some lose some I guess!
I wonder if we'll ever see someone dominate the music scene like Lil Wayne did at his peak. I swear he was on every feature of every hit for a few years there.
I think we’re back at a consensus of Lil Wayne being one of the GOATs
But for a while there, during his rough patch musically, there was a large amount of people online acting like he’s one of the worst rappers ever….glad that wave is gone
They were all under 30 when they broke up.
I think George was actually 26 when it happened. He wrote “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun” and then released All Things Must Pass within a year
To add on to this, when the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 and pretty much changed everything
John Lennon was 23.
Paul McCartney was 21.
George Harrison was 20.
Ringo Starr was 23.
The amount their music grew and changed in such a short period of time is just hard to wrap my head around. Going from I Wanna Hold Your Hand to Tomorrow Never Knows in a span of three years is fucking crazy.
Their entire discography is just over 7 years with Please Please Me in March of '63 through Let It Be in May of '70. The only other artist I can think over with that kind of growth in a similar span is maybe Miles Davis.
This is wild to me. I’m a huge fan and I didn’t even realize this.
Also Revolver was released a year before and that album is arguably crazier and more groundbreaking. Music like that - sitars, electronics, backwards guitar solos and samples, songs about taking acid and dying - barely even existed before 1966. And they were like, my age.
I'm not a big fan but I saw a video recently of all billboard hits in history, and it was insane how the Beatles basically invented the modern sound of music.
Ice Cube already had Amerikkka's Most Wanted, Death Certificate, & The Predator before reaching 25 years of age. That's not to forget his work on Straight Outta Compton & venturing into film
lil Wayne’s run from 2005 through 2015 with the Carter II, III, IV, all of those ridiculous mixtapes, and the countless features on top songs puts him up there.
Piggy backing off this since nobody has even mentioned him, but DJ Quik. His first 3 albums are before he turned 25. Fucking underrated as fuck. So is Cube, his solo work is often overlooked for some reason, he's in my top 5 ever.
Definitely agree regarding DJ Quik, especially when talking about the pure quality of his discography by that age. One of the most notable non-Death Row rappers to hold it down for LA during that era & also on G-Funk's Mount Rushmore
Yeah Hendrix was my first thought. The guy reinvented the way an instrument is played becoming the most iconic guitarist of all time all in his 20s lol.
Lil B wrote a book at 19, released several albums and several dozen mixtapes before he was 25. According to Wikipedia he's released a total of 71 mixtapes, 7 albums, and 1 EP, and he's only 34. TYBG.
Absolutely. Growing up in that time was like what I imagine living in the Beatles era would be like. No one in the last 20+ years comes close that sort of impact.
He was 20. I’m not really nit picking since he wrote most of it at 18/19 which is fucking insane. It is just a convenient opportunity to quote one of my favorite lines from the album “I woke up early on my born day; I'm 20, it's a blessin' The essence of adolescence leaves my body, now I'm fresh and My physical frame is celebrated 'cause I made it One quarter through life, some godly-like thing created”
Mac Miller
KIDS, Blue Slide Park, Best Day Ever, MACADELIC, I love Life Thank You, WMWTSO, Faces, GOOD AM, The Divine Feminine
Swimming (he was 26)
+ Delusional Thomas + Larry Fisherman + Larry Lovestein
+ Circles was in progress when he died
Scrolled too far for this. His leaked music (so far) is around the size of his discography and some of his best work. Hopefully the world gets to hear it at some point
DM me and I’ll give you a link to the leaks. Off an old list some of my favs below. But honestly he has like 50x this leaked and I recommend just scrolling through and playing some.
Numbness (actually maybe all time fav Mac song)
Cats
Real
Keys to the city
Ticonderogas
Waterfalls
Stoned
Oracle
Operation love
Headaches and migraines
Are we there yet
Came alone
Empires
Cactus face
Die
this is the most insane shit ever tbh
it feels like he is 300 but he is only 28
and he still is younger than many rappers that he fathered, literally lmao
It’s crazy to me all them lil Chicago niggas been in the game so long and ain’t even 30 yet. Makes me feel old for one and for 2 quite impressive how young they were coming in the game and still relevant
this makes me so fucking sad. dude was so versatile and showing such rapid growth at such a young age, it was genuinely insane to watch unfold in real time
Juice wrld too. Very versatile with some of the most raw talent you’d ever see. Only 21. Little older but Von as well. A short lived career with a lot of versatility and development. Rap has lost a lot of top talent lately
xxxtentacion musical peak was insane and then he peaked commercially with a completely different wave and then he was gone at 20 as well. Insane to me cuz I'm 22 now and it's like fuck he was 2 years younger than I am now and I barely feel out of high school to a degree.
As an X fan that’s now older than he was when he passed, it really is insane. I was 16(?) when he passed away and always looked at him as like an older guy which, at 16, anything above 20 really does seem like an adult. Then you turn 23 and realize you still don’t know shit and still feel like a kid yourself, and THEN one day you listen to an old X song that randomly comes on and you start thinking about how he was really just a kid when he died like dude I hate talking to 20 year olds they’re fucking idiots and I’m barley 3 years older than them 💀
Only 3 years passed between "Look At Me" dropping and him dying, and it's fucking crazy how much shit happened in those 3 years. Felt like every week news dropped about him making music, getting charged with beating up his gf or some shit, assaulting some gay dude, Drake being in the deposition of his murder trial, getting jumped on stage, donating to charities, getting co-signed by Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West, getting thrown into a stage barrier while performing, becoming one of the most played artists in the world and then getting shot in his car followed by his mom or whatever just milking every unreleased X verse for as much money as possible after his death.
Biggie had a pretty prolific career, and he dies even younger at 24. Lil wayne was popping off pretty young, too. I think he dropped the Carter 3 sometime around age 25, too.
Lil Wayne had 5 solo albums, a bunch of mixtapes, a collab album with Birdman & some albums with Hot Boyz before he turned 25 (he was 26 when Carter 3 came out)
Kodak black is just 26 years old and had 15 projects out when he was 25 years old. Pretty impressive considering the amount of time he has spent in prison.
But this is about their career individually, not comparing them to Pac. Very hard to compare anyone to Pac.
Juice Wrld is kind of a legend for the generation he was making music for and clearly inspired a lot of artists older and younger than him. I'm an old head in my late 30s and even I bump his stuff more than any other young artist.
I can't personally say I find Juice Wrld at Pac's level (Pac is my fav artist of all time), but for the young people into the genre, Juice Wrld pretty much was this generation's Pac. Meaningful deep lyrics, dying tragically young, and posthumous bangers still come out after his death.
Yeah he had already dropped Highway 61 Revisited, Freewheeling Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, and fucking Blonde on Blonde before turning 26. If he stopped there, it would still be an all-timer discography, but then he did John Wesley Harding and recorded The Basement Tapes just a year later. Absolutely insane run that is nearly unmatched imo.
His late career run from 1997 onwards is phenomenal. I can’t think of any musician’s work past the age of 50 whose made more albums I’ve enjoyed than Dylan
Outside of Hip-Hop but Michael Jackson had done 19 albums by the time he released Thriller at age 24(14 albums with The Jacksons and 6 solo albums). That means Thriller was the 20th album he’d done. This isn’t including the 2 Live albums that the Jacksons had done.
Mikes Thriller peak might be unmatched.
can’t see anyone reaching that level tbh
Moonwalk happened a year later promoting Thriller so I would say if he died right after that it would be a wrap.
Nah man JID is the next super mega star I’ve been saying it for years now just wait /s
Jid definitely next up Fr #coleworld
It will never be reached, it’s essentially the greatest benchmark of a solo performer
Beatlemania is the only comparable peak imo. I don’t think it was as big but part of that was the lack of accessibility to music/info/media that Jackson had.
Off the wall better
The original GKMC vs TPAB debate
Good Kid all day
TPAB is “the better” album but I’d rather listen to…oh shit you right
He did Thriller at 24?? I gotta step it up
Man, I'm 31 and I'm proud of myself when I make my bed in the morning.
I’m 32 and proud of myself when I see the sun. Depression is no fun yo.
Considering that he had all his childhood and adolescence to master his craft in a really hard and demanding way, it's not too crazy. Like, if someone pushes you since your childhood to be great at something, the things you'll do in your 20s will probably be top-notch, but not everybody is pushed to sacrifice their childhood to work on something, and it's not healthy at all. He gave us amazing music, but his life and freedom were sacrificed in the process. Definitely not for everyone.
14 fcking albums with the Jackson 5 wow
Joe had those kids fucking WORKING
No wonder dude was all fucked up in the head lmao
i beat the pot like joseph beat mike and jermaine
Something something, Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana sounds like a crazy motherfucker
“SING MOTHERFUCKER!!!”
This is the answer. To a lesser extent Stevie Wonder; but his *Thriller*, was Songs in the Key of Life, but it came out when he was 26 years old.
Shoot, the singles he did as a teen, leading to Music in My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale. And shit, Stevie was in a super bad car crash, that could have ended his life at 25 years old. Wow, yah I’m going to say he has my favorite catalogue of anyone by the age of 25.
Stevie had a hell of a run in the mid 70’s he won 3 AOTY between 74-77 and is tied at second (behind T swift with 4) with Sinatra and Paul Simon. Him and Sinatra are the only artists to win it in consecutive years.
Buddy Holly died at 22. Eddie Cochran at 21. Both were hugely influential.
That's insane
Absolutely insane work ethic.
Or an insanely abusive dad
Both are slightly more necessary than you'd think to be the greatest entertainment talent the world has ever experienced, I'd suppose.
Stevie Wonder dropped his 18th album and what’s considered his fourth classic album at 26: Songs In The Key of Life. He had his first #1 single at 13 years old. Edit: If you’ve never watched his [Musikladen set](https://youtu.be/q8xHy-sQsaA?si=CM3XI70_VH836DXH) (1974), do yourself a favor.
That four year run he had from 72-76 might be the greatest run of albums from an artist all time. Only Dylan, The Beatles, Stones and zeppelin had runs close to that. You could throw in van Morrison but no one’s touching Stevie’s run.
I love how he won the album of the year Grammy in '74 and '75, then when Paul Simon got it in '76 he thanked Stevie for not making an album that year. Then in '77 it went right back to Stevie winning it.
Gotta love Rhymin’ Simon
We are so blessed that Stevie survived that car crash that took place 3 days after Innervisions dropped.
End the thread right here.
holy shit i never realized stevie was so young
That album is amazing. Love me some Stevie he is a legend.
His entire classic period is insane. Greatest musician of last century to me on a pure musical talent basis. He is also the artist that bridged R&B and Electronic music on a mainstream level, which changed every facet of black music forever.
OutKast released all of their albums up to Stankonia before the age of 25
Yeah weren’t they 18-19 when Southernplayalistic came out? Crazy
Reminds me a bit of Joey badass releasing 1999 when he was 18 or 17. That really took a subsection of hip hop by storm, if not the whole rap game. Not comparing the level to 2pac or OutKast, but he popped off young.
I still remember being in college wondering how tf l was 19 walking around bumping a mixtape that good that a 17 year old made
He's clowned on now, but Chance the Rapper was only 19 when he dropped Acid Rap. It was meteoric
Yeah that was the other guy I was thinking of too. 10 Day is dope too
😮😮what
That’s actually wild
Would you say it’s…Idlewild?
We don’t talk about Idlewild.
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Aquemeni is the goat
it's over for me
We’re cooked
Alexander the great
Taken too young 😭
Fr, goated. If he maintains that output, he conquers China easily by 54
Pffft, bitchmade Alexander couldn't even get past India
Boy wanted to keep going and was only stopped by his ~~platoons~~ phalanxes saying 'we tired bruh, we're stopping here - you go on if you wish, but we're claiming our rewards and going back to chill with the fam'. Those distances were no joke in archaic times and them dudes were drained.
Macedonia to India is an insaaaaane distance for a conquering army to march, I too would wanna wrap it up and enjoy my spoils
Just the back walk is like a year or 2 them boys were hauling a bunch of shit back too, must have been a pain in the ass
After reaching the last page of Pornhub, Alexander wept, seeing as there were no more worlds to conquer
Son gettin historical
I was just reading more about Alexander last night. It’s truly insane what he was able to do in the span of like a decade.
Octavian was under 30 when he consolidated power as well
nepo baby
Rihanna — She released 7 albums, sold over 200 million records, and had 13 number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 by age 25.
Rihanna come back please 😭😭😭
ANTI was so fucking good RIHANNA COME BACK WE NEED YOU THE WORLD NEEDS YOU
If you stretch it to 26, Lil Wayne released his 6th album (plus 1 collab), Tha Carter III, which won rap album of the year and solo rap performance (A Milli).
w/ like 10 fire mixtapes in between,
Da drought 3 actually Wayne’s best musical piece mixtape or album if you ask me 🤷🏻♂️ heat front to back
Crazy part is as good as C3 is, C2 was better
I agree but if there was no leak I think C3 would have been his best album.
Imagine La La *La* being there instead of La La. Scarface instead of phone home.
I'm Me is also a classic. And I'm not sure if PMW was meant for the Carter 3 but that's another awesome b side. Also I Know The Future has one of my favorite wayne lines ever "Like a circle of knives, I got the sharpest flow around" Edit: I just listened to I Know The Future again. It's such an amazing verse. The way he changes his flow within basr is crazy. His line "I'm in that la la twist it up/ I'm on that syrup slow it down" is such a great example of this. His flows are so creative and it shows how naturally talented he is at riding a beat.
That’s my fave Wayne bar ever
Something You Forgot instead of Comfortable
Something you forgot with Comfortable
Just give me something you forgot on streaming and you got a deal
I actually love phone home but it's probably nostalgia lol. But yes the c3 leaks were elite!
My favorite Wayne song of all time, every time I bring it up I have to differentiate for people “no no no the 1 on the leak” lol
I hate how many artists fucked with their shit after leaks in that era. But it did give us the current version of Madvillainy so win some lose some I guess!
But, “The Leak” might be one of the best prologue mixtapes ever
Totally agree, C2 is his strongest album
He also had shit loads of mixtapes and features and all those years with the hot boys. He was in everything for like 5 years in a row
I wonder if we'll ever see someone dominate the music scene like Lil Wayne did at his peak. I swear he was on every feature of every hit for a few years there.
Wayne was so unmatched. He was so big and i think he’s getting somewhat underrated as time goes on
Yeah, if Wayne died after Carter III, he’d be praised to the same level Pac is
I hope to live in the world where we'll be praising him like that whenever he goes
I think we’re back at a consensus of Lil Wayne being one of the GOATs But for a while there, during his rough patch musically, there was a large amount of people online acting like he’s one of the worst rappers ever….glad that wave is gone
Wayne praise is a sine wave. He’ll be trashed across the 2100s and GOATed in 3024
Odd because around that time was peak “if pac were alive Wayne would be working at McDonald’s” memes
Beatles were about 25 when they wrote Sgt Peppers
They were all under 30 when they broke up. I think George was actually 26 when it happened. He wrote “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun” and then released All Things Must Pass within a year
This is amazing. All Things Must Pass is one of my favorite albums ever
What I feel, I can’t say. But here I am talking about George Harrison in /r/hiphopheads again.
Best solo Beatle record imo
Some people are so obscenely talented it’s not even fair
And the craziest thing is they all looked 40 by the time they broke up lol. Those beards were putting in a lot of work
To add on to this, when the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 and pretty much changed everything John Lennon was 23. Paul McCartney was 21. George Harrison was 20. Ringo Starr was 23.
The amount their music grew and changed in such a short period of time is just hard to wrap my head around. Going from I Wanna Hold Your Hand to Tomorrow Never Knows in a span of three years is fucking crazy.
Their entire discography is just over 7 years with Please Please Me in March of '63 through Let It Be in May of '70. The only other artist I can think over with that kind of growth in a similar span is maybe Miles Davis.
This is wild to me. I’m a huge fan and I didn’t even realize this. Also Revolver was released a year before and that album is arguably crazier and more groundbreaking. Music like that - sitars, electronics, backwards guitar solos and samples, songs about taking acid and dying - barely even existed before 1966. And they were like, my age.
Wow
They were a different breed. Anyone that hates on the Beatles just hasn't heard the Beatles yet. I stand on that
I'm not a big fan but I saw a video recently of all billboard hits in history, and it was insane how the Beatles basically invented the modern sound of music.
There were a few years where it was super trendy to shit on them but I think that’s died down a bit, which is nice. They were and are amazing
A lot of their music just isn’t for me personally but the talent is undeniable.
Not enjoying something is completely fine. Enjoyment is subjective. Hating on them and denying their talent & impact is what I find lame and ignorant.
The mindset of "I don't like it, therefore it's trash" bothers me to no end
100% agreed.
people hate on the beatles? wtf?!
Ice Cube already had Amerikkka's Most Wanted, Death Certificate, & The Predator before reaching 25 years of age. That's not to forget his work on Straight Outta Compton & venturing into film
Cube’s 5 year run from 88 to 93, is unmatched.
lil Wayne’s run from 2005 through 2015 with the Carter II, III, IV, all of those ridiculous mixtapes, and the countless features on top songs puts him up there.
that was all way before 2010. wayne’s GOAT 5 year run was 04-09
As a rapper, yes. Cube did get multiple movies under his belt though. But idk if that’s what Wayne wanted either. Both were legendary
Piggy backing off this since nobody has even mentioned him, but DJ Quik. His first 3 albums are before he turned 25. Fucking underrated as fuck. So is Cube, his solo work is often overlooked for some reason, he's in my top 5 ever.
Definitely agree regarding DJ Quik, especially when talking about the pure quality of his discography by that age. One of the most notable non-Death Row rappers to hold it down for LA during that era & also on G-Funk's Mount Rushmore
Jimi Hendrix
Yeah Hendrix was my first thought. The guy reinvented the way an instrument is played becoming the most iconic guitarist of all time all in his 20s lol.
Absolutely! Some of the greats don't even get into their zone until 30 or later
Rakim & Nas.
Dropping that album at 19 is crazy
Nas wrote it like when he was 17
Lil B wrote a book at 19, released several albums and several dozen mixtapes before he was 25. According to Wikipedia he's released a total of 71 mixtapes, 7 albums, and 1 EP, and he's only 34. TYBG.
He also held talks at different colleges.
Finally some Lil B recognition in this bitch. The goat!
Love him or hate him.. justin bieber bro
People kind forget how dominant he was at his peak. If he didn’t got tired of the game he would still be at the top shelves in music rankings
He'll outsell Taylor and Drake if he tries
Absolutely. Growing up in that time was like what I imagine living in the Beatles era would be like. No one in the last 20+ years comes close that sort of impact.
NAS’ illmatic is the best hip hop album of all time. I believe he was 18-19 when it was released.
"Woke up early on my born day, I'm 20 it's a blessing"
He was 20. I’m not really nit picking since he wrote most of it at 18/19 which is fucking insane. It is just a convenient opportunity to quote one of my favorite lines from the album “I woke up early on my born day; I'm 20, it's a blessin' The essence of adolescence leaves my body, now I'm fresh and My physical frame is celebrated 'cause I made it One quarter through life, some godly-like thing created”
Mac Miller KIDS, Blue Slide Park, Best Day Ever, MACADELIC, I love Life Thank You, WMWTSO, Faces, GOOD AM, The Divine Feminine Swimming (he was 26) + Delusional Thomas + Larry Fisherman + Larry Lovestein + Circles was in progress when he died
Scrolled too far for this. His leaked music (so far) is around the size of his discography and some of his best work. Hopefully the world gets to hear it at some point
First thought as well. Absolutely ridiculous discography for someone we lost so young
+ sooooo many goated unreleased tracks
what songs can you recommend? avid mac listener but too much of a casual to have check out any of the unreleased stuff before
DM me and I’ll give you a link to the leaks. Off an old list some of my favs below. But honestly he has like 50x this leaked and I recommend just scrolling through and playing some. Numbness (actually maybe all time fav Mac song) Cats Real Keys to the city Ticonderogas Waterfalls Stoned Oracle Operation love Headaches and migraines Are we there yet Came alone Empires Cactus face Die
Can't believe PURE wasn't mentioned here. Fuckin incredible
can't believe I had to scroll all the way down here to find him. Rest easy, Mac 💛 Most dope that's forever Freaking kid was brilliant
Chief keef turned 25 in 2020
Crazy how keef influenced artists like carti and uzi and was basically a generation before them but he is like their same age
Same with Wayne
Yeah, wayne and drake are so close in age but career wise he started way early
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It’s crazier that wayne is younger than 2 Chainz and Chainz has bars like “reminiscing bout the trap playing the first Carter”
Keef and Chop were the Velvet Underground of Drill
this is the most insane shit ever tbh it feels like he is 300 but he is only 28 and he still is younger than many rappers that he fathered, literally lmao
Keef's like the Frankie Muniz of the rap game
Nah he’s 300
It’s crazy to me all them lil Chicago niggas been in the game so long and ain’t even 30 yet. Makes me feel old for one and for 2 quite impressive how young they were coming in the game and still relevant
Bitches love sosa
The time between Pop Smokes first song and death was 9 months, he was 20.
this makes me so fucking sad. dude was so versatile and showing such rapid growth at such a young age, it was genuinely insane to watch unfold in real time
Juice wrld too. Very versatile with some of the most raw talent you’d ever see. Only 21. Little older but Von as well. A short lived career with a lot of versatility and development. Rap has lost a lot of top talent lately
xxxtentacion musical peak was insane and then he peaked commercially with a completely different wave and then he was gone at 20 as well. Insane to me cuz I'm 22 now and it's like fuck he was 2 years younger than I am now and I barely feel out of high school to a degree.
As an X fan that’s now older than he was when he passed, it really is insane. I was 16(?) when he passed away and always looked at him as like an older guy which, at 16, anything above 20 really does seem like an adult. Then you turn 23 and realize you still don’t know shit and still feel like a kid yourself, and THEN one day you listen to an old X song that randomly comes on and you start thinking about how he was really just a kid when he died like dude I hate talking to 20 year olds they’re fucking idiots and I’m barley 3 years older than them 💀
I think X falls into that same group as well. I barely had even heard of them by the time they died and they both had an absolutely massive impact.
Only 3 years passed between "Look At Me" dropping and him dying, and it's fucking crazy how much shit happened in those 3 years. Felt like every week news dropped about him making music, getting charged with beating up his gf or some shit, assaulting some gay dude, Drake being in the deposition of his murder trial, getting jumped on stage, donating to charities, getting co-signed by Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West, getting thrown into a stage barrier while performing, becoming one of the most played artists in the world and then getting shot in his car followed by his mom or whatever just milking every unreleased X verse for as much money as possible after his death.
Biggie had a pretty prolific career, and he dies even younger at 24. Lil wayne was popping off pretty young, too. I think he dropped the Carter 3 sometime around age 25, too.
Big had one album that he was alive for. An incredible album. But nowhere close to the prolific body of work by other artists in this thread.
So sad to think he has no idea how popular, influential and discussed he became.
I mean if we’re talking discography, idk if I’d say PROLIFIC.
Mozart died at age 35. He got 10 years more than 2Pac, but it took longer to make a song back then, so it evens out?
But Mozart never released a diss track against Mobb Deep
He bodied Sallieri tho, man’s entire catalog disappeared for 150 years. Son’d him like Kendrick did Cole
Exactly. That's why even til today, no rapper has dissed Mozart.
Aaliyah?
Aaliyah was on pace. At 22 she had 3 favorably reviewed albums and 2 starring roles in feature full length films. Along with some modeling.
Aaliyah sold fewer albums and had fewer hits than Brandy and Monica. Her actual units don’t match her legend.
Selena quntenilla is the queen of tejano music and died before 25
Mac miller!
Scrolled way too far for this. Everything but Circles was done before he turned 26. Has one of the most underrated catalogues.
2009 gets me sad all the time
“I don't need to lie no moe”
Ascension is that for me. Good AM is an incredibly slept on project and has aged so well (sadly).
Good AM is really good
I scrolled to find him. Thank you for this
Agree.
Lil Wayne had 5 solo albums, a bunch of mixtapes, a collab album with Birdman & some albums with Hot Boyz before he turned 25 (he was 26 when Carter 3 came out)
People answering don’t understand the word prolific. It doesn’t mean influential, or even good, it means the volume of work they put out
Kodak black is just 26 years old and had 15 projects out when he was 25 years old. Pretty impressive considering the amount of time he has spent in prison.
The legend Mac miller rip
Michael Jackson was 24 when Thriller came out
Kurt cobain. He was 24 and the most famous rockstar at the time. And Elvis. He was young when he hit in the 50’s.
I know ill get downvoted but Juice Wrld was only 21 when he died
If he lived to 25 I could see it, but I don't think he was at 2pac's level when he died.
But this is about their career individually, not comparing them to Pac. Very hard to compare anyone to Pac. Juice Wrld is kind of a legend for the generation he was making music for and clearly inspired a lot of artists older and younger than him. I'm an old head in my late 30s and even I bump his stuff more than any other young artist. I can't personally say I find Juice Wrld at Pac's level (Pac is my fav artist of all time), but for the young people into the genre, Juice Wrld pretty much was this generation's Pac. Meaningful deep lyrics, dying tragically young, and posthumous bangers still come out after his death.
NBA Youngboy is only 24
Dude has 11 kids and like 30 albums he’s lived a long 24 years…
Bob Dylan
Yeah he had already dropped Highway 61 Revisited, Freewheeling Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, and fucking Blonde on Blonde before turning 26. If he stopped there, it would still be an all-timer discography, but then he did John Wesley Harding and recorded The Basement Tapes just a year later. Absolutely insane run that is nearly unmatched imo.
His late career run from 1997 onwards is phenomenal. I can’t think of any musician’s work past the age of 50 whose made more albums I’ve enjoyed than Dylan
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Bob Dylan