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Jakey · Jan 16, 2016

Jan 16, 2016
Most Disappointing Sophomore Album?

When it comes to being a star, you got to know how to keep delivering. Some people just know what it takes, others fail to live up to the hype. What is the most disappointing album that followed up an impressive debut?

There are a couple of things you have to consider;

The quality of the sophomore album

The hype that was built around that album

How far they've fallen off from their first album.

You don't have to pick an artist that has completely fallen off. Some artists can manage to work their way back in preceding projects, their sophomore album still counts.

This one I'm going to backtrack all the way back to the 90s where Snoop Dogg was an iconic figure in the west. After his debut classic in Doggystyle, he has never lived up to that standard since and a few years later he released Tha Doggfather. While it was somewhat a reasonable album and not his worst, he didn't quite get to the level of Doggystyle. It's disappointing in the sense that he never really found the best form of himself on his own projects again.

The next sophomore album came out not long after he released a track with Kendrick Lamar that didn't feature in the album but left the hip-hop community going crazy with this amazing verse by Kendrick.. (Control if you haven't figured out by now). I'm talking about Big Sean's Hall of Fame. While Big Sean's arguable yet to release a good album, I was still very disappointed with this album considering the support he has around him with the likes of Kanye West and his production team (Mike Dean, No ID, Travis Scott), the album was quite horrible and really has no excuse.

This was actually harder than I thought.. A lot of people say Massacre, I somewhat agree but wasn't quite sure. What do you guys think?

@coca wtf is this you? lol...