Anybody ever listen to illmatic and think damn this shyt is wack

[JayBaldacci]

Well if you were told a album was hot via media,yet it wasnt flying off the shelves,then that's worth pointing out.
Sales may not determine how good an album is,however it does determine how the public reacted. And it's funny that only albums from the east coast can have less than stellar sales yet get compared to other albums with above avg to great sales.

nobody said the album was "hot"(except jay-z), just that it was a classic. there's tons of lackluster hot albums. "I Am" was a "hot album".

 

[beaniemac]

*negged and 1 star*

 

[ADemonYouKnow]

@ADemonYouKnow @ADevilYouKhow stay out of my PM's crying about getting negged you fakkit bytch

Like I said, you seem irate!

 

[Primetime21]

Like I said, you seem irate!

alll up in the PMs, crying

 

[Tom Foolery]

Wrong,west coast kept dominating and nas wasnt a major factor till IWW. RTD brought NY back

Sit down you yoga pants wearing ass nikka. You have no business in this thread.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

nobody said the album was "hot"(except jay-z), just that it was a classic. there's tons of lackluster hot albums. "I Am" was a "hot album".

I used the wrong term,we were TOLD it was CLASSIC

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Sit down you yoga pants wearing ass nikka. You have no business in this thread.

Point out what i said that was wrong

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Yes you are correct. I believe RD is a much better album but no it didnt mean anything when it dropped.

It's kinda crazy how sales don't determine how classic an album is, ain't it?

But here we are talking about those bum ass albums (RD and illmatic) 20+ years later while ignoring Creepin on da come up which sold better than both combined.


I bet all of the posters on this site suffer from east coast bias.

kinda like white supremacy, right?

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I love these threads because it exposes the fakes and posers in hip-hop.

"Name a rapper that i ain't influenced"
"My first album had no famous guest appearances. The outcome: I'm crowned the best lyricist"

You fools, Illmatic is the bridge from old school to new school east coast hip-hop. From the late 80's to early 90's, West Coast music was dominating. Nas came in and laid the framework for the East to surge back in the mid 90's.

 

[SirBiatch]

It's kinda crazy how sales don't determine how classic an album is, ain't it?

But here we are talking about those bum ass albums (RD and illmatic) 20+ years later while ignoring Creepin on da come up which sold better than both combined.


I bet all of the posters on this site suffer from east coast bias.

kinda like white supremacy, right?

Gotta give it to bossup. That line is classic

 

[ADemonYouKnow]

alll up in the PMs, crying

If that's how you like to spin reality.

 

[Brandon M.]

that makes zero sense. If you hate Illmatic, you don't understand or like Nas at all. Lets keep it all the way real.

i love it was written, and everything after that...imma fan of the fly shyt he says in his raps...illmatic wasnt no fly shyt on there

 

[Bolzmark]

Well if you were told a album was hot via media,yet it wasnt flying off the shelves,then that's worth pointing out.
Sales may not determine how good an album is,however it does determine how the public reacted. And it's funny that only albums from the east coast can have less than stellar sales yet get compared to other albums with above avg to great sales.

Did Illmatic appeal to the masses in the beginning? No. But in hip hop, that is not how we judge the content of our music. That is an ideal that has developed over the years for rappers to justify why they are great or better than others. Hammers Please Hammer Don't Hurt em sold more than Paid In Full, Follow The Leader, Long Live The Kane, It's A Big Daddy Thing, Criminal Minded and By Any Means Necessary COMBINED.

So tell me again about the importance of sales?

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Gotta give it to bossup. That line is classic

yeah that was the moment he lost his damn mind

 

[SirBiatch]

i love it was written, and everything after that...imma fan of the fly shyt he says in his raps...illmatic wasnt no fly shyt on there

what do you mean by 'fly shyt?' examples from IWW as compared to Illmatic would be nice