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"Tears of Joy"
"Aston Martin Music"
"Mafia Music 2"
"The Transporter"
"Push It"
"The Boss"
"All The Money In World"
"Magnificent"
"Super High"
Can A Case Be Made That Rick Ross Has A Better Body Of Work Than Biggie?
- Thread starter Perry J. Perrywinkle III
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"Tears of Joy"
"Aston Martin Music"
"Mafia Music 2"
"The Transporter"
"Push It"
"The Boss"
"All The Money In World"
"Magnificent"
"Super High"
Nick Barnes
All Star
U More Bitch Than A Bitch
Banned
Post the great Biggie lyrics. Because all Biggie's so called hottest songs are simple as ABC
There is obviously no way to know that due to how certification works. You sell 1 mill, you don't pay for/ask for certification, you don't receive a plaque. You sell 1 mill in 2000, and don't request certification until 2015, that's when you receive your plaque. And yes, it would look like you took 15 years to hit plat.
Regardless, I assure you BIG was just as famous/popular/whatever as virtually anyone A-list rap star you can name in '94. To suggest otherwise is blatant history re-writing.
Fred.
mvp_status
Superstar
My nikka said Push It 
U More Bitch Than A Bitch
Banned
They still had soundscan and he wasn't scanning that much either. We was not popular as Snoop, Tha Dogg Pound, Coolio, Warren G, or even 2Pac. He was the hottest nicca on the east though, next to Meth.
Wu was making noise a full year before BIG came out, so to suggest that NY needed "saving" by him, is silly. That was the point I was addressing. Wu-mania was in full swing long before "RTD" dropped.
To go a step further, "Above The Rim" out sold the whole East?
Again,
Do you not understand virtually every artist from the East was going gold/plat/mult- back then? Outside of Death Row and it's affiliates the West wasn't really selling records like that. The RIAA Database will make this a very short debate. For every West coast artist you can mention that went gold/plat/multi- in the mid 90s, I can name 5-10 from the East. West sold more on their big albums, the East sold a hell of a lot more over all.
Fred.
Fam, unless you got an actual link to Soundscan from '94, I dunno what to tell you. I'm going off facts. RIAA, and actually being around in '94. Not saying that you weren't, but BIG was easily on the level of any of the people you just mentioned.
Fred.
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Banned
You're stating skewed facts. "Ready To Die" was not selling like that in '94, not opinion, straight fact. I'm pretty sure Meth's debut outsold "Ready To Die" in '94.
Uh NO that is incorrect.
The album was a big success and it was everywhere when it came out all the singles were huge stop trying to re write history and/or speak on things you don't know about.
"Upon its release, Ready to Die received strong reviews,and unlike other acclaimed East Coast hip hop albums released at the time (including the Wu-Tang Clan's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and Nas' Illmatic), such critical success was matched commercially, with sales driven by strong radio and MTV airplay for the singles "Juicy" and "Big Poppa". Rolling Stone praised Biggie's ability in "painting a sonic picture so vibrant that you're transported right to the scene". Q magazine wrote "...the natural rapping, clever use of sound effects and acted dialogue, and concept element... set this well apart from the average gangsta bragging".[24] The album peaked at #3 and #13 on Billboard's (North America) Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums and the Billboard 200 album charts and was eventually certified quadruple platinum"
The album only sold like 50K in it it's first week but went gold a few months later and after Big Poppa dropped he went PLAT.
Stupid.
