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Can someone point to me just ONE year where Jay was hands down the hottest rapper?
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Jay-z has been at the fore front and hottest in the game since the Dynasty album.
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probably not.
if you say things enough times people tend to believe it though.
if you say things enough times people tend to believe it though.
2001 and 1998 probably.
DMX apex of popularity was 1999-2000
DMX apex of popularity was 1999-2000
shut ya ass up u "bubububu Pac shot 2 cops and he's the hood's superman" ass STan
He was the top guy no question towards the end of 2001 (summer to New Years). I remember "Blueprint" overshadowing "The Great Depression" and Ja Rule's "Pain Is Love" (it was a huge album at the time). It was an instant classic according to most publications and Takeover was a really big deal.
I was in Lansing, Michigan around the time it came out.
Oh and he was also (I guess tied with 50 Cent) really REALLY popular around the Black Album release (end of 03).
I was in Lansing, Michigan around the time it came out.
Oh and he was also (I guess tied with 50 Cent) really REALLY popular around the Black Album release (end of 03).
Eminem promoted D-12 that year and by 06, Fif was on the decline. Hov had most of 01 in him, until Ether dropped and he fled to Europe for 6 months.
Dmx was opening for Jay-z on Jays tour, Jay had 1 album selling as much as 2(!) Dmx albums and Jay had hit singles + the fact that his second album dropped in the last week of 98.
Eminem didn't release anything in 2001, MMLP came out in like the beginning of 2000.
50 cent didn't release anything in 2006 except the g-unit movie album which was ass and dropped in November 2005.
2009, the fukk did Wayne do?
If you 3 year old nikkas wanna come with arguments at least know your damn history.
2009 was Jay vs Em, 2001 was Jay vs Ja and 2006 Jay vs Tip. Now you Nas Stans might wanna tell yourselves that just cause never was close to being the hottest, Jay wasn't either.. Sorry.
Name 1 year since 96 that he wasn't extremely relevant in the game..everyone you named besides wayne had short runs and then fell off, jay has consistently been at the top of the game, every couple years a new flash in the pan rapper comes along and then fades. Jay has lasted through all of those runs.
Also from 98-04 there's no question rap belonged to him, Dmx had his run but faded by his 3rd album, Jay sold 5 mil with Vol. 2, followed that up with the most successful tour in rap history that paved the way for rap acts to tour the way they do today, came right back with Vol. 3 and The Dynasty, and then completely shut it down with The Blueprint, he gave Nas an opportunity with that album/battle and Nas did what a great should do and stepped up and revived his career. There were more popular radio friendly acts that popped up during this run (Nelly, Ja Rule etc.) but the culture belonged to Jay/Rocafella.
He didn't have an unquestioned hottest newbie out rise like 50 but he also never fell off like 50 (live by, die by), Nelly had huge pop singles but no one ever considered him a serious rapper, these guys are in different categories, and Jay was the first one who could be compared to the street rappers and the pop acts and helped pave the way for dudes like Kanye who in turn paved the way for Wayne and Drake, to sum it up Jay had late 98 early 99, parts of 01 and 04 as undeniably the "hottest" rapper out and he is without question the most successful rapper ever followed by Em, who could've probably been more successful (not better) than Jay if he had the desire/greed to be
Also from 98-04 there's no question rap belonged to him, Dmx had his run but faded by his 3rd album, Jay sold 5 mil with Vol. 2, followed that up with the most successful tour in rap history that paved the way for rap acts to tour the way they do today, came right back with Vol. 3 and The Dynasty, and then completely shut it down with The Blueprint, he gave Nas an opportunity with that album/battle and Nas did what a great should do and stepped up and revived his career. There were more popular radio friendly acts that popped up during this run (Nelly, Ja Rule etc.) but the culture belonged to Jay/Rocafella.
He didn't have an unquestioned hottest newbie out rise like 50 but he also never fell off like 50 (live by, die by), Nelly had huge pop singles but no one ever considered him a serious rapper, these guys are in different categories, and Jay was the first one who could be compared to the street rappers and the pop acts and helped pave the way for dudes like Kanye who in turn paved the way for Wayne and Drake, to sum it up Jay had late 98 early 99, parts of 01 and 04 as undeniably the "hottest" rapper out and he is without question the most successful rapper ever followed by Em, who could've probably been more successful (not better) than Jay if he had the desire/greed to be
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The only rappers who were the hottest in a years without cats coming with dumb arguments are probably Eminem in 2002, 50 2005, Kanye 2007 and Lil Wayne 2008.
But I bet I can find some nikkas who post like Nas Stans that beg to differ.
But I bet I can find some nikkas who post like Nas Stans that beg to differ.
Eminem was not bigger than Jay that year. fukk no. Eminem had that lame D12 album but cum fall/end of summer Jay-Z was really really hot. He was ubiquitous in pop culture when Girls, Girls, Girls dropped.
whats funny about this tired ass thread is that all the rappers you named...he was there.jay was there through x's run,jay was there through nelly's run,jay was there through 50'run.the nikka may have or may have not been the hottest,but he has always been extremely relevant.
