Did Jay Ever Have His Own Era Where He Was The Undisputed King?

[Tom Foolery]

Let's not forget he was ducking 'Kiss like a motherfukker.

 

[blackslash]

Dnt worry when Jay dies everyone and their mom will be calling him the greatest rapper of all time

And he'll be seen as the Michael Jackson of Hip Hop

 

[Citoyen]

fool, pac didnt reign before he was locked up.

from '90 on this is how i see it:

-NWA/post-NWA (dre, cube, snoop) ruled from '90-92
-pac's reign as king from '93-95 until he was locked up
-biggie took over in '95
-in '96 when pac got out, he shared the throne with biggie
-post biggie-tupac it was puffy & mase shiny suit era in '97
-dmx took over in '98-2000
-eminem is hard to say, he's been a relevant fixture in hip hop since '99 and consistently sold well
-2000-2002 was the ja rule era
-2003-2005 was the 50 cent/g-unit era
-2006-2009 was the lil wayne era
-2010-2012 who knows (the drake era maybe? or perhaps finally the jay-z era)

how do you see it? did jay ever have an era all his own? or perhaps the power of jay was that he was able to stay relevant throughout most of the 90's to now

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

from '90 on this is how i see it:

-NWA/post-NWA (dre, cube, snoop) ruled from '90-92
-pac's reign as king from '93-95 until he was locked up
-biggie took over in '95
-in '96 when pac got out, he shared the throne with biggie
-post biggie-tupac it was puffy & mase shiny suit era in '97
-dmx took over in '98-2000
-eminem is hard to say, he's been a relevant fixture in hip hop since '99 and consistently sold well
-2000-2002 was the ja rule era
-2003-2005 was the 50 cent/g-unit era
-2006-2009 was the lil wayne era
-2010-2012 who knows (the drake era maybe? or perhaps finally the jay-z era)

how do you see it? did jay ever have an era all his own? or perhaps the power of jay was that he was able to stay relevant throughout most of the 90's to now

pac ran 96' with fugees on his heels. NOT BIGGIE. YOUR WHOLE RUN DOWN IS WACK,you are very ignorant

 

[Tuc2DaBoot]

You could make a serious argument for Jay running '06-'07 mainstream wise.

He had the best selling hip-hop album in '06 (It was TIP but Jay edged past him in the long run)... then the first half of '07.

Also, Drake, Wayne, Eminem nor Kanye dropped a full album in '09 (Drake only dropped an EP, as did Wayne)... so how can '09-'10 not belong to Jay? Dude had BP3 playing on ESPN, ABC b-ball games, his songs were in movie ads everywhere... dude sold 2 million off that album. How can July '09-July '10 not belong to him?

I'd give Jay mid-'09 to mid-'10. Or at least late '06-late '07.

 

[DEAD7]

08-10 were kanye's

 

[ashtray]

only reason this is a discussion is because he been hot for so long...the thing with all those artists with exception to snoop,dre and ice cube is they were hot for only a couple years

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

only reason this is a discussion is because he been hot for so long...the thing with all those artists with exception to snoop,dre and ice cube is they were hot for only a couple years

it's only a discussion...cause he proclaimed himself the best rapper alive...and his fans ran with it.

until he claimed he was the best, nobody ever said that he was....ever.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

You could make a serious argument for Jay running '06-'07 mainstream wise.

He had the best selling hip-hop album in '06 (It was TIP but Jay edged past him in the long run)... then the first half of '07.

Also, Drake, Wayne, Eminem nor Kanye dropped a full album in '09 (Drake only dropped an EP, as did Wayne)... so how can '09-'10 not belong to Jay? Dude had BP3 playing on ESPN, ABC b-ball games, his songs were in movie ads everywhere... dude sold 2 million off that album. How can July '09-July '10 not belong to him?

I'd give Jay mid-'09 to mid-'10. Or at least late '06-late '07.

in 2009, Wayne was still King of Rap...without question.

TI was just as big, but he wasn't Wayne... Weezy rode that C3 success for almost 2 years.

from 06 on, Wayne was bodying everything...Dedication 2, Drought 3, countless features. etc.

even during the BP3 run, Kanye was still bigger than him.

and Eminem dropped relapse in 09, and Recovery in 10...and we all know Em>Jay

 

[Mac Casper]

Now

 

[Tuc2DaBoot]

08-10 were kanye's

in 2009, Wayne was still King of Rap...without question.

So Kanye released no music in '09... yet '09 was ran by Kanye?

Wayne was king of rap all through 2009 yet his singles run died out in Spring '09?

So Jay's music wasn't on every ESPN show, every movie ad, he wasn't performing at the World Series, and he wasn't running with a #1 and #2 single from Aug '09 on?

Oh... oh okay. That Coli logic is a beast.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

So Kanye released no music in '09... yet '09 was ran by Kanye?

Wayne was king of rap all through 2009 yet his singles run died out in Spring '09?

So Jay's music wasn't on every ESPN show, every movie ad, he wasn't performing at the World Series, and he wasn't running with a #1 and #2 single from Aug '09 on?

Oh... oh okay. That Coli logic is a beast.

From 2008 to 09

Lollipop,A Milli,Ms Officer,Got Money, Drop The World, Prom Queen,Forever,I'm Going In, Money To Blow,Transform Ya,Miss Me,Bedrock,Every Girl

No Ceilings?

Do you not remember Wayne still running shyt?

 

[Danie84]

When he dropped that 666 Empire State song

 

[blackslash]

When u got nikkaz callin u the lead spokesman for a global scale secret society that runs the world...U know u running sht