Come on yall..lol
We talking Source Awards wins? We all know Death Row and Bad Boy pumped a ton of money to David Mays and Benzino/The Source for those looks.
yet nas gave the source in that transistion the opportunity to snake him.
when, culturally as an emcee you are supposed to handle everything on your part. To keep someone from the opportunity.
to create the political opening.
to try to bring on the destruction of your draw.
to do wtf the source did then.
when nas souled out.
he even hurt himself in the launch of xxl.
as even xxl had to move away from the sweetspot culturally.
as nas the herald had souled out and done wtf they left the source for in the first place.
so now you got nas.
who becames anakin turned darth Vader, to rap and hip hop culturally.
leaving no other hope of upper skilled newcomer culturally in the midatlantic seaboard.
in the mecca of all places. So that allowed the choice for big and jiggy to take precedence. All because nas did not do his job culturally.
all the way as an emcee period.
with attention to the performance side.
plus he also succumbed and had rnb taboo remixes.
in an era where an mca affiliated family tree producer in PETE rock.
showd allegiance to being supremely cultural and set things back on point with the shut em down remix to draw emphasis.
to the thr world is yours remix and the best remix rap video ever as well. That umo, created fly whip visual. That would be misappropriated as the jiffy go to visually as well.
instead if nas never made the later one love rnb remix. opening the door for big to seem culturally comparable in artistry.
then in a desperately sellout culture thief climate that could ruin it all. Nas has the same style of recordings. That opens three culturally misappropriated doors for jiggy to take over.
what did nas do.
totally turn it back to the force md rnb meets mca father mc meets tough guy ol school way of thought record.
so nas created the criteria for big to pull up and win.
how are we excusing him of this.
do people not own the twelves on time as they were originally released to discuss this. are people speaking from a cognitive place. full knowing what occurred culturally in full.
nas did it to himself.
especially when we learned later on nas was the best and first nonhook singer on the hook with gimme yours. Featured on az. Who also gained sway by smartly using miss jones from don't front.
Plus could have ushered in a whole new cultural take on doing things in that manner.
instead he gave it right back to the semantics. That ruined why he almost never got on to begin with...plus perpetrated why jiggy and biggie became dominant to him commercially as well.
nas did it to himself. When all he had to do was stay organic.
if nas did that we would all have high quality music and the culture would still be aligned with the business of rap.
as a profitable grassroot avenue culturally for those skilled in the correlated pillars in business as well.
art barr
