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Kee reading the thread.
A few faceless strangers in a thread don't prove what heads in 94/96 thought either.Kee reading the thread.
A few faceless strangers in a thread don't prove what heads in 94/96 thought either.Nas wasn't immediately viewed like THAT and neither was his album which is why cats ain't flock to the stores to cop his shyt same as Jay/RD, I'm sayin your claims that heads felt that way about Nas/Illmatic but not Jay/Reasonable Doubt is somethin you know you can't prove.

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You a Nas stan of course you'd say that.@IllmaticDelta csme through with about 1000 receipts. Read them and get back to us.A few faceless strangers in a thread don't prove what heads in 94/96 thought either.
Dog.How do yall listen to rap with such terrible comprehension skills? I'm and I'm not saying it derived from Cuban Linx stylistically. But the drug dealer/rapper persona was being done already and Jay was on the back end of it. And shyt. Listen to Bring It On. Mafioso track right there. It wasn't looked at as anything new at the time. And it was his DEBUT album. Therefore it got lost in the sauce. Even tho Jay came from a more realistic perspective. Smh. And I NEVER said Illmatic and Doggystyle were on the same level. nikka did u even read my posts in this thread before u chimed in? I literally said Doggystyle was different cause it did both. Smh.

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,but soon as i bought up Illmatic yall wanna change the argument to where it benefits you...."lets not talk about sales StillnotSoft,thats not important"
Ya'll see why a breh like Future is ahead of the game tho
He said in about a hundred interviews he study the game like its a class. He studied the Beatles to make his hooks. He studied Pac and Jay for his bars
This is his words not mine.
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Ok my bad I was going off StillNot posts. If he was quoting you then maybe he was mistaken or maybe someone else made those claims .


"...okay biggie did that and was more heard and celebrated while doing it,and actually did what Nas was supposed to do and didnt
Links to articles coddling nas, mean nothing. The people didn't take to it and there's no proof it changed anything. nikkas think dikk riding articles hold more weight than actual documented sales (or lack there of) meant. One of a arguments was he swayed the sound from west coast dikk riding to East coast pride, but that was proven untrue.
We've had weirdos that claimed he brought NY back commercially , untrue also. All the articles don't change the fact nas flopped and switched to a more Notorious style to survive

.U didn't really prove any of the shyt ur saying. Main reason is cause it's false. Son a few of us was the ones who let YOU know the dynamic between Nas and Biggie when them albums dropped. Now u in here tryna tell people what's what. This is the problem. Nothing was proved. Dude listed a few albums that dropped in the time frame. Meanwhile @IllmaticDelta dropped a million links from articles. To interviews and the whole nine stating the exact same shyt I been saying. Reason ur arguing wit yaself is cause I never EVER in the thread said Illmatic had the same impact as Doggystyle. This is where our argument started and I been telling u literally the ENTIRE time that that's not what I said. But on the other hand u refuse to believe that sales don't tell the whole story. Me and a few other posters was the ones who enlightened u on Nas being snubbed for Biggie. Who enlightened u on that whole dynamic so I think it's crazy that u in this thread tryna tell me what was what. Bottom line. Nas didn't sell what was expected based on the praise he was getting. Jay didn't even have any expectations. He didn't disappoint anyone cause Noone expected anything from him in the first place. The whole argument of this thread is whether Jay made an impact with Reasonable Doubt on release. He didnt. nikkas brought Nas into it tryna compare the situations cause of sales which is a flawed ass view and just proves these things weren't experienced in real time for alotta people. It's an oversimplification of the time frame based on the lack of knowledge of said time frame. Bottom line of the thread. Nas made an impact. Jay didnt. U and @bigbadbossup2012 are the only two people in the thread in agreement with eachother and there's a reason for that.Dojt apoligize,what spliz is doing right now is what i think you call a filibuster,tryna run the clock out til we get tired
Hes been slowly breaking down and agreeing on more and more points after each page,he almost there
Been arguin me up and down for 5 pages but doesnt really disagree on anything i said come to find out.
Spliz only disagreement that we have,is that you think it means more that nikkas was checking for Illmatic because it was classic and for Nas rhymes....but at the end of the day it wasnt that large of a number of people that checked for it period.
it doesnt matter if nikkas only was checking for Jay because they was drug dealers and could relate,or if they liked the Aint No nikka single.
end of the day the impact wasnt as great as the impact,the big nikkas in 93/94 had in any capacity.
Im sure the same nikkas saying Nas made them waanna step they game up said the same thing about Biggie as they sayin about Nas...and we all know nikkas was tryna be Snoop and take his sound.
nas wasnt on Big or Snoops level 93/94 ,same way jay wasnt on Pac and Biggies level in 95/96.
We have proof in the numbers that this is the case,simple mathmatics....we already broke down where Illmatic didnt actually change the soundscape,Snoop did....we already proved Nas didnt change the actual way nikkas rhymed,just "made them wanna step it up"...okay biggie did that and was more heard and celebrated while doing it,and actually did what Nas was supposed to do and didnt
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U didn't really prove any of the shyt ur saying. Main reason is cause it's false. Son a few of us was the ones who let YOU know the dynamic between Nas and Biggie when them albums dropped. Now u in here tryna tell people what's what. This is the problem. Nothing was proved. Dude listed a few albums that dropped in the time frame. Meanwhile @IllmaticDelta dropped a million links from articles. To interviews and the whole nine stating the exact same shyt I been saying. Reason ur arguing wit yaself is cause I never EVER in the thread said Illmatic had the same impact as Doggystyle. This is where our argument started and I been telling u literally the ENTIRE time that that's not what I said. But on the other hand u refuse to believe that sales don't tell the whole story. Me and a few other posters was the ones who enlightened u on Nas being snubbed for Biggie. Who enlightened u on that whole dynamic so I think it's crazy that u in this thread tryna tell me what was what. Bottom line. Nas didn't sell what was expected based on the praise he was getting. Jay didn't even have any expectations. He didn't disappoint anyone cause Noone expected anything from him in the first place. The whole argument of this thread is whether Jay made an impact with Reasonable Doubt on release. He didnt. nikkas brought Nas into it tryna compare the situations cause of sales which is a flawed ass view and just proves these things weren't experienced in real time for alotta people. It's an oversimplification of the time frame based on the lack of knowledge of said time frame. Bottom line of the thread. Nas made an impact. Jay didnt. U and @bigbadbossup2012 are the only two people in the thread in agreement with eachother and there's a reason for that.

...if you cant agree on that you are in denial,because it has always meant that.
?@IllmaticDelta csme through with about 1000 receipts. Read them and get back to us.
So you deflectin onto a Nas stan tryna tag him in for backup.
Postin pages of a article written by a random person don't mean every head was sayin he was hip hop Jesus in 94.