I Always Found It Surprising That “The World Is Yours” Didn’t End Up Being A Pop Hit In 94

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3rd verse is one of Nas's best ever

"I need a new n1gga for this black cloud to follow
while it's over me it's too dark to see tomorrow" :wow:
 

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A lot of the singles back then that was huge didn’t sell much records. I don’t remember a traditional cassette single of that song.

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Nas dropped like in that small pocket before daytime rap radio frequent airplay.
Plus the playlist boom from the prison industrial complex meets the communicstion act.

The acts that were saturation method or now called spam.
Which are now all payola based records with arguably pisspoor publishing returns for the artist. Mired in production company deals and taking home an mca way ripoff in pay based check as well.

Back then it was in the third week of may either or 94.
When acts whom were slow burn single releases were marketed as pop daytime radio acts. So the groups who dropped last quarter of 1993.
Snoop, wu, on the same day relased.
So cream surprisingly was the record on daytime radio nationally.
Out of the group of artist
Bone whom were on a slow burn ep release from eighteen monthd earlier.
Sylk e fyne.
or one of tbose female solos who made hit'eem up style.
Plus jodeci which was cutting edge and revolutionized rnb. Woth forever my lady.
As people got on late from gotta love never cstching on past cutout promos on vinyl and videos vibrations.


Back then rap was just not played on the radio outside of heavy d being a daytime radio rap trailblazer.

If not for heavy and wu.
You probably would not have gotten rap on daytime radio at all.
As far as a full spectrum from a hiphop legacy culture based avenue.
As rhe prison industrial act. Combined eith ruthless records runs the world.
Would soon dominate once again.
After being a dead defunct draw from ice cube.
Dre migrated to dr in this and also expressed his admin issues in larody breakthrough video. So any deathrow or dr releases. After the near eighteen month slow burn of both versions of deep cover. Went untouched till the boost from this change. Coupled with mtg's relaunch of death row mired in separation from warner via pr issues on content from jce t bodycount song cop killer.
With this change sweeping in the nation and soon occurring. Via the seeds for the communications act. To where we are now.

with bone migrating in slow burn organic grassroots fashion to the long player east ninety nine.
Shifting sway back to the westcoast.
Plus the south's soon impending independence.
from the old west coast affiliation of the south.

Nas just so happened to occur in an era.
Before the sales spike era. Plus ushering in the technical skills based era jn 1994.
Via cultural impact and skills.

The culture of hiphop and the pillars and its businesses. Have never been properly marketed in a Mainstream ideal. Which is why when jiggy sellouts.
Were fully ushered in via the sway based grief of big passing.
To puff and eventually nas selling out fully.
After selling out and giving away the draw.
for content based rap music as a whole..
In the taboo sellout rnb pairing of lauren hill.
on the sellout rehash of kurtis blow instrumentals.
Predated by the awful rnb sellout taboo remix to this single as well.
Which ushered in why nas.

Never souled't well.
After making the rnb sellout remix of one luv after this record.
Which signaled the impending doom of culture content based moving forward. Since the release of the remix twleve inch single to one luv as well.

This remix to this record. Was the last great nas twelve from illmatic other than life a bytch.
The rrmix afger this on one luv.
Answers thr riddle of who killed't it.
As nas is who ruined rap.
Plus why rap hit the low quality marker.
It now is at.
Plus will never recover from.

As nas making rnb remixes to perfect records.
Is why content culture based emcee driven made rap has little to no draw.

As nas, is the person.
who ushered in the technical culture revolution.
Never stuck culturally to what created why nas was nas.
Plus ushered in the technical revolution.
Which undermined why nas was a draw.
Rendering the last culture pillar based drawing business in hiphop as a defunct draw.
With no way to recover.
Like the mtv relaunchs of death row.
After been there done that with eminem.





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This twelve came out in a time.
Just predating the prison industrial economy complex and communications act.
Of which nas missed that envelope of time administratively.
Where halftime and it ain"t hard to tell were released.
Plus the release of illmatic. Dropped after the original debut envelope of daytime rap playlist.
was already set to the eastcoast draw in cream for wu tang surprisingly as an indie then.
 
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This was hard to find.
Plus the cutout was out for this way before the single...so this souled poorly because of mca admin. Not from quality of song.

This was the best twelve and the best remix of that year.

Predated by the pete rock shut eem down remix.
in 1993 as rhe best remix too.


Including and arguably the best remix video and best video in rap history ever.



Art Barr


Good thread by the threadstarter.

This was before and the last days.
Before the commercialized wack times dominated everything now.

Back when there were new emcee for real.

The summer this remix rocked was dope as fukk.
 
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You could argue no one has managed to reach the heights he reached without radio or hits.

You must be young. Nas was getting national airplay from like 96-03. He’s had several big songs during that time. In my mind The World Is Yours, off hook alone, is a radio attempt no differently than…



 

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You must be young. Nas was getting national airplay from like 96-03. He’s had several big songs during that time. In my mind The World Is Yours, off hook alone, is a radio attempt no differently than…




You’re missing the point. He has radio hits, and radio hit attempts. But his list of actual hits is very short compared to his peers.
 
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You’re missing the point. He has radio hits, and radio hit attempts. But his list of actual hits is very short compared to his peers.

That was never your point. You said what I quoted so why are you making up some other stuff now?

Streets Dreams
If I Ruled The World
Owe Me
Oochie Wally
Hate Me Now
Phone Tap
One Mic
Made You Look
I Can

Not to mention the features he did on several big songs

Head Over Heels
Hot Boyz
Did You Ever Think
Thank God I Found You

Etc

Nas was a major player due to Radio & TV :mjlol:
 
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Having pop hit is the exact opposite of what rappers were trying to be back then, illmatic is hip hop record for people who like hip hop, yall culture vultures stay exposing yourselves
 

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Plankton negged you for your post in the thread I Always Found It Surprising That “The World Is Yours” Didn’t End Up Being A Pop Hit In 94. With the following comment: I said In "Hip Hop" as In the streets, in the classrooms not...
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This is a cop out made by flop apologists
 

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Quiet as kept. East Coast didn't support his album like that. For all the praise that came later, very few people PURCHASED Nas' first album. Most people were bumping dubs.

Same with Brand Nubian, One For All.
 
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