Thats hustling backwards. Rakim never refered to himself as the first Nas it was the other way around. People were refering to Pun as the new G Rap...G Rap never refered to himself as the new Pun. Kanye is supposed to refer to himself as the new DJ Quik.
Who is this we? Kanye is mainstream and Quik wasn't.
Quik was bigger as a debut artist than Kanye and had no original disconnect between the streets.
Plus, quik you can say used the impact of nwa to get on as a draw.
Yet, ye got kn solely from being the emo guy in rocafrlla that al the hiohopinfinity.com white fans could latch onto and they could authenticate culturally before jayz.
When, hhi.com white fans have an agenda and ye fits the propaganda for the agenda more than jayz.
So, they just transplanted draws over.
With quik, he actually was a real flagship artist and the first platinum drawing non collective associated west coast solo gangsta rapper.
He mah have also been the genre leading sales guy jn rap.for a solo.artist then as well, too.
My memory really does not even like to delve into quik cause of his crew and him employing them.
They were scourges of the highest order.
Especially, 2ndiinone.
Art Barr