Barry Sanders
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If Internet message and Social Media was around in 94,what would be the reception to illmatic Ect.
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Whitty Hutton
these posters are TRASH
Why are you outright lying for the sake of trolling and Nas hate?
nikkas named about 15-20 platinum & gold artist out of like 200
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Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
Bear me to it, cuzz.
Was just about to post that Da MUTHAFUCCIN' Brat was gettin' more love in '94 in Nas.
That's not even shade - it's the truth.
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He ain't seeing Coolio's Gangsta Paradise numbers...Sold how much? flop
He ain't topping the charts like Skee-Lo and "I Wish I Was Taller"
Don't ever compare this n1gga to the gawds!!!
"They ain't bumping this in no clubs like 69 Boyz"
Coolio Stans we winning!!!!
So 87% of 1994 albums did NOT go gold or platinum. Getting a plaque in 1994 was extremely rare.
Albums that are considered classics or even just held in high regard didn't get a plaque.
Jeru
Common
Pete & CL
O.C.
Organized Konfusion
The Beatnuts
Gangstarr
Gravediggaz
Artifacts
The Fugees (not a classic or held in high regard...but even the Fugees struck out the first go round)
Also - the albums that did go gold or platinum - are not representative of the best albums or even the albums that got the most play.
From who though?
Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
From who though?
Don't act.
Don't act like everybody wasn't fuccin' wit' Da Brat. We was lovin' her chit.
We didn't know who Nas was for the most part.
The singles got nationwide radio/video play for sure. I liked them. Especially the one with the house party video. But are you acting like she factored in on any serious discussion of hip hop? I didn't know anybody in northern CA who copped the album...
Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
You're maing my point - "the singles got nationwide radio/video play for sure. I liked them."
Brat was goin' plat, gettin' play, being felt - we knew who she was. A lot of us didn't know Nas.
And in 1994 I was 11, so I wasn't having "serious discussion of hip hop". I'll let you tell that...
Cole Cash
They took a hammer and sickle to my back
From who though?
everyone. funkdafied was an enourmous hit back then.
spliz
SplizThaDon
Her album was bigger...Nas was underground and there's no denying it...he was known amongst the hip hop heads and in the Tri State but that's really it for the most part..most Nas fans got into him from It Was Written....no question...his lack of commercial reception and him getting snubbed for lyricist of the year is what influenced him to make It Was Written...From who though?
At that age I wouldn't expect you to know who he was.
I'm not shytting on Brat
Sure it was a little derivative...JD was cashing in on that G-Funk wave...but when people say she was getting more love than Nas in 94...we need to dig a little deeper and really analyze what was going on. Brat and Nas were on two different levels back then. Plus didn't JD write all of Brat's rhymes for that album? I could be wrong about that
Nas was known nationwide...but he was underground. His biggest audience was probably Tri-State...I've never seen sales figures but I can't imagine how that couldn't be true as hip hop was still regional in 94.
I think we may be saying the same thing...but just to be sure.
Brat sold more...but when we say she got "more love" who are we talking about?
spliz
SplizThaDon
She got love from the casual listeners...she didn't come into her own style yet so she was basically the female Snoop at that time...bit everything about him...style..flow..catch phrases...and he was huge at the time so the casual listener gravitated towards her...Nas was known nationwide by the hip hop heads...but for casual listeners he was mostly Tri State....