Bootlegging was rife EVERYWHERE you goddamn idiot.
Are you now implying that dub tape decks only existed in NY?
I'll let @Big Mel tell you about copping tapes "fresh off the African's blanket"
If Internet message and Social Media was around in 94,what would be the reception to illmatic Ect.
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I'll let @Big Mel tell you about copping tapes "fresh off the African's blanket"
Keep exposing what a out of touch, cac-raised, uber-ofey you are...thinking bootlegging was restricted to one city
And you're supposed to be old enough to know this shyt.
LogicFirst
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Say whatever you want lil nikka, but trust me when I tell you, whoever your favorite rapper was in the 94; they were bumpin illmatic religiously. At the time, rappers were more excited than regular fans.naS stans furious right now. @spliz already told you that the nikka was regional. Also, I gotta disagree with you talmbout everyone had the bootleg. This is 94, bootlegging wasnt a big issue at all. In 94 I was 13, nobody I knew or their older bros were fukkin with naS. No one gave a shyt til IWW. Illmatic was a hip hop coaster for my capri sun juice box.... although we was fukkin wit tapes in 94
DJ Mart-Kos
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Illmatic is overrated
LogicFirst
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You had to be there son. You probably too young.
So what made you come to the conclusion that bootlegging in NY was any different than anywhere else?
It would be one thing if you came up in NY during that period and thought that...but the fact that you're not from there and thought bootlegging was any different than any other urban/inner city area is suspect
LogicFirst
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Breh, you're missing the point of why Nas was so dope; he was so dope because he was WAY OVER a lot of people's heads. People had to explain to other people what he was saying, that's why he printed the lyrics for IWW so people could read
DallasTxRep
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Taadow
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LOL No - Nas was/is dope because he could rap...
which is exactly what I thought when I first heard him around It Was Written came out.
I had no idea what Illmatic was until after It Was Written came out - nobody I kew had ever
talked about it, and I never heard it being played anywhere. It just is what it was.
Hard to say..
Rap has become less regional with this generation,.. Down here nobody was listening to anything from New York outside of a little Biggie here and there... Although i was young as hell when Illmatic came out I still don't remember anything from him until It Was Written came out... I may have slight memories of It Ain't Hard To Tell but that might just be the Human Nature sample..
I remember being in high school getting clowned for listening to Liquid Swords and Illmatic and shyt like that.. I got exposed to rap message boards around 01 so thats how I learned about a lot of shyt..
Rap has become less regional with this generation,.. Down here nobody was listening to anything from New York outside of a little Biggie here and there... Although i was young as hell when Illmatic came out I still don't remember anything from him until It Was Written came out... I may have slight memories of It Ain't Hard To Tell but that might just be the Human Nature sample..
I remember being in high school getting clowned for listening to Liquid Swords and Illmatic and shyt like that.. I got exposed to rap message boards around 01 so thats how I learned about a lot of shyt..
LogicFirst
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Illmatic didn't sell because it wasn't promoted or advertised
LogicFirst
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What exactly is your point?
Foxmulder
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14 breh
living in Queens,NY. And there was casual hiphop heads in NY that didn't even listen to or know about Illmatic . So I wouldn't expect a 11 year old to be fukking with illmatic. Wasn't really getting at you.