If Internet message and Social Media was around in 94,what would be the reception to illmatic Ect.

[intilectual recipricol]

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

 

[mobbinfms]

This is 94, bootlegging wasnt a big issue at all.

 

[spliz]

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

"Had Illmatic..on bootleg.."-Jay-Z...son Illmatic was bootlegged and bootlegging was DEF a thing back then...Nas bootlegging and giving out his own damn album aint help the cause either...lol...

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Illmatic was a non-factor in '94 outside of NY...and Big didn't actually start blowing up nationwide until he dropped the "one more chance" & "big poppa" singles in '95...the primary topic of discussions would likely be BONE/Eazy-E & Snoop/Death Row in '94.

people seem to forget that Biggie was BOO'd off stage multiple times for Craig Mack back when Flava In Ya Ear was a huge hit.

I think that's why they hated eachother...even Craig had to know biggie was the better rapper but that didn't matter.

 

[the cac mamba]

isnt it like a fact that illmatic was heavily bootlegged?

 

[mobbinfms]

people seem to forget that Biggie was BOO'd off stage multiple times for Craig Mack back when Flava In Ya Ear was a huge hit.

I don't remember hearing that breh...
I remember Biggie saying he didn't like him b/c he was from the suburbs...

 

[H.I.M.]

isnt it like a fact that illmatic was heavily bootlegged?

Yeah. Because Illmatic had an exclusive monopoly on all albums bootlegged in the 90's.

Saying something was "heavily bootlegged" in the 90's is redundant. Can't tell you how rare it was to find somebody with a non-dubbed copy of Doggystyle or E.1999 where i lived at.

 

[the cac mamba]

Yeah. Because Illmatic had an exclusive monopoly on all albums bootlegged in the 90's.

Saying something was "heavily bootlegged" in the 90's is redundant. Can't tell you how rare it was to find somebody with a non-dubbed copy of Doggystyle or E.1999 where i lived at.

as long as you're not implying that no one was bumpin it i feel like that wasnt the case

 

[mobbinfms]

as long as you're not implying that no one was bumpin it i feel like that wasnt the case

Bootlegging was worse in NY from my understanding. So any NY based artist was likely to suffer from bootlegging more than say Snoop or bone.

 

[H.I.M.]

as long as you're not implying that no one was bumpin it i feel like that wasnt the case

Outside of NY and possibly the surrounding states?

That shyt didn't even register where i was from...and i was on the east coast when it dropped...don't let the revisionist from your fellow cacs on the coli fool you.

 

[the cac mamba]

Outside of NY and possibly the surrounding states?

That shyt didn't even register where i was from...and i was on the east coast when it dropped...don't let the revisionist from your fellow cacs on the coli fool you.

alright breh i didnt know it was a white thing

 

[H.I.M.]

Bootlegging was worse in NY from my understanding. So any NY based artist was likely to suffer from bootlegging more than say Snoop or bone.

Bootlegging was rife EVERYWHERE you goddamn idiot.

Are you now implying that dub tape decks only existed in NY?

 

[LogicFirst]

Illmatic was a non-factor in '94 outside of NY...and Big didn't actually start blowing up nationwide until he dropped the "one more chance" & "big poppa" singles in '95...the primary topic of discussions would likely be BONE/Eazy-E & Snoop/Death Row in '94.

You're fukkin crazy if you think Illmatic was a "non factor" outside of New York. I was in LA and all my friends were stunned when it just dropped with no promotion. That album became like a fukkin religion

That nikka said "I'll sneak an UZI on an island in my army jacket lining'" I'm almost passed out when I heard that line

 

[H.I.M.]

You're fukkin crazy if you think Illmatic was a "non factor" outside of New York. I was in LA and all my friends were stunned when it just dropped with no promotion. That album became like a fukkin religion

 

[LogicFirst]

If Internet message boards and Social Media was around in 94 what would be the reception to Illmatic and Ready 2 Die?


I see this what alot of album i hear today, Message board and social media members are totally convinced that people can't be loving these projects that much. And it has to be this huge cover up to push a artist and brainwash the fans.

Obviously this has been going on with Kendrick latest project, but i felt this way since Cole album dropped.

But back to topic i truly believe if these internet outlets were available in 94 that half the people would be screaming from the mountains that Illmatic and Ready 2 die is all internet hype and its nothing compared to Paid in full Ect.

The shyt gets kinda corny and cause u essentially disrespecting the fans by saying they can't think for themselves(and u might be right on some of them), but u can say the same about alot of dudes with who love illmatic, cause the hype around that album have hip hop fans who dont even like that album saying its the goat or classic just cause its the consensus in hip hop. shyt i know people that dont even get the album, it goes way over they head but they keeping naming it in they top album(corny follower shyt)

but there are truly fans that love the music that's being released today, shyt regardless of how people feel this is the music, the youth is living it day in and day out and it will touch them in a way that might not touch a older head that lived through the Nas, Big, Hov, X, Pac(90s era).

Breh, I can appreciate what you're saying but trust me when I tell you: nobody would call illmatic overrated not even rappers