Is Nas being a great rapper only an online thing?

[mr.africa]

not going to entertain this nonsense

 

[L. Deezy]

the stupidity on this forum

I agree...

 

[MidnightMercenary]

Casual music listeners don't even dig thru shyt

If it ain't on the radio, they don't know it

 

[BO BARON]

Alot of nikkas offline think lil wayne or even 50 is goats

Anybody that thinks that online is immediately considered stans or idiots

Online>>>>>>offline

 

[xiceman191]

There's ur answer. U live in fukkin oklahoma bro. No offense. Nas being in GOAT conversations is DEF not an Internet thing. He was in those conversations before Jay was.

None taken most of the ones I talked to had a more southern and west coast influence with Rakim and LL Cool J thrown in there.

 

[The Ruler 09]

Also, Nas is a great artist, excellent artist, he's not just a dope MC/Rapper, he's 1 hell of an artist, will certainly go down as 1 of the greatest.

 

[madness]

I been talking to some dudes about rap and I was talking about my favorite rapper being Nas and that I believe that he deserves to be mentioned as a legend in the game. As soon as I say that shyt everybody I have talked to about it looks at me and now alot of these people got me by about 20+ years so I'm just genuinely curious about this. People will bring up Pac as a great artist but then when I say Nas is a great artist they look at me crazy.

While I was born in the 90s I wasn't really allowed to listen to much rap when I was younger because my parents really didn't care for the genre and its vulgarity. So alot of my taste has been developed after the fact. I know that different regions have different tastes (I live in Oklahoma) so I know that has some bearing on the answers I was given.

was having a hip hop discussion with my barber a while back and told him imo nas was the greatest of all time. he hit me with the "nas? i mean he's cool and all but..."

i brought up his longetivity, the classics under his belt, him defeating jay (who many consider the GOAT), his influence, etc


he then proceeded to try to tell me how lil wayne, DMX, T.I. etc all had better resumes than nas i got up, paid for my cut and left smh

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Nope Nas is great under any capacity

But it is definitely exaggerated on online forums

 

[Chris Cool]

this is a pure bullshyt lie right here.

I Ain't heard a nas song in the radio since i can.

 

[Supreme365]

You live in Oklahoma end thread

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Nas is highly respected in the juggalo community

 

[beenz]

why am I not able to neg the threadstarter here????

 

[Wacky D]

hes a top 10 guy offline too.

but his popularity is on a whole nother level on the internet.

and yea, if youre not from the east coast, I can definitely understand if you look at nas in the same light as say a scarface. somebody said something like that on page 2.

 

[xiceman191]

why am I not able to neg the threadstarter here????

That's messed up man.

 

[spliz]

None taken most of the ones I talked to had a more southern and west coast influence with Rakim and LL Cool J thrown in there.

There's ur answer bro. They have a couple popular 80s nikkas from NY cause in the 80s NY ran shyt. If u was into hip hop u fukked wit NY. But in the 90s is when regionalism hit an all time high. So the shyt spread out more. Especially when it comes to casual hip hop fans. But if u ever got sat in the room with some legit hip hop fans he's always gonna come up. U don't get the accolades and career Nas has had from Internet fame.