Jay Z dropped Take Over on 9.11.2001

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Kay Slay put it out on a mixtape after Jay performed it at Summer Jam



Edit: I forgot about Slay's classic shyt talk on the intro "I'ma show y'all nikkas how gully I keep it. I wasn't even at Summer Jam!"

And at the end

 

[Dontflexbaby]

So no one is going to mention 9eleven/ blueprint/ Illuminati connection

 

[Lord Mecca]

at music not being as "accessible" then... you nikkas kill me. It was even easier then... only question then was whether or not you had high-speed access cause certain people were still struggling with dial-up. There were programs on the computer made specifically for finding mp3s even after Napster... people would Limewire everything and people always shared their libraries. Them IRC channels used to funnel those group releases and people shared them everywhere.

Anyway, op is lost saying it didn't come out early. I went to school and from the very first day people were waiting for me to talk shyt already. I was getting roasted as a Nas stan by the Jay fanatics for Take Over. Grade 10.

 

[Monoblock]

RealPlayer #UWasntThere

RealPlayer + StreamRipper=mp3

Man I use to be a monster downloading RA files and then converting them using SR. I still remember the night Flex dropped Ether. Everyone went nuts. I also remember buying BP the morning it dropped. i didn't even know what was going on with the Towers until I got home in the afternoon but yea Takeover was out a good month before the album.

at music not being as "accessible" then... you nikkas kill me. It was even easier then... only question then was whether or not you had high-speed access cause certain people were still struggling with dial-up. There were programs on the computer made specifically for finding mp3s even after Napster... people would Limewire everything and people always shared their libraries. Them IRC channels used to funnel those group releases and people shared them everywhere.

Man you aint lying. There use to be all kinds of ways of getting music back then. I had them IRC channels on fire back then and had access to everything.
#hiphopalbums
#oldschoolhiphop
#VLS

 

[Mr. Negative]

Nope, the battle was huge, but access to it wasnt easy. sure if you were in New York or L.A. but mixtapes werent accessible to the average fan and the internet, especially for music/forums was at its early stages.

Nah, it was getting played around central mississippi like the end of august.

Folks I didn't even know knew how to to turn on a computer was playing it. I first heard it through them.

This was back when us nikkas that thought burning CDs as data and not MP3s to fit 100 songs was the bootleg gods.

 

[MR. Conclusion]

I had to neg the OP for talking out his ass. The full track was out in August.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Nope, the battle was huge, but access to it wasnt easy. sure if you were in New York or L.A. but mixtapes werent accessible to the average fan and the internet, especially for music/forums was at its early stages.

net leaks were pretty common back in 2000/2001 beisdes online forums, there were entire websites with leaked albums (simplempe3s) and sharing programs like napster, scour and audiogalaxy

 

[Olu Dara]

FALSE

Negged

 

[IllmaticDelta]

at music not being as "accessible" then... you nikkas kill me. It was even easier then... only question then was whether or not you had high-speed access cause certain people were still struggling with dial-up. There were programs on the computer made specifically for finding mp3s even after Napster... people would Limewire everything and people always shared their libraries. Them IRC channels used to funnel those group releases and people shared them everywhere.

facts

 

[head shots101]

Takeover was out in the summer ....I remember the hustlers on the block having jokes on me and my dude cuz we was Nas fans

"You ain't witness it u scribbled in your notepad and created your life" they kept repeating that over and over to us lol

 

[IllmaticDelta]

RealPlayer + StreamRipper=mp3

Man I use to be a monster downloading RA files and then converting them using SR. I still remember the night Flex dropped Ether. Everyone went nuts. I also remember buying BP the morning it dropped. i didn't even know what was going on with the Towers until I got home in the afternoon but yea Takeover was out a good month before the album.

I was using batch converts with blaze media pro

Man you aint lying. There use to be all kinds of ways of getting music back then. I had them IRC channels on fire back then and had access to everything.
#hiphopalbums
#oldschoolhiphop
#VLS

#mixtapekings

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Where were you and what were you doing when you first heard Take Over?

I want to say I heard it on Angie first...as a Nas fan it felt like Jigga was really trying to send him back to The Bridge...it felt morbid

 

[Roxx the King]

Wasn't it on the radio though. I was 5 and remember some type of premiere of it

5?

 

[head shots101]

at music not being as "accessible" then... you nikkas kill me. It was even easier then... only question then was whether or not you had high-speed access cause certain people were still struggling with dial-up. There were programs on the computer made specifically for finding mp3s even after Napster... people would Limewire everything and people always shared their libraries. Them IRC channels used to funnel those group releases and people shared them everywhere.

Anyway, op is lost saying it didn't come out early. I went to school and from the very first day people were waiting for me to talk shyt already. I was getting roasted as a Nas stan by the Jay fanatics for Take Over. Grade 10.

shyt had limewire and Napster on my computer in high school

Ares and limewire gave my home computer aids

 

[BronxFleeZ]

5?

Yea breh I'm 20. Pops been had me tuned in