Jay-Z was a nobody in 1996

[maxamusa]

C'mon, take the L. OP is a clear joke and you marched in here to defend a man you wouldn't have dinner with?
Cam'ron had a better verse on Oh Boy btw.

What L? cause I don't pretend like everyone my age was bumping reasonable doubt

anyone my age has played fukking French Montana 1000x more than jay-z

OPEN TOED SANDLES WITH JEANS

 

[Amo Husserl]

What L? cause I don't pretend like everyone my age was bumping reasonable doubt

anyone my age has played fukking French Montana 1000x more than jay-z

OPEN TOED SANDLES WITH JEANS

OP is a clear joke

You took the bait, it's okay.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

BIG didn't die until '97, so this is valid.
Jay-Z wasn't known until he rapped over the Annie sample.
Streets wasn't fukkin' with dude until then.
First two albums was garbage.

You're saying RD & Vol 1 are trash?

RD is classic regardless how relevant or irrelevant Jay was in 96, Vol 1 is on par lyrically with RD, maybe even better.

All his albums til Blueprint were ehhhh, and I think blueprint is overrated af

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

My question is what does it matter if he was relevant or irrelevant in 1996

Album is classic regardless if it was an immediate success, I'm not even a Jay-Z fan like that and I have Reasonable Doubt in my top 10.

 

[Yecht]

Jay Z was on the cover of the 1996 year in review issue of the Source Magazine.

So he was top 12 in NYC in 2006, nobody denying he wasnt at least in 12th in 06

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

He sounds like an impression of himself

 

[DillaTUDE]

Only two markets that even mattered at the time were only NY and LA, and the facts of the matter are that he was the hottest newcomer in one of them

He was a constant feature on all of them Clue tapes of the time and in the Tunnel

 

[NO-BadAzz]

i know New Orleans is poor af. But did y’all not have cable in your region in 1996?

Tell me what shows were on cable showing rap videos. Don't name the Box? And don't name Video Soul.

I'll give you one Yo MTV raps.

Go.

And after you struggle to find this rap show, did any of Jay-Z singles, crack the countdown TOP 10??

I'll wait dummy

 

[NO-BadAzz]

Jay Z was on the cover of the 1996 year in review issue of the Source Magazine.

70-80% of those folks on that cover reached two or more regions. JayZ single was not bigger than 70-80% of the rappers he is with on that cover

nikkas love to try rewrite history

 

[maxamusa]

You took the bait, it's okay.

bait? nobody got any bread outta me what

 

[maxamusa]

70-80% of those folks on that cover reached two or more regions. JayZ single was not bigger than 70-80% of the rappers he is with on that cover

nikkas love to try rewrite history

he on the bottom of that shyt anyways

 

[NO-BadAzz]

he on the bottom of that shyt anyways

Lmaoo.

 

[Cladyclad]

Tell me what shows were on cable showing rap videos. Don't name the Box? And don't name Video Soul.

I'll give you one Yo MTV raps.

Go.

And after you struggle to find this rap show, did any of Jay-Z singles, crack the countdown TOP 10??

I'll wait dummy

So jay z could be on the biggest rap video platform at the the time but not nowhere else lol

jay z was all over rap city with dead presidents, I’ll be, ain’t no, & feelin it

this is like someone saying yeah Bron u in the nba but did u go to college


Yo was the biggest rap show going and jay z hosted it

 

[hex]

Only two markets that even mattered at the time were only NY and LA, and the facts of the matter are that he was the hottest newcomer in one of them

He was a constant feature on all of them Clue tapes of the time and in the Tunnel

In 1996?!

Outkast (south) and BONE (midwest) were going plat and multi-plat. You're talking as if it was 1989 or some shyt.

Fred.

 

[maxamusa]

In 1996?!

Outkast (south) and BONE (midwest) were going plat and multi-plat. You're talking as if it was 1989 or some shyt.

Fred.

1996 might have been the most epic year in hip-hop history looking bak at it