Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
I'ma pretend you didn't throw Jeru and Xzibit in there with those others, while sayin' people barely noticed Jay existed... stop that
'96 was Pac, Nas, Fugees, Bone Thugs (still carrying over from '95- 'Crossroads' remix was the peak of their success), LL, Lil' Kim, Foxy, Outkast, Busta, Mobb, Lost Boyz, Ghost, and a few others... Jay being somewhere in that group...
And nobody EVER says he was 'one of the hottest' in terms of being 'hot' the way it's often described. No one ever says he was a superstar or anything like that. But when nikkas try to put him in the Mic Geronimo/Heather B/Jeru/Xzibit/Smoothe Da Hustla category, ain't a chance in hell, breh. That's an overexaggeration at best and a lie at worst. How you have an album go gold, a single go gold, and featured on a GANG of songs, and a 'nobody' at the same time?Cut that out...
Rd did not go gold.
It shipped gold and originally only a 500k print run in its first and only original print run.
The revision it sold gold comes from the second print run.
The first print run of rd, on cd.
Features a .380 on the physical cd.
The second print run features jayz with a sellout suit jacket a scarf and fedora on.
Also, back then.....
You could have went gold as an unpopular commercial rapper and not actually been popular.
Especially given the fact, you were a sellout rapper culturally.
WHICH, is exactly what jayz is.
Jay was a failed popular mainstream artist and we can tell so, because he flopped and xxl put him on the cover of their debut.
Then xxl revised their own history after he flopped in volume one twice, and their pr.
To say, he was kn the cover as a potential top seller.
When, originally he was on the cover.
as their pick to be the biggest draw right when volume one dropped.
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