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Name a rapper whose influence/impact is overrated
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JasonSJackson
Jah Sun Ma'at Ra
Lil Wayne
Aubrey
William Roberts III
Gunplay
Jay-z to a certain extent
Aubrey
William Roberts III
Gunplay
Jay-z to a certain extent
OG Talk
Archived
Jay is very influential.. But you're giving him credit for all the wrong sh1t...
intilectual recipricol
Killin fake hip hop
naS
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
not influence, but overall relativity - Big L (who the fukk listened to him outside of NY and maybe the nikkas REALLY into lyricist) let NY'ers tell it he should be one of the GOAT's #NobodyElseCares
Jay. He is one of the all-time greats, but all the dudes he inspired are mostly trash.
Didn't Eric B and Rah have Bentleys in '88? Before Puff?
Big Boi wasnt MORE influential with those jerseys, he had the game on lock but Jay was a bigger star therefore he gets the credit of INFLUENCE, not starting it.
Button ups lasted way longer than 8 weeks. Stop.
Cristal? Jay made it bigger than Rae, Ghost and Big. He was a bigger star than them.
The rest you can have.
Oh, people outside of NY rock Yankees fitted.
Jay was much more influential than those rappers, even though he didnt START some of those trends.
at only NY nikkaz rocking Yankee hats
Lefty Gunz
Superstar
Even though you're right, just cause somebody wasn't the first doesn't mean they weren't the most influential. Michael Jordan wasn't the first athlete to have a sneaker deal.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
the only ppl out side of NY rockin them fitteds are ppl from NY who moved, actual Yankee "fans", & trend hopping herbs...
OG Talk
Archived
If your point is that Jay became so popular that he made what was common inside the culture more recognizable to the mainstream (outside of the culture) than I guess you're right....
In that same spirit..We need to give Eminem props for making doo-rags pop....He mos def influenced that...
And any non-NY n1gga that wears Yankee fitteds is a lame....
Yeah but in reality, that's a bunch of corny shyt.
Jay influrnced fashion, what does any of that mean in the long run? He was trendy.
As far as his influence on hip-hop, it wasn't anything great. He influenced a lot of trash ass mixtape hustling rappers
Filluminati
Pro
Cristal
Ace of Spades
Throwback jerseys
Button up shirts
blue NY Yankees hat
Death of Autotune
bought Bentleys, bought em back
all his clones (NOE, Sacario, T.I., fabolous)
..had people drinkin Cristal and then switch right up to Ace of Spades when he told them to.who else could do that? Nas?
..almost had as many clones as Tupac (Master P, the Realest, Lil Zane, Ja Rule, Dmx, 50 cent etc.). Jays influence is wide bruddah.
His only influence is all about having more money than the other guy, swag, be a fly guy, im better than you yada yada yada. He is a 40+ years old man who raps about materealistic things.
When i listen to music, sometimes i want to hear about more serious things, that can touch my situation, my heart and my soul. Im approaching 30 years old. I dont care about "swag" and fly shyt.
Jay cannot influence me on some serious shyt.
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
You just
on 90 percent of hip-hop fans. Dudes who never stepped foot in NY got NY fitteds 