The Infamous
Superstar
It's fact.
naS Illmatic XX sales...
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It's fact.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Illmatic was bootlegged heavily, by late '93 tons of copies were already on the streets of NYC. MC Serch claims to have met one man with 60,000 bootlegged copies. The album came out at a time when East Coast was being dominated by the West Coast in terms of sales, look at some of the numbers from local cats at the time Gold was considered great. Not many East Coast rappers were going Platinum.
Nas was underground at the time he didn't have a ton of features or anything like that just his Live at the BBQ verse and hype based off word of mouth from people who were touting him as the next big thing, the album was poorly marketed it didn't have a huge budget and Nas' shyt had no type of mainstream sound or single to push it to the masses. He made an album full of stories inner city struggles his experience in QB. It wasn't like a Reasonable Doubt that had songs like Ain't No Nikka made for radio.
Sales has nothing to do with being G.O.A.T., at the end of the day it's up to 1.6 million copies, at the end of the day rappers from the last 20 years of hip hop have claimed it as an influence, documentaries, books, and tributes have been made for it and it had a mystique that really no other album in hip hop has.
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
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intilectual recipricol
Killin fake hip hop
I know how to get naS stans up off me, make em cry and die from high blood pressure, cuz tears are salty...
look at these marks coppin pleas:
"bu bu bu no one on the east was goin platinum" (demonstrably false)
"bu bu bu you dont know how the industry works, no debut albums go plat" (demonstrably false)
"bu bu bu they were bootlegging it on napster" (
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"bu bu bu even if no one thought it was good enough to purchase........again, its still the best"
"bu bu bu ban this guy, he doesnt like naS!!!"
look at these marks coppin pleas:
"bu bu bu no one on the east was goin platinum" (demonstrably false)
"bu bu bu you dont know how the industry works, no debut albums go plat" (demonstrably false)
"bu bu bu they were bootlegging it on napster" (
)"bu bu bu even if no one thought it was good enough to purchase........again, its still the best"
"bu bu bu ban this guy, he doesnt like naS!!!"
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Just like any anti-Illmatic thread.
intilectual recipricol
Killin fake hip hop
How am I trolling when I simply posted the #'s? If all you have to do to troll naS stans is post facts then I feel sorry for their mothers. I dont even know why theyre mad at me, I didnt make or buy the album. They should be mad at naS and at the general public for this thread. Not me. I am just the voice of the people.
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Still in the top 20 after 20 years, 
another classic thread from da gawd
LandryFieldsDad
All Star
nas>twista
LandryFieldsDad
All Star
fvck off fakkitt
Some of y'all take this shyt too serious.
No it didn't, it went Gold in '96 and Platinum in '01. Can you do the Math? Also, if you don't know the circumstances around Illmatic and how the industry works please don't talk about record sales.
it took nas 7 years to sell the amount of records carter 3 and carter 4 sold in one week
why release an anniversary album of an album that flopped so bad when it first came out?
osama bin fly
al shabab
Gnhhebsnseeer gained the incredible amount of 1000 fans over the past 20 years
500 fans every ten years average
500 fans every ten years average