Nas Reveals Jay-Z Said He Was Better Than Biggie And That Tupac And DMX Were Not Lyricists in 2000

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Biggie the GOAT
A great artist but his career was cut too short for that claim. You can’t be the GOAT with 2 solo albums because your reign isn’t long enough. Hell even Jay-Z who has a claim to that crown had a noticeable fall off.
 
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A great artist but his career was cut too short for that claim. You can’t be the GOAT with 2 solo albums because your reign isn’t long enough. Hell even Jay-Z who has a claim to that crown had a noticeable fall off.

BIG has 2 albums that are masterpieces that forever changed hip hop music.
He's the GOAT ghostwriter (wrote for Lil Kim and Junior Mafia)
He has numerous classic guest features and remixes

His reign was just like Jimi Hendrix's, 4 years and in those 4 years BIG changed hip hop music and cemented his legacy as the GOAT
 

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BIG has 2 albums that are masterpieces that forever changed hip hop music.
He's the GOAT ghostwriter (wrote for Lil Kim and Junior Mafia)
He has numerous classic guest features and remixes

His reign was just like Jimi Hendrix's, 4 years and in those 4 years BIG changed hip hop music and cemented his legacy as the GOAT

Quite a few nikkas have two (or more) great albums though. Pac included. Would have been interesting to see how both these dudes would have ended up.

One thing for sure Biggie would have fallen out with Diddy at some point
 

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Why are you cats so mad at history being revisited? :dahell:

It's history. There are kids out there that were born in 2000. You share the internet with them... Some of them are learning about this...:flabbynsick:

It's been 20 years so, people will talk about it a lot. So you better take a few months off if you don't want hear about it. :yeshrug:
 

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Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
I'm inclined to believe Nas is telling the truth here because I've seen Irv Gotti in past interviews express similar sentiments about Jay's view on DMX. Supposedly Jay and Dame passed on X because they thought his music was too depressing and that aggressive appeal to the common-folk-in-the-hood street rap won't sell. And even if he's relatable to the dudes in the street as Irv argued, they don't want to "live" that...according to Jay they want power fantasy.
You know why this is unbelievable to me... It's from a party in 2000. By then Tupac was dead. Why was Jay talking about he's for the starving street nikkas when Pac had major hits about more than that. Why is he saying DMX got them same nikkas copping when DMX was outselling him, on tour with him and was putting out #1 albums back to back to back by that time. Why the hell is he bringing up Sauce money lol. Mind you.. We still at a party.. Why is Jay predicting Beans wouldn't sell 600k? But Beans debut already was out in feb 2000 and it went gold. So why the extra 100k? And wouldn't all the nikkas signed to roc be considered starving street nikka rap?


It doesn't add up. We only want to believe it cause it's Nas. Pretend Jim Jones said it... Now do you believe it?
 

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Jay said he was better than big after he passed in an interview but tried to say it in a slick way
“If I ain’t better than BIG I’m the closest one”

I mean, he basically put it on wax. Of COURSE he was saying that shyt in private convos lol.

And furthermore, we all know the ego Jay had (and Dame too, his right hand back then). And how good of an album he felt Reasonable Doubt was. Guarantee you that Jay ALWAYS felt he was better than Biggie.
 

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So was the problem what he said or that he actually said it out loud? The fact is if you think Jay is better than BIG that is reasonable. If you say BIG is better than Jay that's also reasonable. Is the issue he shouldn't have said it out loud out of respect?
 

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I'm inclined to believe Nas is telling the truth here because I've seen Irv Gotti in past interviews express similar sentiments about Jay's view on DMX. Supposedly Jay and Dame passed on X because they thought his music was too depressing and that aggressive appeal to the common-folk-in-the-hood street rap won't sell. And even if he's relatable to the dudes in the street as Irv argued, they don't want to "live" that...according to Jay they want power fantasy.
JAY RECENTLY SAID ON
LEBRONS BARBERSHOP SHOW
THAT DMX WAS A MUCH
BETTER PERFORMER THAN HIM
BUT HE FELT HE WAS CLEARLY
A BETTER RAPPER THAN X
SO HE JUST TRIED TO OUT BAR THE CROWD TO DEATH DURING THE
HARD KNOCK LIFE TOUR....


:yeshrug:SO YEA JAY SAID THAT shyt.
:devil:
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