old heads how did y'all feel when y'all first seen this music video in 1996 ??
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Aje
All Madden
I could be wrong, and this is just semantics cuz I'm an ass hole, but ain't this video drop in '95?
That said, this was the record that got me into Jay-Z. I didn't f*ck with "Ain't No Niqqa" at all. Foxy Brown annoyed me to no end.
That said, this was the record that got me into Jay-Z. I didn't f*ck with "Ain't No Niqqa" at all. Foxy Brown annoyed me to no end.
I was a teenager at the time and i honestly was like "oh, cool, another wannabe drug dealing rapper awesome..."
Now I"m a Jigga stan, fml
I felt the same way....I was like 
Due to the fact by the time Jay z debuted I had already overdosed on "COKE RAP" courtesy of NAS ESCOBAR..BIGGIE and RAEKWON
JAY just seemed like another run of the mill guy
Till I heard him on MIXTAPES after my patna kept saying U GOTTA LISTEN TO THIS DUDE ..
I heard DEAD PRESIDENTS 2
AND I WAS
The flow and word selection was crazy
And that along with the IN MY LIFETIME single dedicated to kingpin Danny Dan u felt a sense of credibility
And even afte hearing him go toe to toe with BIG on brooklyn finest I fukked with him but I NEVER PUT HIM IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS BIG and NAS
Those guys were the TRUE GOATS of that COKE RAP genre
Due to the fact by the time Jay z debuted I had already overdosed on "COKE RAP" courtesy of NAS ESCOBAR..BIGGIE and RAEKWON
JAY just seemed like another run of the mill guy
Till I heard him on MIXTAPES after my patna kept saying U GOTTA LISTEN TO THIS DUDE ..
I heard DEAD PRESIDENTS 2
AND I WAS
The flow and word selection was crazy
And that along with the IN MY LIFETIME single dedicated to kingpin Danny Dan u felt a sense of credibility
And even afte hearing him go toe to toe with BIG on brooklyn finest I fukked with him but I NEVER PUT HIM IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS BIG and NAS
Those guys were the TRUE GOATS of that COKE RAP genre
WheresWallace
Superstar
Slick new york nikkas bussin shots at the west in that monopoly scene. Even BIG with the quick "who shot ya". scust
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/its-...big-were-during-the-east-vs-west-beef.100295/
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Cool
but really doing what other NY dudes are doing
People really forget how much people thought Jay was middle of the pack in those days. Its a credit to his work he moved up. But he wasnt a phenom out the gate.
but really doing what other NY dudes are doing People really forget how much people thought Jay was middle of the pack in those days. Its a credit to his work he moved up. But he wasnt a phenom out the gate.
1. Ain't this the knee grow who was in the Hawaiin Sophie video looking like a sucka?
2. Why they dissing the West with that monopoly scene?
3. Song is fire though.
This what I remember my thoughts being. And yes, I'm old enough to remember the Hawaiin Sophie video and the subsequent Jaz album.
2. Why they dissing the West with that monopoly scene?
3. Song is fire though
.This what I remember my thoughts being. And yes, I'm old enough to remember the Hawaiin Sophie video and the subsequent Jaz album.
This. Jay is in my top 5 but he really wasn't a factor until after BIG died. He does a good job with his revisionist history, thoughCool
People really forget how much people thought Jay was middle of the pack in those days. Its a credit to his work he moved up. But he wasnt a phenom out the gate.
BlackSexyllence
Yeah No
First time seeing it today and I feel bored, switched it off at the 10 second mark.
Lord Mecca
Eyes May Shine
that's quite the exact date for an assumption
especially a music video.... this nikka said feb 20th
Exactly.Cool
People really forget how much people thought Jay was middle of the pack in those days. Its a credit to his work he moved up. But he wasnt a phenom out the gate.
1994-1996 classics were dropping every month. Jay was a middle tier rapper during the "Golden Era." He didn't blow up until 1998 off of Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life...after Big and Pac died. Busta Rhymes was bigger than Jay back then.
Jay's the man now but it is sort of by default b/c he was the last man standing.
Right?!that's quite the exact date for an assumption
especially a music video.... this nikka said feb 20th
Don't remember ever seeing this video in '96. Not saying they didn't play it on YO! MTV Raps and Rap City, I'm sure they did but I never seen it. Only knew one guy back then that had "Reasonable Doubt" too, so it's possible the video started and I was 
and changed the station because I didn't know who it was.
I'm sure somebody will take this as me dissing Jay but like @The HONORABLE SKJ said Jay was just another rapper in '96.
Fred.
and changed the station because I didn't know who it was.I'm sure somebody will take this as me dissing Jay but like @The HONORABLE SKJ said Jay was just another rapper in '96.
Fred.