Old heads, is it true Reasonable Doubt...

[Enchanted]

Wasn't poppin in 96? I keep seein nikkas sayin that no one was checkin for Hov and nikkas thought it was trash until Jay himself started sayin that it was classic later on. I was born in 95 so it doesn't sound right to me that the GOAT was considered wack

So is that true or is the booth just bullshyttin?

 

[Canada Goose]

RD debuted like 27th on the billboard charts... If that doesn't say nikkas wasn't checking for the album back then IDK what will.

I'm pretty sure Jay was like at the free promotion Pac give him on 7 day theory.


Keep in Mind Nas had the number 1 for like a month and Pac sold 5 milli in a matter of months

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Wasn't poppin in 96? I keep seein nikkas sayin that no one was checkin for Hov and nikkas thought it was trash until Jay himself started sayin that it was classic later on. I was born in 95 so it doesn't sound right to me that the GOAT was considered wack

So is that true or is the booth just bullshyttin?

people who say "reasonable doubt" wasn't poppin are people who were casual rap listeners at the time.

they were either:
a.) kids who were still on some kid chit.
b.) from the burbs
c.) commercial fans who base everything on industry/commercial accolades and propaganda.
d.) all of the above

 

[Rekkapryde]

RD was just another another good album that year and revisionist history by camel.

It was a dope debut and one of the best of 96, but there were MANY albums that cats were checking for over or in addition to RD.

IWW
AAOM
Makaveli
Beats Rhymes and Life
Atliens
The Coming
The Score
Hell on Earth
Ironman
Muddy Waters

 

[mortuus est]

From what i can remember the track with foxy brown was getting spins, i only really noticed the other singles when vol.1 came out and sunshine was getting so much radio and tv play

 

[Enchanted]

RD debuted like 27th on the billboard charts... If that doesn't say nikkas wasn't checking for the album back then IDK what will.

I'm pretty sure Jay was like at the free promotion Pac give him on 7 day theory.


Keep in Mind Nas had the number 1 for like a month and Pac sold 5 milli in a matter of months

people who say "reasonable doubt" wasn't poppin are people who were casual rap listeners at the time.

they were either:
a.) kids who were still on some kid chit.
b.) from the burbs
c.) commercial fans who base everything on industry/commercial accolades and propaganda.
d.) all of the above

 

[Danny Up]

People were checkin for it, but he wasn't the top pick. He wasn't even a top Brooklyn artist. He mostly got spins because of Biggie & Fox. The album was hot, no denying that. But he just wasn't that dude.

 

[Monoblock]

This ought to be good..

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

It was considered a great album when it dropped, its just that Jay wasn't very popular at the time and there were other artist like Pac, Nas, Wu, and the Fugees, etc. that were really popular during that time so the album wasn't given the same type of love, but the people who did have it and the people that heard it all knew it was dope.

It got 4 mics in the Source (same as IWW)
http://ifihavent.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/classic-reviews-reasonable-doubt-in-the-source-1996/

And the Source also listed it as one of the best albums of 1996 in their '96 Year In Review issue (Jan. '97)

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

yep.

I like threads like these because it exposes a lot of people.

 

[STAN JONES]

people who say "reasonable doubt" wasn't poppin are people who were casual rap listeners at the time.

they were either:
a.) kids who were still on some kid chit.
b.) from the burbs
c.) commercial fans who base everything on industry/commercial accolades and propaganda.
d.) all of the above

Stop it breh, Jay didnt blow up until Vol. 2 came out

Nobody ever said it was classic back when it first came out.

 

[Enchanted]

So it was a great album that not a lot of people knew about basically? But when Jay blew up after Vol. 2 people went back to it and started biggin it up more?

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Stop it breh, Jay didnt blow up until Vol. 2 came out

Nobody ever said it was classic back when it first came out.

why would you go out of your way to expose yourself like this?

 

[Danny Up]

So it was a great album that not a lot of people knew about basically? But when Jay blew up after Vol. 2 people went back to it and started biggin it up more?

It's basically how 2Pac & Nas were.

 

[tybo]

Not a lot of people were checking for it. Like another poster said, there was just so much quality music out that year that RD didn't really stand out. Jay hadn't become a well known artist yet so most people who were checking for it were the people who were "in the know".