thread is funny.
whats even more funny is people acting like jay wouldnt be hot if pac & big were alive - while proppin up nas in the same post as if jay didnt pass nas up.
plus jay was on his first album and accomplished more than 2pac & nas did on their first joints.
jay was an independent new-comer to an already over-crowded game. he didnt have the luxury of dropping his album at a time when the east coast was looking for a big star like biggie had the luxury of doing in '94 under clive davis, la reid & puffy.
and this whole "his album wasnt getting any play over here" thing is crazy. theres only a handful of squads that were a factor across the map. death row, bad boy, bone thugs and you can say wutang to an extent. then you had the fugees on the commercial end, and LL became a legacy act. thats pretty much it.
youre playing yourself here.
youre trying to combine 2 different arguments.
i wasnt saying he was poppin simply because he was on mtv. i was responding to people in here claiming that jay was a nobody in '96. you got people in here saying that nobody knew who jay was before 2pac dissed him. thats bullchit.
cable was beyond commonplace at this point breh. most people had cable or a chip.
the vast majority of people who didnt have either were old-fashioned or in poverty unfortunately.
and treacherous three sampled it before them.
ehh.
'88 & '95 were better.
nah. everything was not getting played everyday.
they only had 20 slots tops.
plus jay was getting play outside of just rap city. he was on every channel.
dude didnt say dogg pound tho.
he claimed that kurupt himself was bigger than jay-z.
