Old heads, is it true Reasonable Doubt...

[the rhyme king]

LOL @ calling me an idiot when you make idiotic threads on the daily.........and have been for years......you autistic fakkit.....

and lol at u getting gangster ok killer did'nt mean get u all upset killer lmao smh.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

@Big Mel
@gator king

that source lists says the fiscal year is nov '95 - oct '96.

that prolly explains the ommissions.

edit: im mad late. my bad.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

and lol at u getting gangster ok killer did'nt mean get u all upset killer lmao smh.

no ones upset ronnie......just speaking the truth.......now and go think of rhyme scheme's to contemplate about........

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

reasonable doubt got more love than IWW.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

nikka that was his first album.....LOL @ asking some bullshyt like that.......especially in '96 when Jay wasnt even know like that yet and is no where near the level he is at right now........how old are you bruh?..........or better yet how old were you in '96?....

thats not what im saying.

youre deflecting away from the comment you made that I was responding too.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

The internet and their dumb fascination with the word "classic" is fukkin ridiculous.

It's a loose label at best. "That shyt was classic yo". "Yea I remember that shyt, that shyt was classic." "That shyt is classic Hov yo".

Only on the internet did muthafukkas try and make it some concrete term that they couldn't wait to try and apply to their favorite albums.

 

[Goat poster]

reasonable doubt was getting way more love than "the coming". come on man.

LIE!!

The Coming went Platinum and had huge hits like "woo hah" and "party" ft Zhane .

Don't fall for the retrospective hype from Jay breh. Busta was DEF a bigger star than Jay at the time.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

thats not what im saying.

youre deflecting away from the comment you made that I was responding too.

Im not deflecting anything.....that was an asinine question on your part bruh.......you were probably like 12 years old in '96 trying to speak on what was really good.....taking about Jay's promotion in 1996...............

 

[Freestyle Phantom3.0]

96 was such a dope year for hip hop, I feel like it got kinda left behind due to all the other dope albums that came out. But it is in my opinion the best album to come out that year, and one of my top 5 albums of all time.

 

[Big Mel]

LIE!!

The Coming went Platinum and had huge hits like "woo hah" and "party" ft Zhane .

Don't fall for the retrospective hype from Jay breh. Busta was DEF a bigger star than Jay at the time.

The coming only went gold that calendar year and was good but hardly the grand slam LONS/Busta fans wanted.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I can rock with just about everything except the bolded. if you didn't know who jay was in '96-97, then you just weren't into rap like that. you had to be living under a rock.

i meant 96...and yes, it was easy to overlook and not hear of him that year. Especially if you were more into the box and mtv than BET. Aint No nikka got a good amount of spins, but people easily saw it as a foxy song - he easily falls into the cam "horse & carriage" category at that point where when he came back with Vol 1 people was like, oh i remember him...but he wasn't top of mind.

The coming only went gold that calendar year and was good but hardly the grand slam LONS/Busta fans wanted.

grand slam musically or commercially? cuz gold is a BIG step up from the numbers they were pushing. most folks my age at the time didn't even know busta from LONS, busta came and was was Busta...dudes were at his crazy style and animated flows, and of course When Disaster Strikes put him over the top




all yall east coast cats can stop mentioning mixtapes back then as any validation, what yall had on your mixtape circuit was a lot different that what LA, the Bay, Houston, ATL woulda had....shyt wasn't '03 and you could get tapes across the country via the internet like that.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

LIE!!

The Coming went Platinum and had huge hits like "woo hah" and "party" ft Zhane .

Don't fall for the retrospective hype from Jay breh. Busta was DEF a bigger star than Jay at the time.

youre confusing the topic with commercial success. which is where a lot of people seem to get lost in translation here.

busta's album didn't even sell much more than jay's anyway. and jay had multiple singles bigger than the zhane joint.

but again, this isn't about that.

Im not deflecting anything.....that was an asinine question on your part bruh.......you were probably like 12 years old in '96 trying to speak on what was really good.....taking about Jay's promotion in 1996...............

and youre still deflecting. I said what I said for a reason. if youre legitimately not deflecting, then the comment just went over your head.

I was 11 actually. and in the hood. you suburban cats wouldn't understand.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

i meant 96...and yes, it was easy to overlook and not hear of him that year. Especially if you were more into the box and mtv than BET. Aint No nikka got a good amount of spins, but people easily saw it as a foxy song - he easily falls into the cam "horse & carriage" category at that point where when he came back with Vol 1 people was like, oh i remember him...but he wasn't top of mind.

"aint no nikka" was indeed on the box & mtv. and it was all over the radio.

edit: okay, I see what youre saying with the camron comparison but:

at the top of '97, foxy & jay did the "i'll be good" video for foxy's album. thats another one.

and then, jay dropped "who you wit" off the sprung soundtrack in the spring. thats another one.

this is all long before volume one. thats at least 3 across-the-board hits. and I want to mention "cant knock the hustle" as being halfway there.

 

[Big Mel]

i meant 96...and yes, it was easy to overlook and not hear of him that year. Especially if you were more into the box and mtv than BET. Aint No nikka got a good amount of spins, but people easily saw it as a foxy song - he easily falls into the cam "horse & carriage" category at that point where when he came back with Vol 1 people was like, oh i remember him...but he wasn't top of mind.

grand slam musically or commercially? cuz gold is a BIG step up from the numbers they were pushing. most folks my age at the time didn't even know busta from LONS, busta came and was was Busta...dudes were at his crazy style and animated flows, and of course When Disaster Strikes put him over the top




all yall east coast cats can stop mentioning mixtapes back then as any validation, what yall had on your mixtape circuit was a lot different that what LA, the Bay, Houston, ATL woulda had....shyt wasn't '03 and you could get tapes across the country via the internet like that.

Musically. It sort of mirrors bustas solo career as a whole. Good. Kept classic singles and vids but not a classic album. I recall the cella dwellas and the coming both dropping at the same time and not really liking one any more than the other.

Perspective.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

"aint no nikka" was indeed on the box & mtv. and it was all over the radio.

and then at the top of '97, foxy & jay did the "i'll be good" video for foxy's album. thats another one.

and then, jay dropped "who you wit" off the sprung soundtrack in the spring. thats another one.

this is all long before volume one. thats at least 3 across-the-board hits. and I want to mention "cant knock the hustle" as being halfway there.

Like i said, 96 dude, Aint No nikka is what got the radio spins...Dead Pres got a few video hits, but wasn't played on the radio out here. I'll Be Good and Who You Wit count as Vol 1 era Jay which is why I shorthand it to say Vol 1, it's when he became a mainstream rapper, 97 was a big year for him and of course 98/99 was that next level shyt