Who are you referring to with the White Plains reference?A lot of West Coast albums are just as good or better than East Coast albums. But Hip Hop fanboys who actually know nothing about music, regional cultural significance can't formulate their own opinions about music that hasn't been reviewed by whiteboys from White Plains, New York who worked as music critics for big publications back in the 90's.Messy Marv & San Quinn's Explosive Mode is musically better than any album that came out of the East Coast in 98'. 2nd II None's debut album was musically as good as any classic album from 91'. Dru Down Can U Feel Me was as good as anything back in 96'. But these albums aren't constantly promoted by hipster whiteboys who moved to NYC from the Midwest in 2008 or their older brothers who wrote gushy reviews about 90's NYC albums. That Korean lady Miss Info was the original critic who wrote the 5 mic review for Illmatic.
Ironically, most of these critically acclaimed East Coast albums sold horribly in the 90's and were criminally slept on despite the fact that 90% of relevant NY rappers were signed to major labels.
I'm 32. By the end of the 90's, people looked at Nas's career like it was a joke. Illmatic went wood and no one really started talking about it again until Jay-Z dropped the "Takeover" in 2001
, It Was Written was met with mixed reviews upon it's initial release and Nastradamus was panned.
Never heard the first two albums, the Dru Down album was 3.5 to me
Plenty of better East Coast albums.
What hipsters are promoting 90s east coast albums that weren't already certified as mega classics?
Miss Info wrote the review, but had nothing to do with the albums rating.
Who cares what an album sold? What does that have to do with it being classic?
Illmatic went gold before IWW and was steadily selling the entire decade. I wouldn't say his career was looked at as a joke by the end of the 90s, but i get the point you're making.
Holy shyt this is a masterpiece" from the mid 90s.
