How not.
Do you brehHow not.

Nah. I'm talking about the immediate push to crown illmatic as THE hip hop despite the streets saying otherwiseLarge Professor put him on bbq and his buzz grew from that. What's the issue?

Your love for Nas is a media creation

See, you know how I know you're an idiot off top?the same thing y'all talking about now with rappers was something that Nas did
Nobody was bumpin illmatic like that , I actually heard ready to die everywhere and it sold records
Illmatic got "critical acclaim" from white magazines and y'all ate it up. The same shyt that y'all get at rappers like chance the rapper about
He wasnt poppin in the streets. All that heavy promo. He had a budget. How at the tender age of 19 and no buzz and nobody Checkin for him. Barely any background in hip hop outside of 1 or 2 songs
Nas was a plant. He's still the goat but he was a plant
You can watch Jays rise. from Hawaiian Sophie etc cannot say the same about Nas and Nas is my favorite rapper ever
Fact
How is Nas not a plant. Explain it . Explain to me all the coverage and mag covers without a budgetYou nikkas making up controversy.![]()
Negged for the Bridge :pdahellclean:the same thing y'all talking about now with rappers was something that Nas did
Nobody was bumpin illmatic like that , I actually heard ready to die everywhere and it sold records
Illmatic got "critical acclaim" from white magazines and y'all ate it up. The same shyt that y'all get at rappers like chance the rapper about
He wasnt poppin in the streets. All that heavy promo. He had a budget. How at the tender age of 19 and no buzz and nobody Checkin for him. Barely any background in hip hop outside of 1 or 2 songs
Nas was a plant. He's still the goat but he was a plant
You can watch Jays rise. from Hawaiian Sophie etc cannot say the same about Nas and Nas is my favorite rapper ever
Fact