Who is the greatest rapper who was never the biggest rapper in his own city/state?

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Just cause he's a full blown bozo, I wouldn't wanna say it but it might be Cube or maybe he was the biggest in 1990.

O.w. it's probably Nas or Common
 

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Just cause he's a full blown bozo, I wouldn't wanna say it but it might be Cube or maybe he was the biggest in 1990.

O.w. it's probably Nas or Common
Cube was biggest rapper in Cali 2 or 3 times easy.
Nas was for NY at least once (Stillmatic). He dethroned Jay and ran it until 50 in 2003.
Common ran Illinois in the Like Water For Chocolate era and arguably Be
 

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Cube was biggest rapper in Cali 2 or 3 times easy.
Nas was for NY at least once (Stillmatic). He dethroned Jay and ran it until 50 in 2003.
Common ran Illinois in the Like Water For Chocolate era and arguably Be
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Nas dethrowning Jay cause Ether beat a freestyle by 10%.

Dude was still doing ballrooms when Jay was selling out arenas in seconds. Gods son did like 100-150k, a steep reduction from Stillmatic when Jay was doing 5-600k fw. And according to comedians on here, Jay is only hot in NY. Gotta choose.

Also when was Cube hottest in Cali other than possibly 1990.
 

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Cube was biggest rapper in Cali 2 or 3 times easy.
Nas was for NY at least once (Stillmatic). He dethroned Jay and ran it until 50 in 2003.
Common ran Illinois in the Like Water For Chocolate era and arguably Be
The last time Nas was bigger than Jay Z was 1996
 

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Nas dethrowning Jay cause Ether beat a freestyle by 10%.

Dude was still doing ballrooms when Jay was selling out arenas in seconds.
Nas trampled that nikka. The whole NYC was damn near mourning for Jay. His invincible aura was destroyed. He was still POPULAR, but his momentum took a temporary nosedive.

Oh, how could I forget, Nas ran 96 with It Was Written. Definitely not Nas. I still say Ras Kass.
 

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Royce Da 5’9 was never that #1 guy here
And Eminem’s run in Detroit was quick as hell…it’s going to sound weird as hell to outsiders but there was a point in time where he was the biggest rapper in the world but in Detroit it was all Blade.
 
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