Be Honest - If BIG never died where would Jayz be career wise?

[jonlakadeadmic]

they was about to take over ....the commission

 

[thesynthesis]

mind you this is my opinion

big > jay

 

[CJ]

not this shit again

 

[Stew]

Jay owes his success to Big AND Pac. Still in my top 5 tho and Biggie's not

 

[dat_bk_nicca]

here we go again....................no dmx

 

[Maalik]

The one thing Hip Hop has shown us is that NO ONE stays hot forever....you might have a long career, you might always sell but, you only gonna be "that nigga" for a while.

Example:
93: Dre & Snoop's year
94: Nas & Wutang's year. Biggie made his appearance.
95: Biggie's year
96: Pac & Deathrow's year
97: Biggie then Puff & Mase's year
98: DMX's year, Jay was hot too
99: Cash Money/Juvi...Eminem came out.
2000: Nelly's year. Em was blistering hot too
2001: Ja Rule's year
2002: Em's year again, Nas & Jay beef, Camron resurgence
2003: 50 Cent mania
2004: G-Unit Mania, Kanye dropped
2005: Jeezy's year, The Game was hot too
2006: T.I.'s King had the game locked...
2007: Kanye vs 50 Cent
2008: Lil Wayne Mania
2009: Drake...So Far Gone. Gucci had the Streets.
2010: Drake & Nicki. Rick Ross had the Streets.

Now my nigga...as you see, the mainstream marquee artists change every year. Big wouldn't been no different. You funny as fuck if you think Big would've been SO HOT from 94-2000 (had he lived past 97) that he would've stopped Jay-Z from blowin. Stop overrating niggas.

Jay would've dropped Hard Knock Life & blew. DMX would've still blew with Ruff Ryders Anthem/Get at Me Dog. Em would've still blew with Slim Shady LP & 50 would've still blew in 03...nothin would've changed

 

[jonathand]

A better question is, if tupac never started his publicity stunt beef with BIG and leeched off the success of DR, what would his career been like? Just another artist with moderate sales like he was prior to those occurances??? Hmmm....

 

[DatNiggaB1]

The one thing Hip Hop has shown us is that NO ONE stays hot forever....you might have a long career, you might always sell but, you only gonna be "that nigga" for a while.

Example:
93: Dre & Snoop's year
94: Nas & Wutang's year. Biggie made his appearance.
95: Biggie's year
96: Pac & Deathrow's year
97: Biggie then Puff & Mase's year
98: DMX's year, Jay was hot too
99: Cash Money/Juvi...Eminem came out.
2000: Nelly's year. Em was blistering hot too
2001: Ja Rule's year
2002: Em's year again, Nas & Jay beef, Camron resurgence
2003: 50 Cent mania
2004: G-Unit Mania, Kanye dropped
2005: Jeezy's year, The Game was hot too
2006: T.I.'s King had the game locked...
2007: Kanye vs 50 Cent
2008: Lil Wayne Mania
2009: Drake...So Far Gone. Gucci had the Streets.
2010: Drake & Nicki. Rick Ross had the Streets.

Now my nigga...as you see, the mainstream marquee artists change every year. Big wouldn't been no different. You funny as fuck if you think Big would've been SO HOT from 94-2000 (had he lived past 97) that he would've stopped Jay-Z from blowin. Stop overrating niggas.

Jay would've dropped Hard Knock Life & blew. DMX would've still blew with Ruff Ryders Anthem/Get at Me Dog. Em would've still blew with Slim Shady LP & 50 would've still blew in 03...nothin would've changed

Thread Closer/^^

 

[thecomebacklegend]

jay would b a gold artist like ross

jay best album flopped in 96 cause pac had all the fans

 

[bankrupt baller]

The one thing Hip Hop has shown us is that NO ONE stays hot forever....you might have a long career, you might always sell but, you only gonna be "that nigga" for a while.

Example:

93: Dre & Snoop's year

94: Nas & Wutang's year. Biggie made his appearance.

95: Biggie's year

96: Pac & Deathrow's year

97: Biggie then Puff & Mase's year

98: DMX's year, Jay was hot too

99: Cash Money/Juvi...Eminem came out.

2000: Nelly's year. Em was blistering hot too

2001: Ja Rule's year

2002: Em's year again, Nas & Jay beef, Camron resurgence

2003: 50 Cent mania

2004: G-Unit Mania, Kanye dropped

2005: Jeezy's year, The Game was hot too

2006: T.I.'s King had the game locked...

2007: Kanye vs 50 Cent

2008: Lil Wayne Mania

2009: Drake...So Far Gone. Gucci had the Streets.

2010: Drake & Nicki. Rick Ross had the Streets.

Now my nigga...as you see, the mainstream marquee artists change every year. Big wouldn't been no different. You funny as fuck if you think Big would've been SO HOT from 94-2000 (had he lived past 97) that he would've stopped Jay-Z from blowin. Stop overrating niggas.

Jay would've dropped Hard Knock Life & blew. DMX would've still blew with Ruff Ryders Anthem/Get at Me Dog. Em would've still blew with Slim Shady LP & 50 would've still blew in 03...nothin would've changed

lol @ no year ever being "jays year" yet hes the best .....hahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[CeLLaR-DooR]

The one thing Hip Hop has shown us is that NO ONE stays hot forever....you might have a long career, you might always sell but, you only gonna be "that nigga" for a while.

Example:

93: Dre & Snoop's year

94: Nas & Wutang's year. Biggie made his appearance.

95: Biggie's year

96: Pac & Deathrow's year

97: Biggie then Puff & Mase's year

98: DMX's year, Jay was hot too

99: Cash Money/Juvi...Eminem came out.

2000: Nelly's year. Em was blistering hot too

2001: Ja Rule's year

2002: Em's year again, Nas & Jay beef, Camron resurgence

2003: 50 Cent mania

2004: G-Unit Mania, Kanye dropped

2005: Jeezy's year, The Game was hot too

2006: T.I.'s King had the game locked...

2007: Kanye vs 50 Cent

2008: Lil Wayne Mania

2009: Drake...So Far Gone. Gucci had the Streets.

2010: Drake & Nicki. Rick Ross had the Streets.

Now my nigga...as you see, the mainstream marquee artists change every year. Big wouldn't been no different. You funny as fuck if you think Big would've been SO HOT from 94-2000 (had he lived past 97) that he would've stopped Jay-Z from blowin. Stop overrating niggas.

Jay would've dropped Hard Knock Life & blew. DMX would've still blew with Ruff Ryders Anthem/Get at Me Dog. Em would've still blew with Slim Shady LP & 50 would've still blew in 03...nothin would've changed

What he said

 

[a_list]

lol like there is only room for one artist.....smh

 

[blackrain]

BIG dying was a blessing in disguise for Jay z....

BIG made great music, the guy had the eastcoast on lock and niggas on the west was bumpin his music on the low......with Pac out the way, his life was made easier to conquer the world twice over

If BIG had lived many rappers would not have got the shine.

How far would Jay have got, there's only room for one King has history shows.

BIG knew how how to make hits, his was witty, lyrically superior and he did that hustler shit better than Jay

BIG was also known not to get on with NIGGAS, he had a huge ego, one min he was ur boy the next he was dissin u, i.e craig mack, nas, pac....

He would never have allowed Jay to be king of NY or even be compared to him, them niggas wud have clashed if it came down to that and BIG would most likely shit on Jay in a battle

but to be real i dont think Jays career would have amounted to anything had BIG lived, music would have taken another direction

that's assuming that Biggie would've never wanted to put any other NY artists not in Junior Mafia on...which I can't see happening

 

[Mr.Audigier216]

C'Mon man u can't deny the nigga skill.....he would've eventually got his time, but as far as business, nigga HOV is in Daddy Market, Big, just an artist

 

[bankrupt baller]

lol @ no year ever being "jays year" yet hes the best .....hahahahahahahahahahahaha

...............

 

[thecomebacklegend]

lol like there is only room for one artist.....smh

yeah

if jordans dropped the same day as a pair of reeboks they would take all reebok customers that day

that what happen 2 jay album in 96

 

[bankrupt baller]

yeah

if jordans dropped the same day as a pair of reeboks they would take all reebok customers that day

that what happen 2 jay album in 96

lol truth...

 

[okaay]

...............

Even if you act like Jay(rocafella) didnt own any year the nigga was in the conversation every year. Every nigga up there besides Eminem has been forgot about now or at some point in thier career Jay has never been irrelevant.

 

[FyHunnit]

Like somebody said before - the Commission would've took over.

(Just to piss yall off) Jay-Z >>>> Biggie since Takeover.

 

[Knightryder]

Jay in 98 >>>>>>>>>>>> dmx in 98

Jay went 5 times platinum off hard knock life 2

Dmx went 4 times platinum in 98, and decided to drop another album the same year and went 4 times plat again....

if jay was to drop vol. 3 the same year in 98, he would of did 3 times plat which he did in 99

so in all reality jayz was the hottest nigga in 98......5 times plat >>>>> 4 times plat