Kareem Biggs Burke Corrects Future's Opinion On Jay-Z

[@89d21]

VLAD need to take note. This is a real interview!

[@ESSBoss]

Facts

[@Mr._X84]

@@ESSBoss Opinion. Learn the difference.

[@jamesodari5891]

He's undercover that's why he can't come in front the camera so you won't see his face when he asking those incriminating and controversial questions.

[@TaxTaxes]

vlad a detective lol

[@jaybron5795]

Fuck vlad let’s support our own .

[@mothedon3599]

Jay Z was a force in 96. He was independent, dropped his first album on his own label, and had the streets buzzing. Big and PAC was still alive plus Legends still dropping fire and New York was back. PAC dissed Jay Z so he had to be hot.

[@Mrprich]

I'm from Arkansas, and in '96, we were bumping It Was Written, Reasonable Doubt, All Eyez on Me, Three Six, The Score, Ridin' Dirty, ATLiens, Space Age Pimpin', Hardcore, The Resurrection, Ice Cream Man, Crucial Conflict, Twista/Do or Die, BTNH, and I'm sure I'm leaving off somebody. Point I'm making is there was so much great hip-hop music out that year. And Jay definitely was in that mix. Why would Pac diss him if he was a nobody? People tend to overlook that.

[@goodoledruda6445]

A S T A T E

[@naturallynailah6983]

Exactly I don't know why everyone is trying to downplay Jays place. I'm not even heavy into rap and I was listening to Jay back then

[@KaYoceeBeats]

501

[@marcuswhite3881]

Ghetto D

[@LiveVisionManagementGroup]

I predicted the rise of Jay Z nobody from my town fuck with Jay I was the only person who gave him a chance in my small town in Tennessee except for me. I told everybody that Jay was gonna be the biggest artist to grace a microphone and even though I knew in my heart that Jay Z would be the King of Hip Hop I just didn’t realize how large he would be. Idk him personally but I am proud of him.

[@jemellcasperhill9788]

I definitely Respect Kareem "Biggs" and the fact how he's constantly evolving as a businessman.

[@geraldpatterson2080]

Maybe some can't relate to Reasonable Doubt because they weren't living that life. Definitely touched a hustlers heart.

[@burr01]

Biggs was the real plug

[@SirHallow100]

facts....

[@JaeWest]

You couldn't move without him. Lol.

[@melekey]

Was he gay?

[@kalvinsampson2043]

@@melekey ask him yourself tf

[@WalterWhyte]

When Biggs said" people trying to wear slim clothes to look slimmer or trying to get slimmer" big dude crossed his arms in anger trying to cover up his belly LOL.

[@DMVLeGenD96]

Ice 😂😂😂 thought I was the only one who peeped that

[@RichieDavid83]

Ice haaaaaaaaa

[@ajantsmith6139]

Stop fat shaming people what's wrong with you?

[@skippruitt2391]

🤣🤣🤣You not right...

[@melekey]

@@ajantsmith6139 I can tell you fat 😂

[@QUAN81880]

I thought Biggs was Jay Williams at first

[@ajantsmith6139]

They look similar 😂 but in a good way, they both aged well.

[@RCLaROCK1]

great interview…..thank you for allowing him to speak no cut offs enjoyed it

[@esseen100]

Cats under 40 be needin' a hip hop history check-up.

[@nuttybuddy14]

king esseen more like under 30 as well

[@shabazz7776]

king esseen FACTS 💯

[@AbSalute100]

This dude said "More like under 30" bruh.. THATS UNDER 40!! smh df

[@JerkVegas86]

LOL, Right LOL

[@MrDevontony]

king esseen INDEED!!

[@brooklynboi11207]

So much respect for Biggs.. smart dude!!

[@corywill7833]

This dude never exaggerates his role

[@768972]

I'm from Houston, and JayZ was known everywhere. But i am older so that may be the difference. Don't speak on shit you know nothing about.

[@gregthomas3137]

thomas hickman I'm from dallas and you're 100% right

[@SoulOfTheSouth]

thomas hickman I'm from Port Arthur, TX and I remember hearing his songs and his name when I was 10, 11 at that time in 96.

[@1982jrizzle]

thomas hickman I'm from htown also.. everyone jammed jay

[@bobbyleeg]

I'm from DFW and you're a 1000% correct.

[@upstateizzy744]

These facts I'm from upstate New York but was in Richmond VA when reasonable dropped it was all thru the hood out there

[@anthonyscott2086]

I was listening to reasonable doubt in 96, guess who else was bumpin jay z...... biggie. Every drug dealer from D.C and. b more, nj, ct, ny, mass was bumpin jay z.

[@poloregal]

Anthony Scott South Carolina was bumping him too

[@tajbarnett8557]

Anthony Scott facts

[@roosterking5272]

Anthony Scott Simple FACTZ.....

[@MrGku]

Anthony Scott don't 4get philly

[@jwalls1223]

READING THESE COMMENTS SOUND LIKE JAYZ GETTING THAT LOVE SO FUCK IT LET ME SPEAK MY PEACE I WAS BORN IN NINETY THREE ALBUM CAME OUT IN NINETY SIX I WAS STILL BUMPING THIS SHIT BRO..

[@ronaldjones9429]

Kareem Biggs looks like Karl Kani

[@ericbarnes8155]

real shit I see what it is Jay was the rapper Dame was the business brain and Biggs was the Hustler even to this day still on a grand hustle respect

[@thesonofdaniel8065]

Let's not get it twisted....even BEFORE music Cameron got an interview where he said Jay was getting heavy street money ..... Had a luxury crib on State Street with the fish tank in the walls .... No record deal to speak of back then....they was all Hustlers.... shit Jay still hustling ....

[@E1LTSaves]

@@thesonofdaniel8065 exactly!

[@Blackuno3]

Jay z on the low was really the brain rapper and hustler

[@Roy_MO]

Jay was 3 in 1! Jay Z gave my cousin his first $1k in 86 just because he was a good kid and help Jay do basic errands so Jay always had money

[@morelwilliams7133]

Future comments: 3:12

[@pac-vy1nj]

Morel Williams thank u

[@garcel1251]

Not all heroes wear capes bro

[@heronfields5923]

Future statement was very ignorant that's all

[@4thekulture616]

This was a great interview. I love this journalist and this type of content 🙌🏿😀

[@gluehigh416]

I don't know what's weirder. the fact that Kareem looks as young as the interviewer. or the fact the interviewer looks as old or older than Kareem. talk about letting yourself go! 😂

[@dangather5485]

Biggs interview are very enjoyable and well thought out. I am glad he taking a note visible role at this time in his career

[@cowtowntx.6740]

im from tha south, and jay z is my fav rapper, but i seen a m.t.v. documentary and he was in his car playing some music and i couldnt belive he was playing UGK. that mad e me like em even more...

[@dpastrana82]

Future must really be on drugs.....thinking Jay was unheard of in the 90s

[@uploadvidz4490]

He was a small timer on the come up

[@classico713]

About time someone asks some good new questions instead of the stuff we know the answers to. Good look

[@charlesnichols5420]

jz reasonable doubts was hot when Biggie and 2Pac was both alive Roc a fella movement was hot when they hit the seen

[@treytino1498]

Charles Nichols nah it wasn't pac and naw was running it

[@sebastienc.2257]

Pac and Biggie had deals with major labels, Jay built that shit from the gorund up and pretty much just had a distribution deal for reasonable doubt, so as far as success goes Jay was more successful on a scale of relativity rather than actual #s

[@martyanisking438]

Charles Nichols you did not no he Jay was two 2pac was dis him

[@raydelarosa4992]

Charles Nichols big and and pac were going 3 , 4 times platinum, Jay meanwhile went gold ..that doesn't tell some

[@originalwaka1603]

@@raydelarosa4992 they went platinum with major labels but Jay went gold independent at the end going gold independent is equivalent to going platinum with a major label

[@swood248]

Kareem a real dude....that's why home and Hov still rock...

[@isaiah102509]

I remember 98 everyone in va. blasting hard knock life vol 2

[@patrickward5713]

Hov is just consistent with his. If you know your hip hop, he blew up in the underground before Reasonable doubt dropped. I still rock his first album to this day

[@E1LTSaves]

Bruh, i don't know what people talking about...

[@TheFeliciakelley]

@@E1LTSaves folks just wanna be seen

[@Yard687]

I had a J on a cassette tape in ‘88 ‘89 When He was running through Trenton NJ and partying at Joesph Bar in Morrisville P A #hiphopog

[@rolandoconley8280]

Nas and 2Pac were the biggest rappers in 96.....NAS It Was Written sold 3x platinum ,Pac sold 6xplatinum.

[@TGF25]

Nas wasn't bigger than Biggie at that time! Fuck outta here fam!

[@zlistcelebrityYT]

They were already out, that’s why. Nas already had a classic under his belt.

[@TGF25]

@@zlistcelebrityYT No one is denying that Illmatic is a Classic, I'm just saying that Biggie was selling more & was the bigger Rap artist to come out of New York at that time! Bigger than Nas, in fact!

[@garcel1251]

@@TGF25 Nas and Big where about even at the time...Illmatic was a classic album instantly....Big dropped in 94 with ready to die and didn't drop again until after he died ....it was written dropped I'm 96 and sold 3 million hard copies back in the day! U couldn't go anywhere without hearing if I rules the world...I actually personally give Nas the edge at the time and I'm 35

[@TGF25]

@@garcel1251 Ready To Die was outselling Illmatic & had bigger hits than Illmatic! No matter how ya'll try to slice it. Life After Death came out & outsold It Was Written, even though he died when it dropped. Biggie was the biggest rapper from New York/The East Coast at the time! Biggie was bigger than Nas, Jay, Method Man, Raekwon, all of them at that time!

[@chazg8489]

Nigga said, "like the Gordon Gartrell".... Throwbaaaaaack LMAO

[@garcel1251]

When Puff and Bigg where spilling Moe I was at my video cryst on a speed boat ....Future need to lay off the pills

[@scarfacemmm]

even Jay himself said' I gave you prophecy on my first joint and you all lamed out', RD sold 40k first week; it wasn't hot...but that wasn't because of 2pac or biggie being alive. It just didn't get the proper promotion.

[@E1LTSaves]

Agreed!

[@sakhilentshangase4430]

Great interview. Love your work man.

[@teammmx]

Everybody was listening to Jay Z before Biggie and Pac died... Future is dumb. I'm from Baltimore and was in elementary when I knew who Jay Z was and the Reasonable Doubt album..."Ain't No Nigga", "Can't Knock the Hustle", and "Feelin It" were on my damn radio

[@marcelhorn5305]

future can't even spit ,you make money off a hot beat.

[@treytino1498]

Marcel Horn that's not the point

[@michaeljordan-jackson-tyso2243]

@@LadyIsTheChamp nobody cared bout jay til pac and big died. Cut it out.

[@pjmills5587]

Facts

[@pjmills5587]

@@michaeljordan-jackson-tyso2243 Jay Been Dope Since Reasonable Doubt Period

[@michaeljordan-jackson-tyso2243]

@@pjmills5587 i never said he wasn't.

[@InnerVisionTV]

great interview

[@patrickwoods1521]

I've always thought Dead Presidents pt. 1 was better than pt. 2

[@yamama3510]

Good interview

[@elfeo1js]

I'm glad he shouted out my dude Radue

[@urbanflavorz]

Man dude don't know what the hell he talkinga bout. They wasn't saying who was the best emcee Biggie Jayz or Nas. Jay-z was not even in the convo. All Future said was people didn't say it was a classic. Source magazine gave it 4 Mics. 1996 you had Tupac, Biggie, Nas, Fugees, Outkast, Busta, Bone Thugs, Tribe he wasn't up there. Biggs said himself in another interview that everybody claiming they was on Jay since reasonable doubt he wish they would have bought the album back then. People re-write history in their head. The Interviewer was probably a little kid faking like he was a fan in 1996

[@James67851]

urbanflavorz That was the 3 battling to be the King of New York

[@SuperRoscoe66]

They did say who was the best biggie jayz nas

[@elbowgang9715]

@@SuperRoscoe66 false Ghostface and Raekwon was hotter than him. Even Big Pun first album went platinum in 97. Jay was the first to say Reasonable Doubt was a classic too. People listened to it here in the D but nobody was saying he was better than Pac,Nas or Big at that time. Yall fell for it though 😂😂😂

[@elbowgang9715]

Alotta real rap fans know that Reasonable Doubt is just another version of Only Built For Cuban Linx and Doe or Die which both dropped in summer/fall of 95. Go back and read the reviews for Reasonable Doubt not a single one from that time (not a rewrite or a review 10 years later after he blew up) said it was a classic. The Source went back and gave it 5 mics in 2003 to stay on his good side,especially since they were losing customers to XXL over the beef with Eminem,50 and Interscope. Face it that will never be Illmatic or make the impact Illmatic did

[@kevincummings4563]

@@elbowgang9715 the difference was Jay was really living that life and once said in an interview with bill maher that he only made that album for the hustlers and that he never planned to be where he is now.

[@samsondreadsymg9087]

Biggs need to come back and do something for st.thomas u.s. VIRGIN island's

[@milkia432]

Trying to look slim when he crossed his arms 😂😂😂😂😂

[@doffical4282]

in 1997 Jay-Z and volume 1 was not highly anticipated or talked about people didn't get hip to Reasonable Doubt until at least 99 after the Hard Knock Life

[@incangeneral7996]

Fact though. Biggies death did help propel Jay Z that and Nas taking 3+ yrs to drop his 3rd LP.

[@greglouch]

Derrick Webster yea right 😂😂😂😂😂😂. How old are y'all and where are y'all from... 2pac wouldn't have dissed Jay if jay wasn't hot. #factz

[@doffical4282]

Greg Adams in 1997 biggie was the hottest thing in New York true Jay-Z was on the rise but volume one which I consider it to be a classic and one of his best albums was not anticipated on the streets maybe in New York but not in Cleveland 97 was ran by Biggie and no limit with a classic album from Twista and by the way I'm 35 I was 16 in 97 Tupac dissed Jay-Z because he was affiliated with biggie it's a tactic that 50 cent often uses Guilty By Association in my opinion Jay Z took the crown in 98 with the Hard Knock Life No Limit had had its run biggie had passed and the game was wide open this is when New York stepped back on the scene with Roc-A-Fella and Ruff Riders

[@doffical4282]

Greg Adams to keep it all the way funky Tupac did for Jay-Z what Jay-Z did for 50cent by mentioning his name, gave name recognition to the world

[@greglouch]

Derrick Webster Nah bruh. Jay Was actually poppin in 95. If Rocafella had the big commercial promotion back up with Def jam like Bad Boy had ...yea he would've been like Big in 97. Biggs said he sold A half of Mill when it first dropped. U must've forgot bro. But around that time a lot of great classic music came out between 94-98

[@EricOutler]

one of my mentors told me: "Documentation beats conversation." | Rocafella and Jay are documented.

[@jack713htx5]

Love to see the real win

[@LuckyJackson2020]

I really don't have anything better to do :/

[@rolandoconley8280]

I didnt know who Jay was in 96

[@itsmcveigh2434]

Im frm the south and some of what future said is true but only in the southern region. Reasonable Doubt was slow to catch on in the south cuz honestly most southern niggaz weren't checking for east coast music like that. Me personally have always deemed reasonable doubt as a classic frm day one. I was hooked since the aint no nigga video which lead me to buying the album and damn near living by the contents of the album. However...this is my opinion....just like future had his on this subject. At the end of the day though numbers dont lie and facts are facts. You cant take nothing away from or discredit any of jay's musical projects...all them shits are classics.

[@poloregal]

Slim McVeigh All facts...it was a good bit of ppl in SC bumping reasonable doubt but most were on Booty music, Kast, Rap a lot, Suave House and Goodie

[@doyle8721]

Slim McVeigh you definitely sound funny my dude, the south is on the east coast, you mean music from the north east, the south is the south east, so yeah, you gotta correct yourself. And also Atlanta was big on wutang back in the 90's Atlanta was one of their biggest markets, how do you think outkast ended up doing a song with raekwon?, or rather how do you think slick Rick wind up doing the art of story telling with outkast? gotta go back and do your research bro. So back to jay-z as him being a new yorker, his music stretched all the way down all throughout the south as far as Texas. He could sell out a show in Atlanta now without Beyoncé.

[@itsmcveigh2434]

Coleman Dante my man....if we keeping 100....lets keep it 100. Speaking on the southern region as a whole....its statistically factual that the majority of the southern states were not listening to or even up on most eastern music. You had your few exceptions like Jay, Biggie , and Wu Tang true! But all in all....the south was slow to pick up on shit. Doesnt matter where you lived...this is black and white...numerical fact my man! You do the research....look at the sound scans frm back in the day. You and your lil circle may have been up on east coast shit....never said it wasnt possible...cuz like i said....i was up on alot of east coast shit before everybody else in my environment caught on. It took niggaz like me to get niggaz to listen to shit and put niggaz up on shit so i knw better to believe the whole city of atlanta was just on east coast right off the bat like that. That shit had to catch on and it wasnt no instant thing like youre tryna make it seem. Like i said...if we keeping it 100 then thats what it was....facts is facts. Now on the the comment you made about Jay. If you read my comment carefully...im speaking on back when reasonable doubt was released...not present day Jay. Of course he could and has easily sold southern venues out....thats a no brainer. But if you think he was selling shows out in the south back when he dropped reasonable doubt then YOU sound funny! Mfers didnt much knw who he was then....im talking 95-96 when reasonable doubt debuted....not 98-99 when Jay took off! Now remember....we're keeping it 100 here my man....and ima true Jay Z fan....i got every last one of the niggaz albums and mixtapes frm back in the dj clue days so aint no dick riding going on over here....im stating facts...nothing funny bout that. Mo research needed either fam...i aint gon speak on anything i dont know about....my intelligence dont run like that.

[@itsmcveigh2434]

And another thing....we all know whats meant when someone says the south....you got all politically correct tryna make yourself sound intelligent...talking about south east and north east....lol Nigga this aint no geography lession....just comments and opinions on youtube....relax fam....lol

[@itsmcveigh2434]

Marc Regal Exactly....cant no nigga born and bred in the south tell me different....he lying if he tries to. It took niggaz a min to catch on to the music the other regions were dropping. We was just stuck on what we was stuck on at the end of the day.

[@kevincummings4563]

In the 90's Rap-a-lot and organize noise was the only thing I was listening to from the south.

[@TheFeliciakelley]

That’s you

[@TheShawnbola38]

The 4th of November that’s my bday 🤔

[@thesemfnnutts]

Shawn Williams my son's too, mines the 10th. Scorpio power

[@MrJrfuller83]

Jay was hot in 96, I was in Junior high and people was calling themselves jhova and jigga

[@naturallynailah6983]

MrJrfuller83 truth everybody was J-something. My friend kid was born in 94 and we still call him J-white🤣

[@Su006]

Skee was giving everybody's beats away for Jay huh.

[@dmc3949]

Nuff respect to Kareem Biggs Burke

[@jackwills4641]

They should have made a movie called reasonable doubt too , maybe now is the time ...

[@frankintampa9143]

Who's future??

[@joemaine-hughes.8394]

He is rite all them rappers we hearing bout we would never know bout them if Pac & Biggie was alive

[@laurawillis4275]

Jay was part owner of his label no record deal. Pac record deal Biggie record deal. Pac the best rapper Jay hands down the best business man/all around hustler

[@gidihanent]

I'm from and was in jamaica in 96 when that dropped and we know Jay z 2e argued about jay, big or pac.....future a youngin he don't know what he talking bout

[@gidihanent]

Oh I mean jamaica in the caribe an not queens either

[@TheFeliciakelley]

Click bait. That Future comment was such a small part of this important interview.

[@tylowe78]

I remember back in the day seeing Jay on the Hawaiian Sophie video with Jaz

[@doobzthechamp3134]

FUTURE DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK HE TALKIN BOUT. IN NY......WE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT WHO WAS THE BEST RAPPER, "BIG NAZ OR JAY", PERIOD. FUCKIZ HE TALKIN BOUT. BIG KNEW. UPTOP WE KNEW WHAT WAS UP.

[@Radii15]

It's unreasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt is unreasonable with streets is watching movie scenes on it.

[@menofvalourdrin187shai2]

How do you correct an opinion

[@king_retro4206]

Dead president part 1 is the best jay track ever.

[@Rctm13]

Probably is

[@lancehenderson631]

bullshit. yall dont know what yall talking about who the best emcee says it all he was in the convo of lyrical. Pac was influential two different lanes. and to be honest jays first album was a better body of work the big or nas first album. they both had lack luster music on there first release.and big cosigned him so stoooop it already.

[@markquieshill7867]

lancelot henderson definitely right...Nas shit had 10 songs n one was a skit so he had 9 songs n datz the best album??..no way..

[@quiztimmonds]

Foh name one weak song on illmatic.

[@antarticp7477]

you cant ask biggs that question he was in the middle of it ... he cant answer that honestly and it maybe his true perspective on it ... but back in 96 when big tupac and nas and wutang and dre and snoop were the top artist out in this era ... jayz would be more like todays Jay Rock but amongst giants like Cole Kdot and Drake ... and jayz didnt become one of those giants or even had the potential to become a giant until big and pac passed ... that is factz

[@E1LTSaves]

Bullshit!!! Jay and his entire team was/is about elevation beyond the music. There isn't another album comoarable to Reasonable Doubt. That album explain exactly what they was about and would do. Again, y'all think y'all GOD.

[@donshit7519]

My nigga need to make a 4th of November soundtrack. With all the related Rocafella artists and some R&B like the original Roc dudes Cristion just to be cool. Some new artists that where inspired by them and of course Bun B who influenced Jay with Down and Dirty. Just a idea. I got a million of those tho.

[@KlasicRock]

When he says they were in the car n Jay had lyrics.. does that mean jay actually wrote a verse down?

[@largegod77]

Klasic Rock if u was listening he said Jigga was rapping over the beat n da car .....

[@largegod77]

Klasic Rock in a old interview Jay said he use to write but being that he was running the streets he didn't have time to write them down ..... so he just started memorizing rhymes ... so by the time he hit the booth he had all the songs in his head

[@fepowell274]

Biggs is very good businessman.

[@andrewthomas364]

"Folks with nothing better to do." Sorry you made me quit this interesting titled video. Imma go meditate and hate it. Thanks thumbs up.

[@mikeprat1]

y'all gone stop disrespecting Pac's legacy with excluding him from the conversation when he is the conversation.

[@treytino1498]

Mike Prat exactly pac is top 5

[@blackstersherron]

Never!

[@mikeprat1]

+blackstersherron suck it easy

[@blackstersherron]

You don't like I talked about your bf huh, that nigga died with nothing.

[@MoreToConsider]

Mike Prat that's what a lot of New York people do they don't even include him in the top 5.

[@artmobagints]

Shout out to Radu

[@howardellis3168]

I want to know why Jay, and Dame so distant from each other and Kareem Biggs Burke is still rolling with Jay like as If he

[@brianburton5946]

Biggs demeanor is similar to Jay's. Dame became too brash for Jay, I'm guessing. Where as Biggs always stayed a thoro dude

[@estebancruz2248]

Man. I would pay. To hear his opinions on dame dash Jay z. And the situations

[@ChevronJohn]

Jay gained tremendously from the absence of Pac and B.I.G. He wasn’t on B.I.G. level by far and galaxies away from Pac. Love. Truth.

[@abzda1700]

It’s not jay fault nas fell off

[@yolandajackson5506]

already

[@certifiedualreadykno]

They used us not in a smart way but he's doing it reverse psychology

[@glenardbyrdsr.1762]

You got dat nicca to talk you good.

[@1stGenStunter]

You telling me that in 96 Jay was hotter than even Mobb Deep? Hell naw!! And this is coming from a South nigga...

[@patrickcavanaugh4455]

3:28

[@vincentconway5508]

the south wasn't feeling jay z until the big pimping record with UGK

[@samsondreadsymg9087]

Us Virgin island's st.thomas👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

[@brianbcj]

Nigga Tupac is the G.O.A.T

[@cliffdavis9618]

Ths south was hot back then always been it was the east coast west coat beef that kept both in the news cuz outkast was taken over with other with good music.

[@rawgtp]

No one considered Reasonable Doubt a classic until Jay really glo'd up and legitimized himself during the Dynasty/Blueprint era. #facts

[@so.many.obstacles]

OT Pie Flipper no one? Maybe just you. Real hip hop heads recognize classics off the bat.

[@edrickamal7155]

Future was right Pac was at 5mill ,Big was at 2 mil Nas album was at 2 mil Outkast and Scarface was PLATINUM, Snoop and Death Row was large but Jay went gold in 96 but he wasn't that guy at the time he didn't really get his shine on till Pac and Biggie died

[@brianburton5946]

All those people you mentioned were established artists. Jay was a first album artist who went gold. That's a means he was hot. Those people you mentioned were certified superstars. Jay was known throughout the hip hop community. He just ain't go mainstream til Big and Pac died. Future was trying to imply Jay was a nobody. If Jay wasnt a major player, Pac wouldnt have went at him

[@jeffreym8503]

Selling half a million records on your 1st album with a independent deal an no major label behind you sounds like he was hot to me

[@dianelong6886]

Future wasn't born lol so how would he know Where is Brooklyn at lol

[@MrMEET-vw3kc]

KZbin (DaRealKingSonny) music 🎶 videos..Dallas Texas..💯💯💰keep up the good work💯

[@HundoHands]

Future doesn't know the past..see what I did there

[@tylowe78]

Very slick...

[@DIZZLEBOI44]

Hahaahah brilliant

[@cjvalentine1]

Future is absolutely correct I was there in that time I lived that life. Jigga was on the radio but he wasn’t top shelf until after the biggie pac thing it was just crazy timing. Hard knock life made jay go loud and that’s cool cool but let’s just be honest.

[@ericsutton9853]

No they wasn’t dope, they had very simple lyrics at that time. Ghetto boys made some cool songs that we liked in New York, but it wasn’t for how the flip words and made words rhyme that made you say how did he fit that word in there. LA made noise because they brung to light gang life and their way gangster. The use of parliament fit their style and it was different, but at that time the south had nothing different, they couldn’t talking about cars like Benz bm and porche , because up north we had them with dapper dan seats at the age of 19 & 20 and Cali had the 64 with hydraulics, something New York didn’t have. So that’s why the south didn’t get noticed at that time, o yeah Luke and the 69 boys brung that bitches shaking ass and that beach party sound.

[@thekaiser4859]

Trader

[@CedRockStarr]

Biggs working with Jay again?!??? 🤔🤔🤔

[@anthonymiller8902]

CedRock starr he been back working with jay when he got out of jail he said he just wont work with him dealing with music on roc nation and was cool with him even after the break up. He even said him, jay and dame hung out but the media got everybody thinking they beefing.

[@est94]

Future is correct . Jay didn't come out and immediately blow up nationally . Everyone knows His entire career has been a steady climb. I don't think Jay ever had the highest selling rap album any year he released an album . First 10 yrs of his career PAC,Big, Dmx,Eminem,Nelly, and 50 all had bigger selling albums . Jay doesn't have a diamond album because he was never the biggest artists in the era where albums sold a lot. Please stop trying re write history . If Jay was that big he would've sold tons of records that year it released . He's critically acclaimed and consistent . I'm from Atlanta I know for fact my mother didn't start playing Jay until the dynasty album . When I was a little kid it was mad Master P, UGK, 8Ball, PAC,Big,Nas,Outkast,Kilo Ali,Playa fly played in my house . I was born in 94 , I didn't hear reasonable doubt in its entirety until 2008.

[@cashmerethoughts8110]

EST94 you were born in 94, reasonable doubt came out in 96 when you were two. You wouldn't remember if you'd heard it when it came out anyway

[@lazylays40533]

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[@jonosabdulssmed1842]

Lol starting 2 belive choke...biggs is suspect

[@mostmost1]

Jay was up and coming when his first album hit. He wasnt a top tier emcee. He wasnt even gold for a while. That album was not as impactful as biggie or nas first albums. He blew up after biggie and pac died. They say his music was for dope dealers but 1 out of 20 mil hip hop dudes actually sold dope. He was promising but they hyped him up and pushed him. Great marketing.

[@andrewmunlin5263]

mostmost1 he just he went gold in 96

[@mostmost1]

andrew munlin I thought it was platinum?

[@naturallynailah6983]

I think it depends on where you are from. the East Coast definitely knew Jay before Big and Pac died. The convo at the time was really who was the best Big, Nas and Jay and if you loved Pac his name was definitely was threw in there too

[@darrellanderson4022]

Nai'Lah Lynn right... pac even mentions jay in some east/west beefs... pac knew of jay before he died as well. Ppl love saying he wouldn’t be who he was if pac was still here... lies. RIP to Pac but if he woulda stayed on his path and jay on this one, jay would still surpassed him.

[@billbixby4454]

First literal 3 seconds of the video this puppet throws up the 666 sign 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@redhookbrooklyn1996]

First of all “Future” is trash 🗑