honestly i was always and am still am of the jayz camp....i really never even heard illmatic till the internet. most of us can remember how difficult it was to get music without it i would think. plus i was still a child so that involved convincing my parents to buy me these wildly offensive albums with their money. really i was only getting a handful of albums a year MAYBE plus it wasn't nearly as saturated as it is now......it wouldnt even be a new rap album out every month.
but yea i mean I AM dropped when i was like a freshman in highschool and it was a big deal. then jayz and nas beef popped off a couple years later and that's when i was like....ok nas....i suppose i need to listen to all of your music since u just ripped out my super heros heart. i still maintain jay won the war....pretty positive that's a general consensus at this point but word that was when nas became really relevant to me.
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