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Bruh, I'm an 80's baby and I was REALLY there for the action and ambiance of the era. You're talking about "How To Rob" because that's the extent of your musical knowledge in the realms of Hip-Hop. I'm talking about when the STREETS and RAPPERS collided.White America
50 Cent's song How To Rob had nothing to do with Jay-Z or being king. Playing his position
What is being king? And why do some of you make some fictional source cover in to some WWE belt? Bad Boy had New York radio on lock for damn near a decade.
Straight comedy in this thread
I really hope some of you aren't 20 year old kids talking about what was hot back when you were four
In the 90's 50 Cent was a MONSTER in the streets, on some real ****. A lot of rappers KNEW BETTER than to try 50, even back then Murder Inc didn't want it with 50 Cent he was too close to the streets. However, Jay-Z was ******' with Irv and them HEAVY in 98-99 when Jay-Z dropped "It's Hot". See I'm from New York, and I can remember exclusive mixtape verses, and Hot 97 subliminal freestyles.
King of New York was a way of saying "the streets respect me and rep me", back then radio stations was getting shot up, including Queensbridge's Capone from Capone and Noreaga getting shot beefing with Junior Mafia and Lil Kim. Spittin' off Mac-10's in front of Hot 97. Your rep in the music industry was directly tied to your rep in the streets.
You had clubs like The Tunnel and places in Brooklyn where rappers was getting shot up and robbed because they weren't checkin' in with the streets. Even "Hip-Hop Heads" like Gangstarr and them had real beef out here. It wasn't a game back then. 50 Cent was a loose cannon, he was really robbin' cats and holdin' down blocks in Queens, he was Onxy's and a few other cats "muscle" for a minute. He had cats like Bang Em Smurf and Domination out here TEARING UP ANYTHING coming his way. It was so real back then even Lloyd Banks was shot just for being at the club when **** was poppin' off.
But G-Whiz and Nature ALWAYS got respect along with Lake, and even Cormega ...NOBODY ****** with Queensbridge and Nas was at the head of that round table.
Jay-Z was surviving missed three shots close range because he couldn't even hold his own as a ounce flippin' middle man in the Brooklyn Projects. And if you ever watched Murda Muzik the movie, and some doc footage Queensbridge rappers tell you they were beefing with Nas but his squad had so much juice he could park his Bentley on the block and not get tried. He even starred in their film even though they had beef, because they said Queensbridge would be NOTHING with him.
Find anybody in Brooklyn that don't like Jay-Z and still rep for him like that...I'll wait. Biggie aired him out on his own album, go back and listen to Brooklyn's Finest. Hov never checked him. Biggie came at Nas and got washed on some smooth ****. Even Wu-Tang's Ghostface and Rae came at Biggie and WON. Prodigy snuck some slick **** in on a few joints and Nas addressed it on Destroy and Rebuild. Jay-Z was a SON to all of them. Puffy and J**** wanted Nas down with the team and when he told them he's good, they plotted to get him out of there, Steve Stoute set the gears in motion. Nas was KING and they had to slob up Hot 97, Interscope, Def Jam and starve rappers until they ate at Nas's throne for a plate and he STILL has the THRONE technically. Jay-Z just has commercial success and access to connections to cosign rappers and broker deals
...I suggest you listen: