No, but some people do respect/listen to him including me. I'm on west coast tho.
But also, New York thinks one city = the whole world lol it's wild.
Yes. My barber. Has a poster of his up on his wall in the shop too along with portraits of Nas, BIG, and Wayne.
Hov really is the goat btw
Deepest discog in the genre with the best big three albums
Top tier wordplay
Best flow along with BIG
Most charismatic
Top tier lyricist when he’s in the pocket
Hov is everything all your favorite rappers are wrapped up into one.
Those who are denying his greatness and making up trash memes about him being an “oldhead” rapper or whatever, ya’ll don’t care about hip hop.
Go listen your Earl Sweatshirt or Lil Uzi somewhere else
Always gonna be a dollar store BIG
Is Jay derivative of Big? Yes. Would Jay have blown when he did if it werent for Big's passing? Some would say no.
But the argument that Jay is a more digestible version of Big was always bs to me. Everything about Big - his music, voice, flows, image was way more digestible than Jay's.
Jay is only more digestible than Big if youre a cannibal
My older brother (age 38) is a Jay STAN.
So yes. Him and his friends hsve been speaking on Jay for as long as I can remember
Yeah, plenty. He is one of the rappers that I hear referred to as the GOAT most often. The others are BIG, Pac, Nas, Em and Wayne.
10 #1 albums in a row, who better than me?
Only The Beatles, nobody ahead of me
I crush Elvis and his Blue Suede Shoes
Made the Rolling Stones seem sweet as Kool-Aid too
'96, '97, '98, '99
2000, 2001 and beyond
'02, '03, '04, '05
'06 and 7, '08, '09
Back-to-back, double plat', I did what you won't
Men lie, women lie, numbers don't