Mac n cheese 4

S*** still so hard fam

His discog would be so much better rounded out with this actual hip hop gem in the cut

Nas
Ye
Beanie Sigel
Kodak
Rocky
Jada
Chinx
Max B
Jeezy
Styles P

Lord what a tragic loss for our culture

It’s all good, he just sold 578k fw so he still on top

Don’t know about legendary album

But looking up the situation, why didn’t they just push the drop up to that date?

as opposed to wasting the money that it inevitably took to get/clear all those features and samples

The Eminem Show

Coulda sold more if them leaks didnt hit so hard

how did leaks work back in the early 2000s?

I still cry about this some nights

I honestly dont kno. But it was leaked a month early.

Rip

Somebody got a hold of the CD and leaked it lol
especially since you had to manufacture the albums well in advance of the release date
I think watch the throne was the first album to combat this by premiering on iTunes

But did so many people illegally download back then?

Plus it sold really well

yes they did. ppl bootlegged illmatic before it dropped lol

newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business

Check this out, one of my fav articles of all time

Lol of course people illegally downloaded back then the music industry was in shambles

OP I like Tha Carter III but every Wayne fan tells me the leaks ruined it

There are some real classics in the leaks that are way better than songs on the actual album

etc

It feels really early tho 2002?

I was like five playing Air Xonix didn't know internet and leaks was a big thing back then

Fake streams ran by bots

I don't know if it's a legendary album, but I liked the creative direction for So Help Me God

I think it could've been great

nas was supposed to drop a double album called i am... the autobiography in 1999 but didn't because a bunch of songs leaked. nastradamus probably wouldn't even exist if those leaks never happened, same with lost tapes because half of lost tapes was just i am leaks.

wayne also had a big ass leak prior to carter 3 dropping

People lie, plaques don’t

Later on August 24, 2016, the CEO of French's main label, Epic Records, L.A. Reid, later stated that French's statement that he posted on Twitter was false, and the album was delayed because of the lack of hype for it, and Reid wanted to add hype by pushing it back.

Sounds like a real loss