Can we all admit that Kanye West will leave a bigger trace in music history than Jay-Z?

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Kanye has produced songs across different genres, so maybe? He’s also produced for a wider range of artists, whereas Jay has mainly done collabs with already established (and hot at that time) artists.
 

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U crazy Nas stans must live in some type of bizarro world.

What the hell makes you think his career is being washed away with time? Jay streams considerably more than Nas monthly, Jay drops a verse and it becomes the talk of the culture, Jay’s last solo album outsold the entire King’s Disease series and was far more impactful.

Nobody outside of hip hop nerds and their die hard stans and media outlets care for Illmatic or Reasonable Doubt these are albums that came out almost 30 years ago. They get their praise and all that but the world moves on.

The King's Disease albums weren't some underground projects that nobody knew about. They all charted well, streamed well, and were praised when they came out. They've helped break a lot of narratives surrounding Nas' music over the years. He's about to headline the Garden in two months performing nothing but songs from the KD trilogy. Nobody talks about 4:44 anymore, despite it being a really good album.

And Illmatic is always going to be cared for. It's to hip hop what Thriller is to pop in terms of its legacy. People still compare every Nas album to Illmatic. The Premier album is still talked about and desired.
 

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The King's Disease albums weren't some underground projects that nobody knew about. They all charted well, streamed well, and were praised when they came out. They've helped break a lot of narratives surrounding Nas' music over the years. He's about to headline the Garden in two months performing nothing but songs from the KD trilogy. Nobody talks about 4:44 anymore, despite it being a really good album.

And Illmatic is always going to be cared for. It's to hip hop what Thriller is to pop in terms of its legacy. People still compare every Nas album to Illmatic. The Premier album is still talked about and desired.
Those albums literally did none of that. Alll those albums did was make your kind start claim Nas raps over good production
Y’all nikkas retarded. This board got some type of unhealthy obsession with hating on Jay Z. Then, why the fukk are y’all talking about Nas? shyt always come back to a damn Jay Nas debate on here.
jayz is triggering to them they hate it when a nikka is shining
 

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Those albums literally did none of that. Alll those albums did was make your kind start claim Nas raps over good production

jayz is triggering to them they hate it when a nikka is shining

You're one of the biggest Nas haters/Jay stans on this site. You can't be objective about anything regarding Nas because you live in your own fantasy world. You contribute absolutely nothing to the conversation.

Can't even give Nas props for putting out quality music at this stage of his career. You still think it's 2007 for some reason.
 

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The King's Disease albums weren't some underground projects that nobody knew about. They all charted well, streamed well, and were praised when they came out. They've helped break a lot of narratives surrounding Nas' music over the years. He's about to headline the Garden in two months performing nothing but songs from the KD trilogy. Nobody talks about 4:44 anymore, despite it being a really good album.

And Illmatic is always going to be cared for. It's to hip hop what Thriller is to pop in terms of its legacy. People still compare every Nas album to Illmatic. The Premier album is still talked about and desired.
Them shyts sell their lil 50K and fall off the charts within a month. Nas is cool—for an elder statesmen he’s doing well but he’s nowhere near Jay’s level of relevancy and it’s comical people try to link them together in 2022 as if they are on the same tier of impact and relevancy. I like KD3, I’m a fan of Nas, but y’all gotta stop coming into threads with the sly shots and trying to act like Nas and Jay are on the same tier of relevance in 2022. I don’t give a fukk who anyone thinks it’s better in terms of relevance Jay is still a star level rapper.

Why would people still be talking about 4:44? It came out 5 years ago, what album from 5 years ago is anyone talking about? 4:44 had its impact in the culture in real time when it dropped. Jay can headline the Garden at any time.

Nobody cares about these 90’s rap albums like that it’s 2022 my man. It’s cool for the culture and lore of the genre and all that but generally the world has moved on. I addressed that Reasonable Doubt comment.
 

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I'm pretty sure The Blueprint is still well regarded as a hip-hop classic. That's really the only Jay album I listen to front to back along with certain choice cuts from other albums like Allure and Imaginary Player.

Kanye still has a better catalogue, along with classic joints like Guess Who's Back and Be (Intro).
Thing is, Kanye was responsible for a lot of songs on The Blueprint


So yes, Kanyes career is better than Jays and will be remembered more (even though this shyt he’s doing now won’t help him).

But that’s because of the things he did not just with his music, with other peoples music as well. Having the production credits on classics, the shyt he’s done in fashion (Yeezys are damn near legendary… almost of Jordans level). Dude had clothes (which I think are trash), shoes, slippers, music, production, etc
 
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