Mase or Jay-Z?: The Source Asking Who Had The Better Rookie Album

[Mac Ten]

Jay-Z...

There's only a few tracks on Harlem World that'll I'll still play.

The Player Way^^^
Nikkas Wanna Act
24 Hours to Live

 

[Surreal]

Depends what you're looking for

RD has alot of revisionist history
A better album? Sure

 

[mikishere]

harlem world was clearly the more successful album

reasonable doubt was clearly the BETTER album

 

[Knucklehead]

Depends what you're looking for

RD has alot of revisionist history
A better album? Sure

The question literally read “Who had the better album”. Not a lot of nuance there.

 

[BK The Great]

Jay because he basically became well know before Mase. Both were doing their thing on the underground before hitting the mainstream.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Harlem World was the blueprint for Vol 1, 2 and 3.

But DMX was the best part of HW

This is actually spot on

But RD still by far the better album

 

[Ashtrey]

Reasonable Doubt, classic, shoulda went triple

Harlem World, not classic, did go quadruple

 

[Heavy_Handz]

Speaking personally Reasonable Doubt was an instant classic album. Lyrically that album is vastly superior to Harlem World.

 

[Higher Tech]

Harlem World was bigger but that wasn’t the question. RD is a better album to me. I enjoy it more.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I was listening to RD hardcore
I never listened to that Mase album in full.

Jay by default

 

[28 Gramz]

Both classics. Song for song RD is the better album but HW is the most influential outta the two.

Life After Death and No Way Out already did everything Harlem World did but better. Only influence that came from that album was the Neptunes first big placement.

 

[spliz]

Ma$e probably the most overrated rapper ever. RD is miles better than HW.

Ma$e is actually underrated. How tf is he overrated?

 

[spliz]

Also. RD is the better album.

 

[28 Gramz]

Ma$e is actually underrated. How tf is he overrated?

The fact that the question in the OP even exist means he's overrated. Harlem World isn't a classic and Ma$e only has about 10 good songs in his catalog.

 

[spliz]

The fact that the question in the OP even exist means he's overrated. Harlem World isn't a classic and Ma$e only has about 10 good songs in his catalog.

The fact that u think this way proved he’s underrated. Ma$e is literally the reason Bad Boy had success after Biggie.