Nas "I Am" got 4.5 Mic when it came out. WHY DOES THE COLI&the internet HATE IT?!

[mobbinfms]

Hate Me Now wasn't on the advance/original?

Hate Me Now wasn’t on the bootleg.

 

[nieman]

Hate Me Now wasn't on the advance/original?

Hate Me Now was a later track, after the first one leaked. If I remember correctly, the last bootleg, had it on it, but that was damn near the retail with like 2 more song. added to it.

The thing with this Source review, is that Project Window was on it and everyone thought Project Window would be on the retail until it actually dropped. Everyone was PISSED.

Here's some more info from another perspective. I really hope I still have that Source. i'm gonna look this week.

The Lost Tapes: NaS - "I Am...The Autobiography"

One thing that everyone in this thread that were there are getting correctly is the double disc thing. There is no double-disc bootleg, because that never existed until years later. I think that idea was scrapped early on. I would think the first bootleg to be the original, but it really had no single. I'm pretty sure Nas Is Like came much, later as well.

 

[Big Mark]

There are so many misconceptions surrounding album. Out of all his albums, Illmatic included, this is the one that is the most intriguing to me. Like illmatic and IWW did, if I am ever gets some anniversary love, I’d like to see some in depth articles and respect done and Shared on the making of it.

 

[Exlurkernegro]

I still remember the day i am came out my cousin called me cursing a storm

He said he frisbeed it off one listen lmao. Wasnt that bad

3.5 mic albun

What do he think of it now?

 

[The_Third_Man]

Hate Me Now wasn’t on the bootleg.

it was on my bootleg. the beat was slightly different though.

 

[ig88]

It was said that the bootlegged ranged in the 100s of thousands. Nas was on the radio pissed off about it. At that time it was strange cause people were still tryna figure out the internet mp3 shyt and the industry had no answer for it.

The old nas “bootleg garage. 100k” cds excuse.

Same excuse given to illmatic performing poorly... everyones shyt was bootlegged to hell back then. For every “garage” found with “100k cds” were the 20 others that werent found.

Two albuns by nas got this excuse. Pretty sur i am sold well.

 

[head shots101]

Absolutely...as its been pointed out, how many people would have really downloaded it in 98 anyway? A couple thousand tops? And only 13 songs got leaked anyway, not the full original double album

I blame Stoute and Sony, they was probably in Nas ear too much pushing him in the wrong direction

We still got a dope album overall but goddamn what it could have been

Nah fukk a download this was 98 this was in the streets heavy ...... I didnt own a computer in 98 and I had this shyt

 

[Neuromancer]

Fun Fact- Nas thanks Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, and the “Roc-A-Fella Fam” in the liner notes lol

For what? Copying him?

 

[JerseyFinest!]

I remember A mixtape DJ named Cutmaster Cee
Literally dropped a double mixtape with damn near the whole “Iam” album on it.

This was the first album I remembered being so heavily bootleg to the point everybody had it on the streets.

 

[flah_neon]

it was on my bootleg. the beat was slightly different though.

it was the real sample vs. the replayed shyt

 

[mobbinfms]

The thing with this Source review, is that Project Window was on it and everyone thought Project Window would be on the retail until it actually dropped. Everyone was PISSED.

Are you saying it’s on the second page of the review posted by @JustCKing
That would change everything.

 

[flah_neon]

I wish we had an original original copy of hate me now with foxy brown brother rapping on it.........steve stoute stole that song

 

[mobbinfms]

Hate Me Now was a later track, after the first one leaked. If I remember correctly, the last bootleg, had it on it, but that was damn near the retail with like 2 more song. added to it.

I don’t recall any other bootlegs if I Am other than the one I posted earlier in the thread which came out months before the album dropped and was leaked on the net. Although Nas is Like was definitely out at that time because we were all dumbfounded as to how that song wasn’t on the album

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Dummy Question... but how where albums so easily bootlegged (In good quality) before the digital era?

People from the factories where they were pressed up literally stealing them and/or people in the studio stealing copies of them. Sometimes music reviewers stealing copies.

 

[head shots101]

Damn we need a doc about this