People in the industry would get advanced copies and it'd spread. Also sometimes people who worked at the plants where the cd's were made would leak the music.
Nas "I Am" got 4.5 Mic when it came out. WHY DOES THE COLI&the internet HATE IT?!
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People in the industry would get advanced copies and it'd spread. Also sometimes people who worked at the plants where the cd's were made would leak the music.
FOH I member ppl being pretty disappointed. give a fukk bout a Source review...shyt had some basura on there, 3/5 album
Album is possibly his most hit/miss album. The highs are just incredible, but the lows are 
It was a very good album. I probably would have given it 4 mics instead of 4.5, but I agree that it is unfairly hated on.
I think it is underrated because there was a great amount of hype leading up to its release --- far too much hype for it to live up to expectations.
The cause of the hype: Nas hadn't released an album for almost three years and fans were very eager to get some new material from him. Moreover, the build-up was all about how it would be a "return to form" for Nas after he went from Nasty Nas to Nas Escobar with It Was Written. Everyone was waiting to see if he could take it back to Illmatic form. When "Nas Is Like" came out a few months before the album's release, it looked like there was a real chance that I Am would be Illmatic part 2, and the hype got even BIGGER.
When I Am finally came out, it didn't live up to the hype (naturally), so there was disappointment. What made it worse was the bootleg that had been floating around before the official release. Everyone could single out a few songs from the bootleg that they thought should have made the final cut, so it just created this "glass half empty" view of the official album.
I think it is underrated because there was a great amount of hype leading up to its release --- far too much hype for it to live up to expectations.
The cause of the hype: Nas hadn't released an album for almost three years and fans were very eager to get some new material from him. Moreover, the build-up was all about how it would be a "return to form" for Nas after he went from Nasty Nas to Nas Escobar with It Was Written. Everyone was waiting to see if he could take it back to Illmatic form. When "Nas Is Like" came out a few months before the album's release, it looked like there was a real chance that I Am would be Illmatic part 2, and the hype got even BIGGER.
When I Am finally came out, it didn't live up to the hype (naturally), so there was disappointment. What made it worse was the bootleg that had been floating around before the official release. Everyone could single out a few songs from the bootleg that they thought should have made the final cut, so it just created this "glass half empty" view of the official album.
similar to Vol. 1 for JayAlbum is possibly his most hit/miss album. The highs are just incredible, but the lows are
ig88
Bounty Hunter
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
He said he frisbeed it off one listen lmao. Wasnt that bad
3.5 mic albun
The album was critically acclaimed and one of the most commercially successful albums of 99.
The anticipation for it was huge. Nas is Like. The Bootleg.
I desperately tried to like the retail album. I gave it months. Ultimately I had to accept the fact that it wasn't anywhere near a 4.5 mic album.
Ghetto Prisoners :PHandsup:
You Won't See Me Tonight :Pgtfoh:
I Want to Talk to You :PHandsup:
Dr. Knockboot :PHandsup:
Life Is What you Make it :PHandsup:
Big Things :PPicard:
:PPicard::PPicard::PPicard::PPicard:
KISSING :Pgtfoh:
Money is My bytch :PHandsup:
The anticipation for it was huge. Nas is Like. The Bootleg.
I desperately tried to like the retail album. I gave it months. Ultimately I had to accept the fact that it wasn't anywhere near a 4.5 mic album.
Ghetto Prisoners :PHandsup:
You Won't See Me Tonight :Pgtfoh:
I Want to Talk to You :PHandsup:
Dr. Knockboot :PHandsup:
Life Is What you Make it :PHandsup:
Big Things :PPicard:
:PPicard::PPicard::PPicard::PPicard:
KISSING :Pgtfoh:
Money is My bytch :PHandsup:
KravenMorehead™
Barrel Brothers.®
Theres a gang of "unreleased" floating on the net with different tracklists.
Anyone know what the definitive tracklist for the advance copy is?
Anyone know what the definitive tracklist for the advance copy is?
god shamgod
Veteran
Small world, we will survive and ny state of mind II the only songs I ever liked off that wakk ass album
that joint with dmx was terrible everything about that songs sucks
that joint with dmx was terrible everything about that songs sucks
GPBear
The Tape Crusader
Oh my god, a historically accurate Nas post on thecoli
This is like spotting the loch ness monster
JayBaldacci
All Star
I remember something along the lines of " once you hear Blaze a 50 you'll forgive Nas for the firm"
Was that a different Mag?
Was that a different Mag?
