Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
That's a list someone cooked up online, mad years later.
That's not what the OG was when it leaked early '99. The OG leak only had 11 tracks on it.
Nas "I Am" got 4.5 Mic when it came out. WHY DOES THE COLI&the internet HATE IT?!
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That's a list someone cooked up online, mad years later.
That's not what the OG was when it leaked early '99. The OG leak only had 11 tracks on it.
The source don't speak for everyone you fukking savage spigot?
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
LOL!! Dude, that's a bootleg mixtape someone made with files. That's not the album advance.
It literally says "already released" on it.
This is false. This album was bumped everywhere when it dropped. It actually got no hate. You couldn’t get away from Nas is Like , Hate me Now, Yo won’t see me tonight. Hell even Dr Knockboot got love back then
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Superstar
I was in HS...these are the tracks that were floating around back then
These are the same tracks on the re-released vinyl from last yr too
Ask yourself why these exact tracks were on the rereleased vinyl
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Superstar
That's a cover from 99...not yrs later
No one heard the advance copy outside of ppl in the industry
The rest of us got bootlegs
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
All of that was homemade, not the OG.
The OG advance which got bootlegged, and had the "Broscoe" vocal tags on it, didn't have a lot of those tracks listed there. Some of those songs weren't even done yet, when the OG was on the street. But as time went on, people online started making up their own versions of the album and did artwork for it, that didn't even exist back then.
2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
f*** apologies, i wanna see y’all geeked up
A recent run of 7 albums in 5 years but still stuck in the 90s
Nas has by far the worst fanbase in rap. I know he hate yall guts
I Am> all them albums with midboys
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
I had the advance because I worked at Sony.
The reason why sh*t became an issue, is because the "Broscoe" bootleg was the exact same as our advance. It had all the same tags and tracks. So somebody at the label got their copy ripped somewhere. Because this was the first album that got bootlegged on mp3, later on, mad random people started making their own versions. But there was only one true OG, and if someone doesn't know about the "Broscoe" version, then they didn't have the real OG copy. That was the real one. Not the ones that came later.
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Superstar
The advance didn't get bootlegged, individual tracks got bootlegged
I know bc I lived it
Bootlegs were a compilation
I clearly remember listening to I Am bootleg in 99 before the album dropped
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
Advances back in the day would usually be 1/2 the album, bro. Not the whole album.
That's how it worked. This is not a promo. It's an advance. You send the advances out for review and for testing. The advance for this, was the one that got bootlegged early on. And was the reason why the album ended up not being the double LP that Nas wanted it to be.
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Superstar
Why does that bootleg from 25+ yrs ago match the track listing on the re-released vinyl?????????
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Superstar
As soon as I said only ppl in the industry got the advance copy, now you mysteriously worked for Sony
So that makes you 47+ right
Goodnight all
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
It doesn't.
The vinyl that's out now has mad other sh*t on it, that was recorded after the OG. Like "Undying Love", "Ghetto Prisoners", "Kissing", the joint with X, "Natures Shine", etc. Nas went back in to record new sh*t because a lot of the OG songs were being cut off the album due to the bootlegging.
