How can you bow out on your own and it being "on the side". If you go from year 1: 2x platinum, year 2: 1x platinum year 3: barely gold despite your biggest single.
Jay was always an over competitive so egotistical dude. He was saying shyt like I'm not better than Big I'm the closest one about his head homie. It's just in bad taste. Like his ambition overrules his better judgement. Same way he waltzed into the NFL we that we done kneeling comment which was kind of a sleight at Kaepernick (who was Jay to decide that?)
the rap game was different when then they did.
They all attached themselves to big male rappers in a way that other male rappers don’t do. Without tying themselves to a Biggie, Jay Z, DMX or JD, what would those numbers have been for them? Without attaching herself to Gucci and Wayne, Nicki has admitted she wouldn’t have been on at all.
Not sure if somebody else mentioned already, but “Gangsta Lovin” was number 2 on the Billboard charts (back when being that high on the charts your music was actually tangibly heard) and the album sold a little more than 130K first week. Also, for anybody that actually listened to that interview, Jay didn’t even say what was in that headline, people just crumpled up some words and ran with it, which is why even has had to correctly a lot of people on her promo run currently.
