Was CNN's War Report really that BIG when it Dropped?

[imirza]

I'm a big fan of N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN's Drink Champs Podcast..
I always hear artists praising the War Report album on the Podcast, always giving props to NORE saying it was a classic when it Dropped..
Is this true?
Me being from the South, I never heard much about it

 

[STEVE]

no

 

[NYK Loyalist]

It was pretty big in the streets of NY but not commercially and I wouldn't think outside of the east coast many people checked for it.

 

[boskey]

I personally didn't hear much about it other than LA, LA cuz of the East West beef, but I was mad young and not in NY. The way NORE blew up out of "nowhere" in 97/98 I assume a lot of people fukked with it..

 

[blizzard man]

i dont remember it being huge, i dont tihnk i heard it til a maybe year after it came out, cuz i had a cousin from north jersey i would visit and then just cull thru all his rap tapes and shyt. it ended up being one of the one of my fav albums from that era though

i didnt hear it getting play down in VA where i was tho

 

[No Homo]

It was pretty big in the streets of NY but not commercially and I wouldn't think outside of the east coast many people checked for it.

This

 

[FreshAIG]

It was big in NY. Not sure around the globe. TONY was huge. I think even Amy Schumer said that's her favorite rap song.

 

[Tropical Fantasy]

I was in elementary school when it came out and it got a lot of play that summer

I remember that it came out right before school ended, I think early June

 

[The Dust King]

It was a classic album that was revered in new york and up and down the east coast

CNN was like an add-on to the legacy mobb deep had created

Album lowkey incited riots and was the first time i seen the physical manifest between brooklyn and queens, which are neighboring boroughs.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

alot of east coast albums that are called CLASSIC,actually meant very little when they dropped.

Mobb's catalog
Illmatic
Ob4CL
reasonable doubt
ghostface so called classics
etc etc

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Eastcoast classic later became household classic

 

[verbalkint]

Probably rocked it for a year straight which is an eternity to a teenager. NY classic for certain...nationally?...

 

[BmoreGorilla]

It was big on the east coast mainly becuz they were from QB. After Nas and Mobb Deep everybody wanted to see who had next from there

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

nore taking a more comical approach the next year 1998 was what made him a super star

war report was a very underground record in 1997 - a great album but not a heavy hitter in terms of radio / car play

also everybody was super jiggy out in 1997 and they weren't but they weren't really calling out jiggy rappers like a jeru the damja or something

 

[BmoreGorilla]

alot of east coast albums that are called CLASSIC,actually meant very little when they dropped.

Mobb's catalog
Illmatic
Ob4CL
reasonable doubt
ghostface so called classics
etc etc

Here you go