Fell out of the top tier to who? The album was anticipated and it was to the point where mad nikkas had the bootleg before it dropped. This is the shyt I remember vividly and I believe I still have the bootleg cd with the different track listing. Not including the fact that Mobb was 2 years between their last album. U think their platinum plaque. Placement in blockbuster movies n shyt like that was a sign that people outside New York STOPPED fukkin wit them? shyt if anything it introduced a lot of casuals to who they were.
i didn't say the bolded. i even went out of my way to clear up any confusion in my two previous posts.
of course if an advanced copy comes out early, people are gonna be on it. that doesn't mean that they were top-tier.
so mobb deep was top-tier to you? just in new York alone you had DMX, the lox, jay-z, big pun, NORE(b4 the 2nd LP dropped), and that's just off the top of my head.
they clearly fell out of the top-tier of NY rappers. then add the fact that youre talking to somebody that's not even from NY. we had our own chit going on.
don't even get me started on what was going on around the rest of the map outside of the east. you really gonna sit here and say that mobb was top-tier? nationally, they arguably weren't even top tier when they were at their peak. but you want to sit here and say that they were anywhere near top tier in '99?
you toss all logic out the window when it comes to your favorites.