snoop didnt lie, if pac and big was around jay would have fell of by now.
OK then, Negrodamus. I'm sure you would be saying that about Nas if he was killed in 1997, too. Or Snoop. Or Dre.
Don't believe the hype.
You don't put out multiple classic albums, be worth 500 million dollars net-worth, influence a whole new generation of rappers and be popular for a decade just because certain rappers aren't alive. You either pull it off or you don't. DMX couldn't do it. Ja Rule couldn't do it, and they we're all considered to be the successors of east coast rap after the Shiny shit era, and biggie's passing. Shit, up until 2000 or so, DMX and Jay-z we're equals. DMX actually sold more records, and was a more 2pac-centric artist. Shit, Ja Rule based his whole career off 2pac's swagger. Jay-Z didn't take nobody's swagger. If he did, you wouldn't have so much rappers trying to be Jay-Z these days. All Hov did was take smooth, Brooklyn street mannerisms (What you expect? he from Brooklyn...!), and yeah, took a few lines from a dude who was his friend.
If Biggies and Pac death we're the reason for Jay-Z legendary career, Why Jay-Z? Why not DMX? I mean, he had the bald-head. He had the bandanna. He had the emotionally-driven music.
Why not all the other rappers in the past 10 or 11 years who have directly stolen from and wrote the coattails of 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G.? What happened to
The Outlaws? What happened to
Junior M.A.F.I.A.? I don't see them on the current cover of Rolling Stone. I guess that whole "I'm down with Pac/Big" thing didn't make
them legends. Weird.
Why single Jay-Z out? Because he's fucking Beyonce and you're not? Because people look at Hov, and say, "He's a rapper's rapper", and not you? Because they look at Jay-Z, and say, "He got atleast 3 classics", and you only got one? There's plenty of rappers who's entire existence relies on Pac Or Big. Who's entire sounds rely on Pac Or Big. Who's entire swagger relies on Pac Or Big, and you wanna talk about Jay-Z?
Stop Reaching.
