I lived in North Carolina when Oochie Wally came out every kid at my elementary school used to sing that song and it played on the radio all the time.

Dude, If I ruled the World definitely is a hit

If I Ruled The World is probably one of the more played 90s hits tbh and Ether is probably one of the most well known diss songs of all time in Hip Hop.

Maybe not record breaking #1s but definitely hits within the Culture.

It's fun to make fun of Nas ngl, but deny he had hits and his impact on hip-hop lol

"Name a rapper I ain't influence."

Anecdotal evidence.

Made you look a hit too

It's definitely not. Just a good song.

Right.

Nas wasn't a huge crossover rap/pop star like it's normal to be now, so based on those standards he doesn't have a lot of hits.

But, he has plenty of songs that were huge in Hip hop circles and the culture resonated with over the years.

The charts don't always tell you what the Culture really fw.

Nigga do u want me to post charts like some nut ass pop stan account on twitter? Lmao

Diss songs arent hits fam. And if I ruled the world is good but it def ain't a hit the way yall suggesting.

Hits are s*** like march madness lose yourself juicy cali love hars knock life etc

Well men lie women lie numbers dont.

Nigga talmbout when he was in elementary school in some random ass town nobody knows.

that's just hating, seems like you have an issue with nas

Nas couldnt make club records like that he ain't the perfect rapper

Niggas forget Nas was huge in the black community and never crossed over to white audiences until white people started d***riding Illmatic, the first Nas song I heard was either You Owe Me or Oochie Wally, Nas stans hate those songs but I like them lol.

North Carolina is a state u dumb cac.

Exactly.

Especially if you were an early 90s baby, you couldn't be really into rap, grew up in the Culture and not know at least 1 Nas song.

You Owe Me was a club record lmao and so was Oochie Wally

Maybe because he didn't want to? That's not him. Nas is one of the most complete rappers of all time. I never got this whole club bangers s*** anyways. Rap is from the streets, f*** the clubs.

How is it hating to say it's a good song and not a hit?

Ok? It's still anecdotal evidence idiot

Nas made club records for a bit in the late 90s which is part of the reason hiphopheads turned on him and Jay dissed him cuz that wasn't his lane.

People online use that "club hit" argument to discredit any highly lyrical rapper they don't like.

They do it with Em and Nas the most though and it's always been weird to me.

Yeah, definitely. But even Nas realized very quickly that it wasn't his lane.

All Ima post is anecdotal evidence because I don't care about the f***ing charts. Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer were the biggest rappers popularity wise in the early 90s and who brings them up nowadays? Macklemore had multiple top 10 hits earlier this decade, who talks about him now? F*** the charts.

Facts