Bruh what? I don't know what you part of the south you're from, but I grew up in SC and had ties to FL, GA, and NC around that same time and everyone knew about the Purple Tape. Then calling out that Rick Ross collab as if Rae and Outkast weren't the first ones to make popular East/South collab is crazy. You must have been in a coma or something.
Let's do it this way. I
In 1995. (Real Time) I take it we are hitting mid 40s, late 30s, Brotha, you was 10 years old, or under 12. You wasn't asking your mother to go take you to the store and buy no dayum Raekon, Nobody under 15 was doing that. Nor were your friends of that age doing that. And let's cut the crap out that you were in your bedroom listening to this Album at 13? or listening to it in your parents house, most black parents didn't play that shit, you listened to that shit with the door closed in your room, and mainly it was the older sibling listening to the rap music, in 1995.
Most black parents in the south didn't like rap music.
You couldn't buy albums at 12 without an adult, present and nobody in the South under 15 is spending their allowance on a dayum Raekon album.
Kids under 14 years old in 1995, didn't know about a dayum Raekon.. In the South
You wasn't doing that shit in no 1995
In real time 1995, you had to listen to the music either at a House Party (in which most House Parties were given by your parents, who played the Blues or old songs, or that older sibling and in the south, they wasn't playing no Raekon at a house party) , Radio, or Family Function or on a college campus, Brotha, you weren't outside,, and if you were 'outside' the kids in your neighborhood listened to the shit that was on your radio the local shit that everybody played in that area.
Let's go deeper:
What major single off that album did Raekon have on the radio in 1994 or 1995 (summer of 1995) that was getting played on the Southern radio stations like that? Name it. Most kids/teens heard music on the Radio especially if you didn't have older siblings or that Uncle or cousins that were in their 19-27 age range who listened to rap music.
He released his 3rd single in September 1995 off that album and again, what black spaces or places in the South that YOU was at that was bumping this shit? or his album? Name it?
Name the college HBCU band that played any Raekon song? What frat party played any Raekon song?
What Top 10 single did he have out in 1994, or the summer of 1995 (because in 1995, most radio stations in the South and on the West coast, only played Rap music during a certain time slot and most radio stations had your Top 10 countdown which took up a 1 hour time slot was played off that album in the South?
I can name 10 - 20 rap songs in 1995 that got major play in the South.
Also, the landscape of 1995, most black families listened to R&B songs, your parents listened to oldies, blues or again the new R&B coming out of ATL, babyface, the kids, teens listened to Aaliyah, TLC, Kelly, "his radio shit" unless you had siblings.
Teenagers, under 17 wasn't buying rap albums like that. from other regions other than West Coast, Midwest and Southern artists Especially not in no 1995
I aint in no coma, brotha, I traveled all around the Southern states, every other weekend and on the West Coast all throughout my childhood. I had older siblings and uncles and cousins that listened to rap music.
I had friends in 1995 my age that couldn't listen to rap music, other than the shit being played on the radio.
Where were you at listening to Raekon at the age of 9-14? Name it.
