![]() Worse yet, AZ’s own highly anticipated debut “Doe or Die”, although widely held as a classic to its listeners, fell below sales expectations. A role he has been unable to shake ever since. But somehow in the album’s aftermath AZ became subsequently perceived as Nas’s sidekick instead of partner. Most sympathizers are familiar with AZ’s story of woe: the only guest rapper to grace Nas’s “Illmatic”, which some hail as the greatest rap album of all time. Even the great Gods of rap, languidly relaxing atop Mount Interscope, could not recreate a character more perfectly tailored for mass-market success. AZ just seems naturally endowed for this business. It’s that AZ flaunts all the right ingredients: he’s business savvy, well-respected in the industry, street credited, skillful, and has patented a look for himself so fly it might drive Pretty Tony into a nervous buying binge for more tangerine-colored, fox fur snowcaps and obtrusive, animal insignia jewelry. It’s not just that AZ has paid his dues with interest, putting out four, near-classic solo albums and two group albums over only seven years, or the fact that his lyrical skills put most current rap stars to shame. ![]() AZ deserves the swooning fans and flagrant, money tossing capabilities, not Jermaine Dupri, whose face looks like a mister potato head doll a three-year-old arranged in disarray. He practically has dollar signs seared into his baby-face forehead. ![]() AZ’s lack of wide-spread success remains inexplicable. ![]()
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