anyhow, i'll indulge your willful ignorance.

it took time for all those dudes to get recognized the way they are now

in fact, jordan is a great example. all that adoration he gets now? lol! he was shit on CRAZY early on. it's well documented. even the players didn't like his ass. the media talked about how he epitomized everything wrong with the nba. don't sit here and ask for links or some dumb shit, you're unwashed ass has access to the same internet i do. so after you hit the soup kitchen for a hot shower and a sandwich, look it up. the jordan knob slobbing in mass quantities came when he started winning rings.

rakim was acknowledged as a ground breaking artist when he came out but there were many who felt like he wasn't fuckin with krs even then. in fact rakim didn't really, truly reach god status until his offspring started popping up and he was rightly recognized as the father to a style that would become prominent in the 90's.

the bottom line was these two were major from jump but you're delusional if you think they had that god status in their youth. that shit came much later.