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It pains me to read "IWW > Illmatic" come on now....
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Originally Posted by MidEastBeast
It pains me to read "IWW > Illmatic" come on now....
if you subcribe to the fact that Nas is the best to ever do it then it was written is one of the best albums ever made.
Yeah but I don't subscribe to that, so you did all that copy and pasting for no reason.
but lets be honest he was waaaay out of his comfort zone as far as the content of this album goes.
how can you say that when that album flows so great?
i'd love for you to tell me which tracks you don't like from that album....
I don't care about swag, so I'll ignore that part.
well thats a flaw you got..if you can't judge or see how charisma can make a ok 16 bars into a HOT 16 bars then alot of what makes you a MC islost....
There are a few skippable songs
other then Nas is coming (the obvious one) what are the skippable tracks.
im convicned you said all that for shock value....Originally Posted by Harlem On The Rise
Tracks that SUCK
- Intro - What is this?? Nas is a slave now?? In the deep south?? What the ++!% is this . . . Where's the "Uzi in the army lining"??
0/5
- Street Dreams - just corny, flat out, the hook is STUPID, sounds like somethin 50 Cent would've made. Beat is just flat out corny, not to mention its the EXACT same beat Pac used on All Eyez On Me, there's no way NaS people didn't know this, that album was the BIGGEST hip hop album of 1996 (until he got shot and made ANOTHER album)
2/5
- Watch Them Ninjas - This sounds like a lost instrumental from the Dogg Pound or some west coast group, I mean if yall remember what was goin on in 96 you'd take offense, NaS was supposed to be holdin NY down, this isn't the right way. The hook is wack too, he should've just gave Foxy & AZ this joint
1/5
- Take It In Blood - Wait a minute . . . Nas used to watch Kathy Lee & Regis?? Oh yeah this +##! sucks
2/5
- Nas Is Coming - How do you get arguably the BEST MC in the game, and the BEST producer and this is final product?? I aint gonna front this song was kinda cool when I was in 7th grade
2/5
- The Set Up - Doesn't this sound exactly like the +##! Mobb Deep was making?? Nas shouldnt have been copying Prodigy's +##!. Its not an all of awful song, but its not really all that good.
2.5/5
- Suspect - Just not a good song, boring beat GOD awful hook . . . Sounds like somethin off of Doe Or Die (Not a good thing)
1/5
- Live Ninja Rap - This would've made a good UNRELEASED song. Nas & Prodigy both in their lyrical primes and this what we get??
3/5
Overall the album has NO theme to it, I mean would a movie be GREAT if it just has good action scenes and no type of plot/purpose or OVERALL theme?? I mean he has some pretty solid work on here
I Gave You Power
Black Girl Lost
If I Rules The World
& for those that remember, the "Streets Dreams Remix", the 2nd verse on that >>> ANYthing on this album
Originally Posted by Untitled
im convicned you said all that for shock value....Originally Posted by Harlem On The Rise
Tracks that SUCK
- Intro - What is this?? Nas is a slave now?? In the deep south?? What the ++!% is this . . . Where's the "Uzi in the army lining"??
0/5
- Street Dreams - just corny, flat out, the hook is STUPID, sounds like somethin 50 Cent would've made. Beat is just flat out corny, not to mention its the EXACT same beat Pac used on All Eyez On Me, there's no way NaS people didn't know this, that album was the BIGGEST hip hop album of 1996 (until he got shot and made ANOTHER album)
2/5
- Watch Them Ninjas - This sounds like a lost instrumental from the Dogg Pound or some west coast group, I mean if yall remember what was goin on in 96 you'd take offense, NaS was supposed to be holdin NY down, this isn't the right way. The hook is wack too, he should've just gave Foxy & AZ this joint
1/5
- Take It In Blood - Wait a minute . . . Nas used to watch Kathy Lee & Regis?? Oh yeah this +##! sucks
2/5
- Nas Is Coming - How do you get arguably the BEST MC in the game, and the BEST producer and this is final product?? I aint gonna front this song was kinda cool when I was in 7th grade
2/5
- The Set Up - Doesn't this sound exactly like the +##! Mobb Deep was making?? Nas shouldnt have been copying Prodigy's +##!. Its not an all of awful song, but its not really all that good.
2.5/5
- Suspect - Just not a good song, boring beat GOD awful hook . . . Sounds like somethin off of Doe Or Die (Not a good thing)
1/5
- Live Ninja Rap - This would've made a good UNRELEASED song. Nas & Prodigy both in their lyrical primes and this what we get??
3/5
Overall the album has NO theme to it, I mean would a movie be GREAT if it just has good action scenes and no type of plot/purpose or OVERALL theme?? I mean he has some pretty solid work on here
I Gave You Power
Black Girl Lost
If I Rules The World
& for those that remember, the "Streets Dreams Remix", the 2nd verse on that >>> ANYthing on this album
it was written is Nas's arguably best album...if not SOLID 2nd effort....
I am would've been better IF the bootlegged version didn't tear that album apart.....
This album was bootlegged what happen?
[h2]Original album concept[/h2]
This album was originally to have been a double album titled IAm...The Autobiography, however most of the original sessions were bootlegged forcing Nas to discard many songs and adjust the release to onedisc. I Am...became one of the first major label releases to be widely leaked using MP3technology. Some of the leaked songs were later released on the compilation LP The Lost Tapes in 2002. The concept of this album as can be seen by tracks such as "Fetus" from The Lost Tapes wasto be an autobiography of sorts for Nas. Nas allegedly recorded over 110 tracks for the project.
The only people I think have a legit 2 albums in the top 15 are Quest.
IWW was a good album IMO... but i like Gods Son, Stillmatic, and prob even the Lost Tapes more than IWW...
also i dont understand anyone who can listen to Nas and NOT have Illmatic as their favorite Nas album... like really? Wat is wrong with that album? What songsDONT you like. Illmatic= GOAt, but IMO BIG= GOAT cause he got 2 top 10 albums and those were his ONLY 2 albums...