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always liked this album, even liked the bonus disc...not a classic.
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Originally Posted by Harlem On The Rise
NaS is a prophet...Originally Posted by iLLscan
The "Don" aesthetic in hip hop is fake. I think we all know that. Individuals who really run things don't record, write down incidences & tell on themselves.
Yet, dudes co sign Ross (and the like) & I SH on IWW? I don't get it. You have this bizarre double standard Nay. Why is Nas the only emcee that is unable to lie? I mean, everyone knows it's a lie. The same as Big, Jay, Ross, ect, ect.
If I were Nas................................. I would take that double standard as a complement. People seem to want the truth from Nas & expect everyone else to lie as if it were a given. It's weird.
I could've lived without the Escobar phase... He had no reason to conform to what the industry was doin, he's always talked about priding himself on sometimes having to stand alone with his thoughts, but yet in that phase he compromised EVERYthing he stands for, for the sake of popularity... Not gonna excuse that, not from an artist of his calibur, he's one of the VERY few respected voices in this genre, that can speak on ANY subject, and change the way others view things...
It was coo when he was helping out his GARBAGE running mate AZ, but he never should've took on that persona to form an album around...
The BEST songs of his from that period are "If I Ruled The World" & "Street Dreams Remix" thats not by accident...
He's not talkin that knockoff mafioso rap, he's speakin the REAL...
The very FEW bright spots on that album don't even play into that corny persona...
& If that persona was a s good as YOU guys think, why did he put that corny +!+@ to bed??
He knew that +!+@ wasn't him, and it hindered his progress, threw fans for a loop...
Originally Posted by Harlem On The Rise
NaS is a prophet...Originally Posted by iLLscan
The "Don" aesthetic in hip hop is fake. I think we all know that. Individuals who really run things don't record, write down incidences & tell on themselves.
Yet, dudes co sign Ross (and the like) & I SH on IWW? I don't get it. You have this bizarre double standard Nay. Why is Nas the only emcee that is unable to lie? I mean, everyone knows it's a lie. The same as Big, Jay, Ross, ect, ect.
If I were Nas................................. I would take that double standard as a complement. People seem to want the truth from Nas & expect everyone else to lie as if it were a given. It's weird.
I could've lived without the Escobar phase... He had no reason to conform to what the industry was doin, he's always talked about priding himself on sometimes having to stand alone with his thoughts, but yet in that phase he compromised EVERYthing he stands for, for the sake of popularity... Not gonna excuse that, not from an artist of his calibur, he's one of the VERY few respected voices in this genre, that can speak on ANY subject, and change the way others view things...
It was coo when he was helping out his GARBAGE running mate AZ, but he never should've took on that persona to form an album around...
The BEST songs of his from that period are "If I Ruled The World" & "Street Dreams Remix" thats not by accident...
He's not talkin that knockoff mafioso rap, he's speakin the REAL...
The very FEW bright spots on that album don't even play into that corny persona...
& If that persona was a s good as YOU guys think, why did he put that corny +!+@ to bed??
He knew that +!+@ wasn't him, and it hindered his progress, threw fans for a loop...
yeah, im tired of 1 NTer bashing itOriginally Posted by SpeakUp23
It Was Written is Nas' 2nd greatest album.
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yeah, im tired of 1 NTer bashing itOriginally Posted by SpeakUp23
It Was Written is Nas' 2nd greatest album.
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