Hip-Hop Blasphemy: It Was Written Is Better Than Illmatic (Episode 2)
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Gave you power is probably my fab track off IWW . To me he's in his bag when he's being super creative like that .
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why are people fixating over Gave You Power when he took that concept from Organized Konfusion's Stray Bullet? It's a great song but OK did it better.
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iPod wasn't the first and best MP3 player
The beat for I Gave You Power is way better tho....That's number 1.
The songs are also executed way different. Nas actually personified an inanimate object.
Stray Bullet takes you on the journey and it's clear what's going on..... different routes.
People like how Nas did it..
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The beat for I Gave You Power is way better tho....That's number 1.
The songs are also executed way different. Nas actually personified an inanimate object.
Stray Bullet takes you on the journey and it's clear what's going on..... different routes.
People like how Nas did it..
beat isn't necessarily better
love that sample used on Stray Bullet been used many times in hip-hop songs
yeah and what did Pharoahe and Po do? they didn't personify the bullet?
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iPod wasn't the first and best MP3 player
yep....but Stray Bullet is still the better song lol
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SplizThaDon
see 11:15 mark I feel the same way as Lord Jamar. But Lord Jamar's opinion is not EVERYONE's. shyt my pops listens to nothing but soul music and prefers Thriller over Off The Wall by a slight margin. Stop stereotyping people and Thriller isn't a souless album.
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SplizThaDon
No its not. They both are great in their own right but to discredit Nas cause OK had a similar concept is retarded. There's a reason why everyone in the game was impressed by I Gave You Power. U don't think they heard Stray Bullet? Come on fam. Both songs had their own path and executed differently.
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I said they are both great
and you can like IGYP more that's cool
I'm saying stop going crazy over a borrowed concept as if Nas came up with this shyt...
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SplizThaDon
nikka no ideas original. it's all about the execution. People went crazy cause of how Nas executed that shyt. Point blank. One song is about a bullet. One is about a gun. They way the stories are told are completely different and the stories had different goals. They aren't the same story and aren't executed the same way.
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SplizThaDon
Son u never know if u had the first idea. Plenty people come up wit shyt and think they came up with it only to find out someone else did somethin similar. Either way Nas is like the KING of storytelling concept songs. Them shyt's is all classics.
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interesting you say that because Nas claims to have never heard OK's song before he released his version
whether I believe it or not is another story
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SplizThaDon
Not sure if I believe it or not either. I honestly have no choice but to really. lol
Illmatic is just up there in top 5 albums ov all time in my opinion ... Everything on that album was on point
illmatic , ready to die , get rich or die trying , all eyes on me , makaveli 
nikkas cant say these albums didnt put a huge dent in hiphop 
illmatic , ready to die , get rich or die trying , all eyes on me , makaveli nikkas cant say these albums didnt put a huge dent in hiphop