Hip-Hop Blasphemy: It Was Written Is Better Than Illmatic (Episode 2)

[spliz]

at cherry picking


breh - i said i never heard any black person in my whole entire life say thriller was better

No. U said way more than that. U said it as if it was a fact. Not ur experience. U called black people c00ns if they like Thriller more. U wrongly categorized Thriller as an album musically. U tried to say Rock With You was the first black music video shown on MTV to try to discredit Thriller. U was just wrong all around fam. lol

 

[spliz]

u really getting ur panties inna bunch over this

again, i personally never heard a nikka say thriller is better
in which makes me believe something must be off if one thinks otherwise
the Vlad vids are just a small sample of what is common knowledge

why y'all in here catching feelings

Dog u said black people who think Thriller is better is c00ns. U don't think that shyt is a retarded statement? U said Thriller = White and Off The Wall = Black. That's ridiculous, narrow-minded and wrong as hell. U have no data to back that shyt up bruh. The fact that hip hop samples Thriller more than Off The Wall should let u know how wrong ur statement is. U sat here and stereotyped ur own people.

 

[GreenGhxst]

I feel people say it was written is better because it has more tracks and Nas is solid as fukk on it was written too, I put It was written ahead of illmatic only because its more tracks and the writing is just as flawless, ain't really much else to it for me, but I"m not someone who's heard that shyt 30 times like some of you older cats on here

 

[Street Knowledge]

Both classics

 

[kingofnyc]

No. U said way more than that. U said it as if it was a fact. Not ur experience. U called black people c00ns if they like Thriller more. U wrongly categorized Thriller as an album musically. U tried to say Rock With You was the first black music video shown on MTV to try to discredit Thriller. U was just wrong all around fam. lol

Dog u said black people who think Thriller is better is c00ns. U don't think that shyt is a retarded statement? U said Thriller = White and Off The Wall = Black. That's ridiculous, narrow-minded and wrong as hell. U have no data to back that shyt up bruh. The fact that hip hop samples Thriller more than Off The Wall should let u know how wrong ur statement is. U sat here and stereotyped ur own people.

it's a fact in my reality due to everybody i've ever known saying OTW was his best work
i didn't say c00n i said c00nish nether less i retracted that comment with a condiment analogy
and yes i have the data the architect of both these masterpieces say OTW is better

Quincy Jones Says "Off the Wall" Is Better Than "Thriller"



BTW
we should just move on, i feel like this OTW/thriller shyt has derailed the thread


with that said....
illmatic >> IWW

 

[spliz]

it's a fact in my reality due to everybody i've ever known saying OTW was his best work
i didn't say c00n i said c00nish nether less i retracted that comment with a condiment analogy
and yes i have the data the architect of both these masterpieces say OTW is better

Quincy Jones Says "Off the Wall" Is Better Than "Thriller"



BTW
we should just move on, i feel like this OTW/thriller shyt has derailed the thread


with that said....
illmatic >> IWW

Son. If u went and did a poll with people on the street. All black people. The opinions would vary. Both albums are strong enough to have that effect. Quincy Jones has said a lot of shyt I don't agree with. Even tho I do agree that I like Off The Wall more. There's strong cuts on Thriller that people are attached to. When u look at Thriller as a package. Music, performance, visuals etc. It makes it's case stronger for alotta people.

 

[mson]

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

The extreme love that IWW gets is almost as revisionist as the RD dikkriding.

I love IWW, but it was heavily criticized for not living up to the illmatic standard, for being commercialized, for following the mafioso/kingpin trend, for the poppy samples, for having radio friendly songs, for being less "pure hip hop," for having less premier and co. and more Trackmasters, etc.

illmatic is without a doubt better. IWW is still dope.

Best way I can describe it, and the best analogy I can think of is:

illmatic = GoodFellas...groundbreaking, raw, organic, ahead of it's time, start to finish it's hitting on all cylinders
It Was Written = Casino...a more polished version of it's predecessor, more glamor, it has some lag/down time, fells less organic than the predecessor, etc.

There are ppl that like Casino/IWW more than GoodFellas/illmatic...they're not wrong or anything, but the majority prefers that raw, organic, unadulterated, uncut product. Casino is classic, but it took some time for it to reach classic status, critics and fans felt that it was missing a certain "it" factor that GoodFellas had.

 

[mson]