I think there is something to this. I've always felt like either Kool G. Rap or some other Queensbridge hustler was feeding Nasir that cold game on Illmatic which is why he was never able to repeat the same level of realness after that.
Add to that, the only other track I feel he bodied mercilessly happens to be 'Fast Life' which also has Kool G Rap on it.
It's almost blasphemous some of the struggle bars I hear from this negga considering he supposedly 'wrote' all of Illmatic.
Co-sign threadstarter, somethin don't add up.