I'ma say it, Nas clearly out rapped AZ on Life's A bytch

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I personally feel like AZ took that.

Same i feel for Memphis Bleek with Jay-Z on Reasonable Doubt album.

 

[dem bath salts]

Lyrically I would give it Nas but AZ swagged out more to me. His delivery was a little more dynamic to me.

 

[Knicksman20]

I just listened to this yesterday on my way to work. AZ’s verse is a classic no doubt & sets the tone but I always thought Nas got him on this. And that’s no knock on AZ because his verse is crazy

 

[pointproven214]

Az had a better rhyme scheme on this song he rhyme so many syllabes on that verse he gets the nod to me imo

 

[BmoreGorilla]

100% facts. I made a thread on this almost three years ago

The brilliance of Nas' verse on Life's A bytch

 

[BmoreGorilla]

People get caught up in AZ's flow.

Yup. Nas' verse is deep af

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

"I woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty, it's a blessing
The essence of adolescence leaves my body, now I'm fresh"


Ooohhh that's some cold shyt right there

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Nas verse is holistic as fukk, it had an ill beginning, middle and end he constructed that shyt beautifully.

AZ rapped and flowed his ass off, he seemed a bit more freeform with it.

Can't go wrong either way, but Nas is more impressive - as classic as AZ's is.

 

[boskey]

What planet have you been living on?

lol people online are always either fake-surprised or fake-not surprised...shyt is annoying

 

[Cladyclad]

Naw

AZ verse is better

Just the way he transition to that hook along with his energy

Nas verse was dope but not fukking with Sosa

 

[UpAndComing]

OP is right mentioning Memory Lane


Greatest Hip Hop song of all time

 

[Cladyclad]

OP is right mentioning Memory Lane


Greatest Hip Hop song of all time

The ghetto Quran of 94’

 

[010101]

stanley perspectives*

 

[pointproven214]

Visualizin' the realism of life in actuality
fukk who's the baddest, a person's status depends on salary
And my mentality is money-orientated
I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it
‘Cause yeah, we were beginners in the hood as Five Percenters
But somethin' must've got in us, ‘cause all of us turned to sinners
Now some restin' in peace and some are sittin' in San Quentin
Others, such as myself, are tryin' to carry on tradition
Keepin' this Schweppervescent street ghetto essence inside us
'Cause it provides us with the proper insight to guide us
Even though we know, somehow we all gotta go
But as long as we leavin' thievin'
We'll be leavin' with some kind of dough
So, until that day we expire and turn to vapors
Me and my capers will be somewhere stackin' plenty papers
Keepin' it real, packin' steel, gettin' high
‘Cause life's a bytch and then you die

 

[Harry B]

I've always said that dope features on a dope album are always overrated, even if they can be doper specially if they rap fast. I think it's cause it adds some different flavor to the majority which is always dope. I would call a tie if I just heard that song and it was the first time hearing both, but listening to the whole album I would say Az.

I personally feel like AZ took that.

Same i feel for Memphis Bleek with Jay-Z on Reasonable Doubt album.

You think Jay-z would kill himself on a track?
Dude wrote a conversation with himself with the same quality, none of their shyt would work without the other.