It Was Written turns 20 today
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Doesn't necessarily make them weed plates either. Stillmatic, God's Son, and The Lost Tapes was a crazy run. Distant Relatives and Life Is Good are great too. The others have their moments, but fall short.
Thank you for a sensible reply with insight and subject-verb agreement instead of a emotional driven neg, but we will agree to disagree. Each of the lps you mentioned had maybe 3 out of 12 solid tracks on the album. Especially stillmatic. Can only think of Ether and One Mic that comes to mind off the album is memorable. It Was Written was the last album that I can play from start to finish.
This is how I view each of them:
Stillmatic:
Stillmatic Intro
Ether
Got Ur Self A Gun
Smokin
You're Da Man
Rewind
One Mic
2nd Childhood
What Goes Around
Every Ghetto
God's Son:
Get Down
Made You Look
Last Real nikka Alive
Thugz Mansion
Master Mind
Warrior's Song
Revolutionary Warfare
Dance
Heaven
Lost Tapes:
Every song except "Everybody's Crazy".
Distant Relatives:
Pretty much the whole thing
Life Is Good:
No Introduction
Locomotive
A Queen's Story
World's An Addiction
You Wouldn't Understand
Back Then
Stay
Cherry Wine
Bye Baby
Nasty
Roses
Black Bond
Where's The Love
Trust
IMO.IWW WORD PLAY WAS CRAZY!! I think no album during that time was fukkin with it lyrically, nor big or anyone else. I've always said that the only drawback in my mind was the masfioso-style backdrop that was the album theme.
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
This is how I view each of them:
Stillmatic:
Stillmatic Intro
Ether
Got Ur Self A Gun
Smokin
You're Da Man
Rewind
One Mic
2nd Childhood
What Goes Around
Every Ghetto
God's Son:
Get Down
Made You Look
Last Real nikka Alive
Thugz Mansion
Master Mind
Warrior's Song
Revolutionary Warfare
Dance
Heaven
Lost Tapes:
Every song except "Everybody's Crazy".
Distant Relatives:
Pretty much the whole thing
Life Is Good:
No Introduction
Locomotive
A Queen's Story
World's An Addiction
You Wouldn't Understand
Back Then
Stay
Cherry Wine
Bye Baby
Nasty
Roses
Black Bond
Where's The Love
Trust
That's my opinion too.
Funny how the dude you responded to only named radio songs from stillmatic when what goes around and your da man are the standout tracks on that album (at least for the people that actually gave stillmatic a listen
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Alexander Wiggin
All Star
Capital punishment too
Urbanmiracle
Brooklyn the planet...
Two quotes I live my life by:
I never brag how real I keep it
Cuz it's the best secret
I got no game
It's just some bytches understand my story
Nas is the best rapper ever. No debates.
I never brag how real I keep it
Cuz it's the best secret
I got no game
It's just some bytches understand my story
Nas is the best rapper ever. No debates.
JuvenileHell
Veteran
All the more reason I'm still baffled at IWW getting the backlash it did when it came out. I could understand if it was an album like Nastradamus, but IWW was solid for the most part.
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Just a product of the time with the backpack movement. This album and Stakes is High dropping the same day was sort of the start of the Backpack vs Jiggy NY Civil War which was pretty fukking silly and wasnt resolved until the Blueprint and Stillmatic dropped
Someone asked what unreleased tracks came out of the IWW sessions and listed De ja Vu. Dejavu and understanding where track Nas did early on, probably before the IWW concept was fully conceived. I have been compiling some IWW era tracks and here is what I have:
1. Escobar Season Begins (Freestyle)
2. The Foulness (Freestyle-Young, Gifted & Black)
3. Rhymes, Cash, Weed, Cars (Freestyle)
4. Silent Murder (Unreleased)
5. True Dialect (Unreleased)
6. Watch Dem nikkas (Added 3rd verse)
7. Affirmative Action (Remix)
8. Street Dreams (added 3rd verse)
9. Street Dreams Feat. R. Kelly (Remix)
10. Escobar 97 (Soundtrack)
11. Take it in Blood (Alternate version(s)
Aside from Deja Vu, Understanding anyone have anything else? I think the Pete Rock remix of street dreams is unofficial and I wouldn't count it. Also, I know there were other foulness freestyles but his one, to me, is the only one that I think is album worthy.
1. Escobar Season Begins (Freestyle)
2. The Foulness (Freestyle-Young, Gifted & Black)
3. Rhymes, Cash, Weed, Cars (Freestyle)
4. Silent Murder (Unreleased)
5. True Dialect (Unreleased)
6. Watch Dem nikkas (Added 3rd verse)
7. Affirmative Action (Remix)
8. Street Dreams (added 3rd verse)
9. Street Dreams Feat. R. Kelly (Remix)
10. Escobar 97 (Soundtrack)
11. Take it in Blood (Alternate version(s)
Aside from Deja Vu, Understanding anyone have anything else? I think the Pete Rock remix of street dreams is unofficial and I wouldn't count it. Also, I know there were other foulness freestyles but his one, to me, is the only one that I think is album worthy.
Bruce Wayne
THE GODDAMN BILLIONAIRE
Slaves stomping out the 'master'. I need visuals for that 1.
