It Was Written Vs Hell On Earth 2

[NoHalfWay]

That's not the word I am looking for...

(1) IWW is two different albums mashed into one...He should have released a double album, CD1 grimmey NY beats and CD2 Glossy Trackmaster beats...
That album doesn't play well from start to finish...

(2) Versatility is not a determinant of quality...The final product still has to sonically make sense...The Score by The Fugees is a versatile album and it plays well from start to finish, because there is sonic coherence from one track to the next...

There's only a small minority that says IWW doesn't play well from beginning to end. One of the reasons it's revered by many today is because of how well the music aged.

It's not sonically uniformed like a Mobb album but Trackmasters definitely made heat on this.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

There's only a small minority that says IWW doesn't play well from beginning to end. One of the reasons it's revered by many today is because of how well the music aged.

It's not sonically uniformed like a Mobb album but Trackmasters definitely made heat on this.

I think most people today don't even listen to that album any more...

 

[JAY?]

Is it "You see eclipse when the mac spit" cause i agree that line is one of the illest in the verse.


BTW, It Was Written >

POW nikkaz is found MIA
We move like the special forces, green beret
Heavily around my throat, I don't play
shyt brand new, back in eighty-nine, the same way
The God P walk with a limp see, but simply
This semper fi shyt, no man can go against me

 

[Danie84]

IWW's lyrics blows HOE lyrics out the water, but production-wise HOE throws IWW'S in the bushes

 

[infamousred]

That album is essentially a mash-up of two completely different albums...

Half of IWW is "The Firm" type of beats and the other half is good ole NYC grimwy beats...

Nas was confused...Dude doesn't have a musical vision...He writes rhymes and lets other decide for him what beats he should rap on and which direction he should go...

Nas is NOT a good producer and he doesn't have good producers around him, that's why his albums after Illmatic have never been cohesive...

yeah we need to find out who was picking the beats on illmatic cause there's no way in hell it was nas. i've always felt like it had to be serch or someone in his inner circle. i'd say mega but i'm pretty sure he was locked up at the time. it makes no sense how you could pick some of the greatest beats ever made and then have a shiity ear for production the rest of your career. was it ever mentioned who picked the songs on lost tapes? that's the only nas album i can play from front to back besides illmatic. everything else i have to skip multiple times.
as far as iww goes...you can save me shootouts, take it in blood, i gave you power, and maybe one other song but i could careless if the rest of that album ever existed.

 

[mobbinfms]

yeah we need to find out who was picking the beats on illmatic cause there's no way in hell it was nas. i've always felt like it had to be serch or someone in his inner circle. i'd say mega but i'm pretty sure he was locked up at the time. it makes no sense how you could pick some of the greatest beats ever made and then have a shiity ear for production the rest of your career. was it ever mentioned who picked the songs on lost tapes? that's the only nas album i can play from front to back besides illmatic. everything else i have to skip multiple times.
as far as iww goes...you can save me shootouts, take it in blood, i gave you power, and maybe one other song but i could careless if the rest of that album ever existed.

I think he has a bad ear for picking beats that will crossover. Also, I don't think there was much pressure/interference from the record label on the first album.

 

[mr.africa]

yeah we need to find out who was picking the beats on illmatic cause there's no way in hell it was nas. i've always felt like it had to be serch or someone in his inner circle. i'd say mega but i'm pretty sure he was locked up at the time. it makes no sense how you could pick some of the greatest beats ever made and then have a shiity ear for production the rest of your career. was it ever mentioned who picked the songs on lost tapes? that's the only nas album i can play from front to back besides illmatic. everything else i have to skip multiple times.
as far as iww goes...you can save me shootouts, take it in blood, i gave you power, and maybe one other song but i could careless if the rest of that album ever existed.

that's your opinion as far as production is concerned. i love nas ear for beats for the most part and i for one am happy he evolved and didn't stagnate.
his discography is praised as one of the best in hip hop
dude has done just fine after illmatic.

iww is the superior album and yes that is MY opinion!!

 

[JuvenileHell]

MY EMPIRE STRIKES WITH THE STRENGTH OF POISONOUS SNAKES

I like HOE slightly more. I agree that it's the more cohesive album between the two. But IWW has gems, like Take It In Blood, I Gave You Power, Shootouts, Suspects.

 

[NoHalfWay]

shytting on IWW's production tho?

Y'all be blowing the whole Nas has bad beats thing out of proportion

 

[kp404]

Hell On Earth is just amazing in every way...I can't go but a few months without playing Infamous and Hell on Earth back to back...everytime I listen to HOE it gets better and better; I haven't listened to It Was Written in a few years and there's a reason for that

 

[Darts]

IWW wins both on production and lyrics on the strength of diversity.

I love HOE but much of the production sounded a little too similar. Pee's out of this world rhyming is really what elevates the album more so than the overall production.

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

both classics but IWW is flawless

HOE had one beat i wasnt feeling as much as the other (man down that sound like a chime is irritating but the drums are ) but still a 5mic cd

nas - suspect might be my favourite track ever
"it was a murder..."

props to the guy that payed homage to that track in this thread

 

[mobbinfms]

IWW wins both on production and lyrics on the strength of diversity.

I love HOE but much of the production sounded a little too similar. Pee's out of this world rhyming is really what elevates the album more so than the overall production.

You bugged...the fukk out. The production on HOE was some next level shyt.

 

[mobbinfms]

both classics but IWW is flawless

HOE had one beat i wasnt feeling as much as the other (man down that sound like a chime is irritating but the drums are ) but still a 5mic cd

nas - suspect might be my favourite track ever
"it was a murder..."

props to the guy that payed homage to that track in this thread

Man Down is great...but it's definitely not top 5 in terms of the beats.

 

[ISO]

yeah we need to find out who was picking the beats on illmatic cause there's no way in hell it was nas. i've always felt like it had to be serch or someone in his inner circle. i'd say mega but i'm pretty sure he was locked up at the time. it makes no sense how you could pick some of the greatest beats ever made and then have a shiity ear for production the rest of your career. was it ever mentioned who picked the songs on lost tapes? that's the only nas album i can play from front to back besides illmatic. everything else i have to skip multiple times.
as far as iww goes...you can save me shootouts, take it in blood, i gave you power, and maybe one other song but i could careless if the rest of that album ever existed.

I don't understand what y'all nikkas be talking about listen to Lost Tapes, Stillmatic, IWW, HHID some great beats throughout, Nastradamus is the only bad produced Nas album IMO.