Joe Budden and Crooked I say "It Was Written" was even better than "Illmatic"

[Pop123]

@ 2:10



I been sayin this for years, n!gs look at me with the face. Illmatic was an excellent gritty hip hop album, IWW was an excellent worldly, universal, "big" sounding album, sh!t had the streets on smash despite wack hip hop journalists crying because it sounded big and clean.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Yeah...Joe Budden says a lot of stuff. I disagree 1000%

 

[head shots101]

that's how I got put on to nas cuz the it was written Lp

 

[Billy Ocean]

Joe Budden is like the biggest clown in hip hop but I agree. Actually, I think alot of people agree. Illmatic is a masterpiece but It Was Written is Nas at his best imo.

 

[Black Ball]

If I'mma listen to a Nas album, chances are that It Was Written will be played way before Illmatic.

 

[SubLyminalz]

there not lying.

 

[OrbanTrilltor]

Both albums are pretty damn great, but

...one of them has a track titled "Nas Is Coming" with Dre and Nas grunting at each other

 

[spliz]

nikkas try to shyt on IWW but fail to realize he got majority of his fanbase off the strength of that album...I had Illmatic when it dropped tho...

 

[Still Benefited]

Nikkas outside the east ain't care about nas like that before iww..

 

[THE 101]

It Was Written is great.

Illmatic is otherworldly.

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

I know a lot of people that feel the same way, usually its the ones who became Nas fans because of IWW and actually heard that album before they heard Illmatic.

 

[JoelB]

No

I feel there is too much revisionism in hip-hop. Illmatic been called the GOAT so long that it becomes cooler to pick something else over it.

 

[Digga38]

there not lying.

 

[Da Jungles]

No

I feel there is too much revisionism in hip-hop. Illmatic been called the GOAT so long that it becomes cooler to pick something else over it.

Maybe, but

We're on the internet so you actually get a bigger sample size of opinions.

It's not just from ya homies from down the block or that bytch you catch the bus/train to go see after watching a double header on NBC Saturday mornings

 

[Avion]

they're not lying.