Let's actually have a hip-hop conversation for once... Does anybody else have "IWW > Illmatic"?

[Mr. Negative]

I bought IllMatic when it dropped.

I much prefer IWW. At the time, Illmatic sounded too...... "traditional" for me. I still listened to it 2 or 3 times a day and knew it word for word a few weeks after I got it, though.

I really just wasn't mentally prepared to actually absorb what I was hearing. Not saying Nas was spitting these super complex lyrical spiritual clerical miracle raps or anything. It's just very bare bones and slice of life. It's not a very..... aggressive album.

At the time, I was only absorbing anger, stuff I could relate to sonically and or/escapism when it came to rap. I still listened to EVERYTHING. But my ranking criteria was different. Mentally, I was too.... young and inexperienced to grasp it. I didn't get what the album was trying to accomplish and it went over my head in a lot of ways.

Favorite Albums of 1994 (that I actually listened to that year):

SouthernPlayalistic
Thug Life vol 1
Regulate
Dare Iz A Darkside
We Come Strapped
Rappin' 4Tay's Don't Fight The Feeling (lmaooo)
Spice 1's Amerikkka's most
Ill Al Skratch's Creep With Me

note: the above list isn't in any particular order. I'm just grabbing them off a 1994 rap list as I see them.

 

[pointproven214]

[Verse 2]
Currency has made us trust in the Messiah
I'm spending it to get higher
Earth, Wind and Fire singing reasons why I'm
Up early, trustworthy is a nine that bust early
Sunshine on my grill, I spill Remy on imaginary graves
Put my hat on my waves, latter Day Saints say religious praise
I dolo, challenge any team or solo
You must be bugging out, new to my shyt, home on a furlough
Ask around who's laid up, sharp and straight up
Mafioso, getting nikkas' wakes sprayed up
Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
I'll one day walk into shots drunk off champagne from Sicily
This be the drama, I'mma pause like a comma
In a sentence, paragraph's indented
Bloodshot red eyes high, yellow envelopes of lye
Opening cigars let tobacco fly
Condos are tune-proof, we're looking out the sky's moonroof
shytting like gin and prune juice
Yo the system wants the c00n's noose, hang 'em high
Courtrooms filled up, it's off the hook while I
Just wrote a statement, like I'm facing twenty years
In the basement, chilling on the VI with Mumia
For wearing chrome, I told the judge snakes slither
Like Sharon Stone but like Capone I'm thrown, yo

he spit the same 5 syllable multi syllable rhyme pattern for 24 bars
while still making perfect sense for 24 bars

nas >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[BrothaZay]

YES
and Shootouts is Nas best song

 

[pointproven214]

No.

i was challenging anybody to that breh !!!!!!!!! smh

 

[FreshAIG]

What you skip? I can't STAND "Nas is coming" and "watch them nikkas"

Lol Nas is coming is alwaaaaays skipped.

I love Watch Dem nikkas but only because of Nas lyricism.

I usually skip If I Ruled The World, Nas is Coming and Black Girl Lost.

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

What you skip? I can't STAND "Nas is coming" and "watch them nikkas"

Nas is coming fukked up the whole atmosphere of the album IMO , shyt was unnecessary , he could have just used "Silent Murder" which was on the cassett version and replaced it with that instead ...

 

[FreshAIG]

Nas is coming fukked up the whole atmosphere of the album IMO , shyt was unnecessary , he could have just used "Silent Murder" which was on the cassett version and replaced it with that instead ...

Man that song is so terrible. Lol

 

[the cac mamba]

if u want to be technical technically nas was spitting better rhyme schemes and all that technically speaking .

 

[the cac mamba]

[Verse 2]
Currency has made us trust in the Messiah
I'm spending it to get higher
Earth, Wind and Fire singing reasons why I'm
Up early, trustworthy is a nine that bust early
Sunshine on my grill, I spill Remy on imaginary graves
Put my hat on my waves, latter Day Saints say religious praise
I dolo, challenge any team or solo
You must be bugging out, new to my shyt, home on a furlough
Ask around who's laid up, sharp and straight up
Mafioso, getting nikkas' wakes sprayed up
Skies are misty, my life's predicted by a gypsy
I'll one day walk into shots drunk off champagne from Sicily
This be the drama, I'mma pause like a comma
In a sentence, paragraph's indented
Bloodshot red eyes high, yellow envelopes of lye
Opening cigars let tobacco fly
Condos are tune-proof, we're looking out the sky's moonroof
shytting like gin and prune juice
Yo the system wants the c00n's noose, hang 'em high
Courtrooms filled up, it's off the hook while I
Just wrote a statement, like I'm facing twenty years
In the basement, chilling on the VI with Mumia
For wearing chrome, I told the judge snakes slither
Like Sharon Stone but like Capone I'm thrown, yo

he spit the same 5 syllable multi syllable rhyme pattern for 24 bars
while still making perfect sense for 24 bars

nas >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

5 syllables

this is all wrong

 

[RichYung]

Nas is coming fukked up the whole atmosphere of the album IMO , shyt was unnecessary , he could have just used "Silent Murder" which was on the cassett version and replaced it with that instead ...

ThenDr. Dre is sounding soooooo corny talking and shyt. I don't think I've sat through that song since I was young and riding around with my brother. It's awful

 

[the cac mamba]

What you skip? I can't STAND "Nas is coming" and "watch them nikkas"

thats crazy to me, you didnt like that song

that beat is the hook was wack it shoulda been him or just the beat

you really dont like this? each their own

 

[RichYung]

Lol Nas is coming is alwaaaaays skipped.

I love Watch Dem nikkas but only because of Nas lyricism.

I usually skip If I Ruled The World, Nas is Coming and Black Girl Lost.

Oh damn. I don't listen to "if I ruled the world" forgot about that. "Black Girl Lost" is better to me now because of the IG hoes I deal with everyday.

 

[RichYung]

"Live nikka Rap" one of my favorite verses from Prodigy.

 

[Asicz]

"Suspect" goes so hard.

It was a murder..

 

[mson]

I don't have a problem with Nas is coming

Jungle likes IWW better. But that's neither here nor there.

This conversation has been had on here 38373636 times. What u mean "for once"?

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