Nas on IWW is GOAT MC

[NegMawon]

The only people that was hating on IWW was dumbazz backpackers with their pretentious azz opinions on what real hip hop was these smart dumb fukks tried to box Nas in a category like noooooooo he can't be rappin bout Mafioso shyt meanwhile those same smart dumb nikkaz was lovin OB4CL .. I never understood the hate

 

[homiedontplaydat]

Technically maybe.

But as far a COMPLETE piece of work from both a musical and lyrical standpoint

LIFE IS GOOD>IWW

 

[HendriX]

LIG is a 5 mic classic..and of course Nas gonna sound more mature and introspective..16 years of life experience since that album.

But as an MC.. IWW is MC perfection.

I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret
I rock a vest, prestigious, Cuban link flooded Jesus
In a Lex watching Kathie Lee and Regis
My actions are one with the seasons
A Tec squeezing executioner, winter time I rock a fur
Mega popular, center of attraction
Climaxing, my bytches they be laughin'
They high from sniffing coke off a twenty-cent Andrew Jackson
City lights spark a New York night
Rossi and Martini sippin, Sergio Tacchini flipping mad pies
Low price, I blow dice and throw 'em
Forty-five by my scrotum, manifest the "Do or Die" slogan
My nikkas roll in ten M3's
Twenty Gods popping wheelies on Kawasaki's
Hip hop's got me on some ol', spraying shots like a drumroll
Blanking out and never miscount the shells my gun hold
I don't stunt, I regulate
Henny and Sprite, I separate, watching crab nikkas marinate
I'm all about tecs and good jooks and sex
Israelite books, holding government names from Ness
MC's are crawling out, every hole in the slum
You be aight like blood money in a pimp's cum

breh come on now

 

[notorious8562]

IWW is a classic, but Illmatic is just better music to me.

 

[JayBaldacci]

"At times I window watch at the Wynn hotel
Lots of thinking happens in life, will I win or fail?
Mind of a shooter, CFO also
Ethiopian food flown in, it's unlawful
Money is attractive, honey dress strapless
Agent Provocateur underwear: she's classic
Stroll up in the party: titanium black car
Romanian ladies like Casablanca, Casbah
'Cept we in the VIP area, that's ours
You know the real rap gods, typical trap star turned rap star
These old heads got stories, the days they was kings
I pray secret indictments don't take away their dreams
You 16, you could do 20, come home young
Catch 20 years when you 40? Holmes, you're done
What have we become? Rap stars from trap stars
Black gods to Ansars to Sunnis back to goonies
A 360 in the streets real grizzly
Shooters is cold, kid, the old shyt was learning
Student enrollment to focus, yet hooligans roll with
Toasters to pop your medullas off of your shoulders
This ain't the Truman Show; it's the human show
Ask the F.B.I. agent at his cubicle
Chewing on his pencil eraser with intents to erase you
It's U.S.A. against the gangster, where's the love?"

let me play devil's advocate.

 

[HendriX]

"At times I window watch at the Wynn hotel
Lots of thinking happens in life, will I win or fail?
Mind of a shooter, CFO also
Ethiopian food flown in, it's unlawful
Money is attractive, honey dress strapless
Agent Provocateur underwear: she's classic
Stroll up in the party: titanium black car
Romanian ladies like Casablanca, Casbah
'Cept we in the VIP area, that's ours
You know the real rap gods, typical trap star turned rap star
These old heads got stories, the days they was kings
I pray secret indictments don't take away their dreams
You 16, you could do 20, come home young
Catch 20 years when you 40? Holmes, you're done
What have we become? Rap stars from trap stars
Black gods to Ansars to Sunnis back to goonies
A 360 in the streets real grizzly
Shooters is cold, kid, the old shyt was learning
Student enrollment to focus, yet hooligans roll with
Toasters to pop your medullas off of your shoulders
This ain't the Truman Show; it's the human show
Ask the F.B.I. agent at his cubicle
Chewing on his pencil eraser with intents to erase you
It's U.S.A. against the gangster, where's the love?"

let me play devil's advocate.

 

[Adidastar]

We knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about this in Chicago when it hit....

Like hell we didn't.......was waitin for that album ever since he debuted the Escobar flow on The Infamous and then Cuban Links, 4,5,6.......would wait for If I Ruled The World to come on the radio to tape it---could never catch the whole song.....was at the wack ass Congress theater for the show when the tour came to Chi and he brought Common out on stage.

 

[the rhyme king]

soul on ice >>>>>>> it was written lyrically.