The Making of Nas' 'It Was Written'

[H.S.]

Dope article...just one gripe. The Trackmasters want us to believe Foxy wrote all her shyt other than the Jayz shyt when her verse on THIS album is OBVIOUSLY written by Nas it even has shout outs for Jungle and Wiz in it

Not that I disagree, but it's not like Foxy didn't know those guys well enough to shout them out.

The E Money Bags shoutout though

 

[head shots101]

Dope article...just one gripe. The Trackmasters want us to believe Foxy wrote all her shyt other than the Jayz shyt when her verse on THIS album is OBVIOUSLY written by Nas it even has shout outs for Jungle and Wiz in it

What's funny I remember in the booklet half of foxy verse had Nas name on top and the other half had foxy name

 

[Not The Ruler O9]

IWW >>>> K-rhino's discograph

 

[jshani]

I feel you. I swear that joint she did with Blackstreet was written by Nas too.

I thought Jay wrote that one...


Single by Foxy Brown featuring Blackstreet
from the album Ill Na Na
Released September 15, 1996[2]
Format 12" single, vinyl, CD single,cassette[2]
Recorded 1996
Genre East Coast hip hop, Rap
Length 3:50
Label Def Jam
Writer(s) Shawn Carter, Ronald Broomfield, Horton[3]
Producer(s) Trackmasters[2]

 

[JustCKing]

IWW was mafioso rap and that type of rap never attracted white people (if it did Kool G Rap would have been known more) the way West Coast Gang banging rap did. Nas/Stoute was clearly trying to branch out but not really to white people. What white person is going to listen to this?

That album definitely wasn't catering or pandering to white people. According to The Trackmasters though, they did do things as to not discourage white America from listening though.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

great read







the pinnacle of subliminal disses

nas hit my nikka hard
They let me let y'all nikkas know one thing.
There's one life, one love, so there can only be one King....



then my nikka came back to crush da buildings
Ain't no other kings in this rap thing
They siblings, nothing but my children
One shot they disappearin'
It's ill when MC's used to be on cruddy shyt
Took home Ready to Die, listened, studied shyt
Now they on some money shyt, successfully outta the blue....

god damn my nikka big murdered him on this shyt....I just got hit by a 20 year old lyrical bomb brehs

shyt got me over here like

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Dope read.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Cant believe method man was sposed to be on this album and just didnt come to th session

 

[head shots101]

Cant believe method man was sposed to be on this album and just didnt come to th session

That was in the article? Must've missed that part

 

[head shots101]

Cant believe method man was sposed to be on this album and just didnt come to th session

That was in the article? Must've missed that part

 

[ZEB WALTON]

That was in the article? Must've missed that part

Na it wasnt just adding my 2 cents. A nas meth collabo woulda been fire in 96. Just mad meth didnt show up

 

[GhostMan]

I thought Jay wrote that one...


Single by Foxy Brown featuring Blackstreet
from the album Ill Na Na
Released September 15, 1996[2]
Format 12" single, vinyl, CD single,cassette[2]
Recorded 1996
Genre East Coast hip hop, Rap
Length 3:50
Label Def Jam
Writer(s) Shawn Carter, Ronald Broomfield, Horton[3]
Producer(s) Trackmasters[2]

He was doing his best Nas impression.

 

[UserNameless]

really really good read.

 

[Piff Perkins]

This is one of the those things where being there helps you understand. IWW was designed to reach a wider audience sure. That inevitably included white people. But white people were the he ones that backed away from Nas the most at the time %-wise. The ghetto griot aura the press and they attributed through only half listening to Illmatic was challenged. He picked up fans of all races at the time but his core shifted black % wise. He lost some true boom bap black fans, but it was the press (mostly white) and white peoples calling him a sell out. Everyone else was rocking the message like gospel.

Until recently and even now, it has always been black people and women who determined hip hop hits. White people resist what they make popular and then eventually claim they were down the whole time. It's funny to remember how hated Jay-Z was during Vol. 2 by so many white people but now in retrospect seems like pandering to white people when it's really trying just to make hip hop hits. See also: BIG, Dipset, etc.

Dunno about that, a lot of black hip hop heads were disappointed in IWW. The Complex mag article even points out Q-Tip told the Trackmasters they were fukking up Nas' career. That being said the streets fukked with IWW. A lot of "real hip hop" fans were disappointed though, hence the "Nas sold out/Nas only has one good album" shyt that existed until Stillmatic came out. Not saying most or everyone thought that, but that's what a lot of hip hop heads were saying.

 

[shawntitan]

I think it's when he spit this line:

Sosa these nikkas hit the God bring the toaster
Meet me in the Bridge I'm bout to go loca

Loca is the feminine version of loco. Because he is a man he should have said "loco" but it sounds ill to use loca there.

I always thought it was the "get they fingers on the dosa" line...