Throwdown Tuesdays: AZ "Sugar Hill" vs Nas "If I Ruled The World"

[Monoblock]

Sugar Hill for me.

 

[Wacky D]

Sugar Hill for me. I had the maxi single when it dropped in 95 and it had 3 versions of sugar hill and 2 versions of Rather Unique. I jammed that so many times.

I honestly didn't like IIRTW when it dropped

i never could get into "if i ruled the world" either.

i think the main reasons being that he sampled 2 hip-hop classics, and his song wasn't as good as either of em. plus, i was already tired of the fugees by that point.

kurtis blow's "if i ruled the world" >>>>
whodini's friends >>>>>>

 

[Knights89]

Love both records but Sugar Hill for me

 

[DontEemTry]

Sugar Hill all day. Not even close for me.

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

Sugar Hill is too smooth, AZ's flow was like water on the beat

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

sugar hill

 

[Jack Trippa 3z company ho]

i never could get into "if i ruled the world" either.

i think the main reasons being that he sampled 2 hip-hop classics, and his song wasn't as good as either of em. plus, i was already tired of the fugees by that point.

kurtis blow's "if i ruled the world" >>>>
whodini's friends >>>>>>

Exactly, maybe if I hadn't heard the OG songs I would have liked it a little better. I didn't like the fugues either, killing me softly was so played out and Clef really annoyed me with his ad-libs always he was forcing his "one-time" accent and seemed phony...so I already went into IIRTW skeptical.

Whodini's Friends is such a legendary track to me and at that time it just seemed cheap and easy to blow up a track with that sample. But that was really starting to happen around then with Bad Boy and some others.

 

[RalphKramden]

CANT COMPARE 2 CLASSiCS.. IMMA SiT THiS ONE OUT AND JUST SAY i ENJOY THEM BOTH

 

[Wacky D]

Exactly, maybe if I hadn't heard the OG songs I would have liked it a little better. I didn't like the fugues either, killing me softly was so played out and Clef really annoyed me with his ad-libs always he was forcing his "one-time" accent and seemed phony...so I already went into IIRTW skeptical.

Whodini's Friends is such a legendary track to me and at that time it just seemed cheap and easy to blow up a track with that sample. But that was really starting to happen around then with Bad Boy and some others.

THIS

 

[boskey]

If I Ruled The World by a mile for me. Miss Jones voice is not touching Lauryn Hill's

 

[Boogie]

Nas and AZ

 

[Newark88]

If I Rule The World is dope but Sugar Hill was the hustler's anthem when it dropped

 

[Farrinto]

.to me thats the only blemish on an otherwise great album in It Was Written

You're telling me it's worse than Black Girl Lost?

 

[Wiles]

Ryu beats ken

 

[Art Barr]

00000000000000000000000000000022How are you going to do this thread and not give the history of these two records and the features.
Plus why one got a pass and the other did not.
Forcing them to create an entire new fan base via MTV.
Using the prison industrial over saturation model.
started with naughty's everything is gonna be alright video schedule template to a new audience erroneously.


Art barr