No Jay album is better than Illmatic. Reasonable Doubt and IWW is about even but I lean more towards It Was Written. So true 
True Or False...Jay’s Best Album Isn’t Better Than Nas’s Second Best Album
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Jay career > nas career
Jay is on tour with his wife get alot of millions
Nas is on IG crying to kelis
I love the Nasir aka the God son , i dnt wanna disrespect him so plz stop makin stupid thread like this
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Jay career > nas career
Jay is on tour with his wife get alot of millions
Nas is on IG crying to kelis
I love the Nasir aka the God son , i dnt wanna disrespect him so plz stop makin stupid thread like this
/thread
Lord Mecca
Eyes May Shine
True. I love Reasonable Doubt and all but Reasonable Doubt is not better than It Was Written. I consider Reasonable Doubt a classic... but It Was Written is a notch up overall.
I'm a fan of both Jay and Nas but just being real. That N.I.G.G.E.R/Untitled album is stellar and was the genesis of most of these conscious rap albums making waves now and I Am is dope as fukk and only started getting severely shytted on after Jay told sheep that it was wack.
Jay has more duds in his catalog than Nas. Almost half his albums are mediocre or straight trash.
Metal Face
Superstar
Jay has multiple albums better than everything not named Illmatic or Lost Tapes.
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
Some nikkas really putting RD's OB4CL knockoff @zz over Illmatic
Illmatic, IWW and Lost Tapes are better than anything in Jays catalog.
IWW was closer to an OB4CL knockoff than RD was....
OB4CL >>> Illmatic, for the record.
iHiphop86
Highly Effective Educator.
Fitting that you didn’t create a poll.
fukking loser
fukking loser
Reasonable Doubt is Jay's version of Cuban Linx and Esco era Nas. Before Linx dropped, Jay was still rhyming like Fu-Shnick:
^^^^ That's late 94.
In 95 Linx dropped and on that album Nas Esobar debuted.
In 96 Jay dropped a dope album that was his rendition of what Ghost, Rae and Nas was doing. And NOBODY was calling it classic until Jay told nikkas it was classic.
Production wise you got an argument, rapping wise HELL NO. AND OB4CL one of my favorites.
Production wise...Linx is far better.
Rapping wise...neck and neck. Could go either way.
All around? Linx is better. Top 2 or 3 Hip Hop albums ever.
Only verse thats neck and neck with Illmatic on OB4CL is the Nas verse lol
wingstop
Superstar
#thecoli
nikka please. Lol.
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
That's not the point I'm making, nor am I disputing what you've posted.
Jay did switch his style on RD, and was influenced by Nas' pen game (as many were), but thematically-speaking, IWW is more adherent to the mafioso theme than RD is. RD has sprinkles of mafioso shyt but IWW is largely based on it with sprinkles of other stuff. In that regard, IWW is closer to OB4CL thematically...not to mention the Nas Escobar and Wu Gambinos dynamic.
G Rap shouldn't be forgotten in all this, being an influence on Jay and especially Nas and coming out with Live & Let Die in 1992.
I'm not talking about whether RD is classic or not either, or whether Jay has brainwashed the masses into thinking so. IWW's classic status is certainly up for debate too, and I think RD is a better album.