Whether Nas was in his personal Top 3 or not, Jay released the song a year and some change after IWW dropped, which renders the whole 'one hot album every ten years line irrelevant.
And how is IWW nota classic?
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Whether Nas was in his personal Top 3 or not, Jay released the song a year and some change after IWW dropped, which renders the whole 'one hot album every ten years line irrelevant.
And how is IWW nota classic?
He never took back that line
Wtf do him releasing a song a year later prove? Illmatic was the reason Nas considered one of the best.
IWW is only being considered a classic because Nas fans deep down know none of his other albums are even respected like that. So they championing this album when in reality it’s a good album that was criticized upon release.
Well, Jay was insinuating Nas fell off. If Nas had fallen off and IWW was so bad, how was he still being argued as Top 3? Rap had changed drastically since Illmatic and no Illmatic wasn't the sole reason why Nas was considered one of the best being that It Was Written was the introduction of Nas to many. Illmatic was still being slept on.
There are a lot of classics that are criticized upon release. It changes nothing. There's a lot about It Was Written that is classic that has absolutely nothing to do with Nas fans. "I Gave You Power" inspired Pac. Foxy's Ill Na Na is heavily influenced by IWW. How many MC's outside of Death Row or Ruthless affiliates had a Dre track? More importantly, a Dre track appearing on an East Coast album in the middle of the East/West media driven feud? It Was Written inspired Lupe's Food & Liquor in 2006, which is a decade after it initially dropped.
MVike28
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HNIC973
R.I.P Bandana P
Closed casket flow, all you nikkas get deaded
They don't give you one single rose while you can smell it
So I pick from my own garden (garden)
fukk a "hip hop journalist"
They don't give you one single rose while you can smell it
So I pick from my own garden (garden)
fukk a "hip hop journalist"
It’s pretty much the truth. Illmatic the only album he got that is a undisputed classic. Nas got a lot of good albums but none other than Illmatic are classic. So this album is getting championed by Nas fans
this nikka a standup comedian. You funny.
FunkDoc1112
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Stop being a fukking fakkit
Why do you think Jay would put himself, Biggie, and Nas in the same convo for a line on a song if he didn't think Nas was THAT dude?
Your brain is smoother than Nas' flow on Watch Dem nikkas
TwatStop being a fukking fakkit
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MVike28
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You got it lol
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
I lived this era. It wasn’t a classic then. Wasn’t called a classic 10 years after release.
MVike28
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nikka I was 16 when IWW came out
That shyt played EVERYWHERE and nikkas loved it
But let’s just agree to disagree
Motherfukker he never said he did because it was popular. He said it because that’s how people felt including him