First of all, my comment on late posters wasn't directed specifically at you. But you caught feelings.
The fact of the matter is that we've seen a surge of late-to-Nas posters that wanna act like IWW is fantastic and even better than Illmatic, which is laughable. I'm talking about kids (like most posters here) who started listening to rap with Lil Wayne, and wanna stalk me for not thinking IWW is fire
I heard Nas in 97. And I was a teen then. So this isn't some "I've been into Nas since 92" shyt that some posters try to pull (then you find out I was 2 in 1992). I grew up on MC Hammer, Naughty By Nature, Snoop, etc. I don't really count that shyt because when you're a kid, you don't really know what you're listening to. You start paying attention to shyt when you become a teen. Harlem World is the first album I ever
purchased, not the first I ever heard. Given the timeframe, how have I lied at any point?
When I heard IWW, I thought "

Brotha can write really well. The Message is amazing. Shootouts is dope. But the rest?

"
I didn't really see the brilliance of Nas until Nas Is Like came out, but that's another story.