Rakim Allah
Superstar
I like the Seventh Seal a lot and feel the rhyming aspect of the album is better than Life is Good but overall Life Is Good is a better album than The Seventh Seal. Nothing on Life Is Good is funkin with Holy Are You though
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Elite Eiht: Rakim vs. Nas
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ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
Life is Good= 81 Metacritic score and sold 380,000 copies
The Seventh Seal= 59 Metacritic score and sold 30,000
like it or not, your opinon on this is pretty irrelevant since everything indicates that Life is Good is the better album other than Rakim stans and Nas haters.
I like the Seventh Seal a lot and feel the rhyming aspect of the album is better than Life is Good but overall Life Is Good is a better album than The Seventh Seal. Nothing on Life Is Good is funkin with Holy Are You though
Cool man, I personally disagree, I liked Life Is Good a lot, I just think Seventh Seal is like 4.5 mics or higher, Life Is Good might be 4 to me. Daughters was classic, and Nas had some other excellent joints too, but the Ra albums highlights are VERY high, I play the album A LOT.
I really couldn't give a fukk about Metacritic, it means nothing in Hip Hop, even quoting that shyt is kind of ridiculous to me. And sales in this context is also a nonsensical argument if you have understanding of how shyt works, the positions weren't equal at all.
My opinion is never irrelevant due to who I am, everything I say is credible. Will it make a change to anything? No, and I'm not intending it to, just expressing MY opinion as an expert in this shyt.
Well the latter points highlights the incorrectness of your overall statement, I'm not a stan of any artist for 1, secondly a Nas hater? How so? Lol. Nas is in my top 4, I voted him in this poll and I have him above Rakim. Makes no sense..
Rakim is the best MC but Nas made better music, so I edge it to Nas.
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
Nas >>>
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
i downloaded Seventh Seal before i knew what Metacritic was, That shyt wasn't all that outside a few songs. Everybody feel the same type of way outside super die hard Rakim fans.
just face it. nas is just da best
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
Ok, I'm not saying you have to like the album lol. I'm just stating my own personal opinion, I thought it was great. Nah, not everybody feels that way, in real life everyone I know fukked with the album heavy, only on the internet I see it disliked, cause most people are brainwashed here and judge off shyt that has nothing to do with the music.
I'm not facing anything, because it's opinions. I've already said I voted Nas in this poll and stated my reasons, but it doesn't mean I can't objectively critique the 2 albums and I thought Rakim's was better on this occasion.
Metacritic got nothing to do with Hip Hop, most real Hip Hop heads don't even go on that shyt, or no it exists, I don't remember ever being on it.
Absolutely, same with me, only time I've ever heard about that shyt. And am deeply and have been for over a decade involved with Hip Hop personally and professionally. I know a lot of true real Hip Hop heads and I can almost guarantee 99 percent of them if I ask them about that shyt would have no idea what I'm talking about.
Also when we talk about plants and shyt, don't think they not flooding and manipulating that shyt, cause they 100 percent are. Then we get fools on here talking about "critical acclaim". That shyt is easily manipulated, dudes with no lives can form a team and create a multitude of accounts and just rate shyt 100 or 10 or 5 mics or whatever the score system is.
Edit: Obviously personally much longer, but professionally over a decade, but never heard of that shyt till here.
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JayBaldacci
All Star
7th seal is a generous 3 mic album. A lot of bad singing hooks and synthy beats, and bad mixing.