Favorite track off Nas'- "It Was Written"(Poll & Discussion)

[Urbanmiracle]

I gotta pick only one?

Street Dreams jumps out but then Suspect is also my favorite. Then Take it in Blood... Watch Dem nikkas, Black Girl Lost. There too much to pick one for me.

 

[RAW_SPK]

Street Dreams/Watch Dem nikkas/Take It In Blood/Silent Murder

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

"Fake thug, no love, you get the slug, CB4 Gusto
Your luck low, I didn't know til I was drunk though
You freak nikkas played out, get fukked and ate out
Prostitute turned bytch, I got the gauge out
96 ways I made out, Montana way
The Good-F-E-L-L-A, verbal AK spray
Dipped attache, jumped out the Range, empty out the ashtray
A glass of 'ze make a man Cassius Clay
Red dot plots, murder schemes, thirty-two shotguns
Regulate wit my Dunn's, 17 rocks gleam from one ring
Yo let me let y'all nikkas know one thing
There's one life, one love, so there can only be one King"

when I first heard that shyt i literally had the face...

I bought the album off the strength of that one song .



And then he ended off the song with a cinematic verse

I peeped you frontin'
I was in the Jeep sunk in the seat
Tinted with heat, beats bumpin'
Across the street you was wilding
Talkin' bout how you ran the Island in '89
Laying up, playin' the yard with crazy shine
I cocked a baby 9,that nikka gravy mine
Clanked him
What was he thinkin' on my corner when it's pay me time?
Dug 'em, you owe me cousin something told me plug him
So dumb, felt my leg burn then it got numb
Spun around and shot one
Heard shots and dropped son
Caught a hot one, somebody take this biscuit 'fore the cops come
Then they came asking me my name, what the fukk
I got stitched up and went through
Left the hospital that same night, what
Got my gat back, time to backtrack
I had the drop so how the fukk I get clapped
Black was in the Jeep, watching all these scenes speed by
It was a brown Datsun,and yo nobody in my hood got one
That clown nikka's through,blazin' at his crew daily
The Bridge touched me up severely, hear me
So when I rhyme it's sincerely yours
Be lightin' L's sipping Coors on all floors in project halls
Contemplatin' war nikkas I was cool with before
We used to score together, Uptown copping the raw
But a, a thug changes and love changes
And best friends become strangers, word up








I voted for the message but tbh "I gave you power" is the masterpiece song on the album (and best believe I love that song too)

 

[semtex]

Take It In Blood was always my fave Reminds me of my first time traveling across seas (that's when I discovered this song)

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

What's wrong with "Live nikka Rap"?

not a damn thing. got it playing right now

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I said it before on this forum, but when I was in Grad school, I wrote a 22 page paper about the metaphorical significance of this song.

I could go on and on about the symbolism of that song

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Take It In Blood for me
also brehs can we acknowledge The Set Up as one of the greatest storytelling tracks ever


Suspect

"his moms had a stare I wouldn't dare second look"


Live nikka Rap....
1996 Prodigy destroying every beat he touched

It would be if I gave power didn't make an appearance on that same album




shyt is crazy how he crafts straight up short stories


When nas goes in story mode he'll give you a setting, some characters, a plot, conflict, climax, and a conclusion all wrapped up creative rhyme patterns

 

[rogueguy]

Had to give it to Watch Dem nikkas. The perfect Nasir track. The smooth production, the slick flow, the storytelling

I Gave You Power is second for me. I wrote a paper on the layers of it last year and got an A

 

[Apollo Creed]

I gave you power

 

[ManBearPig]

Currency is made in trust of the Messiah
I'm spending it to get higher
Earth, Wind, and Fire singing reasons why I'm
Up early, trustworthy is a nine that bust early
Sunshine on my grill, I spill
Remi on imaginary graves, put my hat on my waves
Latter Day Saints say religious praise
I dolo, challenge any team or solo
You must be bugging out, new to my shyt, home on a furlough

 

[Deucage]

I'm surprised at the top picks for both the Illmatic and IWW threads. Expected If I Ruled the World, but The Coli says otherwise. Wonder what the top pick will be for I Am

 

[CASHAPP]

I'm surprised at the top picks for both the Illmatic and IWW threads. Expected If I Ruled the World, but The Coli says otherwise. Wonder what the top pick will be for I Am

breh there is like 5 good songs on IAM

 

[Deucage]

breh there is like 5 good songs on IAM

I was gonna mention that if I were to make the thread. Maybe I should skip to Stillmatic.

 

[ML29]

Take it In blood was some moment in time shyt we I first heard it. Straight

 

[CASHAPP]

I was gonna mention that if I were to make the thread. Maybe I should skip to Stillmatic.

Im trying to imagine people choosing songs like "Big Girl" and "Dr knockboots" as their favorite tracks