How would you judge Nas' career without illmatic

[mr. smoke weed]

Some of y'all are still lame as fukk.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

His career would be like Big K.R.I.T., and I'm a fan of Big K.R.I.T.'s career...

 

[mobbinfms]

Great thread.
Obviously Illmatic is the single greatest asset to Nas' career, but it also cast a shadow over everything he's done since.
IWW would have been received in an entirely different way.
What would he have called Stillmatic?

 

[Deltron]

It's Still Written

 

[mobbinfms]

It's Still Written

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

He would be regarded even higher cuz his albums wouldn't be rated on an Illmatic curve

 

[Drip Bayless]

He would move down from the #1 spot in the top 10, to maybe #2 or 3

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Great thread.
Obviously Illmatic is the single greatest asset to Nas' career, but it also cast a shadow over everything he's done since.
IWW would have been received in an entirely different way.
What would he have called Stillmatic?

I think he was gonna name stillmatic NaStalgia or something like that. I could be tripping

 

[Self_Born7]

On Illmatic, I never had a skip a track. It was written was ok, didn't like the production, compared to Illmatic with Large Professor, Pete Rock, Preem, and L.E.S.

 

[Deucage]

He would still share the GOAT title with Pac

 

[Anti-Anime]

Iww is so much better anyway,

I gave you power >>>>>>>>>>>> anything on illmatic

 

[blazn101]

I listen to Nas because of It Was Written.
His flow, lyrics, and story telling was insane..
and it fit the production to me..







Still would be one of the best to do it..

 

[JuvenileHell]

Great thread.
Obviously Illmatic is the single greatest asset to Nas' career, but it also cast a shadow over everything he's done since.
IWW would have been received in an entirely different way.
What would he have called Stillmatic?

It's Still Written?

Seriously though. Nas has legendary features and unreleased tracks and albums outside of Illmatic. He'd still be the GOAT. Illmatic if anything is overkill.

 

[JuvenileHell]

It's Still Written

Dammit, didn't see this reply

 

[JayBaldacci]

what if threads are are usually dumb unless you're talking about non retail versions of albums. what if jay never dropped the annie sample? what if big got arrested down south? what if pac didn't go to the fight? what if rakim didn't like to rap?