Farrinto
Who's the best MCs? Biggie, Jay-Z, and Nas
I Am... vs. Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter
Nas my goat but Vol 3 is really slept on to me. Dope man is a very underrated jayz song. There's been a murder also.
Hova song intro and outro beats are piff.
Jay was flowing something serious.
"I remove the roof nikka let the sunshine in/
32 waist without the gun I'm thin/But when the gat is tucked I'm fat as fukk"
Gotta go with vol 3
Hova song intro and outro beats are piff.
Jay was flowing something serious.
"I remove the roof nikka let the sunshine in/
32 waist without the gun I'm thin/But when the gat is tucked I'm fat as fukk"
Gotta go with vol 3
FloorGeneral
I don't even know anymore...
One has 'Undying Love' on it, the other one doesn't. So that makes my decision for me.
wingstop
Superstar
Both are average albums but I think I am is a little better. Its close though
I am
Crazy how Vol.3 has the better intro (Hova Song) while I Am has the better Outro (Undying Love)
Rolling with The GOAT based on NYSOM 2 and Small World. I bump those joints DAILY, not to mention Nas Is Like, Hate Me Now, and We Will Survive
Rolling with The GOAT based on NYSOM 2 and Small World. I bump those joints DAILY, not to mention Nas Is Like, Hate Me Now, and We Will Survive
OfTheCross
Veteran
Vol. 3 is my favorite Jay album so he wins
HustlerOfVirginiA
All Star
The hustler of virginia wins this one again
Vol 3 was Jay at his lyrical apex , only if the production was more cohesive it would have been more revered
Vol.3
What makes it his lyrical apex?
He blacced on damn near every track , even on some that wasn't even necessary to blacc on like "Things That You Do"
You know the flow sicka, know Jigga, mo' sicka now right
You know what me and Swizz's shyt sound like
Crazed and demonic, uh without blazin chronic
Product of Reaganomics
You know that motherfukkin stoop raised me
Ringin in da hoops but I was too lazy
School made me sick, teachers said I was too crazy
Low and behold, it's the new and improved Jay-Z
Let me explain this to you baby
I spent nights out, days in
nikkaz was blazing, twelve noon where I was raised in
I felt caged in but kept roaming
Prayed for the Day of Atonement
Married to the streets no date of annulment
It seems every time it comes up
They postpone it
So I kept my chrome at the waist
Waiting for the omen
Savoring the moment and now you know
The reason that I flow the way I flow baby
You know I move like an ounce
Bottled up like crack
That's how I make you bounce like that
Defy Webster's words they can't pronounce like that
That's why no other rapper got a sound like that
Trap, trap of my life
Flashback, kill nikkaz
Rap skills unmatched, Jigga man baby
I can't entertain it sometimes I can't explain it
God given, gifts of a soul for hard living
Far be it from me to question Allah's wisdom
Could've been lost in the system
Instead I'm involved with the rhythm
I dodged prison, came out unscathed from car collisions
I know I must be part of some mission
shyt I used take it for granted
Why they placed me on this planet
I would ask myself while writin raps to myself
But right there under my nose
Was the flow of all flows
Not a demon but a rose in the cement, come on
After this album , Jay started to get lazy , not enough to diminish his content but enough to say you can tell he's getting comfortable now
wingstop
Superstar
I love that song, no idea why I see it getting so much hate on thecoli.
But I don't believe it's his lyrical apex, he was spitting on each of his previous albums on a level on par with this and American Gangster easily matches it imo.
"I'm from the 80's,
Home of the heroine,
Error of the hustlers, uh
The world is my custy
New rich porter
The way I flip quarters
Front on all these other rap artists, but me
Momma was a mink wearer, Papa ran numbers
So it's plain to see, where my whole plan come from
American dream, I'm living the life still
The way I shine is like a zillion dollar light bill
Still I'm grinding, army jacket lining
40 below timbs on, getting my M's on
My best friends gone, I seen bad days
Still find songs that I hear him on
Getting my Mary J. Blige Reminisce on
I hear his voice in my mind, like, nikka live on
So I get on that fly shyt I been on
Spin on corners in enzo with rims on
But for info, puffin on Endo-Nesia
Give me amnesia
I ease up, that right, I'm high nikka
I want the sky,
The world when I'm done
I'm give it to my sons
Let 'em live it up, split it up, switch it up,
Sixes kit it up, man I did it up, done
The rest of my belongings belong in the hall of fame, a list of hits next to all my names
I came, if the sky should fall
And it all goes tomorrow, and they foreclose on the house and auction off all my cars
Don't cry for me Argentina, I mobbed the beamer
Took trips abroad, got mobbed in Sardina
In Ibiza I had pizza in the club
Ladies know I'm that guy, they wanna piece of my love
Now they wanna ya boy like Mike in his prime
Billie Jean the goddamn boy ain't mine
And the Roc break up, had the people losing hope
Can't lie they had Muhammad Hovi on the ropes
Now I'm back in the go mode, back in the go-go's
Throwing the diamond up, repping the logo
Rose gold rose flow, I'm okay though
What Don't kill me makes stronger than before so
Here we go and I'm not domino
When it all falls down, I'm like Kanye's jaw
I might break but I don't fold, till I hold the sky in my hand
Yeah that's my goal
And then I bid you Freddy Adu
Prodigal Child, y'all not ready for the future
Then I disappear in the Bermuda Triangle
My name will be viewed such
Here's to the man that refused to give up
I want the sky nikka, Chuuuuuuch"
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Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
I Am is actually the first Nas album i bought and experienced when it was new...
Vol. 3 is the 3rd Jay album i experienced...
I Am is easily my pick. It has some of his best records... A couple missteps but overall its a very strong record and he had a lot to say during this time.
Vol. 3 has one of my most hated Jigga songs on it(things you do feat. mariah) and more than a few songs that are just good but not great. this album birthed the "he's alright but he's not real" line and the classic "seen the same shyt happen to Kane"...the album itself is just ok. I cant say its any better or worse than Vol. 2 though its def not as cohesive as 2.
Vol. 3 is the 3rd Jay album i experienced...
I Am is easily my pick. It has some of his best records... A couple missteps but overall its a very strong record and he had a lot to say during this time.
Vol. 3 has one of my most hated Jigga songs on it(things you do feat. mariah) and more than a few songs that are just good but not great. this album birthed the "he's alright but he's not real" line and the classic "seen the same shyt happen to Kane"...the album itself is just ok. I cant say its any better or worse than Vol. 2 though its def not as cohesive as 2.
