Isn't It Weird How Illmatic Is Nas LEAST Personal Album?

[bogey_j]

listening to illmatic for the first time in a while.. I was struck by how impersonal it was. illmatic is pure emceeing at its best and nas paints a gritty picture of queensbridge (and by extension nyc as a whole). the dopeheads, the ends, the corrupted youth, the actions & consequences, etc. but nas rarely ever gets personal. he doesn't really put himself out there, he's just speaking on the things he's seen growing up in such a hectic environment

my favorite nas album isn't even a real album at all, more of a compilation (lost tapes). thats the real nas behind the young, cocky braggadocio rhymes

 

[Yoda]

yall need to move on from the 90s

 

[Nomad1]

I still believe IWW>>>Illmatic

 

[Eoin]

name me a personal album from 93?

 

[Big Mel]

lol at "the ends"

 

[mitter]

The first album is rarely the most personal. Later on, once they start running out of things to talk about, rappers usually go more in depth

 

[mortuus est]

like most rappers from the 90's, i noticed this whilst listening to A.G on the goodfellas album

 

[intilectual recipricol]

listening to illmatic for the first time in a while.. I was struck by how impersonal it was. illmatic is pure emceeing at its best and nas paints a gritty picture of queensbridge (and by extension nyc as a whole). the dopeheads, the ends, the corrupted youth, the actions & consequences, etc. but nas rarely ever gets personal. he doesn't really put himself out there, he's just speaking on the things he's seen growing up in such a hectic environment

my favorite nas album isn't even a real album at all, more of a compilation (lost tapes). thats the real nas behind the young, cocky braggadocio rhymes

"i aint the one to be tessin, my smith and wessin be havin nikkaz undressin" is emceeing at its best? Yall nikkaz are easily impressed.

its naS worst album lyrically...

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I would say IWW was even less personal. Illmatic was at least about the world he lived in, IWW was like Donnie Brasco on angel dust

 

[The_Third_Man]

"one love" and "world is yours" were personal to me

 

[FreshAIG]

Life's A bytch, The World is Yours, Memory Lane, One Love, Represent, etc...were all extremely personal

 

[mobbinfms]

listening to illmatic for the first time in a while.. I was struck by how impersonal it was. illmatic is pure emceeing at its best and nas paints a gritty picture of queensbridge (and by extension nyc as a whole). the dopeheads, the ends, the corrupted youth, the actions & consequences, etc. but nas rarely ever gets personal. he doesn't really put himself out there, he's just speaking on the things he's seen growing up in such a hectic environment

my favorite nas album isn't even a real album at all, more of a compilation (lost tapes). thats the real nas behind the young, cocky braggadocio rhymes

Sounds personal to me.

 

[Ziggiy]

It Was Written is his least personal.

One Love is personal as hell. Also Represent, The World Is Yours and Memory Lane.

Matter of Fact this thread is borderline trolling

 

[filial_piety]

"one love" and "world is yours" were personal to me

Throw in memory lane and represent as well