Yea but it doesn’t sound as dark. IWW is gritty and gets labeled as polished and shiny. It’s such a wrong description of that album.
You a weirdo brehI didn't even hear this album until I heard stillmatic, maybe a year after. same is I didn't hear reasonable doubt till like 2 years after vol 1. and my consensus since then is always the same. Rappers might get better over time. But there first joint tells you more about them than anything afterwards. True story one of my best homies had an attempt murder charge on his wife, and was in jail and sent me a letter. so I wrote him back. trying to be all cute and shyt/but just showing him you my nikka and i understand while some things arent humerous, even fukked up shyt can be funny. told him "I left a half a hundred in ya commissary" knowing he would get the reference. This nikka wrote back."nikka why you ain't leave the entire hundred" lol. Yeah I fukked up. I guess its not too much shyt funny when you in prison.
This album is a production masterpiece a audio cinema from beats to engineering.But but but nAS rApS oVeR wAcK bEaTz
U get a bright feeling when listening to Watch Dem nikkas? That shyt is somber as hell. Lol. Even The Message is dark sounding.
That line carried me thru high school. Lol"I got no game it's just some bytches understand my story "
Listening to this song right now, and was coming in to post this line"I got no game it's just some bytches understand my story "
where they would play top 10 local, top 10 African songs, and top US/Europe stuff and not even the full song.
. So one day I was watching with my cousin, and then boom, they played If I ruled the world, I was like who is this guy on the bus
. I knew Lauryn Hill because of Fugees the score album was huge. NAS also had a song with NTM, which is one of the most legendary French Hip-Hop groups, and they released a video for Affirmative ActionMan, I was hooked. Later that year, we got cable 
so I was exposed to Street dreams with the pink suit I was in middle school, so I was not balling,could not afford to buy the album, and a CD was like a quarter of my mom's salary
and no way my dad would but that for me. Real CDs used to cost like $50, that was like 2 weeks of food
. I knew some stores where I could get tapes for like $2, so that's how I got It Was Written.
I played that album crazy, even got my hair cut like the CD cover
Who do you feel like shyts on IWW? Most ppl I know feel like, at worst, its Nas' 2nd best album.
Critics. And the media. They been carrying around this impression that Illmatic is Nas’ only album worth a damn really. shyt even when Nas does interviews. He only gets asked about Illmatic unless he’s promoting a specific album. I know this nikka tired as fukk of telling the same ass stories over and over again about the creating of that album.
