It Was Written -24 year anniversary

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BelowTheMasonDixon said:
I 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. :stopitslime: "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.
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I dont know why I laughed at this shyt
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THE HEAVEST said:
I don’t think you realize how disappointed some Fans where with Nas when this album came out. The funny thing is it turned out to be one of the few albums of that period they never really sounds too dated.
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The same fans who bootlegged his first album, essentially making the style/production of that album obsolete, ironically forcing him to create a different style on It Was Written


Glad Nas said fukk what the media thinks, and dropped another classic :salute:
 
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I was in middle school when it dropped. One of my fond hip-hop memories.
 
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spliz said:
U get a bright feeling when listening to Watch Dem nikkas? That shyt is somber as hell. Lol. Even The Message is dark sounding.
The Message
I Gave You Power
Watch Dem nikkas
Take It In Blood
Affirmative Action
Suspect
Live nikka Rap
The Set Up
Shootouts
Silent Murder

all dark and somber. The brightest track is Street Dreams. Followed by If I Ruled The World. Black Girl Lost is somber sounding as well.
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"Watch Dem nikkas" does not sound dark or somber at all to me neither does "Affirmative Action". When I think of dark sounding and somber, I think of 7 Day Theory, Creepin On Ah Come Up, or E.1999.
 
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Asicz said:
I agree may be they don't mean 'dark' but nocturnal? Like some night time night ride shyt. I get that feel often with IWW, especially on tracks like "Suspect " and "I Gave You Power".
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This.

Yeah, it definitely has a summer night time feel to it, but it's not a dark album at all.
 
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