Method man in his prime was a better rapper then nas

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Yes he was. Metha only comp was biggie and coulda been the next kony if he out hinself out there like that. But instead he let ghost take his spot

And meth and red always been neck n neck. The narrative that reds better than meth is a myth. Meth waa always more popular and meth on shadowboxin was a top 3 mc during that era


Meth's overall talent was eclipsed in overall talent in rap by only Redman and Redman alone.
Before and after red ramped.
In the styles war and after in the technical revolution.
In the styles era red was the best actual emcee not named krs one.
the only guy who potentially could see red going super saiyan was common sense as a solo artist. As common was the hardest working solo artist in rap in the styles era.
Yet for how many holy shyt remix moments common had,...
Red's
tonite's the nite remix.
Is the crown jewel of the styles era skillwise.
While the original is the magnum opus instrumental of the style era and arguably the totality of all rap arguably.
the super saiyan skill that no one has really touched for real is red on the remix to tonite's the night.
Common could see red in that styles era skill set with breaker 1/9, can I bust and of course soul by the pound the remix.
Of which soul by the pound the original and zhigge rakin in the doughb uptown bounce remix are probably the hardest hitting in that sonic landscape and era.
Plus arguably the entire history of rap as well.

Red was better than meth in the styles era and better than meth in the technical skill era as well.
Red was arguably pound for pound the best in the styles era and pound for pound the best in the technical revolution era as well.
As he was an original and up's and surpassed ksolo.
As ksolos who will self admit it if you ever meet him.
When ksolo is still the best lone feature.
to ever appear on a rap record and the guy who set the precedent.
Of you have to be this dope to get on in a singular outing.
as a feature when features did not necessarily exist, at all.
K solo singlehandidly created the feature and set the bar for features in the history of rap.
Alternatively,....
Meth never recovered from the original tical being lost.
If we would have gotten more subcrazy meth, without the fiasco that lost the first tical.
You could say meth was potentially the best group member, to turn solo guy in rap at the time.

Meth was better than big and big had to rap up to method, on the whut.
Big was good politic'n considering he was on bad boy with the sellout adlib'n era puff.

That if not for the death of big.
Puff would have been ushered out from dela on stakes is high after the reformation of the native tongues.
Where common could have potentially been the new leader of the native tongues.
Till, a certain event happened to unseat the perception.
Common, was unbeatable and potentially the most dangerous styles era turned technical revolution era emcee.


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Meth has a MUCH better flow than Nas. He isnt seeing Nas' bars though and cannot construct an album like Nas can.

Nas>Meth at the end of the day but I fukk with both.


I can't really say that wholeheartedly over their whole entire csreer.
as meth actually when things got overly commercial.
Meth never sold out his actual content and cultural identity like nas.
Meth executed better than nas from a commercial standpoint that was culturally way more genuine than nas.
Plus, meth has an album of the year in his later career.
When the oversaturated miclxtape era had more than enough submissions to try to be better with 421.
Plus, meth's first album was a styles war hold over like jeru's album considering the delay and issues that transpired.
So tical WAs not released when it should have in the styles war era.

Originally after nas ushered in the technical revolution era, on his debut illmatic.
You could say that nas was better..yet, meth over the course of his career.
Meth has made more quality work and had a higher quality of vocal than nas.
Including being a much better quality performer in every arena f content song wise.
Whereas, nas if he never sells out never has to make commercial music opening up the convo to discuss commercial sellout rap.
As nas is the herald of the guys who protected and saved rap from being fully compromised by mc hammer.
Plus, nas after selling out needed wutang's name change based draw and direction to sell.
So, nas was on the wu's dikk to sell.
Of which I can't say that nas was better.
All because the Wu influenced the entire direction culturally for rap as a business.
Of which, nas sold out in his parameter and never had to.
If nas never sells out and actually keeps an attention to detail skill wise.
I could say that nas was better.
Yet, over time and given the real time facts and skills of both.
Meth is actually better than nas right right now.


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Lyrically..nah but in regard to Flow, Method Man have had the best flow of all time.


That could be argued as true but real talk,...
meth could be originally the best cadence based emcee in the history of rap jn any era and sonic landscape.
Plus, flow wise that could be argued as well.


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@Art Barr hey man this is the sort of shyt I associated you with, all that gold info

not coming into my threads and calling me culture vulture and having an agenda etc.

this stuff is gold, that's what I like to read and learn about

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Reds a great lyricst but meth made much better songs imo


I can't say that meth made better songs than red.
As culturally red never sold out.
Nor, did he appease any commercially fueled based style music that was not culturally based music.
Red made strictly cultural based music.
If red made a commercial submission.
It was out of extreme like from a performer like xtina and in that regard.
red gave an all time best commercial performance for a culturally based emcee.
Where for some odd reason the destruction of the draw for xtina was just grafted onto her erroneously.
So, it never resonated in the manner it should have as far as a pop explosion draw wise for dirty.
Yet, I would hope people would pay attention to what red supplied and the element in which dirty was created.
To realize it is an excellent collab and a brilliant pick for a guest star by xtina on the same level of jody Whatley challenging rakim.
Leading to rakim bodying the rnb artist based hook with cultural acceptance.
For red to be able to do that in a complete pop realm without altering. or sacrificing himself, as Redman in artistry culturally.
While, perfectly fitting in on dirty was a commercial rap skill triumph.
Meth was used as a defjam flagship artist and rightly so.
All because meth was the styles war visage of the black man like rakim, and bdk were in the golden era and spawn of the new school way of thought. So, meth was asked to be more in overall scope than red.
Plus, meth culturally had a crew.
where he could possibly re-establish any bad marks culturally from poor direction. Yet, surprisingly in that meth never flodge and preyed on that.
Yet, in all that meth had a period where he struggled in the sonic landscape change.
before he figured out the technical puzzle for that landscape.
Once he was able to do that,...he rebounded back into being what we call method man for real.
So, that is the only thing that hurts method in that time Period.
Red man was arguably the best in all of rap song to song verse to verse and able to shift into tonite's the nite remix super saiyan level every verse in the technical revolution era.
Plus red also was a sleeper best of all time closet dark horse mix tape era emcee as well.
Plus, later in his career you could say he also had an album of the year and mix tape of the year in the same year just recently in what was that 2011, or 2012, I wanna say, too. While also single release wise making some of the best true to yourself singles in the turn up age.
Where his material made from his own original steez and skill.
Was better than anything that dropped that entire year on two occasions as well.
Well after 421 crushed the buildings and was an album of the year, as well.

Method does not have an entire album of performances like on protect ya neck.
While red in that era, had the longest running debut artist streak for blow ya mind on the MTV and rap city countdown.
Plus, followed that up with the remix video to blow ya mind.
that ruled for and set a record for weeks in a row back then.
Which was only broken by common sense's take it eZ debut video.

Method does not have a singular solo record as fun, funny and outlandish as rated r.
Nor, does he have a superman lover series of records, how to roll a blunt, or any of the hilarious I got aids bytch records, and no basically....
Method does have sub crazy and tical and feature verses all over 36, and even the craziest performance on cash still rules and he was the go to hook guy like future would be first in rap as well.
So, method has performances but he did not hold it down with red man's work load as a true solo artist to say meth was better.
Plus, Redman has the fukk'n funniest catch you off guard skits.
Like the airplane skit and just him say oh uNh ...is so fukk'n funny I remember that shyt vividly to this day.
If method was originally a solo artist and no disaster to the first tical.
Maybe we could say,....
Yet red never had that issue and also red is the type of artist that his workrate and output was next level.
That he was so good he almost seemed like he never gave you the apex of what he could potentially do every record like on tonite's the night remix.
While virtually stealing the show in the same volume of frequency as his features and albums.




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saying Meth was better is subjective....But Meth was bigger then Nas in his prime.


Meth also arguably is tied all time with the best all time as a performance goat with;


Krs
Busta
Redman
Meth
LL
Common

So that is another realm of emcee'n that nas is not near method in career wise at all.
To the point it is not even close,....meth would destroy nas if they had to do their best songs live, with no question.

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Where common could have potentially been the new leader of the native tongues.
Till, a certain event happened to unseat the perception.
Common, was unbeatable and potentially the most dangerous styles era turned technical revolution era emcee.


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Elaborate. What was this certain event?
 

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Elaborate. What was this certain event?


He got served,....
Then did some bullshyt after getting served.
Then some more bullshyt after getting served,.....
I kinda feel I should say but I was told to stfu about it, like seventeen years ago, now.

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