Nas doesnt have one song better than...

[blackslash]

Yea, OP riled you up breh. You got the nerve to be in here talmbout n!ggas stanning for Nas yet you got a Pac avi and sound like you would stab your mother for him

 

[prophecypro]

Funny thing about the Nas and Pac comparisons is that both seem to have a similarities in terms of penmenship and both got unfairly knocked by their critics for their beats . I think its something that if you ask heads who are older and in their thirties and maybe forties they'll recall that amongst purists that argument used to get brought up a lot.

 

[ISO]

nostalgia is clearly clouding your judgement, and thats not even the best song on illmatic let alone better then a bonafide goat hip hop song contender.

How is nostalgia clouding my judgement? These are both old songs

Who are you to say One Love isn't the best song on Illmatic, I've read hip hip forums from 1994 (they've been posted here) and One Love was thought to be the standout track on Illmatic. When The Source got Illmatic months before it's release this track had them nikkas laying on the floor.

I'm not the only one that thinks this, One Love is just a great song the concept comes from a letter Nas wrote to an incarcerated friend. Lyrically this is an epic at over 5 minutes long he ripped it (guess who got shot in the domepiece/Jerome's niece/on her way home from Jones Beach), it's produced by one of the G.O.A.T.'s in Q-Tip the xylophone is melodic and hypnotic. The fact that you don't think this is the song on the album tells you a little bit of how great this album is.

"It's about 9pm… I get to the office and I gather all the heads in the conference room. I remember who was there: @MatteoGlen [the twitter account of Matty C, then The Source's "Unsigned Hype" editor] @CeeWild [twitter account of Chris Wilder, another editor], @FrozenFiles [twitter account of Schott 'Free' Jacobs, another contemporary editor]. Everyone is nodding their heads, eyes wide, mouths open, it's hip-hop paradise. We had a pretty shytty system in there but it didn’t matter, I pop in the tape and the powerful musical magic emits from the speakers. When those funky/eerie/powerful xylophone notes from 'One Love' come on, I remember @FrozenFiles is literally lying on the floor… He can’t comprehend how good it is. None of us can. It's the best shyt we’ve heard in our lives… Internally, we start debating how we’re gonna handle this. I say right away that it's gotta get a "5"."

 

[ISO]

Im not shytting on illmatic. I love the album. I think its one of the greatest albums ever. But Im done accepting some revisionist elitist narrative that illmatic is the greatest thing since sliced bread and pacs albums dont compare. fukk that.

illmatic was lyricism at its finest, pick any of those 3 pac classics, that hip hop music at its finest. thats artistry at its finest. thats poetry at its finest.

again, im not shytting on nas or illmatic. i fukk with those albums. but that pac love is genuine. and as we get older and older, his music, because of how fukkin real it was, and how it was a sign of those times and his life, it doesnt resonate well with asians, and white boys, and nerdy hipsters who are looking to get into rap. it doesnt resonate with jimmy fallon watching, "i love wu tang and the roots" white boys, it doesnt resonate with backpacker types who listen to sage francis

illmatic appeals to them because its lyricism and thats it. they can appreciate that in an abstract sense. there is no abstract appreciation of pac. its emotional shyt and ya had to be there. and im speaking on those bandwagon types that jumped on pacs dikk after he died too. theyre in the same boat

Ofc "cac" how could I not expect to see this word? Whites have always been the primary consumers of hip hop music stop the bullshyt, and cacs love Tupac more than anyone nikka. Illmatic appeals to anyone who loves hip hop music period, just about every MC to have picked up a mic has blessed this album, the editors of the Source that crowned it hip hops crowned jewel are predominately black men, this Illmatic appears only to backpackers is bullshyt. Illmatic was more than lyricism at it's finest, Illmatic is the epitome of hip hop. It's no surprise that Nas' contemporaries from the three decades he's rapped in and those who came before him give the album nothing but praise.

 

[ISO]

What are you talking about? I implied that @ISOMELO is stanning not Nas fans Can you read? And I do have a Pac avi....last week I had a Nas avi and before that it was AZ.....what's your point?

I responded to him because he always calls Pac fans "stans" when they don't agree with his bs when in fact HE is stanning for Nas in most threads. Just pointing out hypocrisy...

Nikka I only so this when these Pac threads are made that put him to a pedestal and disrespect every other MC to grace the mic. I've done this for Biggie as well, it's not a Nas thing. Personally I respect Pac, I fukk with a lot of his music in my eyes there is no G.O.A.T. but if I had a list he'd definitely be in my top 3. You act like I'm on some God Shamgod shyt nikka.

 

[ManBearPig]

 

[NoHalfWay]

Nas has a few songs than can go up against Pac's best songs.

 

[LogicFirst]

Damn, you put me in a quandary

 

[blackslash]

I forgot what interview but remember when dat nikka Drake said he wanted to remake this song


Fck he think he is

What pain he gon talk bout

We wont even talk bout his voice being too light to remake this sht

 

[Darts]

Street Dreams Remix>>>

 

[Big Skilly Films]

Illmatic is held in higher regard than anything Pac did

got em...

 

[NoHalfWay]

I forgot what interview but remember when dat nikka Drake said he wanted to remake this song


Fck he think he is

What pain he gon talk bout

We wont even talk bout his voice being too light to remake this sht

If Drake remade this song with him crying over some bytch nikkas should put a hit out on him.

 

[seemorecizzy]

memory lane better than any tupac song ever
pain is classic tho

 

[SubLyminalz]

How is nostalgia clouding my judgement? These are both old songs

Who are you to say One Love isn't the best song on Illmatic, I've read hip hip forums from 1994 (they've been posted here) and One Love was thought to be the standout track on Illmatic. When The Source got Illmatic months before it's release this track had them nikkas laying on the floor.

I'm not the only one that thinks this, One Love is just a great song the concept comes from a letter Nas wrote to an incarcerated friend. Lyrically this is an epic at over 5 minutes long he ripped it (guess who got shot in the domepiece/Jerome's niece/on her way home from Jones Beach), it's produced by one of the G.O.A.T.'s in Q-Tip the xylophone is melodic and hypnotic. The fact that you don't think this is the song on the album tells you a little bit of how great this album is.

"It's about 9pm… I get to the office and I gather all the heads in the conference room. I remember who was there: @MatteoGlen [the twitter account of Matty C, then The Source's "Unsigned Hype" editor] @CeeWild [twitter account of Chris Wilder, another editor], @FrozenFiles [twitter account of Schott 'Free' Jacobs, another contemporary editor]. Everyone is nodding their heads, eyes wide, mouths open, it's hip-hop paradise. We had a pretty shytty system in there but it didn’t matter, I pop in the tape and the powerful musical magic emits from the speakers. When those funky/eerie/powerful xylophone notes from 'One Love' come on, I remember @FrozenFiles is literally lying on the floor… He can’t comprehend how good it is. None of us can. It's the best shyt we’ve heard in our lives… Internally, we start debating how we’re gonna handle this. I say right away that it's gotta get a "5"."

 

[Budda]

I forgot what interview but remember when dat nikka Drake said he wanted to remake this song


Fck he think he is

What pain he gon talk bout

We wont even talk bout his voice being too light to remake this sht