Fam I don’t know where u from or where u lived. Nas IWW was banging out every whip and sonically didn’t even sound much different than what was poppin in the streets at the time. Even the arguments about it was bullshyt. For instance. He went mafioso. Like nikkas ain’t pay NO attention to his features for 2 years leading up to the album. If I Ruled The World was hip hop as fukk. It sampled Whodini and had Lauryn on the hook. Biggie had more commercial shyt than that up until that point. Even on Ready To Die. All them Illmatic purist ain’t even fukking BUY Illmatic when it dropped. They bootlegged it. And then he got snubbed for the more commercial artist by the same publication for every award. nikkas need to blame themselves. And IWW had beats by Trackmasters. It also had beats by Havoc, Stretch from Live Squad, Premo, LES. Etc etc. Some of nikkas favorite tracks was produced by Trackmasters, such as The Message and Affirmative Action. And that album was blazing in the streets I don’t know where u from. Street nikkas LOVED IWW.