I'm 27 myself but I always thought it was obvious It Was Written was a more commercial album, just down to the content and the fact that he had Trackmasters, fresh off an LL Cool J album, doing the production. Illmatic was super NYC boom bap production while IWW he's kicking gangsta shyt over glossy beats.ok word got you my G. old soul with the goat d.o.c. avy but really was rockin out to miguel and drake at his prom
nah but again, there is a generational dissonance here with the perception. most flabby & sick heads my age are not perusing internet message boards in disproportionate numbers so the '80 joe budden and younger crowd represent the hip hop oligarchy who sets the benchmark for what 90's hip hop was and was not. which is fine, no hate. but literally nobody yeezy's age or older thinks of it was written as being a more polished project than illmatic. it was a totally different trajectory period
it dropped in '96, one of the single greatest years in hip hop history and the feel was more all eyez on me than it was camp lo uptown saturday night. neither is bad or wrong, but different. it was written, unlike illmatic, was a commercial rap album cooked up with steve and the trackmasters to reach the intended goal of multi-platinum status and becoming a household name & that wasn't gonna happen with new york-centric boom bap and rhyming about rhymes like it ain't hard to tell or one time 4 your mind. in 1996 that illmatic audience still existed heavy and they were on that heltah skeltah nocturnal, roots illadelph halflife, de la soul stakes is high, and oc jewelz (really '97 but fukk with me tho) which was the other side of the 90's hip hop civil war that had nothing to do with east or west
ok word got you my G. old soul with the goat d.o.c. avy but really was rockin out to miguel and drake at his prom
nah but again, there is a generational dissonance here with the perception. most flabby & sick heads my age are not perusing internet message boards in disproportionate numbers so the '80 joe budden and younger crowd represent the hip hop oligarchy who sets the benchmark for what 90's hip hop was and was not. which is fine, no hate. but literally nobody yeezy's age or older thinks of it was written as being a more polished project than illmatic. it was a totally different trajectory period
it dropped in '96, one of the single greatest years in hip hop history and the feel was more all eyez on me than it was camp lo uptown saturday night. neither is bad or wrong, but different. it was written, unlike illmatic, was a commercial rap album cooked up with steve and the trackmasters to reach the intended goal of multi-platinum status and becoming a household name & that wasn't gonna happen with new york-centric boom bap and rhyming about rhymes like it ain't hard to tell or one time 4 your mind. in 1996 that illmatic audience still existed heavy and they were on that heltah skeltah nocturnal, roots illadelph halflife, de la soul stakes is high, and oc jewelz (really '97 but fukk with me tho) which was the other side of the 90's hip hop civil war that had nothing to do with east or west
I mean, as far as his actual rapping ability he's better than on Illmatic but substance wise it's shallow as fukk.
The Coli narrative that IWW didn't deserve backlash is, and will forever be jokes
It's a great album but the nikka went from spitting rhymes on a park bench to putting on pink suits, trying to get cute and fronting like he's mobbed up
Nah, not even that - it not that it's rappity rap, it's that he's spitting a bunch of generic Mafia
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Nah, not even that - it not that it's rappity rap, it's that he's spitting a bunch of generic Mafia
G Rap and Raekwon were kicking that shyt from the beginning. Raekwon was talking about the same shyt he was kicking on OB4CL on Can It Be and C.R.E.A.M. With Nas, first you're the guy talking from the Project Bench and now all of a sudden you're a drug dealing superthug? It immediately came off as transparent, following trends.
Represent is aggressive but in a more grounded way. He's just a knucklehead from the projects on that one, not this big time gangsta.
Boy are you being dense as fukk here
