prophecypro
Hollywood North
Shows the attitude of backpackers back then
No you considered crazy if you think IWW wack as you should be
No you considered crazy if you think IWW wack as you should be
RapReviews.com review of It Was Written
- Thread starter JMD
- Start date
if u nas stans keep it 100, it was written was pretty much considered a let down by pretty much everyone up until the beef with jay in 2001 when u stans went back and revised history and all of a sudden started bigging up IWW because you wanted to dispel the notion of the 1 hot album every 10 year average narrative..
when it was written came out, lauryn hill saved it from being a complete flop
then i am came out and mostly everyone who heard the og version of that album thought the commercial release was
and we all know how nastradamus was viewed back then and even now
then jay pointed out the fact that nas was putting out duds and u stans went into over drive revising history :wbrook:
the nerve of a jay stan talking about revising history when jay campaigned 'reasonable doubt' into being considered a classic.iww was getting 4 to 4.5 in a lot of reviews
and on top of that jay had no universally accepted classics until blueprint. who in the fukk was he to tell the man who made illmatic about classics.
oh, by the way i'm a jay fan,but..
gtfoh with this bullshyt!!
Metal Face
Superstar
IWW is a good album...it's certainly not great or Illmatic levels.
Beats are weaker compared to Illmatic.
Beats are weaker compared to Illmatic.
AntLive1981
All Star
Online is the only place that I ever heard any IWW slander. Back in the Summer of ‘96 in Philly I heard it played EVERYWHERE and everyone loved it! Illmatic didn’t get no where near as much love as IWW did, but this is just what I’ve seen in my own life!
Piff Huxtable
Delaney 2020,2024,2028...
we even found his fat wives blog where she wrote about her struggles with anxiety disorder and self-mutilationSteve Flash Juan was exposed by Dipset stans on SOHH as a white dude from Iowa or somewhere Midwest. Dude looked like Ron Swanson from Parks & Rec....thread was classic until he got the administrator to delete it
Summer of 2004. Good times brehs
The average southern dude did not listen to Illmatic like that. They were bumping IWW in the A in 96 though.
JayBaldacci
All Star
People were way more strict back then. It was good for rap.
if u nas stans keep it 100, it was written was pretty much considered a let down by pretty much everyone up until the beef with jay in 2001 when u stans went back and revised history and all of a sudden started bigging up IWW because you wanted to dispel the notion of the 1 hot album every 10 year average narrative..
when it was written came out, lauryn hill saved it from being a complete flop
then i am came out and mostly everyone who heard the og version of that album thought the commercial release was
and we all know how nastradamus was viewed back then and even now
then jay pointed out the fact that nas was putting out duds and u stans went into over drive revising history :wbrook:
100% FACTS
i couldn't have said it any better
if u nas stans keep it 100, it was written was pretty much considered a let down by pretty much everyone up until the beef with jay in 2001 when u stans went back and revised history and all of a sudden started bigging up IWW because you wanted to dispel the notion of the 1 hot album every 10 year average narrative..
when it was written came out, lauryn hill saved it from being a complete flop
then i am came out and mostly everyone who heard the og version of that album thought the commercial release was
and we all know how nastradamus was viewed back then and even now
then jay pointed out the fact that nas was putting out duds and u stans went into over drive revising history :wbrook:
its actually the album that made me a Nas fan..
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
Honestly it's kind of a dope history lesson for the younger crowd. It's hard to imagine but It Was Written got hammered by critics and fans when it dropped. I got into hip-hop in 95/96 as a kid and It Was Written I heard before Illmatic so it just sounded dope to me. But apparently since Illmatic was so beloved, hip-hop purists really hated that Nas linked up with Trackmasters, Dr. Dre, etc, and It Was Written was viewed as a sort of sellout album where Nas tried to cash in and go mainstream. It's the album that made me a Nas fan so I didn't know better.
Over the years a lot of purists have warmed up to the album but it was hated on by a lot of cats when it dropped, and some older heads to this day are rubbed the wring way by the album.
It Was Written along with Stakes Is High by De La Soul that dropped the same year are maybe the definitive 2 albums that caused the mainstream/underground split.
agree... I bought IWW and went back and got Illmatic. Think I said this on here before. I had all the cassette singles for Illmatic, but not the actual album. I didnt get Nas at first enough to be a fan. I was heavy into Redman and Keith Murray type punch line rapping at THAT time. Nas wasnt that. Now granted I loved Rakim and 80's rappers, who also didnt use heavy punchlines, its just I had to get back into it with Nas and then Mobb etc...
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
Same here bro.
In terms of full albums, I heard Hell on Earth before Infamous.
I was a big Redman head too. He's still one of the only solo artists ever to drop 3 consecutive classics. Redman has maybe most underrated catalogue in the game.
Cheech&Chong
rip chinx
The internet is where people come to spread unpopular opinions. Its where miserable haters come to agree with other miserable haters. It was written was huge .If i ruled the world is a top goat song. Street Dreams was everywhere. The message got played by everyone. I gave you power was known by everyone. No one was playing illmatic at parties. It Was Written was a huge album, fukk the internet.
Detroit Wave
Veteran
pay attention to non black opinions on hip hop brehs