Slight spin: It Was Written vs. Life After Death

[Kinguno]

Ready To Die is better than Life After Death imo. I’d definitely take both over It Was Written.

Big became a better rapper after RTD like Victory is supposedly the last song he recorded and it's fire man had so many flows on LAD and such memorable lines

LAD is like the Bad Boys 2 of albums the first one was great but the second one is on such a level we begging for a third but we won't ever get it

 

[aloebeats]

Life after Death just shades it for me.

 

[Redwing80]

Life After Death

 

[Knicksman20]

Nas is easily a top 5 GOAT but LAD is superior. IWW is a good album but LAD is a great album. In his own words

 

[BaRRyG]

IWW

I like LAD but I never really loved it like a lot of people do. There's a lot of weak sauce on there mixed with some phenomenal songs

IWW is just amazing throughout, plus it introduced me to Nas.

Name the weak ones breh I never heard the album

 

[JayBaldacci]

IWW is the better full listen. LAD is way too all over the place, even when compared to IWW.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Life After Death

 

[JMD]

This is a tough one

IWW is my one of my favorite Nas albums only semi weak song on IWW is “Nas is Coming” and that wasn’t because of Nas lyrics, it was the terrible chorus

LAD might be the GOAT double album and had a great mix of crossover tracks along with its fair share of street tracks.

At the end I went with IWW, like someone said before better full listen

 

[C-Styles]

One changed the formula for how albums were made for years to come and the other is IWW


that should tell your everything

and i'm a big Nas stan, but even Nas will tell you

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

IWW.
Life After Death had too many dull filler tracks. It Was Written is more consistent with better features, production & less filler.

 

[mobbinfms]

One changed the formula for how albums were made for years to come and the other is IWW

And that had a terrible impact on hip hop.

 

[mobbinfms]

IWW had two beats from :havdahell:and a verse from :pdahellclean:
LAD only had one beat from :havdahell:and no verse from :pdahellclean:

Men lie
Women lie
Numbers don’t

 

[Knicksman20]

And that had a terrible impact on hip hop.

It’s not Big’s fault those artists weren’t as talented as him to make it a success

 

[JustCKing]

It Was Written set the stage for LAD though. So whatever negative impact LAD had on Hip Hop could be attributed to IWW as well. It was mafiosos content over glossy, polished production, which included Pop samples and interpolations from the '80's. I mean, "Street Dreams" is the predecessor for a song like "Hypnotize".

As great as IWW is, it too opened up the door for the jiggy era so much so that Will Smith had The Trackmasters and L.E.S. produce and Nas write for him.

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

Life After Death. Nas is my favorite rapper and IWW is one of my favorite albums, but Disc 1 of LAD is almost flawless and there's only two or three weak/wack songs on Disc 2.

2 or 3 out of 12 is “only”