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This.
The Blueprint vs Stillmatic
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This.
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Blueprint
But Stillmatic is a classic and number 2 right behind as far as releases from that era and year.
I get that the Just Blaze/Kanye West impact and definition of the next decade makes Blueprint more important and why its gets praised more by general music critics
But I think within Hip Hop circles Stillmatic is the modern day version of what a comeback album should be. Not just because of Ether but how it sort of has an MC address many things in their career that may have set them back and move forward (You're the Man, Intro, One Mic and Destroy and Rebuild) while capturing some of the glimpses of their OG self (2nd Childhood, Poison)
I can dig people putting Blueprint over but I cant dig the critics who dont see why Stillmatic is a special record because they felt like it wasnt Nas going back to Illmatic and dont see why the streets fukked with heavy (and not just on the East Coast. He probably gained a new set of fans with that record)
Ironically it feels like those music critics understood that more with God Son. Doesnt hurt when you have a Made You Look on there.
But Stillmatic is a classic and number 2 right behind as far as releases from that era and year.
I get that the Just Blaze/Kanye West impact and definition of the next decade makes Blueprint more important and why its gets praised more by general music critics
But I think within Hip Hop circles Stillmatic is the modern day version of what a comeback album should be. Not just because of Ether but how it sort of has an MC address many things in their career that may have set them back and move forward (You're the Man, Intro, One Mic and Destroy and Rebuild) while capturing some of the glimpses of their OG self (2nd Childhood, Poison)
I can dig people putting Blueprint over but I cant dig the critics who dont see why Stillmatic is a special record because they felt like it wasnt Nas going back to Illmatic and dont see why the streets fukked with heavy (and not just on the East Coast. He probably gained a new set of fans with that record)
Ironically it feels like those music critics understood that more with God Son. Doesnt hurt when you have a Made You Look on there.
i would usually skip over these threads but i was just listening to Stillmatic last week.
as a youngin fresh in my teens when both of these came out i listened to Stillmatic more. maybe it was due to hearing Blueprint everywhere else that Stillmatic was more personal to me. Intro, Your Da Man, 2nd Childhood in the headphones on sony cd walkman stuffed in the North Face..the songs just matched the icy temp.
Stillmatic also has the best run of songs between the two albums from Rewind to The Flyest.
the skippable joints on Blueprint are sprinkled in throughout.
Stillmatic i could take 4 maybe 5 joints off the album and would happily never listen to them again.
thankfully most of them are in the last quarter of the album so it doesn't deter to much.
even with all of that..........."I'm rolling with Roc-A-Fella man"
i just get more enjoyment out of Blueprint.
every other summer i pull it out and play it like its brand new.
the skipable joints i can tolerate them..they don't take away from the enjoyment of the album for me.
shyt, Blueprint has me listening to a beat and verse from that fakkit Eminem and it doesn't bother me.
after listening to it in full recently if i was to put Stillmatic on again right now theres a bunch of songs that even though they are great songs in context of the album i can find reasons to skip them.
example..... One Mic, if i'm listening to this album in the daytime...i'm skipping it.
Ether kind of suffers from the Pac effect...listened to them so much back then they can be novelty-ish now like i did with Hit Em Up. i can make the same case Get Yourself A. Smoking....skip and then everything after The Flyest i can skip until Every Ghetto.
as a youngin fresh in my teens when both of these came out i listened to Stillmatic more. maybe it was due to hearing Blueprint everywhere else that Stillmatic was more personal to me. Intro, Your Da Man, 2nd Childhood in the headphones on sony cd walkman stuffed in the North Face..the songs just matched the icy temp.
Stillmatic also has the best run of songs between the two albums from Rewind to The Flyest.
the skippable joints on Blueprint are sprinkled in throughout.
Stillmatic i could take 4 maybe 5 joints off the album and would happily never listen to them again.
thankfully most of them are in the last quarter of the album so it doesn't deter to much.
even with all of that..........."I'm rolling with Roc-A-Fella man"
i just get more enjoyment out of Blueprint.
every other summer i pull it out and play it like its brand new.
the skipable joints i can tolerate them..they don't take away from the enjoyment of the album for me.
shyt, Blueprint has me listening to a beat and verse from that fakkit Eminem and it doesn't bother me.
after listening to it in full recently if i was to put Stillmatic on again right now theres a bunch of songs that even though they are great songs in context of the album i can find reasons to skip them.
example..... One Mic, if i'm listening to this album in the daytime...i'm skipping it.
Ether kind of suffers from the Pac effect...listened to them so much back then they can be novelty-ish now like i did with Hit Em Up. i can make the same case Get Yourself A. Smoking....skip and then everything after The Flyest i can skip until Every Ghetto.
What didn't you like about the songwriting?
I'm not really sure, I haven't listened to it in awhile so I'd probably have to play it again to tell you, I just remember that being my perspective when I heard it the first few times.
I do remember me feeling that while it was lyrically dense that it had an excess of awkwardly written lines thrown into the mix that made the songs flow clunkily for me and heavy handed consciousness that was corny unlike when he does conscious material well.
All I play from Stillmatic now is the intro and Ether.
I'll listen to it today and get back to you for more.
BlackDiBiase
Superstar
Blue Print.
It changed the game in many many ways, ... you rock that joint at day or when you want to drift to sleep at night.
It changed the game in many many ways, ... you rock that joint at day or when you want to drift to sleep at night.
InstantKlassik
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Stillmatic
Ok. Let me know.
ill_will82
What you see, is what you get
I'm a have to give to Jay-Z off Blueprint vs Stillmatic both albums were great around that 2001 time period. Kayne on production with those soulful beats on songs like Heart of the City was nice.
Barack Dracobama
Banned
Blueprint easily
Get off the damn fence you p*ssy agnostic and pick a damn album :prodigylol:
This is the Coli. There is no middle ground. There is no "I like them both".
One of these albums is a classic and the other one is
