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[astroturfing]

i don't know what Ready to Die is so that. also the last two Nas albums are much better than Illmatic.

 

[Dr Prob]

I'd have to get rid of The Chronic. Not going to come on here and pretend as if I don't have an East Coast bias - that certainly enters into it - just being realistic. If Dr Pleb beamed down and made me pick three it wouldn't be a hard decision. Where to put the tube? That will take some consideration.

 

[apocalidiot]

Listening to It Was Written right now - you are all insane if you're using that album as your justification to let Illmatic go. It Was Written's beats are pretty straightforward and uninspired (compared to Illmatic) and the hooks are just fucking awful, I hate that shit

 

[stump sock]

Illmatic because we'd still have It Was Written which is better.

I don't think this argument is going to be beaten in this thread.

 

[Davilmar]

I don't think this argument is going to be beaten in this thread.

Do people really prefer It Was Written? I'm a native New Yorker, and I find the album to be alright at best. There are far more songs on that album I skip than on Illmatic. Never found it an amazing album.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Opinions can be wrong ya know. 😄
On a more serious note, my opinion (That I also admit is bias) is that if the challenge is to not listen to any album going forward it would be The Chronic. But if it's which album should be wiped from history, well damn. That's gonna be impossible.

I know. Good thing mine isn't.

 

[apocalidiot]

I don't think this argument is going to be beaten in this thread.

Do people really prefer It Was Written? I'm a native New Yorker, and I find the album to be alright at best. There are far more songs on that album I skip than on Illmatic. Never found it an amazing album.

See above post. I do not understand it (although to each their own). Black Girl Lost is the first song that has caught my attention

 

[bengraven]

Ready To Die.

1) I grew up with the other three albums and they are classics. I only heard Ready or Die later in my life. All the serious hip hop guys didn't really bump Biggie or his friends - we were more NAS/Wu Tang kind of guys and of course spent our earliest childhood with NWA and Ice Cube, so Chronic has to stay. I didn't hear R2D until I spent more time with my pop-centric sister and her friends. My friends were listening to Mos Def, GZA, the Roots, etc, and all my sister had for hip hop was this one biggie album and some bouncy pop rap shit - it was mixed in with Jessica Simpson, Monica, and Sugar Ray.

I liked it.

2) Puffy

 

[apocalidiot]

2) Puffy

I just want a reason to post this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5m_LfiXzM

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

I just want a reason to post this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5m_LfiXzM

that was my SHIT!

and Puffy's hands overall was very light on R2D

 

[brokenbeans]

I love Dre but the Chronic.

 

[Bacon]

It was written is a good and underrated album but comeon yall. Illmatic is on another level.

 

[Kozak]

Could live without Illmatic. Nas never did it for me.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Could live without Illmatic. Nas never did it for me.

how come the goat alive does nothing for you?