Nate Geezie Member since Feb 07th 2004 13530 posts
Tue Jan-07-14 09:45 PM
21. "I been arguing this on these here boards for like 15 years...lol" In response to In response to 0
Sales aside (that never came into play in my thinking), I think It Was Written is more creative, and ambitious of a project and it reaches heights that Illmatic doesn't, due in part to its brevity, due in other parts just to Nas' maturing as a man and as an artist...
I think some of the status and praise given to Illmatic is based on some new york revival, hip-hop purist driven emotion...and if you take all that away and stack both albums up, It Was Writen is just a stronger piece of work
I got about a dozen sports analogies for this argument, but imma chill right here...lol