46. "I'll take on your sports analogy theory" In response to In response to 35
> >If you go 10 for 10 shooting layups, is that better than going >6 for 10 from the 3-point line? > >You can argue it is and be right. You can argue it ain't and >be right as well.
It depends on how and when you missed those shots. In general you want to shoot a higher percentage shot and the worst thing a team can do is give up layups. If your jacking up 3's and messing up the flow of the offense and getting outside the realm of what you or your team do best then it's a detriment. That's what I think Nas did to some degree with that album. It's a good performance but Illmatic is better because he did what he does best instead of trying to do what Wu Tang, Biggie or G Rap do much better. It's your power forward taking 3's when he's a 36% shooter from behind the arch instead of pounding the paint where he shoots 65%. > > >For me, there is a higher level of difficulty, creativity, >artistry involved in It Was Written, as well as many other hip >hop albums that I rate over Illmatic (think Outkast, >Tribe...)
> >Illmatic is that 10 for 10 shooting layups. Its perfect...yes, >but not difficult. Aquemini is difficult. Midnight Marauders >is difficult.
I don't think it's a higher degree of difficulty simply because they approach it from a different angle. Even if you think those albums are better it's not because what they do is more difficult especially since those artists aren't in the same lane as Nas. They wouldn't have made Illmatic and he wouldn't have made Southerplaylistic. And let's not act like what Nas did was some simplistic easy to do feat. Nas makes it look easy the way Tim Duncan makes hitting bank shots look easy but when others try that shit they look like Kwame Brown. A great lyricist much like a great athlete can make something difficult look easy to everyone else but it's not. > >Now depending on what you value in an album, you are gonna >rank things differently. I wish people would be more upfront >about their biases and why they rate things the way they do. I >value lyrics vs I place more value in instrumentation...etc. I >think it would expand the debate some...
For me an album with 10 great songs is always going to trump an album with 8 great songs, 2 ok ones and 3 skip worthy songs. Quality over Quantity with a bit of sub par performances is always the way to go. > > >I Grew Up On Booty Shake...We Did Not Know No Betta Thangs...