Mike D & Coop Celebrate The Anniversary Of Nas’ It Was Written Album

[@marleyking4208]

KING NAS WILL GO DOWN AS THE GREATEST EVER. IT WAS WRITTEN, soon or later we will all see who the Prophet is.

[@treyharris8408]

Yep 👍🏾💯

[@handsome2491]

👑

[@ArmLegLegArmHead47]

Cringe

[@jaymac8421]

The lyrical performance on It Was Written is untouchable, the production was great outside of the radio friendly Track-Master beats, imagine those rhymes and songs with more Havoc, Preemo, and Live Squad production and then throw some Q-tip and and Large Pro beats in there too, it would’ve been no debates, it would’ve smoked Illmatic.

[@elp3035]

We gotta give If I Ruled The World more props. It's easily the most lyrically dense radio song ever. Classic sample and classic hook. It still gets play today and is pretty much timeless at this point. And as much as i love Supreme, there are more skips and more beats i dont go back to. Oh, and in no world is IWW > MNM! Yall buggin. And Ghost Deni is greatness Coop! "The kid with the most knowledge well attained to touch top dollars"

[@Don.M.]

Go track for track with any other ‘great’ albums and IWW will knock a lot of them out the park, on Mic performance and subject-matter alone. It’s art. Respect

[@curtismdavis13]

Music isn't made to be looked at objectively it gives you feelings and emotions that contribute to what you think about it

[@siyethembamsomi86]

Thanks for the dope content gents! Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@xray49er]

This is one of the best conversations about music I might have ever heard. Nobody yelling and respecting each others opinion. Good Shit fellas I just subscribed

[@RaeNobles]

My favorite Nas album

[@NonPlus_DAPS]

In my opinion IWW is a top 5-10 Hip-Hop album ever.

[@humblebragger500]

It was written is better then reasonable doubt.

[@jamesosei6888]

100%

[@mariocopeland7206]

Classic dope album!!

[@RAakaCHI-191]

Illmatic - Classic aka New Testament of Hip-Hop! KD3 - Classic Magic - Classic IWW - Classic Stillmatic - Classic LT1 - Classic LIG - Classic (1st Grownman Hip-Hop Album, which J tried to emulate with 4:44) KD2 - Classic GS - Classic DR - Classic (Unlike any other Hip-Hop album with Africa Vibes) KD1 - Fantastic Album Untitled - Is a very good album, has aged well & will stand the test of time due to it's content. HHID - Good album, has aged well I Am - Good album, has aged well, original version would have been Classic if not for sabotage by Record Label & Leaking it. LT2 - Good, some Very Good highs, but more lows SD - Good, would have been Very Good if just 1 album instead of 2LP, has aged well. Nasir - Feels rushed, with 1-2 Excellent tracks. Nastradamus - OK, the highs are special which would have been on I Am, but too many lows for me, but has aged well.

[@josiahpeter5295]

I agree bro

[@humblebragger500]

Che che la ghost better then if i ruled the world is nuts!!!! 😂

[@lovememoremeticulous4378]

It was written is his 2nd Magnum Opus

[@telldetruth9259]

Nas Is Coming is a little cheesy but fun

[@dedricklane4899]

This was a Goat level performance by Nas.

[@bornkinguniversal]

Loves Gonna Getch’a, Warning, and Cold World were excellent crime stories. 1990, ‘94, and ‘95 all before IWW respectfully. And there were countless Cube and Scarface crime stories before that too. But I know you only mentioned New York artists

[@MikeJones-lp5zo]

Watch dem niggas,wit fox on the hook is another classic

[@HBCSTL9587]

11:54 I had the cassette too…Silent Murder was legendary

[@jbwuzhere6819]

My first impression of IWW was...Illmatic was better. Yet IWW was really dope and Nas was breathing 🔥. Lyrically it's his best work. It's an all-time great album and it's reputation just keeps growing. I prefer Illmatic for the perspective and IWW for the bars. How an introverted genius became the GOAT of hip hop? It Was Written...

[@jlovetjat]

The message way better and its not close!

[@PeterStone-hy6ir]

I listen to IWW more

[@humblebragger500]

Yooo Coop. Silent murder was the 8th track not the 7th. Unless ur not counting the into.

[@rubski-ds9yc]

I stopped bying cassettes in 95 so the it was written I know didn't have silent murder. By homeboy had the cassette and when I heard the track I was like wtf is this lol

[@sammastersful]

mAN THIS AINT EASY , i REALLY LOVE BOTH ALBUMS. cOOP IS RIGHT ABOUT THE TAPE VERSION OF iT WAS WRITTEN. sILENT mURDER WAS THE LAST SONG ON SIDE a.

[@RAakaCHI-191]

I have IWW Vynil and Silent Murder is the last track!

[@f.a.m.e3781]

Random...been bumping la da darkmanz heist of the century!!!...most slept on wu album!!! Versus any classic album???

[@mohmhk]

Really dope album.

[@donknock-offs]

I've said it since I was a shorty IWW is better than Illmatic and I'll die on that hill lmao As a Hov head most niggas thought I was hating but naw 😂 I'm deadass

[@millyoneyedeaz1350]

love you guys, bu yall gotta stop calling your opinions objective. Art i subjective, no exceptions.

[@lifedapoet6696]

I like it was written better than ILLMATIC

[@thefearofg0ds758]

His rapping and song writing improved on this album.

[@PesterFester1966]

Take this L

[@humblebragger500]

Yup even g rap said it.

[@cookiemonster91208]

Many people feel that way. Illmatic is NYC 1994 during the day & It Was Written is NYC at night in 1996.

[@mohmhk]

@@humblebragger500 Shout out to the god g rap but his response would be merely based on the one dimensional, somewhat mafioso & street similarity IWW has with his style of rapping. I don't think it's an objective take. IWW is high-key a classic, nonetheless.

[@f.a.m.e3781]

Coop u gotta hear ghost deini on the different beat from the swarm album!!! It's on KZbin!!! With that being said how much of Supreme clientele did lord superb write??? 😑

[@itwaswrittenbetter7883]

I never skip Black girl lost the song is a lyrical masterpiece

[@telldetruth9259]

Also cringe

[@baṭo_saṅsārin]

NaS King Of Hip Hop 🗿👑🗽

[@MikeJones-lp5zo]

Iww better than ready 2 die

[@kestonphillip577]

Stillmatic is better than supreme

[@jgip64]

Stillmatic is better than Supreme clientele

[@brianlarkins4250]

Nas the Goat 🐐 but we not doing that. Supreme clientele is the real Blueprint

[@jlovetjat]

Black girl lost is flawless!

[@Mic-100]

I don't understand why the hate for that record... if pac wrote that, it would be deemed a classic

[@mohmhk]

@@Mic-100 It's records like Black Girl Lost that made Pac who he is. People just need reasons to validate their unfound hate.

[@Mic-100]

@@mohmhk mannn can u imagine if jigga wrote it? They would be studying that shit in universities lol. The media or powers that be did nas a disservice by trying to keep his music off the mainstream radio... the fact that it's even a debate being the goat with him not being mainstream since 02, and jigga getting the airplay he paid for, proves he lost already

[@mohmhk]

@@Mic-100 Lol The Juilliard School would've had it as part of its curriculum as a required course.

[@PeterStone-hy6ir]

Y’all sound weird as hell ^^^

[@MikeJones-lp5zo]

Supreme clientele 🔥 but not better than Iww

[@MrJzo10]

"I Gave You Power" was not perfectly executed the moment he said "it's like I'm a gun" before he even gets started. Ruins the entire mystery and concept.

[@MikeJones-lp5zo]

Big 2nd album better than nas whole catalog, barely edging IWW

[@luddman77]

iww has too many skips, unfortunately for me. I didn't like it as a whole but it does have some highs though. I always skip: street Dreams watch dem nas is coming the setup Someone put the setup lyrics over the Duppy beat and I love it then.

[@lovememoremeticulous4378]

Those last 2 👍🏾 those first 2 aged well and the Street Dreams remix is incredible.

[@luddman77]

@@lovememoremeticulous4378 I thought the remix was worst than the orginal. It was just okay

[@bigzizzo]

You can say the same about Illmatic. The Source giving Illmatic 5 mics definitely helped the mystique of Illmatic . And both of those Wu joints are better than IWW.

[@wizedalahkid1470]

-It Was Written could NEVER be better than illmatic and “Nas is coming” is the reason why. - *Liquid Swords is overrated*

[@TNT_12]

I’ve never understood the hate on Nas Is Coming. Nice Dre beat and Nas spits dope rhymes

[@humblebragger500]

Nas mic performance was pure excellence

[@SageTrader007]

​@@TNT_12Agreed. It's a dope track. Who started the hate on Nas Is Coming?

[@luddman77]

​@TNT_69664 it's just blah, especially when you hear what other songs and other albums that came out in 96. Then what your expectations would be for a nas & dre collaboration compared to what we got on Nas is coming, yea it's skippable for me imho.

[@SageTrader007]

@@luddman77 It may be a cliche Dre beat but the lyrics are sharp as any other Nas track.

[@brianlarkins4250]

It was written is better than Ready to Die and Reasonable doubt Blueprint Makaveli It was written 5 mics 🎤

[@Mic-100]

I concur

[@MikeJones-lp5zo]

Not better than RD or makaveli, but not far off

[@MikeJones-lp5zo]

Better than blueprint and ready to die

[@MikeJones-lp5zo]

I gave you power is untouchable in its own way

[@MikeJones-lp5zo]

Nothing on illmatic touches I gave you power