Happy 20th Birthday Nas's It Was Written

[achewon87]

If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)


Street Dreams


The Message

 

[5th Letter]

Watch Dem Niggas


Affirmative Action

 

[a_list]

Yo, after my initial shock and disappointment of not hearing Illmatic 2.0....This album got major burn...HBD...


Live Nigga Rap


I Gave You Power

 

[BDBIID]

Favorite Nas album

 

[dalyricalbandit]

summer 96 great times

 

[BlueIceBranson]

this and de la soul stakes is high dropped the same day. we don't get days like that much more

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Man look this album is everything to me

 

[Cleveland7venty6]

Cross the street you was wild'in, talkin bout how you ran the island in 89....

 

[qawshun]

I still get inspiration from this album, the only lp higher is muddy waters. I could be on a island with just those 2 albums and be good

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

Love this album

 

[bkzlostchild]

Favorite Nas album

 

[5th Letter]

I'm gonna bump this album while I'm at the gym.

 

[Preach2Teach]

Classic.

 

[trilladelic]

It's one life, one love so there can only be one king..

 

[gman82]

I still remember going to the mall to buy this cassette. Got home and let me friend Rashard dub it before I even listened to it. He brought the cassette back to me as soon as he was done and told me that the album had a surprise that I wouldn't like. He knew I was a huge Pac fan and wouldn't like the fact that Nas rapped over the same beat at 2Pac (all eyes on me). I was shocked when I heard street dreams, but knew it might be tension between Pac and Nas after that. It was but as least they squashed it before Pac passed.

One a side note I also loved the fact that Nas but the lyrics to the songs in the cassette tape album credits. I enjoyed going through the album credits, finding out who produced the songs and reading album shots; definitely a lost art today. Classic album, priceless memories. R.i.p. Rashard & Pac

 

[Ibex]

Nas best album...

 

[Intelligent_Hoodlum]

My man caught a bad one son, niggas is frightened

Secret indictments, as on to one seeking enlightment

My Movado says seven, the God hour that's if you follow

Traditions started by the school not far from the Apollo

My Fuck Tomorrow motto through the eyes of Pablo

Escobar, the desperado, word to Cus D'Amato

 

[Preach2Teach]

This is the album that created the seed of hate within Jay, on that day he vowed to fuck Nas baby mamma and find out how Nas likes to serve the pipe.

 

[qawshun]

Still can't buy silent murder tho, i want the album in its entirety on my ipod not the loop holes i gotta go through to make it happen

 

[Built 4 cuban linx]

Fun fact: the song Deja Vu (one of my favorite songs) was supposed to be the first single for this album until the label convinced him to go a little more commercial