I hate to say it but this 40 year old man that grew up listening to KRS One and bought all of his albums agrees with the threadstarter. KRS's diss to Nelly was lame, ineffective and pointless.
Nelly's diss wasn't lyrical but he got directly to the point and that's really all that mattered.
In the end, we got to see KRS in the Beef 2 DVD admitting that he lost because he didn't have the machine behind him. It doesn't really matter why he lost, he lost. Nelly beat KRS One in a MC battle fair and square.
I remember when that "You Don't Really Want It" diss came out on the internet and I was expecting some lyrical heat from the blastmaster and it was more like a dud firecracker.
I'm starting to think KRS is the Paul Robeson of Hip Hop, he spoke out about everything corporate like there was another way to do things, but these major corporations all blacklisted him. Don't get me wrong, he'll always be able to pack a nightclub that holds 300 people (which most MCs from his era can't do) but his days of having his video played on MTV and getting the cover of The Source are long gone.
