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Let
February 5th 2015


1910 Comments


Check Mystic Stylez

LambsBread
February 5th 2015


6522 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

this review would make a lot more sense if you didn't give Illmatic a perfect score, it's

really

hard for me to wrap my head around the idea an album one would consider a 5/5 could be overrated





already explained you can only rate in increments of .5 so a 5 isn't a perfect score. If you want to

rate something 4.76 you have to pick 5.

@musicallychallenged id probably rate this 4.7 - 4.8



agreed, hiphop is all about the flow
its really not tho, if you cant do anything more

than spit

verbose lines about how you magically matured when you became 20 and decided to stop getting wasted

every night so you could save the $ for some scratch it tickets....theres a problem. plus you could

pick any 3 bars from AZ's verse that outdoes Nas' entire verse on Life's a Bitch.



honestly i cant even believe people are trying to defend him being a GOAT lyricist on this album. He

features one emcee on this album and gets killed by him.



word. right off the bat on NY State of Mind he goes "I don't even know how to start this shit

yo... cant believe he was only 17
He was 20, listen to lifes a bitch lyric's. and that quote

just means he didn't know how to start the song... like he didn't write an actual opening line, NY

state of mind isn't a freestyle, none of this is.



You are making excuses for sloppy lyrics, that was the entire thesis of my review.

HalfManHalfAmazing
February 5th 2015


2795 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

these lyrics are FAR from sloppy

ParanoidAndroid96
February 5th 2015


1393 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah, I wouldn't say his lyrics are sloppy. Nas is practically a lyrical surgeon on this album

HalfManHalfAmazing
February 5th 2015


2795 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"Beef with housing police, release scriptures that's maybe Hitler's" GOAT line

HalfManHalfAmazing
February 5th 2015


2795 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"Thinking a word best describing my life to name my daughter"

HalfManHalfAmazing
February 5th 2015


2795 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"I'm the young city bandit hold myself down single-handed"

LambsBread
February 5th 2015


6522 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Again, not sloppy per se, sloppy relative to:



-i bomb atomically, socrate's phillosophies and hypothesis can't define how i be droppin these

mockeries.



-what difference does it make if they tell you what they make?!

you aint gettin none of it, the city they not runnin it

they runnin out of it, cuz cats wanna put em under it!



-Hell is not a place you go, if you not a Christian

it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition

It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion

I don't see the difference in between the raw and the wrong

Soldiers emptyin' their clips at little kids and their moms

Are just like a desperate motherfucker strapped to a bomb

Humanity is gone, smoked up in a gravity bong

by a democrat republican Cheech and Chong

HalfManHalfAmazing
February 5th 2015


2795 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

lyrically perform armed robbery, flee with the lottery possibly they spotted me

HalfManHalfAmazing
February 5th 2015


2795 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah the lyrics on here are pretty sloppy in comparison to those only because they're all over the place topically but I mean so many solitary lines are absolute gold

JWT155
February 5th 2015


14955 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Kanye's crafted an entire career of sloppy lyrics then.

HalfManHalfAmazing
February 5th 2015


2795 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

he actually has though

HalfManHalfAmazing
February 5th 2015


2795 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

it really shows that he's a producer first, emcee second

danielito19
February 5th 2015


12251 Comments


never got into this album.... but to be fair i don't really jam much hip hop

thacoconut94
February 5th 2015


1497 Comments


Lambs do you listen to anything other than hip hop

SharkTooth
February 5th 2015


14922 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

He jams Pink Floyd

iamamanfromspace
February 5th 2015


1030 Comments


@Lambs brah you said you prefer Cancer 4 Cure but you have it as a 4.5

iamamanfromspace
February 5th 2015


1030 Comments


man you get upset easily

iamamanfromspace
February 5th 2015


1030 Comments


why are so not chill if you're high right now

Royl123
February 5th 2015


2108 Comments


"Sleep is the cousin of death": Best lyric IMO



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