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Originally posted by librasoul22
k, first, when did Nas do a song called "Take it 2 da House"? I really hope you are not confusing Nas with Trick Daddy. *horror*
Nas has always been a lyricist, see the entire Illmatic album for reference. Unfortunately he started seeing dollar signs and morphed into Nas Escobar (barf). Then he came back to his senses with Stillmatic and God's Son (both awesome records). Jay Z can NOT touch Nas lyrically, and I have never heard anyone accuse Jay of making conscious music. Reasonable Doubt was a great album, but I still wouldn't put him near real lyricists like the other names thrown around on this thread.
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yeah, i was playing around a little bit - I guess I should have explained better, it's more of a running joke that his post-Illmatic "releases" were more Trick than Slick, until the recent 'recovery'.
Again though - I'm going to agree tentatively with you on Jay-Z . . . he has definitely had flashes of "actually mattering", and while he has yet to reach the social commentary of most of the others, the fact that he even has records in his catalogue that approach this is better than most. For me, the bottom line becomes "anything is better than nothing."
As far as being a lyricist on par with the other names dropped in this thread - well, that's fairly subjective, but I'd rather take Jay-Z's couple of tracks over zero, in terms of content above and beyond the "bling bling" culture.