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Originally Posted by noisereductions
ILLMATIC vs THE INFAMOUS is really really tough. They're similar, but miles apart thematically.
Nas tries to keep things very concise and from a singluar point of view. It's very real. Very poetic. Very honest.
Mobb made a horror film on record. It's creepy and paranoid and agressive and over the top lyrically.
I love them both, but in different ways.
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True. My essential problem with TRULY loving The Infamous I guess is that it's basically Illmatic that made me a rap fan, like the voice of god coming down (well, I got it with Madvillainy, so that would be the other half of my induction), and it was a big part of what music
was for me for about a month, and when it was during that period that I branched out into the Infamous, and it couldn't help but suffer when compared at the time. I need to listen to it again now as a more mature hip-hop listener. Haven't put in on for more than one or two tracks in a couple of months.