Hip Hop Song Tournament: Quarterfinals (Bracket I)

[Chutney]

List your picks for the Quarterfinals.

 

[fatballer_10]

Nas - Nas is like
2Pac - Dear Mama

This race is off the hook!!!

 

[Legacy]

1. "Dear Mama" -2pac
2. "Nas is Like" - Nas

 

[Riot]

Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II
Nas - Nas Is Like

 

[Chutney]

1. 2pac - Dear Mama
2. Public Enemy - Fight the Power

 

[Midnight Green]

1. "Dear Mama" -2pac
2. "Nas is Like" - Nas

 

[bbwSwish]

Shook Ones
Nas Is Like

 

[B.e.]

Dear Mama and Nas Is Like

 

[Ed!]

1. SHOOK ONES
2. Nas Is Like

 

[Mamba]

Dear Mama
Nas is Like

 

[NTC]

1. 'Dear Mama'
2. 'Fight The Power'

 

[Bobcats]

Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
Nas - Nas Is Like

 

[phunDamentalz]

this has become another gay Nas-fest. i vote for anyone other than Nas, who hasn't put out truly great material in 10 years.

 

[bbwSwish]

<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">this has become another gay Nas-fest. i vote for anyone other than Nas, who hasn't put out truly great material in 10 years.</div>

 

[phunDamentalz]

<div class="quote_poster">Swish Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">

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Okay I'll vote....

Shook Ones
Fight The Power

 

[playmaker15]

Shook Ones
Nas is Like

 

[Mr. J]

Dear Mama - 2Pac
Fight the Power - Public Enemy

 

[B.e.]

<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">this has become another gay Nas-fest. i vote for anyone other than Nas, who hasn't put out truly great material in 10 years.</div>

No...your just a hater. How can you not realize how bread and butter a Nas and Premo track is?

 

[NTC]

I like Nas, just hate the song selection for this "tournament". Those 2 songs are far from his best works.

Where was "N.Y State Of Mind", "The World Is Yours", "Suspect", "One Love" etc.

 

[The Dream]

1. Shook Ones Part II
2. Nas Is Like

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I like Nas, just hate the song selection for this "tournament". Those 2 songs are far from his best works.

Where was "N.Y State Of Mind", "The World Is Yours", "Suspect", "One Love" etc.</div>

yeah certain artist should've gotten better songs (like Rakim), but Nas Is Like is fortunately one of my favs from Nas.

 

[phunDamentalz]

<div class="quote_poster">A.F. Venom Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">No...your just a hater. How can you not realize how bread and butter a Nas and Premo track is?</div>
and you're just a sheep who is incapable of accepting a differing opinion.
I love Nas first two albums and God's son had some good stuff, other than that it pretty much bores me to tears. That is one of "Premo" as you so familiarly call him, most uninspired beats. just cause it bears nas and premo doesn't mean it's good.

 

[The Dream]

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">this has become another gay Nas-fest. i vote for anyone other than Nas, who hasn't put out truly great material in 10 years.</div>

some people do ride Nas, but come on Nas has put out plenty of quality/great material within the past 10 years.

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> That is one of "Premo" as you so familiarly call him, most uninspired beats. just cause it bears nas and premo doesn't mean it's good.
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hold up homie, lol....Nas Is Like is one premo's best tracks and most hip hop fans will tell you that if you were to ask them some of premo's best beats......what's uninspiring about it?

 

[phunDamentalz]

<div class="quote_poster">THE DREAM Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">some people do ride Nas, but come on Nas has put out plenty of quality/great material within the past 10 years.

</div>I don't have a problem with Nas winning, but the fact that it looks like the finals of alltime hiphop tracks is going to be a track from I Am... versus a track from Stillmatic I find disturbing and "most hip hop fans" as you call em would too, if they knew their history.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">

hold up homie, lol....Nas Is Like is one premo's best tracks and most hip hop fans will tell you that if you were to ask them some of premo's best beats......what's uninspiring about it?</div>not to me, the fake string thing he got that idea from Dr. Dre who has that thing in every track he makes. it's not a Bad beat, but it lacks oomph. Illmatic and most of his best beats for Gang Starr are better. NY State Of Mind and D'evils - now THAT"S what i'm f'in talking about.
see I'm old enough to remember when Nas came out, and he was ON FIRE. The Chronic was the OTHER hot album of the time and it was hard to pick which one was better, all you knew was both were more addictive than cooked cocaine (not that i've tried the stuff). From then on, every time Nas release an album (read: I am, stillmatic, streets disciple, nastradeumus), i wanted to hear that passion. i wanted an album that would stay on repeat in the changer. instead I heard lots of complex wordplay but Nas sounded like he was boring himself. I too was bored. Those albums were good for a couple of spins and that was it. Maybe I was getting old, I thought. Outgrown hip-hop? Then Black Star came along, Reflection Eternal came out, Like water 4 chocolate, Things Fall Apart, aquemini, etc. and it was like Illmatic all over again. I just think Nas is given way too much of a pass just because he doesn't do club tracks. Roots, Common, Tribe, Talib, Jay-Z, all got better as they went along in my opinion, or at least they grew as artists. end of rant.

 

[The Dream]

^^^lol...yeah I AM wasn't a great album, and I don't even know why Ether is in the tournament, but I've always loved Nas is Like....it's not like Premo's grimey old production (The Sun Shines in the East, Illmatic, Ready to Die, etc.) but I love the beautiful strings and how Nas flows poetically over it.

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Roots, Common, Tribe, Talib, Jay-Z, </div>

I think Common got better until Electric Circus and The Roots got better until Game Theory....The Tribe's first 3 albums are dope, but after that they fell off....Jay Z fell off after RD, and Talib fell off after his Blackstar and the album he did with Hi-Tek.

 

[B.e.]

Sure Illmatic is Nas' best LP...and yes God's Son Nastradamous and Streets Disciple are pretty ehh...but Nas is consistent...and versatile as well...what kind of track can Nas NOT do besides club bangers? Just look at I Am...you got all kinds of different joints on there that are good and show his range as an artist.

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I don't have a problem with Nas winning, but the fact that it looks like the finals of alltime hiphop tracks is going to be a track from I Am</div>
This tournament doesn't mean Nas Is Like is the best hip hop track of all time...some people just chose their favorite songs.

and Premo's beats are uninspired? LOL..and your a New Yorker? Never heard of that...

 

[Flow]

1. Shook Ones PT II
2. Nas Is Like

 

[Legacy]

Dear Mama (8 votes) Shook Ones Pt. II (8 votes)
Nas is Like (12 votes) Fight The Power (4 votes)

Dear Mama vs Shook Ones Pt. II Tie Breaker:

Dear Mama: 1
Shook Ones Pt. II:

First one to 3 votes wins.

 

[Mamba]

Dear Mama

 

[44Thrilla]

Shook Ones

 

[fatballer_10]

Dear Mama