I heard someone on the net say Nas bit off Raekwon's style?
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Is there any kinda truth to this?
I don't think so what yall say?
I don't think so what yall say?
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They styles aren't the same at all, the ? you heard this at?
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I say that there are people that spread blasphemous facts to seek attention from anonymous people online.
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Nas admitted to borrowing from raekwon on last real ? alive. Id say he did use that mafioso style of OBFCL on IWW. I wouldnt say he bit tho
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"...Bad Boy biting Nas album cover way
Big told me Rae was stealing my slang
And Rae told me out in Shaolin, Big would do the same thing
But I borrowed from both them ? ..."
Nas - Last Real ? Alive
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I see the built 4 Cuban linx and it was written thing but raekwon didn't create mafioso rap tho
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They both were influenced by G Rap imo.
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Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »I see the built 4 Cuban linx and it was written thing but raekwon didn't create mafioso rap tho
You're right about that one. -
Nas is the Natural progression of the best MC's of the 80s. Nobody with a debut album in the 90s can say they helped father his style.
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Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »I see the built 4 Cuban linx and it was written thing but raekwon didn't create mafioso rap tho
He didn't, but he did drop the album that is considered to be the epitome of Mafioso Rap even though there really isn't much mafioso in it at all. And Nas' Esco persona came directly from OB4CL. Everyone on that album had a mafioso moniker. Nas came up with Esco(bar) especially for that album and ran with it afterwards. Saying Nas bit Rae is a bit of a strech, but Nas certainly did dabble in the mafioso rap for a while and you have to believe that he was influenced by Rae to some degree in that. He didn't really come out doing that and he hasn't done it all that much sense. -
Nas Jay and Big all bit that Mfioso ? from Rae... Ill be nice and say he influenced that.
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Nas Jay and Big all bit that Mfioso ? from Rae... Ill be nice and say he influenced that.
Rae got it from G Rap but that ? gets no respect for nothing. Pun also swiped a lot from G Rap -
96 ? illmatic ? It Was Written tho
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i can see that with the message a lil bit but he still does it differently. This is just the portion of the verse that may match with borrowing from looking at the entire track or verse as a whole I couldn't name a track where NaS sounds like Rae/Ghost anyway.
Exhibit A:
The highlights of livin', Vegas-style roll dice in linen
Antera spinnin' on Millenniums
Twenty G bets, I'm winning 'em; threats I'm sending 'em
Lex with TV sets the minimum
Ill sex adrenaline, party with villains
A case of Demi-Sec to chase the Henny
Wet any clique, with the semi TEC – who want it? Diamonds I flaunt it, chickenheads flock, I lace 'em
Fried broiled with basil, taste 'em, ? the legs Way out of formation, it's horizontal how I have 'em
? ' me in the Benz wagon
Can it be Vanity from Last Dragon?
Exhibit B Undying Love
Pacino life, G a roll, casino dice
At the Mirage, Vegas strip, neon lights
Gamblers, puffin cigars, couples and stars Flashin cameras, dealers, shufflin cards
Spent the weekend, already miss New York and it's odd
Cause I'm the first to say it got too many hustlers who rob I never hang out, when we do we bust the .45
Cause shells comin back at us while we jump in the ride
The big difference is NaS is a natural storyteller so even use of conscious stream flows coming from him flows and sounds different. At least to me. His use of language also separates him from these guys. They use a lot slanguage in their rhymes as well to tell possibly the same story but it's different or the perspective is different. Interesting stuff to examine. -
G the father of it but the thread ws Nas and Big biting Rae -
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G Rap gets respect from Rae. Rae said G Rap influenced him, but you can't just act like Rae stole from him. When you listen to their catalogs, their music isn't really that much alike outside of some mafia references here and there. G Rap has made a lot of music with the Wu though. He was a character in Ghostface's 36 Seasons most recently. -
it only natural to imitate what u admire Nas admitted to a bit of dabbling more or less on Last real ? Alive but it's not like he didn't have his own style
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I think it's ok to be influenced by G-rap not Raekwon tho ...
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Kool G Rap started the whole mafioso rap thing, but Rae and Wu took it to the next level, Nas used it after Illmatic for a period of time, so yeah you could say he took inspiration from Rae...
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NAS RAN W/ RAE'S STYLE ON IWW...
THEY RAPPED DIFFERENTLY, BUT THEY WERE IN THE SAME ELEMENT AT ONE POINT...
THE WHOLE MAFIOSO AND "AKA" ? . IN FACT, RAEKWON GAVE HIM THE ESCOBAR NAME ON OB4CL...
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your title sound like a saying a female would say
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Is there any kinda truth to this?
I don't think so what yall say?
I think you dumb as hell for asking that question if you ask me -
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ya'll dont get it , they both were influenced from Kool G rap and Rakim and when we talkin about the styles we talkin rhyme patterns yes I do see the Raekwon little bit of influence in makin shorter sentences, rapid fire style bars ,even nas himself admitted it and @emaculate caught it in his post
so its not just about "mafioso style" but rap patterns "take it in blood" sounds like some raekwon ?
Yo; I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret
I rock a vest, prestigious, Cuban link flooded Jesus
in a Lex watchin Kathie Lee and Regis
My actions are one with the seasons
A tec squeezin - executioner, winter time I rock a fur
Mega popular, center of attraction
Climaxin, my ? they be laughin
They high from sniffin coke off a twenty-cent Andrew Jackson
City lights spark a New York night
Rossi and Martini sippin, Sergio Tachinni flippin mad pies
low price, I blow dice and throw em
Forty-five by my ? , manifest the "Do or Die" slogan
My ? roll in ten M3's
Twenty Gods poppin wheelies on Kawasaki's
Hip-Hop's got me on some ol', sprayin shots like a drumroll
Blankin out and never miscount the shells my gun hold
I don't stunt, I regulate
Henny and Sprite, I seperate, watchin crab ? marinate
I'm all about tecs and good jooks and sex
Israelite books, holdin government names from Ness
MC's are crawlin out, every hole in the slum
You be aight like blood money in a ? 's ?
and all the young dumb ? let me tell you that i'm not dissin Nas he is my favorite all tike but I did notice the influence on IWW and its not biting but just being influenced since we know for sure he listened to Cuban Linx -
They both were influenced by G Rap imo.
....And Giancana Was Influenced By KB The Kidnappa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Jv9EXQLps
