Am I the only one who thinks Nas > Em?

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I almost forgot about Fetus. That song together with Rewind, I Gave You Power, and Undying Love are truly four of the best story telling songs ever made. Especially Fetus and Rewind, impecable concepts...

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Sorry but all of Ice Cube, Scarface, Q-Tip, Prodigy (of Mobb Deep in mid 90's/early 00's), KRS and Lauryn Hill would give Eminem a run for his money. It's not all lyrical either.

Fwiw. Nas bodied Canibus multiple times too, including on Canibus' own shit.

Cube is trash lyrically. No multis, simple one dimensional lyricist.

Who gives a shit lyrics are one aspect of rapping moron

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Agree with Embase, Nas can only do few things with his raps while Em proved that he'd come up with something new on every song.
So for me it's really close but because i grew up on Em's music i'd side with Em.
But Nas is up there with the goats.... Biggie>Nas>Any other NY rapper. No denying Nas is one of the best that came out from NY!

How many Nas songs have you listened to? And no when Biggie was alive there were tons of rappers as good if not better than him Boot Camp Clik, Wu Tang, Ditc, Jeru Damaj, Mobb Deep, MOP. I mean I know this is an Eminem forum, but sheesh the dickriding is ridiculous.

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Prime Nas> anyone, ever (Illmatic)
But overall Em>>>Nas

SSLP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Illmatic
MMLP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>(infinity (not infinite don't mix up))>> illmatic

TES >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Illmatic...

What an idiot

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^^ No it isn't. It's WAY UP on the list, but not of all time. Sorry Kanye.

LULZ

It might be one of the best, but it's not the best

TES murders everything. A damn near flawless album

You don't know what you're talking about at all.

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Your name is stillmatic obviously you are a Nas stan
. Even though I have no motivation to argue and write a lot because I'm not a super Eminem stan I'll play along.

Lulz, your name is Slim Shady your an Em stan.

The best way to convey emotion in a song is through delivery Nas does not do this better than Eminem. Angry = emotion so I don't get whay you're saying. One mic is a classic song yes, does it convey great emotion? yes. Does it top any of Em's emotional classic like The Way I Am, Cleaning Out My Closet or Rock Bottom? No.

Why cause you say so?

Okay, yes Nas has a more complex, better and bigger vocabulary than Eminem and his writing is very poetic. But, when I said lyrics I ment rhyming, multis, emotion and YES you can have emotion in your lyrics so don't tell me you can't. Nas may have more positive music but are we discussing that? lmao. IMO rebellious music > positive music.

Good thing it's your opinion than, and no Nas is a waaay better lyricist. From having better metaphors, similes, allusions, alliterations to just better writing. Find me an Em song that tops this.

http://rapgenius.com/lyrics/Nas/Take-it ... note-55461

Stan is one of the best storytelling songs if not the best of all time.

Children's story begs to differ

Yes Nas has amazing storytelling songs like Rewind and such but Stan is in its own league. Nas is a top 5 to me but not number #1. And lmao @ you assuming I like stan because it's catchy or it gets radio play Stan is way better than any storytelling song Nas has ever made. Not to mention Em's Stay Wide Awake is also great storytelling. Oh and Nas can't do a genius, twisted love song like Kim. NO FUCKING WAY.

All this talking yet no reasons, good job convincing me man.

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Lol, Stan a better storytelling track than Rewind? Get outta here.. You can't be serious..

Stan does that + has a slightly better concept that's hard to play off in a rap song and he does it rhyming multis throughout WHILE playing a character.

Rewind is better storytelling-wise than anything Em has done except Stan. And it's not like you should act surprised, Stan is praised as one of the best storytelling tracks of all time.

Multis doesn't make a better song numbnuts, and Stan is one of the most famous rap songs so of course it's going to get praised like there's no tomorrow over something as equally good if not better like I gave you power.