Talk:It Was Written

message: Amount sold: These two statements appear to contradict each other: "On September 9, 1996, It Was Written was certified double platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), following sales in excess of two million copies in the United States.[28] On January 8, 1997, "Street Dreams" was certified gold in sales by the RIAA, following sales in excess of 500,000 copies.[29]". How could it be certified Gold months after it went Platinum? One of these is wrong but both of these are in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.192.241.249 (talk) 19:27, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Once the word gets out on an album it's like everyone just follows along with the review.  It Was Written got a bad wrap because it was not like Illmatic, but this does not mean the album sucks in any way.  Most of the reviews I've read on this album shitcanned it and gave it very undeserving comments.  If you listen closely to this album with songs like The Message, I Gave You Power, Watch Dem Niggas, Take it in Blood, Nas is Coming (excluding the annoying chorus), Affirmative Action, The Set Up, Suspect, Shootouts, Live Nigga Rap and If I Ruled The World, how the Hell can someone honestly think they're wack with their great productions and excellent lyrics/flows?  This has to be the absolute most underrated album of all time along with Onyx's "All We Got Iz Us".  I'll go so far as to not only say that it's a great album, but I'll even say it's Nas' best.  Disagree all you'd like.
-Tainted Drifter
Everyone's welcome to their own opinions & preferences. Most peeps prefer Illmatic because of how fresh it was, as well as its varied production and content as opposed to the dark Mafioso-style that Nas adopted for It Was Written. Personally, I prefer Illmatic, God's Son, Stillmatic, and The Lost Tapes to It Was Written. I even prefer the Living Legends mixtape, although it used plenty of verses from Nas' second album. I don't dislike the album at all, and it's still one of my favourite of all time. I just feel that Nas has done a lot better.
- Mittens
Yeah, "everyone's entitled to their own opinion" is a saying created to defend those with horrible opinions.  Lucky for you, it was created.--Tainted Drifter (talk) 03:25, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Don't you hate how people follow other people's opinions?

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Nas-it-was-written-music-album.jpg

message: The stars graphic shown next to Rolling Stone reviews were wrong for both this album and Nastradamus. Whoever had written/edited this had obviouisly looked at the "average user rating" rather than the actual RS score. In this case, RS gave the album 2 stars, rather than 4½ as Was Written. Thesean43 09:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rolling Stone Review

message: Transcription using Google News Advanced News Archive Search. Chicago Sun-Times (Williams, Jean A. 11. July 21, 1996) review of It Was Written (1996):
 
Dan56 (talk) 04:18, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicago Sun-Times review

message: Transcription using Google News Advanced News Archive Search. Chicago Tribune (Kot, Greg. 6. July 25, 1996) review of It Was Written (1996):
Dan56 (talk) 04:25, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicago Tribune review

message: the sample that is stated is the sample from the remix version which is released on a single. that is not the sample from the album version of that song.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.171.229.148 (talk) 11:34, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Affirmative Action Sample 

message: Substituted at 19:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Illmatic struggled to sell because Nas was “shy”? Is performing on stage, doing interviews, and going to clubs with a button-down shirt shy? Also it says that Illmatic was raw and unpolished.  That is not true, Illmatic was well thought out, rehearsed, and well produced.  There’s also no such thing as an “underground tone” as opposed to what? Nas was gangster rap, boastful, materialistic, hedonistic , etc. just like many mainstream  90s rapper, only he had a literary twist.
I made some changes and I hope
no one minds. It easily improves it. 2600:1012:B1BB:3B93:B92A:8248:C935:87BA (talk) 17:45, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poorly written and over-opinionated