lil wayne

[NasEscobar]

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nas and kool g? cmon now youre just name dropping. you meant rakim admit it, or atleast BDK

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Nas is commonly siad to be influenced by three or four dudes, Rakim, Kane, and Kool G. Honestly of those I've only taken the time to listen to Kool G so I only put him in there. I'm not going to say he was influenced by someone when I haven't myself taken the time to listen to so I only put in Kool G.

From what I've heard Kool G was one of the first dudes that were doing complex multisyllable rhymes and internal rhyming. Both of those were things that made Illmatic great, maybe I'm overestimating the lyrical side because that's what I really enjoy about rap as opposed to flow or something else. And a lot of the mafiaso rap that Nas did after Illmatic (on it was written or the Firm ablum for instance) was heavily influenced by Kool G. Of course he might have also been influence by the other guys too, and I'm sure he was, but again I haven't gotten around to those guys yet.

When I listened to Kool G (after listening to a lot of Nas) I definetly seen a lot of similarities between the two.
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and em would have made it without nas or az.. em blew up cus of his battle tip if anything you can attest that to being influenced by chino xl

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When Eminem first came up (his first album was called infinite or something like that I think) a lot of people were saying he was biting Nas and AZ style verbatim. Obviously he was using different subject matter but the rhyme structure was similar.