90's tourny: Memory Lane vs. Wrong Side of the Tracks

admiral · Post by **admiral** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:54 am

Memory Lane
vs.
Wrong Side of the Tracks

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:55 am

Can't vote. Two of my favorite cuts from '94. Nas may get this if I decide to vote simply because of his live performance I saw last week.

Juice · Post by **Juice** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:08 am

we gotta get as many votes for memory lane as possible cause cats like lexus gonna try to fuck up Nas in this round.That said wrong side is a worthy opponent and could just maybe get my vote on some other day.

B. Ware tha Siniq · Post by **B. Ware tha Siniq** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:34 am

^^^ calm down. There's no way "Memory Lane" is not walking away with this one. Artifacts' joint is a classic, but "Memory Lane" is on some hip hop cannon status.

bringinoutbangerz · Post by **bringinoutbangerz** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:48 am

for the deceased Artifacts crew

clark bent · Post by **clark bent** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:00 pm

comin out with new editions like mike bivins

Sideways · Post by **Sideways** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:02 pm

Decipher prophecies through a mic and say peace.

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:12 pm

My intellect prevails from a hangin cross with nails
I reinforce the frail, with lyrics that's real
Word to Christ, a disciple of the streets, trifle on beats
I decifer prophecies through a mic and say peace.

whothefuckareyou · Post by **whothefuckareyou** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:25 pm

I'm out to bomb like Vietnam under the same name Tame One
The bad one, ink flow master bastard with the Magnum

Kid Wave · Post by **Kid Wave** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:42 pm

Philaflava wrote:Can't vote. Two of my favorite cuts from '94. .

So true.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:13 pm

"Memory Lane" is boring. I've never liked that beat. The Nas song should've been "The World Is Yours" or"Life's A Bitch" or "It Aint Hard To Tell".

Nas also deserves to get the push for being a confused cretin who doesn't know his ass from his elbow most of the time.

Voted Artifacts without hesitation.

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:18 pm

If Wrong Side Of The Tracks up against any other song on Illmatic, this outcome for me would've been different. Voted Artifacts since that concept alone of grafitti for this song and the video were just that dope.

Seiko Flossberg · Post by **Seiko Flossberg** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:31 pm

arlene · Post by **arlene** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:46 pm

dont like either song.

CheezPizza · Post by **CheezPizza** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:37 pm

Nas, but not as easily as i would have thought

lisixiang · Post by **lisixiang** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:36 pm

Artifacts, never really liked Memory Lane.

Doogs · Post by **Doogs** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:38 pm

@ anyone hating on anything from illmatic.

marinville · Post by **marinville** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:41 pm

memory lane, just as easyily as I would have thought.

adverse · Post by **adverse** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:09 pm

memory lane

grass · Post by **grass** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:41 pm

Memory Lane boring? It gets my vote any day.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:28 pm

I can't understand why anyone would disparage either of these songs.

They are very different though and it's a tough call.

Fuck it, I abstain.

Combo7 · Post by **Combo7** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:31 pm

^^ If you can't make up your mind you might as well just vote for New Jersey.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:33 pm

Combo7 wrote:^^ If you can't make up your mind you might as well just vote for New Jersey.

Yes, but Queensbridge is a few degrees farther east than Newark, so I have to submit to the East Coast bias.

Money Gripp · Post by **Money Gripp** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:18 am

Paragraph President wrote:
Combo7 wrote:^^ If you can't make up your mind you might as well just vote for New Jersey.
Yes, but Queensbridge is a few degrees farther east than Newark, so I have to submit to the East Coast bias.

Hahahaha

sun ra · Post by **sun ra** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:21 am

Wrong Side of the Tracks.

agony · Post by **agony** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:29 am

I Drive A Lexus wrote: Voted Artifacts without hesitation.

Reggie · Post by **Reggie** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:08 am

Decent Nas track vs. best Artifacts track.

Nas still took it.

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:24 am

some wack crook stole my black book, I know who took it
I know his whole bag because the fag writes his name crooked

B. Ware tha Siniq · Post by **B. Ware tha Siniq** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:32 am

Reggie wrote:Decent Nas track vs. best Artifacts track.

Nas still took it.

Decent?

I think this is one of Nas' more memorable verses personally. I might prefer "One Love," "Represent," or "The World Is Yours," on a given day, and "NY State of Mind" is definitely superior, but I think this track is definitely on par with most of Nas' best work:

One for the money
Two for pussy and foreign cars
Three for Alize niggas deceased or behind bars
I rap divine Gods check the prognosis, is it real or showbiz?
My window faces shootouts, drug overdoses
Live amongst no roses, only the drama, for real
A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja
Here's my basis, my razor embraces, many faces
Your telephone blowin, black stitches or fat shoelaces
Peoples are petro, dramatic automatic fo'-fo,' I let blow
and back down po-po when I'm vexed so
my pen taps the paper then my brain's blank
I see dark streets, hustlin brothers who keep the same rank
Pumpin for somethin, some uprise, plus some fail
Judges hangin niggas, uncorrect bails, for direct sales
My intellect prevails from a hangin cross with nails
I reinforce the frail, with lyrics that's real
Word to Christ, a disciple of streets, trifle on beats
I decifer prophecies through a mic and say peace.
I hung around the older crews while they sling smack to dingbats
They spoke of Fat Cat, that nigga's name made bell rings black
Some fiends scream, about Supreme Team, a Jamaica Queens thing
Uptown was Alpo, son, heard he was kingpin, yo
Fuck 'rap is real', watch the herbs stand still
Never talkin to snakes cause the words of man kill
True to the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins
I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

Excuse the ohhla. And the fact that you already know the words Reggie... haha. I'm just sayin'

oracle21 · Post by **oracle21** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:47 am

terribly difficult. but at the end of the day went the tame and mc el