I Gave You Power vs Me and My Girlfriend

Started by Big Dangerous, Mar 25, 2018, in Music Add to Reading List

Which is better ?

  1. I Gave You Power

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  2. Me and My Girlfriend

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  1. Big Dangerous
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    Big Dangerous World Heavyweight Champion

    Mar 25, 2018
    both dope songs it just always upset me that Nas explains that he is speaking as a gun at the beginning instead of letting the listener find it out themselves
     
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  2. Groovy Tony
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    Mar 25, 2018
    Nas did it first and did it better
     
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  3. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Mar 25, 2018
    Me and My Girlfriend is much more iconic
     
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  4. Big Dangerous
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    Mar 25, 2018
    I'm not sure about that tbh
     
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Mar 25, 2018
    Definitely. But then again Pac is much more iconic than Nas
     
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  6. Winter
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    Mar 26, 2018
    Both classics, but I Gave You Power has an extra dimension that Me & My Girlfriend doesn’t
     
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    Mar 26, 2018
    I think Pac's version is better because it expanded the concept.
     
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  8. Zebedee
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    Mar 26, 2018
    I gave you power is much better. Nas’s descriptive lyricism is better than PACs.
     
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    While we’re on this topic, It Was Written > Illmatic
     
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  10. Jay Zeus
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    Mar 26, 2018
    Love both, but this. And I actually like Nas more, if not, just as much as I do Tupac, as iconic 1990's-Era Hip-Hop Heavyweights. Listened to Tupac a lot when I was really young. Turned a teenager and became a huge Nas fan.

    That feeling followed me throughout my Early-20's. I still play Pac when I want to let go of some anger, therapeutically. It's usually a song where Pac is just going in, non-stop, raging about a topic that really grinds his gears.

    "Me and My Girlfriend" is such a classic though. Hard to pit any similar song against it for the purpose of comparing and contrasting.

    Love "I Gave You Power", but like someone said, it lost its true luster before it even began because Nas lets you know that's he's mentioning a gun throughout the verse before he even starts the song. Tupac knew better.
     
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  11. Antman
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    Mar 26, 2018
    This n----- wrote his autobiography
     
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  12. Jay Zeus
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    n-----, I'm your grandfather. Have some respect
     
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