Nas: D.O.E. (Death of Escobar) vol.1 Album Review VIBE Magazine
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feelosofer
#ninergang
Wow what a good find.
Master V
Pro
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Lot of magazines did album reviews back in the day of albums that never came out. It does make you wonder what they were hearing
Jimmy the gent
I'm still eatin off Lufthansa
Props for this bro, got alotta dope shyt off here. Mad comps and shelved albums. I advise every hip hop head to check it out
I love how the writer said Nas Escobar was a generic Moet-sipping 'mogul', and dude had soulless rhymes* 
It's the truth. The kind of truth you're simply not going to find from any so-called hip hop tastemaker today because they're either complete pretenders who don't feel hip hop or they're too busy slurping for favors. I've always said this, but critics in the 90s had far higher standards than nowadays. and as a result, we as listeners had higher standards. We could be huge fans of an artist and still criticize them if they drop wack shyt. Nowadays, you just stan shyt music and get furious when others disagree 
*I'm always surprised when some claim IWW was great and even better than Illmatic. It's the ultimate
to me. Can't y'all hear how shytty most of those beats are? How soulless half the rhymes are? I mean, the rhymes are imaginative because it's Nas the vivid one but them shyts lack soul.
It's the truth. The kind of truth you're simply not going to find from any so-called hip hop tastemaker today because they're either complete pretenders who don't feel hip hop or they're too busy slurping for favors. I've always said this, but critics in the 90s had far higher standards than nowadays. and as a result, we as listeners had higher standards. We could be huge fans of an artist and still criticize them if they drop wack shyt. Nowadays, you just stan shyt music and get furious when others disagree *I'm always surprised when some claim IWW was great and even better than Illmatic. It's the ultimate
to me. Can't y'all hear how shytty most of those beats are? How soulless half the rhymes are? I mean, the rhymes are imaginative because it's Nas the vivid one but them shyts lack soul.
They did get advances from labels or stole that shyt (filesharing) usually. Remember a Source review for Cuban Link's 24k album, there were reviews for Left Eye's NINA album...
Danny_Duberstein
Pro
Idk how I've never come across that blog over the years, major props breh.
Damn this man esco really got unlimited gems out here
InfamousThoro
All Star
Dude is active over at Wutang-corp forum. One of the few good posters over there
The Death of Escobar mixtape was released I had a copy in 2000. It was not released by major retailers
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skokiaan
African original
thisThe kind of truth you're simply not going to find from any so-called hip hop tastemaker today because they're either complete pretenders who don't feel hip hop or they're too busy slurping for favors. I've always said this, but critics in the 90s had far higher standards than nowadays. and as a result, we as listeners had higher standards. We could be huge fans of an artist and still criticize them if they drop wack shyt. Nowadays, you just stan shyt music and get furious when others disagree
OGBobbyJohnson
Veteran
That album would've been LIT
That Slick Rick influence would've been so prevalent on this project
That Slick Rick influence would've been so prevalent on this project
$cam-U-Well_Jack$on
Superstar
Props.
