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never felt God Son like that. Illmatic and Lost Tapes are his undeniable classics.
Classics Discussion: Nas
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I'm sorry...Nas Stillmatic is a classic. This was the album that propelled Hip Hop's golden boy...the man that crafted Illmatic before he turned 20 years old...back into the Hip Hop consciousness. It was acclaimed then within the hip hop community and still is. Let's take a look at the tracks:
1. Stillmatic - Beautiful intro and one of the best intros of any post 2000 album. The beat is bombastic and signals the triumphant return of the God. From there, you knew it was over.
2. Ether - I don't even have to say sh!t...YA'LL ALREADY KNOW. Camel never been the same after this track.
3. Got Ur Self...- Not a standout track on the album but still a very catchy track and Nas kills it. "I'm the N-the A- to the S-I- R, and if I wasn't, I must've been Escobar"
4 - Smokin - Never understood any lil hate this track received. Nice coasting beat and absolutely ideal for those times you wanna sit back and light one up.
5 - You're the Man - Quite possibly my favorite Large Pro beat ever. Extra P sampled Rodriguez' Sugar Man to perfection. And Nas showed why he still is the GOAT MC. "Your arms to short to box with God...don't kill soloists, only kill SQUADS"
6 - Rewind - Contender for Top 3 most creative tracks the GOAT ever made. Who you know pulling this off better than Nasir? And that LP beat is beautiful. Nice and funky, but subdued...perfect for the concept.
7 - One Mic - This track is what anyone should direct someone to as indication that Nasir Jones is the greatest lyrical poet in hip hop history. Nuff said.
8 - Second Childhood - One of my favorite tracks of all time. Made me know that I couldn't, and wouldn't, end up being some bum, broke ass, living in my mom's crib, like @SirBiatch . Great lyrics. Great beat. Classic.
9 - Destroy and Rebuild - Nas catches the spirit of the Great Slick Rick and verbally tongue lashes his fellow Queensbridge artists. Like a father letting his children know they playing themselves and need to get their sh!t together.
10 - The Flyest - Nas and AZ get together for their trademark trade offs and we get spectacular results, as per usual.
11 and 12 - Admittedly not great tracks, but that's been well established. Braveheart Party is one of my least favorite Nas tracks. Rule isn't as bad as some like to make it, but in no way, shape or form a good Nas track.
13 - My Country. "My country sh!tted on me, she wants to get rid of me...cause the things I seen. Cause the things I SEEEEEN". I like My Country. Nas and Millenium Thug do capable jobs. Not a bad track.
14 - What Goes Around - Like what the big homie @mobbinfms said, if you say "The n!gga Ike with the Iverson Jersey..." n!ggas will know immediately what you're talking about. An iconic Nasir song. Fvck that...an iconic HIP HOP song. You call it Thanksgiving, I call your Holiday Hell Day
15 - Every Ghetto - the track that made EVERYBODY ask "Who the hell is that dude rhyming with Nas? He killed it!" Blitz killed it. "Hear the sounds of the babies cry, still I'm saying why, do we reside, in the Ghetto, with a million ways to die". O yea...Nas killed his two verses. But that's expected.
I'd say one wack track on the album, and two ok ones. And the album was hailed as a classic by hip hop media then and still to this day. Nas came back and took back his crown as the best MC. In the process he damaged Hip Hop's biggest MC at the time. It commercially did very well, Nas has a bunch of memorable, classic verses and tracks on it, and the beats were so dope that MCs were freestyling over alot of them for years. Stillmatic not being a universally hailed classic is fallacy.
1. Stillmatic - Beautiful intro and one of the best intros of any post 2000 album. The beat is bombastic and signals the triumphant return of the God. From there, you knew it was over.
2. Ether - I don't even have to say sh!t...YA'LL ALREADY KNOW. Camel never been the same after this track.
3. Got Ur Self...- Not a standout track on the album but still a very catchy track and Nas kills it. "I'm the N-the A- to the S-I- R, and if I wasn't, I must've been Escobar"
4 - Smokin - Never understood any lil hate this track received. Nice coasting beat and absolutely ideal for those times you wanna sit back and light one up.
5 - You're the Man - Quite possibly my favorite Large Pro beat ever. Extra P sampled Rodriguez' Sugar Man to perfection. And Nas showed why he still is the GOAT MC. "Your arms to short to box with God...don't kill soloists, only kill SQUADS"
6 - Rewind - Contender for Top 3 most creative tracks the GOAT ever made. Who you know pulling this off better than Nasir? And that LP beat is beautiful. Nice and funky, but subdued...perfect for the concept.
7 - One Mic - This track is what anyone should direct someone to as indication that Nasir Jones is the greatest lyrical poet in hip hop history. Nuff said.
8 - Second Childhood - One of my favorite tracks of all time. Made me know that I couldn't, and wouldn't, end up being some bum, broke ass, living in my mom's crib, like @SirBiatch . Great lyrics. Great beat. Classic.
9 - Destroy and Rebuild - Nas catches the spirit of the Great Slick Rick and verbally tongue lashes his fellow Queensbridge artists. Like a father letting his children know they playing themselves and need to get their sh!t together.
10 - The Flyest - Nas and AZ get together for their trademark trade offs and we get spectacular results, as per usual.
11 and 12 - Admittedly not great tracks, but that's been well established. Braveheart Party is one of my least favorite Nas tracks. Rule isn't as bad as some like to make it, but in no way, shape or form a good Nas track.
13 - My Country. "My country sh!tted on me, she wants to get rid of me...cause the things I seen. Cause the things I SEEEEEN". I like My Country. Nas and Millenium Thug do capable jobs. Not a bad track.
14 - What Goes Around - Like what the big homie @mobbinfms said, if you say "The n!gga Ike with the Iverson Jersey..." n!ggas will know immediately what you're talking about. An iconic Nasir song. Fvck that...an iconic HIP HOP song. You call it Thanksgiving, I call your Holiday Hell Day
15 - Every Ghetto - the track that made EVERYBODY ask "Who the hell is that dude rhyming with Nas? He killed it!" Blitz killed it. "Hear the sounds of the babies cry, still I'm saying why, do we reside, in the Ghetto, with a million ways to die". O yea...Nas killed his two verses. But that's expected.
I'd say one wack track on the album, and two ok ones. And the album was hailed as a classic by hip hop media then and still to this day. Nas came back and took back his crown as the best MC. In the process he damaged Hip Hop's biggest MC at the time. It commercially did very well, Nas has a bunch of memorable, classic verses and tracks on it, and the beats were so dope that MCs were freestyling over alot of them for years. Stillmatic not being a universally hailed classic is fallacy.
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BlackMamba824
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Truest shyt posted imo. Sums up his career and the Stillmatic argument perfectly. Especially in comparison to other artists with good/great discographies.
I'm sorry...Nas Stillmatic is a classic. This was the album that propelled Hip Hop's golden boy...the man that crafted Illmatic before he turned 20 years old...in the Hip Hop consciousness. It was acclaimed then within the hip hop community and still is. Let's take a look at the tracks:
1. Stillmatic - Beautiful intro and one of the best intros of any post 2000 album. The beat is bombastic and signals the triumphant return of the God. From there, you knew it was over.
2. Ether - I don't even have to say sh!t...YA'LL ALREADY KNOW. Camel never been the same after this track.
3. Got Ur Self...- Not a standout track on the album but still a very catchy track and Nas kills it. "I'm the N-the A- to the S-I- R, and if I wasn't, I must've been Escobar"
4 - Smokin - Never understood any lil hate this track received. Nice coasting beat and absolutely ideal for those times you wanna sit back and light one up.
5 - You're the Man - Quite possibly my favorite Large Pro beat ever. Extra P sampled Rodriguez' Sugar Man to perfection. And Nas showed why he still is the GOAT MC. "Your arms to short to box with God...don't kill soloists, only kill SQUADS"
6 - Rewind - Contender for Top 3 most creative tracks the GOAT ever made. Who you know pulling this off better than Nasir? And that LP beat is beautiful. Nice and funky, but subdued...perfect for the concept.
7 - One Mic - This track is what anyone should direct someone to as indication that Nasir Jones is the greatest lyrical poet in hip hop history. Nuff said.
8 - Second Childhood - One of my favorite tracks of all time. Made me know that I couldn't, and wouldn't, end up being some bum, broke ass, living in my mom's crib, like @SirBiatch . Great lyrics. Great beat. Classic.
9 - Destroy and Rebuild - Nas catches the spirit of the Great Slick Rick and verbally tongue lashes his fellow Queensbridge artists. Like a father letting his children know they playing themselves and need to get their sh!t in together.
10 - The Flyest - Nas and AZ get together for their trademark trade offs and we get spectacular results, as per usual.
11 and 12 - Admittedly not great tracks, but that's been well established. Braveheart Party is one of my least favorite Nas tracks. Rule isn't as bad as some like to make it, but in no way, shape or form a good Nas track.
13 - My Country. "My country sh!tted on me, she wants to get rid of me...cause the things I seen. Cause the things I SEEEEEN". I like My Country. Nas and Millenium Thug do capable jobs. Not a bad track.
14 - What Goes Around - Like what the big homie @mobbinfms said, if you say "The n!gga Ike with the Iverson Jersey..." n!ggas will know immediately what you're talking about. An iconic Nasir song. Fvck that...an iconic HIP HOP song. You call it Thangsgiving, I call your Holiday Hell Day
15 - Every Ghetto - the track that made EVERYBODY ask "Who the hell is that dude rhyming with Nas? He killed it!" Blitz killed it. "Hear the sounds of the babies cry, still I'm saying why, do we reside, in the Ghetto, with a million ways to die". O yea...Nas killed his two verses. But that's expected.
I'd say one wack track on the album, and two ok ones. And the album was hailed as a classic by hip hop media then and still to this day. Nas came back and took back his crown as the best MC. In the process he damaged Hip Hop's biggest MC at the time. It commercially did very well, Nas has a bunch of memorable, classic verses and tracks on it, and the beats were so dope that MCs were freestyling over alot of them for years. Stillmatic not being a universally hailed classic is fallacy.
BlackMamba824
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I don't always agree with your opinions, but every now and then I'm legit like this
when I read some of your posts.
BlackMamba824
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BasicallyI got no beef with that. I just don't understand how Fix can be a classic and Stillmatic not, when Stillmatic is a better album that is held in higher regard over the years. Actually i do understand. Scarface never made Illmatic.
UpAndComing
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Prop up the Camel's career like the hump on his back brehs
Illmatic/IWW/Stillmatic(2nd copy didn't have Braveheart Party
) are CLASSICs
...God'son
and I AM
are personal Classics
Nastradamus/Street Disciples (shoulda been one disc) bottoms out the GAWD discography
) are CLASSICs...God'son
and I AM are personal ClassicsNastradamus/Street Disciples (shoulda been one disc) bottoms out the GAWD discography
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Where is The Lost Tapes? While as a compilation it didn't have that impact sonically it is one of my favorite hip hop records. I wouldn't be mad if it was considered Nas second best album...
Stillmatic is a classic...
-2nd Childhood, One Mic, Rewind, The Flyest, Destroy & Rebuild, You're da Man, Intro, Ether and the impact it had upon drop it's certified and one of the best albums of the 2000's
Illmatic no question, IWW is classic too
Stillmatic is a classic...
-2nd Childhood, One Mic, Rewind, The Flyest, Destroy & Rebuild, You're da Man, Intro, Ether and the impact it had upon drop it's certified and one of the best albums of the 2000's
Illmatic no question, IWW is classic too
Yo Sirbiatch a coward, 41, and livin in his moms crib
On the Coli, trolling, Talks nonsense, still sucking on his mom's t*ts
Hairline receding, on Billy Ocean d!ck cause he got no crew
He breaks his moms furniture, getting hype when trolling in the Booth...
Smarten up, biatch.
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Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
@SirBiatch @Billy Ocean
cut this shyt out
you said it yourself. It's a compilation. I don't count those.
cut this shyt out
you said it yourself. It's a compilation. I don't count those.
My dude, don't quote me like I had in a hand in this shyt. You're not blind. You know who stalking and who's minding his own business.
Yo Sirbiatch a coward, 41, and livin in his moms crib
On the Coli, trolling, Talks nonsense, still sucking on his mom's t*ts
Hairline receding, on Billy Ocean d!ck cause he got no crew
He break's his moms furniture, getting hype when trolling in the Booth...
Smarten up, biatch.
please stop stalking me...
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
But you had Dynasty for Jay, he wasn't even on all the songs it's a Rocafella compilation. By the way I love the Dynasty personal classic just get them Rick Rubin joints out.@SirBiatch @Billy Ocean
cut this shyt out
you said it yourself. It's a compilation. I don't count those.
You act like Lost Tapes was a soundtrack or something it's a compilation of unreleased material that many people had never heard if you wasnt in the bootleg market and shyt.
It really is a fantastic album.
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
But you had Dynasty for Jay, he wasn't even on all the songs it's a Rocafella compilation. By the way I love the Dynasty personal classic just get them Rick Rubin joints out.
You act like Lost Tapes was a soundtrack or something it's a compilation of unreleased material that many people had never heard if you wasnt in the bootleg market and shyt.
It really is a fantastic album.
not gonna lie dude, I literally use Wikipedia for categorisation so I don't get confused about what is what. Dynasty is an official studio album and as it turns out, wasn't voted classic anyway.
The Lost Tapes is registered as a compilation, doesn't matter what form. But yes I know it's fantastic. Maybe third fav Nas 'album' for me.
My bad I just saw the quote