Coli Nas Stans - Are You Ready to Admit You Overrated the Hitboy Albums ?

[Awesome Wells]

Mafukkas was really crashing out over Hitboy.

I posted about not liking KD series and mafukkas was acting like I punt kicked a baby into oncoming traffic.

The 1 dude on here who thinks he is Nas' child harassed me all day. I had to put dude on ignore.
Mind you, I always posted positive shyt about Nas music.
But just because I didn't like those albums mafukkas became angry bytches.

We have a lot of weirdos on here who are scared to see people with different opinions.

Half of these dudes ain't even real Nas fans. They come on here and say sh*t that they think will get them daps. So they can feel a sense of belonging. Corny sh*t. But speaking as a day one Nas fan, I always get hype to hear dude is making some new music. That Hit-Boy run just confused the sh*t out of me. I still don’t know why Nas gave that dude the time of day. N*ggas in the barbershop said Nas must've lost a bet to dude, at some point. LOL!! But I did f*ck with Magic, but that one didn't count because it had all these uncredited producers who worked on it. Which is why it was mad doper than any other album in the series.

I say all this to say, I've known Nas since I was 15-16, and he's always been one of my GOAT's. I'm glad he's getting away from that bum and back to working with people who are certified.

 

[TheNig]

Cuh name is ItWasWritten but he's shyttin' on Esco.

I am so confused.

 

[Mastamimd]

We have a lot of weirdos on here who are scared to see people with different opinions.

Half of these dudes ain't even real Nas fans. They come on here and say sh*t that they think will get them daps. So they can feel a sense of belonging. Corny sh*t. But speaking as a day one Nas fan, I always get hype to hear dude is making some new music. That Hit-Boy run just confused the sh*t out of me. I still don’t know why Nas gave that dude the time of day. N*ggas in the barbershop said Nas must've lost a bet to dude, at some point. LOL!! But I did f*ck with Magic, but that one didn't count because it had all these uncredited producers who worked on it. Which is why it was mad doper than any other album in the series.

I say all this to say, I've known Nas since I was 15-16, and he's always been one of my GOAT's. I'm glad he's getting away from that bum and back to working with people who are certified.

That's the Ziggiy dude, I seen him and Sonic interact and I'm like dog...he does it to anyone that says anything negative about Nas

Surprised you didn't like KD3. That's better than Magic to me

 

[semicko82]

We have a lot of weirdos on here who are scared to see people with different opinions.

Half of these dudes ain't even real Nas fans. They come on here and say sh*t that they think will get them daps. So they can feel a sense of belonging. Corny sh*t. But speaking as a day one Nas fan, I always get hype to hear dude is making some new music. That Hit-Boy run just confused the sh*t out of me. I still don’t know why Nas gave that dude the time of day. N*ggas in the barbershop said Nas must've lost a bet to dude, at some point. LOL!! But I did f*ck with Magic, but that one didn't count because it had all these uncredited producers who worked on it. Which is why it was mad doper than any other album in the series.

I say all this to say, I've known Nas since I was 15-16, and he's always been one of my GOAT's. I'm glad he's getting away from that bum and back to working with people who are certified.

Exactly

Jay is my GOAT but I'm critical of more than half his discography.

No rapper, musician, entertainer, etc is above criticism

 

[904]

The issue with those albums, wasn't Nas.

Which is why people like to shy away from speaking on the production, and they focus on how much they love Nas, lol. The run gets a lot of criticism because Hit-Boy ain't dope enough to have that many damn albums with Nas. Nas admittedly likes to experiment, but had he done that many projects with a dope or legendary producer, we'd be looking at all classic albums.

Away from Magic, which Hit-Boy had a lot of help on, whether people know it or not, the rest of that run was wild forgettable when it comes to the beats. Whenever the Primo project drops, we'll see Nas back in the company of a producer who's actually worthy of the studio time with him.

No wonder that was always my favorite..

But the series was ok to me.. Not bad, not great.. Hit Boys production just lacks something for me.. Kinda like a jack of all trades but doesn't have an identity..

And I feel Nas did a lot of rapping just to be rapping.. Not a completely bad thing from a goat but yeah...

 

[ItWasWritten]

People were saying Nas was off beat and talking about him falling off. Articles wondering why he didn't address the Kelis allegations, claims of him being an anti-vaxxer. Threads where people were taking his previous "bad" albums, shaving them down to seven tracks, and talking about how even those were better. Talking about how he missed his window to drop something after "Nas Album Done" came out. It was his first album in six years, and the first one since Life is Good, and a Kanye-produced album, so expectations were high. Most people didn't know exactly how much Kanye fukked up when the album first came out.

King's Disease was seen as the return to form. Trying to downplay the Hit-Boy era and what it meant to Nas' career makes no sense to me.

Meant to his career ? No.

It meant something to super Stans - nobody was calling Nas a antivaxxer or begging him to address Kelis accept white cancel culture weirdos, me personally I could care less what he believes or if he gave her some bars or not.

Nas career has been set in stone - bad albums aren’t going to change anybody’s opinion on him at this point


Y’all talk about the hitboy era like it his magnum opus and I really don’t understand it

 

[ItWasWritten]

Cuh name is ItWasWritten but he's shyttin' on Esco.

I am so confused.

I’m not shytting on Nas, I just think people here overrated those albums AND especially those beats

It actuallt turned into a protect hitboy at all cost movement

I remember one dude shyt on Alchemist cuz we wanted to hear Nas spit over some of his beats - nikkaz are deranged

 

[ItWasWritten]

Mafukkas was really crashing out over Hitboy.

I posted about not liking KD series and mafukkas was acting like I punt kicked a baby into oncoming traffic.

The 1 dude on here who thinks he is Nas' child harassed me all day. I had to put dude on ignore.
Mind you, I always posted positive shyt about Nas music.
But just because I didn't like those albums mafukkas became angry bytches.

Ziggly

Nigha blocked me cuz I didn’t give each hitboy beat a 5/5

 

[kes929]

We have a lot of weirdos on here who are scared to see people with different opinions.

Half of these dudes ain't even real Nas fans. They come on here and say sh*t that they think will get them daps. So they can feel a sense of belonging. Corny sh*t. But speaking as a day one Nas fan, I always get hype to hear dude is making some new music. That Hit-Boy run just confused the sh*t out of me. I still don’t know why Nas gave that dude the time of day. N*ggas in the barbershop said Nas must've lost a bet to dude, at some point. LOL!! But I did f*ck with Magic, but that one didn't count because it had all these uncredited producers who worked on it. Which is why it was mad doper than any other album in the series.

I say all this to say, I've known Nas since I was 15-16, and he's always been one of my GOAT's. I'm glad he's getting away from that bum and back to working with people who are certified.

“But that one didn’t count” yall be on here making up stuff to try to justify your argument

 

[FunkDoc1112]

They're solid albums that the core fanbase overhyped because of PTSD from the Nasir album. But I'm in the same boat as you - Magic and KDIII are the only ones I'd call truly great.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

It was nice to see Nas get the fire relit in him to make music but the albums in general are missing that special touch that made even his uneven work from the past still have something that made you come back to them years later.

Yup - they're very safe albums, which to be fair is what you'd expect from a guy in his late 40s/50 who's in a great place in life. But it doesn't have the teeth of a younger Nas. A surly street nikka with a Messiah complex, even if it gets silly at times, is always gonna be a more interesting protag than a wise, successful old heads. They're more side characters lol

A compelling old head is usually somebody who still has an axe to grind and is vulnerable as fukk.

 

[prophecypro]

You cant say it was only this board and Nas fans who hyped it either. The general consensus was and you see it amongst other critics and hip hop media that this run was another example of older rappers flourising in a lane and obviously it brought Hit Boy back as a in demand producer in a big way (more than doing a 1/3rd of Sicko Mode)
if anything its old nikkas on this board that dont wanna change and believe Hit Boy got lucky and think Nas can do this with older producers from the past.....we'll see bout that. We had this argument before but I'd honestly rather Nas work with young producers and make them go into their east coast old school bag where they can create beats that sound like samples, still feel sonically fresh cause they know about modern mixng as opposed to the old guys who were used to sampling and now either cant or cant as well and everything is a litltle off.

Hey I liked Define My Name for what it was, it as fine and good...and yall crapped out on that one too...and then yall get really lame and start going back and finally coming around to older Nas work that yall hated before, just to be contraian.

Now I gotta see stupid shyt like "actually nastradamus is better than KD 3 and Magic" like alright 98 was your year Al Bundy.

 

[GeeEffKay]

Every single one ranges from solid to great, a couple of them fantastic. At this point in his career a run like this deserves the praise.

 

[TripleAgent]

Magic was better than Illmatic you tripping not all were classics but at least 2 of them were.

Smoke crack laced with fent, flakka and pcp, brehs

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Meant to his career ? No.

It meant something to super Stans - nobody was calling Nas a antivaxxer or begging him to address Kelis accept white cancel culture weirdos, me personally I could care less what he believes or if he gave her some bars or not.

Nas career has been set in stone - bad albums aren’t going to change anybody’s opinion on him at this point


Y’all talk about the hitboy era like it his magnum opus and I really don’t understand it

We both know all of this. It's about the narrative that gets pushed. If someone like Jay or Eminem or Kanye comes out with six albums of this quality in three years, you don't think that's going to change the way people look at them? Make them go up in the rankings? The fact that Nas was able to pull this off at this stage in his career should be praised. Nobody's claiming these are his best albums. But it's the level of consistency over multiple projects in a short amount of time, coming from a middle-aged rapper who has long since passed his prime, that gets attention.

It's also the level of quality control. Before King's Disease, there was always one or two songs on every Nas album that people would cherry pick as being a crime against humanity. "Who Killed It," "Summer on Smash," "Jarreau of Rap." I haven't seen anyone do that with the Hit-Boy albums. You don't hear anyone say that Nas picks bad beats anymore, either. Not that it was ever true, but a lot of the old perceptions that surrounded Nas' music don't exist anymore.

Personally, I think people just got upset stomachs over Nas dropping so much music in the time that he did. Now, they would rather act like it didn't happen and move on from it.