KD3 >>>> King Disease 2 >>> King Disease 1..... But Why? Because.....

[Piff Perkins]

The chemistry is better and I think both upped their game. I feel like this album was 100% built for Nas, and they had a gameplan about intros, pacing, outros. Whereas KD to me felt there were a couple tracks that could have gone on any of the albums Hit dropped that year (some of the ladies tracks for instance). That's not a knock, Nas made them his own. I'm just saying like...KD2 sounds like Hit Boy said ok let me study these boom bap drums. Let me study these 90s drums. Queens vibes are heavily inspired by 80s r&b? Ok let me sample something from that vibe (No Phony Love). Even one of the most TRAP songs on the album, 40 Side, sounds almost like if Havoc made a trap beat.

And I think lyrically Nas really stepped it up. The flows and lyrics, finding the right pockets...even rapping over trap beats well. It's hard for 90s NY rappers. Both Jay and Nas struggled with it initially but I think both have figured out they have to basically approach it a certain way, since they don't have that natural southern bounce/vibe that southern trap rappers (and west coast rappers) have. Nas sounds hungry as fukk on this album to me. Almost as if he didn't care about a Grammy or the success...he was on a mission to prove he's still, well, Nas.

At this point I feel like they have to do a third album, or at least Hit Boy has to be heavily involved in the next album. Maybe Nas brings back Salaam and other guys, or new guys...but Hit gotta have a couple beats next time.

 

[RAW_SPK]

I don't think KD2 has better track than the "Cure" but overall KD2 is better album..You're right.

I’d argue “The Pressure”, “Nobody” or “My Bible” as better than “The Cure”

 

[Mike the Executioner]

I really didn't expect them to go to a higher level with this album. I thought at worst, we would get something that follows the same path sonically as the first King's Disease. And that's not even a worst-case scenario because King's Disease was a great album. But they went above and beyond and decided to compete against themselves to give us an even better album than the first one. This one is just......different, from the tone to the way people are talking about it. The last Nas album before 2020 that got universal acclaim, something that could go up there with his absolute best work, was Life is Good. Nine years later, Nas put out another album that could enter that discussion.........30 years after his first ever appearance on a record.

These last two albums cement what I already knew: Nas should be the yardstick against which all other rappers in his age group are measured. You still see that hunger, that desire to compete and put out the best work. Even younger rappers are recognizing that they don't have to let the quality of their music slip as the years go by and the comfort increases. J. Cole proved that with The Off-Season, still wanting to challenge himself at 36 years old. Now, you see Nas doing the same thing at 47 years old. We're all blessed to see it in real time.

 

[Mindfield333]

KD2 better to me.
Something about KD one didn’t do it for me. Maybe it was the anticipation

 

[Peruvian Connect]

not really feeling either one,. KD does have a few memorable songs. KD2 i don't remember shiit but the unnecessary "Death Row East" and the Lil Baby sample on "40 Side"

 

[Ziggiy]

Kings Disease is a GREAT album but Kings Disease 2 is a fukking classic


Nas and Hit took everything that was good about the first album and amplified it. The writing is pristine, there is not ONE wasted bar on the entire 52 minutes of runtime. Hit Boy’s production is also extremely cinematic, I haven’t gotten THIS type of feeling about a rapper’s production since Good Kid M.A.A.D City where I felt I was listening to a movie.

 

[winb83]

I prefer King Disease 1

Same. The best tracks on KD1 are better than KD2's best.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

I liked KD2 better just off the strength of the production, especially the 2nd half.

 

[CAVEMAN]

he aint really step his flow or lyrics up, he still on late-career autopilot like the last few, i'm not really gonna bump much of this except the Lauryn feature. The beats are proper, its just him not being motivated to really rap that wild anymore. Just some steady flow, expensive references without depth of why thats particularly fly, a few grown statements, a few popular meme phrases to show he's "in touch with the youth" -- not anything particularly Nas-ish impressive from Nas rapping. The beats are fire, thats still not the problem, its just the rapping. its literally not any better rapping than Polo G or G Herbo are doing acceptably right now, except that he's got the good legacy to glide on


At least his sex references arent as cringey now. Im happy for him that he's rich and comfortable. His most impressive verse recently was the new ending on the finished Life Is Like A Dice Game

 

[Trace]

he aint really step his flow or lyrics up, he still on late-career autopilot like the last few, i'm not really gonna bump much of this except the Lauryn feature. The beats are proper, its just him not being motivated to really rap that wild anymore. Just some steady flow, expensive references without depth of why thats particularly fly, a few grown statements, a few popular meme phrases to show he's "in touch with the youth" -- not anything particularly Nas-ish impressive from Nas rapping. The beats are fire, thats still not the problem, its just the rapping. its literally not any better rapping than Polo G or G Herbo are doing acceptably right now, except that he's got the good legacy to glide on


At least his sex references arent as cringey now. Im happy for him that he's rich and comfortable. His most impressive verse recently was the new ending on the finished Life Is Like A Dice Game

What?

 

[CAVEMAN]

What?

I dont particularly fukk with Polo G & Herbo that much either, they on the same sort of generic mildly conscious / barely poetic / fly guy autopilot as Nas is on lately. you might not know if you're not paying attention to them

 

[Trace]

I dont particularly fukk with Polo G & Herbo that much either, they on the same sort of generic sort of conscious sort of fly autopilot as Nas is on lately. you might not know if you're not paying attention to them

I've only heard a couple of features but I just wouldn't have thought to equate Nas with either of them even with the autopilot criticisms. Personally I don't feel that way which is why I was extra thrown off by the comparison.

 

[Ziggiy]

he aint really step his flow or lyrics up, he still on late-career autopilot like the last few, i'm not really gonna bump much of this except the Lauryn feature. The beats are proper, its just him not being motivated to really rap that wild anymore. Just some steady flow, expensive references without depth of why thats particularly fly, a few grown statements, a few popular meme phrases to show he's "in touch with the youth" -- not anything particularly Nas-ish impressive from Nas rapping. The beats are fire, thats still not the problem, its just the rapping. its literally not any better rapping than Polo G or G Herbo are doing acceptably right now, except that he's got the good legacy to glide on


At least his sex references arent as cringey now. Im happy for him that he's rich and comfortable. His most impressive verse recently was the new ending on the finished Life Is Like A Dice Game

Damn Kelis you STILL mad

 

[NoHalfWay]

I’d argue “The Pressure”, “Nobody” or “My Bible” as better than “The Cure”

My Bible and Nobody for sure edge out the second part of The Cure, which is perfection itself

Store Run is right up there too

 

[head shots101]

2 is better