Nas & DJ Premier - Define My Name (new single out now, album releasing later this year)

[reserved_one]

Nas really carried Preme on this song…

The beat ain’t wack, it’s just plain…no textures or anything to give you that feeling you expect from a Premier beat.

But I’ll wait and listen to the album to see how it goes.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Here go my favorite

Honestly I didn't like those albums on the production or rhyme level. I just hate Adrian Younge man lol. Dude is hailed as some genius yet virtually all of his music sounds significantly slower than the 60s/70s r&b he tries to imitate. There's no swing to his drums, the basslines are rarely funky, and when you sample it you get real slow bpm beats that just don't knock to me. And then on the rap level I just never fukked with Royce outside of a couple tracks (like Boom).

 

[TheJet]

Great warm up. If you think a Nas/Premo album won't have some fire on it, slap yaself. Let Preem start digging for real and watch the magic (no pun intended) happen. nikkas talking "character" and such, and this simple beat he probably made in 10 minutes has more swing, funk and flavor than 75% of them last 6 joints y'all suck off.

YEAH, I SAID IT

Lol. Aight .man. so you wasn't feeling NoNe of the records from the 6-peat?

 

[jensyao]

primo need to go hunting for some more floppy discs for his MPC. he probably didn't realize to save beats for Nas this whole time and just gave his best beats away to other rappers by now

 

[Cladyclad]

Honestly I didn't like those albums on the production or rhyme level. I just hate Adrian Younge man lol. Dude is hailed as some genius yet virtually all of his music sounds significantly slower than the 60s/70s r&b he tries to imitate. There's no swing to his drums, the basslines are rarely funky, and when you sample it you get real slow bpm beats that just don't knock to me. And then on the rap level I just never fukked with Royce outside of a couple tracks (like Boom).

Difference of opinion. I think Royce rapping on this album is better than Nas the last 10 years

 

[CrimsonTider]

Nas has literally picked some of the greatest beats in hip hop ever.

 

[spliz]

He has.

 

[TheJet]

primo need to go hunting for some more floppy discs for his MPC. he probably didn't realize to save beats for Nas this whole time and just gave his best beats away to other rappers by now

Well, I'm betting they gonna take time to slow roast this project, so I'm sure he'll pull out all the stops

 

[CrimsonTider]

He has.

No he has not

 

[TheJet]

Wild that 1 warm up joint sparked this much convo. When the full project drop, expect 6 different threads comparing it to MAGIC 1-3 - KD1-KD3.

 

[spliz]

No he has not

Yes he has. Beats like The World Is Yours, Nas Is Like, It Ain't Hard To Tell, Take It In Blood, etc etc are considered some of the best beats in hip hop. I'm not gonna argue further tho.

 

[TripleAgent]

Lol. Aight .man. so you wasn't feeling NoNe of the records from the 6-peat?

Not saying that at all. It's levels to this shyt though.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Difference of opinion. I think Royce rapping on this album is better than Nas the last 10 years

If you think Nas rambles and has too many words in his bars I'm amazed you fukk with Royce lol.

 

[kes929]

Great warm up. If you think a Nas/Premo album won't have some fire on it, slap yaself. Let Preem start digging for real and watch the magic (no pun intended) happen. nikkas talking "character" and such, and this simple beat he probably made in 10 minutes has more swing, funk and flavor than 75% of them last 6 joints y'all suck off.

YEAH, I SAID IT

And I like this song

 

[spliz]

If you think Nas rambles and has too many words in his bars I'm amazed you fukk with Royce lol.

He doesn't listen to Nas. Lol.