Nas "I Am" got 4.5 Mic when it came out. WHY DOES THE COLI&the internet HATE IT?!
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seemorecizzy
Superstar
album was all over the place
u can tell they rushingly put something together after the bootleggin shyt
i am has some of the best songs of all time on it ( nas is like, undying love, hate me now etc) so its far from wack. it just was missin direction
u can tell they rushingly put something together after the bootleggin shyt
i am has some of the best songs of all time on it ( nas is like, undying love, hate me now etc) so its far from wack. it just was missin direction
No it wasn't. Someone scanned the review and the review aligns with the retail version of the album. Nastradamus was the rushed album.
Over the years, the narrative shifted. I remember I Am actually being touted as Nas's 2nd best album, but Stillmatic changed that. Nas acquired new fans and people went back and listened. In the mix, It Was Written was viewed in a more favorable light from new Nas fans and some of the older day one fans were warning up to it.
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Well that was the version bootlegged
But I tell you what,I think purists and rap fans would have still been divided over I am even if it was the double album with the Lost Tapes/Clue mixtape joints cause it still wasnt Illmatic in their eyes
But I tell you what,I think purists and rap fans would have still been divided over I am even if it was the double album with the Lost Tapes/Clue mixtape joints cause it still wasnt Illmatic in their eyes
sayyestothis
Free the guys
My least favorite Nas album,
I thought like 50% of the beats sucked
Sounds like almost EVERY Nas album.
JayBaldacci
All Star
It was not for the retail... they talked about blaze a 50 in the review I believe.
Ethnic Cleansing
Fucc Slobks and Crabks
Dummy Question... but how where albums so easily bootlegged (In good quality) before the digital era?
DaveyDave
Superstar
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The review was of the original version of the album. Even then, most albums didn’t have all the songs on it and wasn’t fully sequences etc when The Source and other magazines did their reviews. They had to do it months ahead of release because of printing the mag.
I been making this statement on this site for years. Mad revisionist history here. I am was a huge success commercially and critically when it dropped.
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No it wasnt. If you read the review there is no song from the unreleased lp that comes up in the article
They did not