Nas "I Am" got 4.5 Mic when it came out. WHY DOES THE COLI&the internet HATE IT?!
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Big Mel
@bigboss
Album is incomprehensibly trash. In any capacity.
spliz
SplizThaDon
Excuse? nikka it's the reason his album was switched. It was not an excuse. It was a fact. Ur obviously too young to remember what was going on at the time. And the album STILL went multiplat when it released. So wheres the excuse?
nikkas was taking notes to Dr Knockboot on some
spliz
SplizThaDon
1999.
spliz
SplizThaDon
shyt would be dope but nikkas is so stuck on Illmatic that people act like that's the only interesting part of his career.
spliz
SplizThaDon
Double post
Illmatic didn’t perform poorly. It sold steadily and went gold in January of 96. It continued to sell steadily after that.
filial_piety
Banned
As someone who things Nas it the goat to ever do it...I say its his worst album. It has 2 songs with any real replay value (Nas is like, Small world) the rest of the tracks are ehhh....
filial_piety
Banned
yeah I know i'm in the minority but I think Nastradamus has a better list overall.
Homey the clown
Homey don't play that
I may he in the minority but I am is probably my favorite Nas album. I dont get why people hate this album so much online. Whats funny is when It was written came out people were hating on that album and were saying Nas had sold out with the Mafioso thing and now it's considered a classic by Nas fans and one of his best albums.
It has a few okay songs. Didn't like it at all when i got it. It was all over and had no direction. Bad executive producing. (Which I wouldn't have said in that way back then.)
He was trying to go more pop at the time which is more accepted now. He went from his first two albums to having Southern sounding songs, a lazy flow, too many guests, r&b spots etc. Scarface and Nas should have brought something it was average. Nas and Aaliyah was average. Sub par beats from Dame Grease
Plus with people like six july and Nashiem Myrick on their you were expecting heat. And after the first two albums hearing all those keyboard sounds and weak drums was awful. Source review didn't mean much at all by that point.
the 13 song bootleg was cool but still not great. That's the one i had first. Hearing Nas sing Kurtis Blow and rap on keyboards was too much. Music Transitioned around then to that sound so it may not be as shocking now.
I remember playing You Wanna Play Rough or whatever it was called a lot. Good song.
Plus he was killing shyt on his freestyles on mixtapes the year or two before. So even Nas was a let down rapping.
He was trying to go more pop at the time which is more accepted now. He went from his first two albums to having Southern sounding songs, a lazy flow, too many guests, r&b spots etc. Scarface and Nas should have brought something it was average. Nas and Aaliyah was average. Sub par beats from Dame Grease
Plus with people like six july and Nashiem Myrick on their you were expecting heat. And after the first two albums hearing all those keyboard sounds and weak drums was awful. Source review didn't mean much at all by that point.
the 13 song bootleg was cool but still not great. That's the one i had first. Hearing Nas sing Kurtis Blow and rap on keyboards was too much. Music Transitioned around then to that sound so it may not be as shocking now.
I remember playing You Wanna Play Rough or whatever it was called a lot. Good song.
Plus he was killing shyt on his freestyles on mixtapes the year or two before. So even Nas was a let down rapping.