2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
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Nas - I Am... (Original Version, 29 Tracks)
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Bugzbunny129
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Ehhh? No nas is like? Wtf. No hate me now? No nysom2?Instant cop
Side A
1. Fetus
2. Small World
3. Money Is My bytch
Side B
1. Project Windows
2. Poppa Was a Playa
3. Dr. Knockboots (Doe's and Don't)
Side C
1. Day Dreamin' Stay Schemin'****
2. Sometimes I Wonder (feat. Nature)
3. Hardest Thing To Do Is Stay Alive**** 4. Drunk By Myself
Side D
1. I Wanna Play***
2. Blaze a 50
3. We Will Survive
Sonis this the original leak?
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2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
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i know but it’s limited edition and there so much history behind this album and the leak it still has other dope shyt as well like fetus poppa was a playa blaze a 50
plus 98-02 is my favorite Nas era
Ricky43
Whats up
This was the best version, I think i paid 15 bucks for this bootleg. I wish Nas and his managment do something with all his unreleased material that was on CD back in the day. I been waiting for decades for an official release. I thought we were getting somewhere with the Lost Tapes series.
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2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
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so how many different versions are there???
Kinda strange they aren't doing this for the 25th anniversary which would be next year...unless Nas has more planned. I guess the question is could Sony put this out without* Nas involvement? Probably...but doesn't he own his masters now?
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2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
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thats what i was thinking it’s kinda the reason why i don’t wanna cop the vinyl cause maybe something else will be done for the 25 annoversary
but hey they dropped the vinyl for lost tapes this year in celebration of the 20th anniversary but the 20th anniversary was actually last year. I wonder if Nastradamus will get a celbration
Alexander Wiggin
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I don't know if it's legit or official but what I'm curious about is are they gonna put the songs on flac quality ? Certain songs were never released with Cd quality so what is the source of the recording ? Are they gonna do a low bitrate quality version and convert it to flac ? What songs are they gonna put in it knowing that none of the tracklist of the original I am is official. Is Sony or mass appeal is involve ?
oh damn that’s ass. Hopefully it’s 2 songs we never heard if that’s the case, but it’s doubt there now.
Honestly wouldn’t get my hopes up. Modern day vinyl masters are almost always an afterthought and sourced from whatever the CD release is gonna be. Considering some of those tracks never seen a flac release, not sure what they’re basing the master from. Just hope it isn’t something crazy like a high bit rate mp3 (or even worse lesser) or something like that.
I would assume Nas has no interest in clearing samples for 25 year old songs. Also there was no fixed tracklisting for the double album concept so its not like they had a concrete plan for which songs were supposed to make the final version. Nas would have to go back, probably link up with Steve Stoute, and revise an entire album. I think Nas probably doesn't want to put in that sort of leg work, especially now that he's on Mass Appeal and dropping new albums at a feverish pace.
The most we would get for a 25th anniversary is probably a remastered edition of the retail and some bonus songs. Maybe some backstory about the album cover and some commentary on the original plan for the album and some of the songs as well. I'm sure there will be some commentary about the concept of the "Hate Me Now" video.
Yeah and some of the songs that ended up on I Am... didn't even exist in the original concept, right? The Premier tracks and the songs with features were all last minute recordings to make up for the leak if I remember correctly.
Will be interesting to see if Fetus and Project Windows will be the original versions or the versions that ended up on Nastradamus and The Lost Tapes. I'm guessing the latter.
2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
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I need to see the track list cause i feel like that rsd canada one is not real especially if its being put on 2LP i feel like there would be more than 11 songs on there
A lot of what ended up on the album were intended songs. They weren't last minute additions. Its just that some of the songs that leaked were the ones without features. The Premo songs definitely weren't last minute.