I also said that every Nas/Hit Boy album has outsold every Alchemist/insert rapper album. I said that Nas/Hit-Boy albums are more critically acclaimed than Alchemist/Insert rapper albums. I said Nas and Hit-Boy defeated Alchemist/Freddie Gibbs for the Grammy when they went head to head, the Grammy that Alchemist out of his OWN mouth said he desperately wanted to win.
So the combination of sales/acclaim/and accolades are all in favor in Nas and Hit Boy.
Why EXACTLY would Nas need to work with Alchemist again? What makes Alchemist NOT overrated on these boards when it comes to posters acting like he could give Nas something Hit Boy can’t when Hit and his production has literally given Nas EVERYTHING he’s been missing?
Like I said before, if you look at the results of Nas and Hit Boy’s work and think “Alchemist could somehow do better” you either a troll or you think the white man’s ice is colder. Simple as that.
Breh come on I normally agree with what you say but Alchemist undoubtedly has better rap resume than Hitboy, is it even an argument?
When did we start arguing about sales as Nas fans? What is even the argument when a Hitboy and Nas album is still yet to go Gold, it isn’t selling crazy either, in fact apart from the critical acclaim and the one overdue Grammy that was given to the worst album of the series something we both agree with Nas isn’t any more relevant or doing any better sales wise than he was doing before Hitboy, an Alchemist and Nas album would do about the same.
The one thing you’re missing in your post is the Nas factor, you shouldn’t expect an album with Boldy James to get the same attention as an album with the GOAT neither should you expect it to reach the same highs, but all of ALC releases in recent years have been critically acclaimed the difference is he has been working with mid tier rappers to do whole albums rather than the GOAT himself.
If we focus on solely production though and leave the rest of that shyt out, he hasn’t missed a beat, there is not one song on Nas new album that has better production than Johnny ps caddy and there isn’t one song in the whole Nas and Hitboy series that has garnered as much attention sold as much records or has as much streams as that one record also.
You can say that’s down to J Cole which is partly true but Nas also had the biggest best selling rapper of all time on KD2 and it didn’t do as well, compare the streams the views then compare the production.
Hitboy is a great producer but he isn’t a better rap producer than ALC, I don’t know why people want to rewrite history to push him above his station just because of one average product in Nasir that wasn’t even that bad, Nas had been on a mean run before he did that album, LIfe is Good was a classic, after all, Nas has a great discography even discarding this recent series the thing you should be giving him credit for is sparking Nas appetite to release more music not acting as if he somewhat resurrected the career of someone who was widely considered GOAT before Hit boy ever downloaded an app on his computer to produce with.
