Nas - King’s Disease (Discussion Thread)

[mson]

I QVP is still cool with Rashaun tho. Nobody from Nas to Ant ever mentions him and vice versa

That's a good question. I've thought about it. I feel like he tries to take a lot of credit for those deals. I know he's not with them anymore.

 

[kes929]

Is it even possible to make a top 20?

Its impossible.

 

[HNIC973]

Its impossible.

Some off top
2nd verse Memory lane
3rd verse One love
2nd verse NYSOM
Verbal Intercourse
3rd verse World is Yours
2nd verse Deja Vu
2nd Verse Nas is like
Last Words
3rd Verse Suspect
2nd verse Every Ghetto
3rd verse IGYP
3rd verse book of rhymes
No Ideas original
Rewind
2nd verse Purple
3rd verse take it in blood
Live at BBQ
1st verse IAHTT
Life's a bytch
Triple Beam dreams

I could easily keep going GOAT

 

[Stick Up Kid]

From my count this is the 7th time Nas had the album of the year


1994: Illmatic
1996 (tie) IWW & All Eyez On Me
2001: Stillmatic
2002: Gods’Son
2008: Untitled
2012: Life is Good
2020- Kings Disease

 

[H.S.]

"Commision kids to hit ya grandkids for your dishonor" That line is so hard to me. Lol

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

Some off top
2nd verse Memory lane
3rd verse One love
2nd verse NYSOM
Verbal Intercourse
3rd verse World is Yours
2nd verse Deja Vu
2nd Verse Nas is like
Last Words
3rd Verse Suspect
2nd verse Every Ghetto
3rd verse IGYP
3rd verse book of rhymes
No Ideas original
Rewind
2nd verse Purple
3rd verse take it in blood
Live at BBQ
1st verse IAHTT
Life's a bytch
Triple Beam dreams

I could easily keep going GOAT

Love your list. And you took the best verse of each song as well

1st verse of nysom and nysom pt 2 got to have a slot too

It's mine verse. Let nas down. Let my nikkas live. I did it for hip hop

 

[HHID]

Nas album release/discussion threads always deliver:
The “Escobar Season has returned”/“Nas is coming” anticipation which fills pages and pages as soon as something is announced and before we even hear one full track
The overreactions both ways when a snippet/first single drops
The theories about what the album is going to sound like based on the cover, title, and tracklisting whenever that’s released
The disappointment/uncertainty/intrigue about who is making beats or producing the album and who is not
The excitement/skepticism about features
The longing for projects that had been discussed or mentioned as a possibility before—album produced entirely by Premier, collab album with AZ
The calling the album classic or wack (but mostly classic) before and immediately after it’s been released
The “fukk Nas Coalition” who come in like villains talking about random dumb shyt tryna derail the thread—e.g he can’t pick beats, he ain’t gon sell, he ain’t as relevant today, he ain’t as good as blah blah blah
The Nas stans who throw on their capes prepared to defend Nas from any perceived or outright disrespect, slights, or criticism
The guaranteed comparisons of Nas to Jay-Z and rehashing of that beef and shyt that happened over twenty years ago
The inevitability of Jay-Z releasing something same day as Nas’s projects and that fueling conspiracies that the beef is still on
The stan wars
The reactions to each song
The quoting of lines/lyrics
The tweets from other rappers/celebrities and what they think about the project
The hailing it as classic or wack—no in between
The links to reviews and people liking or hating the review based on whether it conforms to what they think about the album—“fukk Pitchfork”...no, seriously, fukk Pitchfork...and Rolling Stones too
The questions of why Nas did this and why he didn’t do that and speculation of he’ll do next
The guesses of how much the record is going to sell and in the same breath saying it doesn’t matter how much it sells
The declarations that it should be nominated for and win awards followed by others who say “fukk a Grammy”
The ranking of Nas’s discography

Rinse, wash, repeat. Might be the same for other artists but it just feels different with Nas. Always an event.

Haha, I ain't been on here for years... I've been reading the thread backwards and I have to quote this post. So fukking true. Ain't shyt changed in so many years after all.

True that it might be the same for other artists but feels different for Nas. Same as the feeling he's always had higher standards applied to him. Other legends like Hov or others will always get a pass for a couple wack lines/verses here & there, or even a subpar album... But Nas never. If it's not always a dope beat, street poetry lyrics etc, he'll get slandered by the same ol' haters...

And I feel like, with this album, especially since there is not one single bad track, he's managed to ease off some of that pressure, and maybe finally people are starting to take the music for what it is & what he wanted to give us, and not what they want to get (Illmatic part 2,3,4,5...), including myself!

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

what the hell is folks liking about that Don Tolliver shyt?

 

[RoseWooD]

"Commision kids to hit ya grandkids for your dishonor" That line is so hard to me. Lol

"could miss your kids" is what he says but "commission" would of been dope too lol

 

[H.S.]

"could miss your kids" is what he says but "commission" would of been dope too lol

Double entendre

 

[Stick Up Kid]

 

[spliz]

what the hell is folks liking about that Don Tolliver shyt?

It’s fire.

 

[HHID]

Since I'm here, I wonder how y'all rank this album within his catalogue?

Here's my very personal take :

1. Illmatic & Lost Tapes
3. IWW
4. Stillmatic

5. God's Son
6. I Am
7. King's Disease
8. Life Is Good

8. Untitled
9. HHID
10. Lost Tapes 2
11. Nasir
12. Nastradamus
13. Streets Disciple

And tbh I don't really know where to rank Nastradamus. I probably like more tracks on there than on any other album of that 3rd tier. It's just that the bad tracks are really bad. But I rank it 12th like I could rank it 8th..

 

[Stick Up Kid]

 

[RoseWooD]

Songs ranked(impossible to rank tho lol)
1. The Cure
2. 27 Summers
3. Car 85
4. Til The War Is Won
5. Full Circle
6. Blue Benz
7. All Bad
8. Ultra Black
9. King's Disease
10. Replace Me
11. Spicy
12. 10 Points
13. The Definition

Crazy that 'The Definition' and '10 Points' can be your "worst" songs on a album. Speaks to the balance and consistency of how great an album is