Nas - King’s Disease (Discussion Thread)

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I dont give out 5s generously.
I have 26 5 star rated albums out of the 1340 i listened to and rated on RYM
So any album i give a 4.5/5 to is basically a certified classic for me.
What are the 26? Mobb Deep doesn’t have 26 albums so what are the other ones?
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Cuban link QB chain belong in the MOMA
So boomerang, you salute my twenty-seven summers
Rolls-Royce Brigade just 'cause it go with the moment
Pac saw the chain, got his medallion, I won't ("i won't" "i won it" double entendre don't ask me how :damn:)
Insinuate imitation 'cause I copied his stomach
Kings honor kings, straight from my pops to my son's shyt
Steak tartare bloody, mercury levels from raw fish
Sushi for lunch, waiter at the table, the cork twist :ohhh:

I'm studied like a book by many
They give me looks of envy, I took the Bentley
White chick like Liz Taylor might get the Bentayga
On my Rick James behavior
Life is school for the soul and I'm in life seven already
Life's simple but heavy, incomprehensible shyt
Everything from sexy to deadly, I done been through that shyt
Still goin' deeper like I grew a new inch on my dikk
We looked at robbin' as a way of resolving our problems
My moms cooked food, but some of my nikkas was starving
And whatever they was down to do, I was with 'em regardless
Turns out I was hungry and was hittin' the hardest
Decisions was sharper, my predictions was on it
No fortune teller, just going off regular signs
nikkas often tell ya they moves
Without a word, just reading they mind
Wasn't needin' no nine
Corner executive born in ghetto hell
Where metal yell especially over necklaces
Life lessons is karma
Whatever you dish out come back as blessings or to haunt ya
Could miss your kids and hit your grandkids for your dishonor
That's generational curses, they said they want the old Nas back
Play the Clue tapes for old verses
Messin' my homies' lives up, sayin' Nas will rise 'em up
Like they wasn't live enough, many lives I've touched
:damn:
Can I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?
I need a witness, drinkin' three at night on some Bridge shyt
Wearin' shorts and Timbs, summer night on some Bridge shyt
Party with gangsters, gettin' right on some Bridge shyt (Yeah)
Like MC Shan and Marley, I be on some Bridge shyt :wow:


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Pac saw the chain, got his medallion, I won't
Insinuate imitation 'cause I copied his stomach

The way he said "won't" to make it sound like "want it" to ryhme with "stomach", but the won't also connects to "insinuate".

Incredible.
 

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Pac saw the chain, got his medallion, I won't
Insinuate imitation 'cause I copied his stomach

The way he said "won't" to make it sound like "want it" to ryhme with "stomach", but the won't also connects to "insinuate".

Incredible.
Bend words to rhyme. Em is famous for it but Nas does it a lot and it’s not as obvious. Slicker IMO
 
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I fukks wit Rule heavy. Lol. But Lost Tapes was literally the soundtrack to my life at the time it came out. I don’t know. That shyt resonates with me emotionally prolly more than any Nas album honestly. I literally went everywhere with that cd in my CD player.

Wow thank you!

Lost Tapes is the "album" I played daily for the longest period in my life with Doggystyle maybe. Must've played it daily for over a year easy.
To me it's the release that cemented Nas' discog as the GOAT. Just coming out from Stillmatic and being punched in the face but this was just too much.

1999-2001 to me is the best Nas period, because it has the introspective sad Nas, the Death of Escobar Nas who wrote incredible pieces that separate him from the other GOATs like Rise & Fall, Worst Enemy, My Way, Drunk by myself, Fetus, Sometimes I wonder, Sinful living etc...
 
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