Nas - King’s Disease (Discussion Thread)
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For everybody still bytchING about Nature not being on Full Circle
On ‘Full Circle’, you reunite your hip-hop group The Firm. However, Nature, who stepped in for Cormega for the group’s only studio record, 1997’s ‘The Album’, wasn’t included – did you have a conversation with him about getting involved?
“No. This was all about the original guys because we never got a chance to see what the album would have sounded like. Nature got the chance to do a whole album. He got a chance to work with [Dr.] Dre. I brought him in there. I was trying to make him the next guy. It wasn’t so much of him replacing Mega; it was more me reaching out to people who I thought had talent and who I wanted to put in the game. Mega never got that chance.
Nas: “I’m rapping the same way I did when I was on the block”
DUH
On ‘Full Circle’, you reunite your hip-hop group The Firm. However, Nature, who stepped in for Cormega for the group’s only studio record, 1997’s ‘The Album’, wasn’t included – did you have a conversation with him about getting involved?
“No. This was all about the original guys because we never got a chance to see what the album would have sounded like. Nature got the chance to do a whole album. He got a chance to work with [Dr.] Dre. I brought him in there. I was trying to make him the next guy. It wasn’t so much of him replacing Mega; it was more me reaching out to people who I thought had talent and who I wanted to put in the game. Mega never got that chance.
Nas: “I’m rapping the same way I did when I was on the block”
DUH
in that NME interview that @Ziggiy posted he says that Nipsey was planning on doing a documentary on the I Am bootleg. 
It would be dope if Nas followed through with that, especially now that Mass Appeal is up and running. It has the potential to be better than the Illmatic documentary imo.
It would be dope if Nas followed through with that, especially now that Mass Appeal is up and running. It has the potential to be better than the Illmatic documentary imo.
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in that NME interview that @Ziggiy posted he says that Nipsey was planning on doing a documentary on the I Am bootleg.
It would be incredible.
But what I ALWAYS wanted a documentary on It Was Written. That would be a gem
Yeah, I'm still hoping they do some kind of proper re-release, concert, documentary or something for IWW either for its 25th or 30th anniversary.
Nas is probably one or the few rappers that could make a legit documentary about every album. I imagine the Nipsey doc would have covered the bootleg and retail versions of I Am, Nastradamus and Lost Tapes.
Edit: Probably with the exception of Godson and Street's Disciple. Not sure what angle you could have with those docs.
DeuceZ
Li pitit gason
Pac saw the chain, got his medallion, I won't
Insinuate imitation 'cause I copied his stomach
Kings honor kings, straight from my pops to my son's shyt
The way he flowed on the bolded
Insinuate imitation 'cause I copied his stomach
Kings honor kings, straight from my pops to my son's shyt
The way he flowed on the bolded
I might be the only one but when I really love an album, after playing the hell out of it for the first month or so I like to take a break from it so I can truly appreciate it later.
Last time I listened to this album was like mid September and I immediately felt it was a top 3 album this year.
Listening to it again and this shyt amazing
even better than I remembered. I had it at 8.5/10 initially but this is more like a 9 now. It doesn’t have the highs of LIG but it’s more consistent. He even incorporated newer artists without sounding 
.
Alfredo is pretty much set in stone as my album of the year but this is a very close 2nd with Meet the Woo at 3rd. Nas did me proud. I was a Jay Stan as a kid so I didn’t always like his work but as I’ve gotten older Nas has become a top 4 rapper ever on my list. There’s people I personally know that HATE anything Nas has done outside of Illmatic and they think this is AOTY. Shoutout to Hitboy who played a huge role in that, he’s my producer of the year.
Last time I listened to this album was like mid September and I immediately felt it was a top 3 album this year.
Listening to it again and this shyt amazing
even better than I remembered. I had it at 8.5/10 initially but this is more like a 9 now. It doesn’t have the highs of LIG but it’s more consistent. He even incorporated newer artists without sounding .Alfredo is pretty much set in stone as my album of the year but this is a very close 2nd with Meet the Woo at 3rd. Nas did me proud. I was a Jay Stan as a kid so I didn’t always like his work but as I’ve gotten older Nas has become a top 4 rapper ever on my list. There’s people I personally know that HATE anything Nas has done outside of Illmatic and they think this is AOTY. Shoutout to Hitboy who played a huge role in that, he’s my producer of the year.
Kings Disease is a phenomenal body of work. No misses on the album for me.I might be the only one but when I really love an album, after playing the hell out of it for the first month or so I like to take a break from it so I can truly appreciate it later.
Last time I listened to this album was like mid September and I immediately felt it was a top 3 album this year.
Listening to it again and this shyt amazing
Alfredo is pretty much set in stone as my album of the year but this is a very close 2nd with Meet the Woo at 3rd. Nas did me proud. I was a Jay Stan as a kid so I didn’t always like his work but as I’ve gotten older Nas has become a top 4 rapper ever on my list. There’s people I personally know that HATE anything Nas has done outside of Illmatic and they think this is AOTY. Shoutout to Hitboy who played a huge role in that, he’s my producer of the year.
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
With God's Son, that was Nas' first album after his mom died. You could go into how he was trying to deal with it and take back his spot as the best rapper in New York. Also, certain songs on that album ("Get Down," "Made You Look," "I Can") are essential for Nas and probably have interesting stories.
With Street's Disciple, you could talk about why Nas made it a double album and what he was trying to accomplish with it. All the different directions that album took, you could talk about that and how he was trying to avoid the mainstream sound ("Bridging the Gap" was one of the singles). You could also talk about the songs that didn't make the cut like "Foul Breeze" and "Talk of New York."
. #Queensshyt