Nas - King’s Disease (Discussion Thread)

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"The Opposite of Doja Cat"

"What the fukk is up with Gale King?"

And then several songs talking about his failed relationships in which most of the blame seems to be placed on the women, i.e "I met some queens that wasn't ready", or how on Full Circle Mega and AZ show humility by admitting to being immature/possessive in their failed relationships, while Nas' verse is more reflected on the wrongness (malevolent snake shyt) of his partners that left him. Also on 10 Points, the one time Nas says queen in the hook is when it's "gotta learn to let it go and move forward" before he switches back to talking to the kings. Kind of seems intentional since the line always starts with "king" except in that one instance at the end.

Agree or disagree with it the reasoning, but this is what people mean when they say Nas had "smoke" for women (that he called out by name or alluded to) while the album was largely about uplifting black men.

Edit: From listening to the album, I do think Nas is in pain over what happened with Kelis, the accusations, and the shyt going on with him seeing his son. For as much as he went through (esp if his side of the story is 100% truth), then I think he showed a tremendous amount of restraint in expressing that pain respectfully (Only thing worse than being alone is wishing you were). But he doesn't really get the benefit of the doubt to express that pain in the eyes of critics that clearly lean towards believing the other side of the story.

Thats stil a huge reach in saying its smoke for women or bashing women especially when women themselves said worse about Doja and Gayle on twitter. And saying relationship didnt work isnt really the same as bashing women when he takes blame with it himself. Its strange because I dont feel like this album has the Kelis spectre over it as its about all the relationships he's probably tried to have privately since getting divorced. But I do agree critics took a slant side on listening to the album not allowing his truth to be taken.
 

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He literally has a whole song dedicated to women in Til the War is Won.. 27 Summers he says Black Women are the backbone.. He gets this kind of critique but everybody else can spit ignorant shyt with impunity LOL Man stuff like this and the Rolling Stones article is going to cost my guy his gramny.. Nas should do a song by song detailed breakdown of every song explaining his thought and writing process. Bring listeners into his world.. Might as well theirs nothing else to do lol
 

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Same. It was shipped a week ago, but UPS must have pulled it out and started listening to it as it's been chilling in their warehouse and finally started moving today.

Picturing a senior UPS OG listening to your cd like "27 summers that wasn't even the goal :mjcry:" (no diss to the postal workers).
 
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Has anyone got the vinyl yet?
I ordered through Amazon back in September and I still don’t have a delivery date.
 

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Has anyone got the vinyl yet?
I ordered through Amazon back in September and I still don’t have a delivery date.

I ordered the vinyl straight from the website. Haven't got it yet. They sent me an email a few weeks ago saying it might get delayed a bit because of Covid, but its supposedly still on the way.
 
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