Nas - King’s Disease (Discussion Thread)

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I was listening to it imagining what a non-rap fan might think. To me personally it’s not vulgar but like...imagine some random Grammy voter sitting through the Something To Rap About intro, hearing...and I quote:

nikka
bytch
nikka bytch
Ooogie boogie nikka
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I think Nas will come in first, Jay Elect second.



Hell Royce might come in second . SOON as them white folks hear Minister Farrakhan’s voice they gone be like:picard:
 

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I’m happy if he win for the homie....but hope he doesn’t cuz it’s fukk the Grammys for me....I don’t want them to have a feather in their cap for actually doin one real thing as tho they haven’t been frontin on REAL hip hop since eternity.....


Fukk em, they don’t deserve to shake duke hand fr (even through a zoom lens)

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Critical acclaim has NOTHING to do with the Grammy’s fam.


Nas had the most critically acclaimed rap album amongst the nominees in 2013 but lost out to Take Care.

This time around Nas is most popular name of the nominees. Has the most brand recognition. AND for the first time he has the highest charting and selling album of the nominees.


He’s going to win

Complex had Gibbs at #4 and JAY ELECT at #18. I just have a feeling the Grammy will go to either of them. Cardi B and Tyler were high in their year end list and both won that Grammy
 
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Complex had Gibbs at #4 and JAY ELECT at #18. I just have a feeling the Grammy will go to either of them. Cardi B and Tyler were high in their year end list and both won that Grammy


Critical acclaim is verrrryyyy very rarely a precursor to a Grammy win. Igor is an exception not the rule and both Pusha T and Travis Scott had higher Metacritic scores than Cardi the year she won.
 

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Critical acclaim is verrrryyyy very rarely a precursor to a Grammy win. Igor is an exception not the rule and both Pusha T and Travis Scott had higher Metacritic scores than Cardi the year she won.

Everything seems different this year just with the nominations in the category, so they may just give it to the most critically acclaimed
 

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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.


This is 100% full course rubbish
(I understand you're analyzing from their pov)

You n the critics must listen to jazz 99% of the time.
Then Nas the other 1%. That's the only way this reasoning makes sense.
Anybody that just turns on urban fm for 1hr will be very puzzled by this take.
*Trump voice...so much respect for women

And please let's stop assuming anytime Nas is rapping about women/relationships he's talking about kelis. The man is 47..he's been around
 
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