Nas - King’s Disease (Discussion Thread)

[Life is Good]

 

[MustafaSTL]

ABC.net puts Kings Disease at number 24 on their top 50 albums of 2020


24. Nas – King's Disease
If you took the word of former nemesis Jay-Z, Naswas sitting on a "one-hot-album-every-10-year average" around the turn of century. Nearly two decades on, Nas' stats are way up, and King's Disease further course corrects his uneven output.

Nas makes a deft move in tasking Hit-Boy with production instead of a team of ring-ins. The LA-based producer brings a sonic consistency that anchors the project, his neat sample flips, piano runs and laidback beats creating ample space for Nas' vivid wordplay.

The HD vision of Nas' street narratives has always been his sharpest asset, and his storytelling on King's Disease remains crystal clear. And with an all-star cast that includes Anderson .Paak, ASAP Ferg and the reunited supergroup, The Firm, King's Disease extends Nas' reign to 27 Summers. – Sam Wicks

*negs abc.net*

 

[kes929]

Dope!!

 

[Ziggiy]

That 10K Hours joint is my favorite R&B jam of the year

 

[BiggWebb79]

 

[Ziggiy]

Nas starting to look like his pops for real for real

 

[kes929]

Jhene is so bad

 

[Ball]

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

https://www.heaviestofart.com/post/behind-the-cover-nas-king-s-disease

 

[H.S.]

https://www.heaviestofart.com/post/behind-the-cover-nas-king-s-disease

I wanted to incorporate the entire lifecycle just like a king would a leader. It goes from birth to innocence and the pearls, and then it’s to the knowledge, which is the snake, and then death, which is why you have the skull at the bottom. I included all of this and included the color red, which means sacrifice, not in the devil way that American society has adopted, but sacrifice metaphorically in all aspects of life, sacrifices to get to where you’re at. Whether it is sacrificing your fun time or luxury time in order to get what you want, or ‘putting in the work’ as they say, it’s all up to interpretation.

This is a dope interview and probably worthy of it's own thread. I'm still impressed by how well everything came together for this album.

 

[JustCKing]

Quiet as kept, Nas has some of the best album covers in music. Its not even just the album covers, but a lot of times, the booklet and back covers as well. It's well thought at and they end up being interesting stories all on their own.

 

[JustCKing]

This is a dope interview and probably worthy of it's own thread. I'm still impressed by how well everything came together for this album.

I like what she says about the snake because a lot of people often associate the snake or serpent with the devil or evil. If you read Genesis carefully, the serpent that deceives Eve is never identified as the devil, but he does offer them knowledge. As crazy as it sounds, that offer is in exchange for a sacrifice and that sacrifice was immortality. On the flip side, later in the Bible, a serpent was used by Moses as a symbol of healing. After using the serpent for healing, Moses destroys the serpent as he foresaw the Israelite worshipping the serpent, which they did later and named it Nehushtan.

 

[kes929]

Quiet as kept, Nas has some of the best album covers in music. Its not even just the album covers, but a lot of times, the booklet and back covers as well. It's well thought at and they end up being interesting stories all on their own.

Nas really has alot of goat covers. He would never get credit for it though. I've even seen people say he has terrible album covers. I'm sure just another way to discredit him.

 

[H.S.]

Quiet as kept, Nas has some of the best album covers in music. Its not even just the album covers, but a lot of times, the booklet and back covers as well. It's well thought at and they end up being interesting stories all on their own.

I always thought the cover and booklet for I Am was real dope.

 

[waynep]

B.Dot put up his top 10 rappers of
the year and had Nas at number 7.
Freddie Gibbs was number 1.
I personally think Kings Disease is a no
brainer for that grammy but people love that Gibbs project.. I listened to it and I flatout don't like it.