Nas - King's Disease II (Discussion Thread)

[detroitwalt]

The good thing with Erick and Parrish was their flows were already even in their prime so they sound like they never missed a beat

They got L-Boogie on here???????

I'm glad I didn't look at the tracklist or read this thread before listening. Lauryn showing was a hell of a surprise.

 

[Robbie3000]

I don’t want to gives hot take, but on my4th listen with a sober mind, this is a great album. They opened with some swagged out songs on trap beats and Nas talking his shyt, then close out with some very deep songs over very soulful production.

Perfect balance.

 

[Ziggiy]

nikkas said Nas couldn’t rap on Trap beats

 

[Budda]

I’ve ended up liking every song even the ones I didn’t on the first few listens, I honestly don’t know what’s the best song on this.

 

[u mad son?]

Budgie is pretty dope. That's wild I didn't know any of that about him and Kanye

Hes ill, has a great talent of putting together soulful and nice vibes with or without samples, hes dope.

I decided to run some research on him because anyone from the UK making it now is either doing Drill or caping for whatever is hot. Budgie the one guy who came out and said nah I'm making what I think is ill, which is the soulful hip hop shyt that originated in the US, makes sense why he works there now. But I thought he was a great example of .. you can be there at the right time and all of a sudden be a grammy award winning producer.

Hitboy did it all on his own accord, thats amazing.

 

[kej718]

You know it's fire when everybody got a different favorite song. I listened to it twice so far, then came on here to see the reviews and go back and listen again.

 

[Houston911]

Hit-Boy with the obvious darts at Kanye

it’s not 100 nikkas producing the beat
It’s not 100 nikkas writing the rhyme

 

[OG Talk]

5 songs in and this is already a life altering experience



Why did Nas wait until he was almost 50 to start rapping over drums?

 

[Icewatermetallik]

My bruhs......this album is WAY better than KD1........Store Run, Moments, Nas is Good, Rare, is my shyt......that soulful storytelling is when Nas is at his best.....

Coulda did w/o the Em verse on EPMD 2 and that YKTV track but other than that this album is

Also, Death Row East is just a dope story track.....anyone catch the reference of Nas basically exonerating Stretch of any involvement in the setup and the Quad city studio shooting? I always knew Stretch wasn't involved bc that was Pac's right hand man......that was a time when Pac was gettin extra paranoid around his homies.... Stretch was a real one though, he was murdered a year later in Queens in a high speed chase with like 5 bricks in his car. If you Google it there's actually a New York Times archived article about it.

Btw, I didn't know Eric B (of Eric B and Rakim) was in the Death row East management or with them......that was a surprise when Nas mentioned his name...thought he was talkin bout Lake.......Nas also mentions Preem.....does he mean Dj premier?

 

[Neuromancer]

nikkas said Nas couldn’t rap on Trap beats

Personally I wish he didn't.

 

[IWasntMadeToPlayTheSon]

Dallas restaurant owner stands by his anti-twerking tirade that went viral

Lol at nas shytting on that corny ass nikka on brunch on Sundays

 

[HNIC973]

I’ve ended up liking every song even the ones I didn’t on the first few listens, I honestly don’t know what’s the best song on this.

It could be Pressure Store Run Nobody Moments Rare My Bible Nas is Good Count me in Death Row East edit I forgot Composure

 

[tuckgod]

Hit-Boy with the obvious darts at Kanye

Out of nowhere, Hit-Boy has become one of my favorite people in hip hop over these past 2 years.

Somebody raised youngin very well.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

If I rare KD1 as a 10 in my library the fukk am I supposed to rate this

 

[re'up]

Nas has a concert at this new symphony hall shell venue on the waterfront in San Diego next week, I have seen him twice, but probably want to go check this out. Performing Illmatic with and orchestra, and then probably his normal set.

 

[Ziggiy]

Personally I wish he didn't.

So he can just rap over Premier/Large Pro beats the rest of his career and be Jeru The Demaja?