Nas - King's Disease II (Discussion Thread)

[spliz]

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?

Eric B held Pac down whenever he was in NYC.

 

[ThirdAct]

Extremely fukked up for hitboy to shyt on kanye like that

He said what he said and what he said stands, Nas and Hit are relying on making quality music while Kanye is relying on gimmicks, antics and trolling his own fans

 

[Playaz Eyez]

People here over the top hating on ems verse are just as corny as the em fans over the top loving it. I thought he did his thing.

favorite tracks off first listen are store run, moments, 40 side, composure, and rare. Whole this is dope tho. Nas really might have the best catalogue of any rapper ever. GOAT shyt.

People aren’t hating on Em’s verse, they’re just telling the truth about it. It’s another technical marvel verse lacking soul, something he’s been doing for years now. It’s not a “bad” verse, it’s like we get it, you can use a whole bunch of syllables in a small amount of bars

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

this is the album that should be getting all the promo and marketing

gave it 2 spins already and loving it.

 

[H.S.]

I got nothing against Kanye at all, but it's dope to see Hitboy talking that shyt on behalf of Nas.

Nas is almost too humble sometimes outside of music.

 

[Deltron]

lyrically, em's verse was fine overall, just he's too stuck on that robot shyt regardless of the beat given to him

 

[Primetime21]

I swear they could make a mini film out of the Bryant Park incident this is my favorite story in hip hop, I never even heard this before from Eric B. repped for sharing

 

[Ziggiy]

I'll keep it 100, Before KD1 I was never a big fan of Hit boy beats.....always thought he was more of a trap/ mumble rap/ commercial producer.....but he showed his versatility working with Nas.....some of the beats are a tad minimalist for my taste, or have no melody, like YKTV, and the Lauryn track (no build up) but those little jazzy infusions in some of the songs fit Nas well..... some of the beats are very Low End Theory-ish to me, if that makes sense.

But low key does anyone miss having a Primo or Pete Rock or Alchemist banger on there? On some Nas is Like or You Da Man type vibes?

No

 

[H. Selassie]

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.

The first few joints I feel like were for casual fans who might’ve just now gotten in tune around King’s Disease. The rest was for diehard Nas fans. I heard joints on the second half I feel like could have blended well on Street’s Disciple, Life Is Good, etc.

 

[Chip Skylark]

Now Em stans doing too much smh!!

 

[spliz]

Extremely fukked up for hitboy to shyt on kanye like that

They have issues. He don’t fukk wit Ye for personal reasons.

 

[InstantKlassik]

But low key does anyone miss having a Primo or Pete Rock or Alchemist banger on there? On some Nas is Like or You Da Man type vibes?

He did that on The Lost Tapes 2 and dudes still weren’t happy. Lost Tapes 2 was 4.5 mics but got
treated like it was 3 mics. That was a great release.

 

[Mastamimd]

Now Em stans doing too much smh!!

Dude I'm at the point to where I'm just gonna let them have it bruh

 

[Robbie3000]

30 years in the game and still dropping AOTY quality material. It’s unheard of in rap

90s, 2000s, 2010s and now 2020s. Four decades of being at the top of the game. Only Jay has a chance to match that at this point.

 

[tuckgod]

imagine if she were to rap like on How many Mics? Then boom! Even better! That inspired me.

Repped