Nas - King's Disease II (Discussion Thread)

[ball15life]

This album is incredible. I can see this getting AOTY nominations


Album wise Nas hasn't missed since before Distant Relatives

 

[Nero Christ]

Might be Nas' happiest album. I fukk with it

still on the first listen (had to take a break) but this does have the mood to it...feel good album of Nas reminiscing and being introspective

 

[Robbie3000]

This is just a beautiful fukking album top to bottom. Really reminds me of the first time I heard Be. This one of those albums that makes you want to just thank God Almighty for Hip Hop

What a week breh. The Hip Hop gods are blessing us right now.

 

[tuckgod]

Not only that.


I can point to one moment where i fell in love with hip hop and became a nas fan overnight. That moment was coming home from summer camp and hearing If I Ruled the World for the first time blasting out of our living room. My sister had just hooked up a new stereo system to the tv and MTV Jams was on. I had opened my moms car door and immediately heard it in our driveway.

My reaction was probably a combination of

I knew L Boogie because the year before, in 4th grade, I had stolen The Fugees album from that same sisters college dorm and had memorized it line for line by the summer.

Hearing Nas voice and delivery for the first time coupled with Lauryn’s singing is one of the most memorable points in my childhood

I love to hear that breh.

When that song came out, I was a senior in high school, so thanks for reminding me that I'm an old head politicking and congregating with youngins.

But real shyt... when that song dropped, my naive 17 year old hella optimistic self thought that everything would be uphill from that point on for us as black people.



If you would've told me back in '96 that in 25 years not only would the collective mind state of black people be retarded almost back to the 1600's when the first slave babies was born in America with no knowledge of their past, but that we would be fighting politically and socially for our right to be seen as ignorant and classless people, I would've told that you were a complete fool.

Not with all the work Bill Cosby, dikk Gregory, Robert Townsend, Spike Lee, and many others did to hold up a mirror for us to see what we are, what we could be, what we should be, and what we don't want to be.

But here we are...

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

 

[Mortal1]

This might be even better the first one
Nas and Hitboy got that studio chemistry down now

 

[Ziggiy]

Releasing the album early this month means Nas made the eligibility period for the 2022 Grammys AND that Hit Boy, with his work on Big Sean and Benny’s albums from last year is eligible alongside his work with Nas THIS year for Producer Of The Year-Non Classical.


Nas is going to have quite a few chances to repeat as a Grammy winner in the following categories


Album Of The Year
King’s Disease Part 2

Best Rap Album
King’s Disease Part 2

Best Rap Performance
Sorry Not Sorry
Bath Salts
Rare
EPMD 2


Best Rap Song
Rare
Nobody

Best Melodic Rap Performance
No Phony Love
Brunch On Sundays


And thats NOT counting any future singles he releases with videos that could go into Best Rap Performance or Best Rap Song.

 

[Noriega]

Nah ur right... No ones touching nas on that front I'm just trynna think of the closest possible calls.

4 decades you know... When u put it like that...

jay & LL are the only logical answers

 

[head shots101]

Yup this is hard

 

[Prolific_1011]

 

[HNIC973]

This might be even better the first one

There's no "might" it undeniably is

 

[Nero Christ]

Composure Hit shoulda kept the drums off the horns was carrying shyt like 98 Jordan

Nas on drumless loops

 

[HNIC973]

Nas is Good is just beautiful music

 

[Mortal1]

There's no "might" it undeniably is

I’m just finishing my first play through

 

[HNIC973]

I’m just finishing my first play through

All it takes is one session off 1 listen the thought is in ya head u already know