Death Row East still the hardest shyt EVER
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Store Run the song of the year.
"nikkas would not survive in my hood /
pull up with all of my jewels on and Nas is goooood"
I went from "Hmmm....last song is called 'Nas is Good'...kind of a weird title choice" to hearing it within the context of those bars and immediately hitting the
Facts!
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
You hear it too, right?
I was thinking about it when I first played it and it's confirmed now. This has the mature, grown man sound that Life is Good perfected. It has that same special feeling. With more listens, it could potentially top Life is Good. The only thing that might stop that from happening is the fact that Nas reached a higher level lyrically with LIG. He lost his shyt on that album.
Then you have the Late Registration feeling. Kanye leveled up on that album. He took what he was doing on College Dropout and turned it up to 100. Everything was elevated. It was like going from a TV movie to a feature film. And bringing in Jon Brion was a genius idea because he knew how to make music sound like that. Nas and Hit Boy did the same thing here. shyt is more soulful, it's darker, it's harder, it's even more true to who Nas is artistically. They could have easily given more of what they did on King's Disease, but they went in another direction and decided to compete against themselves. And we end up getting a sequel that feels like a feature film with a higher studio budget than the original one.
You hear it too, right?
I was thinking about it when I first played it and it's confirmed now. This has the mature, grown man sound that Life is Good perfected. It has that same special feeling. With more listens, it could potentially top Life is Good. The only thing that might stop that from happening is the fact that Nas reached a higher level lyrically with LIG. He lost his shyt on that album.
Then you have the Late Registration feeling. Kanye leveled up on that album. He took what he was doing on College Dropout and turned it up to 100. Everything was elevated. It was like going from a TV movie to a feature film. And bringing in Jon Brion was a genius idea because he knew how to make music sound like that. Nas and Hit Boy did the same thing here. shyt is more soulful, it's darker, it's harder, it's even more true to who Nas is artistically. They could have easily given more of what they did on King's Disease, but they went in another direction and decided to compete against themselves. And we end up getting a sequel that feels like a feature film with a higher studio budget than the original one.
Late Registration is EXTREMELY grandiose and Cinematic. In his own way Hit Boy was able to tap into that feeling and give Nas a similar musical aesthetic. There’s not a huge reliance on Strings like LG but its still a very “musical” experience.
Hit flirted with this type of of direction on Kings Disease OG but they went ALLLL IN with the sequel and you can tell it really energized Nas. And not ONLY Nas, but Eminem, Lauryn Hill, A Boogie and YG too.
What I’m loving about this album that I never heard on another album before is how it continues to get better in every way shape or form as the album keeps going… although death row East is still my favorite song so far.. shyt gets better and better till the fukking end!!
Nah Lupe should be doing Soundtrakk only
He prolly can’t afford Hit Boy no more he indie
Animal House
Superstar
Should’ve had Redman on the EPMD track
Drip Bayless
Superstar
Eminem
TrifeGod
Chasing The Dragon
I was just about to come in here and shyt on Eminem but you already know
Get him the fucouttahere
Get him the fucouttahere
HNIC973
R.I.P Bandana P
Redman Keith Murray but Em gonna help push more units so
John Mexico
All Star
Dp