Most people didn’t actually read what I wrote regarding the producers.
I gave Pete Rock props for the excellent production he gave Nas on LT2. Guess what? The entire project got absolutely shytTED on. And this was Nas literally GIFTING nikkas what they’d begged, bytched, and demanded from him since Illmatic.
I said Alchemist is really just a vanilla Madlib and I stand by that.
Everything Alch does Madlib can do better. And again, when Nas GAVE muthafukkas the Alchemist reunion they claim they craved, it wasn’t fully supported or praised.
Madlib did a whole project with two legends. A reunion album thats been pleaded for for YEARS and its been held up because the goddamn producer can’t remember which samples he used
THATS the kind bullshyt you want a Nas album caught up in? Naw.
The point is that when Nas moves forward, on HIS own terms, he succeeds more often than naught. Hit Boy gave Nas exactly what he needed and Nas was correct in going with that feeling instead of simply pandering to the trapped in the 90’s nikkas