ABlackMan
Superstar
I’m ready to say Nas the GOAT
HNIC973
R.I.P Bandana P
interesting he could have 5 songs be over a mil by Tuesday at least Nobody Death Row East The Pressure picked up over 300K streams in a day
JoelB
All Praise To TMH
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
been the GOAT
Ironman
#Knickstape
Fortunate Lee
Superstar
Good shyt, but remember he just came off of a Grammy…so people are gonna be more positive by default imo
52 user reviews for KD1 and 49 user reviews in 3 days for Kd2
My mans dropped one of hell of an album tho
erker
All Star
Michael Jackson
Miles Davis
Bob Dylan
That's it. Great company to be ranked amongst
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Fortunate Lee
Superstar
40 Side growing on me, he needs to remix that one, I heard thats lil Baby on the for real for real
Get him on that shyt
Get him on that shyt
Prolific_1011
All Star
Nas' verse on "Nobody" is just beautiful.
xiceman191
Superstar
is there a source for this? want to read up a bit on it
NC'sFinest
Pro
Damn good call.
"I heard the beat and I ain't know what to write/First line—should it be about the hoes or the ice?/Four-fours or Black Christ?/ Both flows'd be nice/Rap about big paper or the black man plight…"
I love hearing Lauren's verse on this song and she still sounds great. But people are sleeping on Nas's verses here. Imo BOTH of his verses are doper than Lauren's.
I don't know where people are getting the ghostwriting thing from either. Not saying its impossible, but their verses don't have the same structure at all.
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
It's crazy how Street's Disciple was robbed from being a classic the same way I Am... was robbed, at least in terms of the structure. Of course, with a triple album, there would obviously be some filler, but if that was Nas' true vision, Sony should have supported it.
I was listening to it last year in its entirety and wondering why it got so much hate. People call it a bad album, and......I don't hear that at all. Too many songs? Yes. Lack of cohesion? Yes. But the good songs, the highs on this album are fukking amazing. How do you start your album off with "Message to the Feds" and "Nazareth Savage," and people turn around to say it was trash? Knowing the story behind Street's Disciple and what it was supposed to be just makes me appreciate it more.
There are tracks that I don't like (mostly on the second disc), but this album was important for Nas' career in that this is where he stopped giving a fukk. What I mean is, you can tell he wasn't interested in having chart-topping hits and getting the #1 album in the country. He made this album for him, for Salaam, for the people who would get it. He went with more ambitious concepts, started leaning into the weirder aspects of his creative mind. It's not an album that's easily accessible. And when it works (like on "These Are Our Heroes" or "Reason" or "War"), it creates something beautiful.
I also have to point out that lyrically, Nas was possessed on this album. His flow and delivery were on another level here. He was going after those beats like he had a death wish, like Columbia was going to force him into a ten-album deal if he didn't sell a certain amount of copies. I just love the rawness and the aggression of his performance. This is technical rhyming done the right way.
A lot of people don't like Nas' "anti-mainstream" era (Street's Disciple to Untitled), but I do. There was a lot of experimentation and confidence with these albums, where he went far left to really figure out what he could do as an artist. It wasn't until Life is Good where people finally got it, and with King's Disease I and II, you can see Nas having full control over what he wants to make. Nobody telling him to take these tracks off, no strange sequencing, nothing that feels like it should have been left behind or should have been replaced. The Nas we have now started with Street's Disciple, and we should appreciate that.
