Nas - King's Disease II (Discussion Thread)

[Don'tCallMeLuckyB]

Tell me you didn't listen to the album without telling me you didn't listen to the album

The fukk son talking about?

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

For those that haven’t yet purchased the album they are doing a flash sale of the Digital Version on Nas website right now.

Only $5.99

this is great for all the old heads that don't like streaming

instead of asking for links break off $6

 

[spliz]

I see they tryna run them sales up. Dope.

 

[spliz]

What song is on 2k22?

Hope its Rare

Oh word? This is good for Nas. I wonder what it means for sales.

 

[L. Deezy]

this is great for all the old heads that don't like streaming

instead of asking for links break off $6

Yeah.. I been streaming it like crazy..

Somebody said last year if you bought it from like Amazon or something, it would no longer count your plays as streams off the site.

 

[AkaDemiK]

I’m listening to LIG for the first time in years thanks to this thread….I forgot how fukkING NASTY Loco-Motive is

oh yea that’s the one

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Nah. As long as he has things to say, I'm all for Nas making new albums. It's an interesting less-braggadocio perspective of being a grown man and business man. Hip hop is still a young artform. We're seeing the rappers we grew up with, also grow up and it will be interesting to see how they navigate it. Some do is less gracefully when they have nothing to say (Eminem besides Kamikaze - where he had something to say) and some are doing it amazingly without being preachy (Nas).

Nas has his flowers. He's your favorite rappers favorite rapper. I wouldn't want Nas to bow out for some "fade to black" type nonsense just so we can get an event. I want him to keep spitting stories, gems, and what his perspective is on the things going on in the world.

All this. Nas is quite possibly the ultimate Griot

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Am I the only one who thinks the instrumental to Moments sounds like an MF DOOM or Madvillainy beat?

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Ohh btw, Happy 48th Birthday to Hip Hop y’all

 

[RAW_SPK]

There’s alot of subtle wordplay sprinkled in this shyt

 

[Mastamimd]

There’s alot of subtle wordplay sprinkled in this shyt

You caught that too right? This one is definitely not a one listen album.

 

[DeuceZ]

He talking that talk on my Bible

 

[Slim Charles]

There’s alot of subtle wordplay sprinkled in this shyt

Definitely feel there’s more wordplay than usual from Nas on this

also I like as you say it’s subtle. Doesn’t over sell the wordplay just keeps the track flowing

 

[RAW_SPK]

You caught that too right? This one is definitely not a one listen album.

Yup. Didnt hit me till my 3rd or 4th listen of “Store Run” that he ended each verse with a wash reference before going into the hook “so I’m clean as a whistle…”

 

[Artfull Dodger]

Nas Puts Poetry In Motion On ‘King’s Disease II’ But Doesn’t Match Gravity Of Original
Those Hitboy antics riled up them Kanye West fans at Hiphopdx.
Gave album a 3.8

Like all great pillars in American culture, Nas and Hit-Boy made the collective decision to order up a sequel and attempted to magnify the project’s visibility adjacent to Kanye West’s now failed Donda release date.....

King’s Disease’s success trickled down back into a Nas omnipresence within current Hip Hop and equally validated its producer Hit-Boy, who had frankly lost his rap game recognizance after parting ways with Kanye West in the mid-00s....

Hit-Boy also doesn’t maximize on the spotlight opportunity, especially since he’s baiting Kanye these days. None of King’s Disease II’s instrumentals warrant a “type beat” Google search and only match Nas’ intensity from mood to mood [/QUOTE]

the hate is pulpable