Nas - King's Disease II (Discussion Thread)

[Izanami]

Composure is my favorite song on the album. Nas verse was pure poetry

Easily my favorite joint on the album. Hit boy delivered a stellar verse and of course Nas came with the vintage nastalgia storytelling.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

KD2 is definitely the rap album of the year.

w/o question...

 

[SwizzLake]

Easily my favorite joint on the album. Hit boy delivered a stellar verse and of course Nas came with the vintage nastalgia storytelling.

Composure is also my fav track.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Anything outside of the relationships/dating/softer kind of sound. Both KD's, imo, have a hip hop meets R&B kind of flow for a nice portion of them, from the content to some of the production. I'm a grown ass adult so I love it...but it'd be a welcomed switch to get something different next go round...some more edgy/aggressive shyt, content wise and production wise.

I feel like this is largely what KD2 was. Whereas it seemed like damn near half of the first album were r&b/love joints, this one came out the gate hitting you with bangs. After the intro you get 6 bangers in a row. While I agree it would be cool to get an album that just continues that run of bangers into the middle/end I love how it mellows out before hitting you upside the head again with My Bible and Nas Is Good.

After I listened to KD1 when it came out a few times I remember thinking man I with there were more Blue Benz type records. They completely gave me that with KD2 and it worked perfectly.

 

[Ziggiy]

I feel like this is largely what KD2 was. Whereas it seemed like damn near half of the first album were r&b/love joints, this one came out the gate hitting you with bangs. After the intro you get 6 bangers in a row. While I agree it would be cool to get an album that just continues that run of bangers into the middle/end I love how it mellows out before hitting you upside the head again with My Bible and Nas Is Good.

After I listened to KD1 when it came out a few times I remember thinking man I with there were more Blue Benz type records. They completely gave me that with KD2 and it worked perfectly.

KD1 was meant to come out on Valentine’s Day so there was a built in “love” theme for the album.

 

[HNIC973]

I still don't think there's a definitive best song after 3 months. You can say Composure then get stuck on My Bible or Moments Store Run Nobody its damn near impossible to choose. This album fits in the LT1 mold like its damn impossible to pick a best song shyt just fits so well. That's how you know its great album

 

[kes929]

Store run is just beautiful

 

[Nostalgic]

KD1 was meant to come out on Valentine’s Day so there was a built in “love” theme for the album.

Got any proof to back that up

 

[Ziggiy]

Got any proof to back that up

Nah I made it up for shyts and giggles….






































Of COURSE I have proof

Later, a mutual friend told Nas that Hit-Boy was interested in working with him, and Nas came to his studio the next day. “Nas' first idea for us was a four-to-five-song Valentine’s Day project,” Hit-Boy recalled with a laugh.


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I had the "Replace Me" joint with Don Toliver already in the can. I had the hook-- because Nas was thinking he wanted to do this as a quick project, with kind of a Valentine's Day theme. So that's why you kind of got records like “All Bad,” you got “Replace Me,” you got certain joints that was really catered for women because the energy started as a quick project for women really. And it turned into King's Disease.

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[Mike the Executioner]

The only thing about this album I don't like, literally the only thing, is Eminem’s verse on "EPMD 2." Everything else is just beautiful music.

I'll be sick to my stomach if this doesn't at least get nominated for Best Rap Album, even though Album of the Year is really what it deserves. Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish better make some room up there.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

1000000%

Store Run, Blue Benz, Nas is Good, The Cure...that type shyt. Imagine a whole Nas joint that's like 85% them vibes,



Even some D.R.E. type joints in the mix would be much appreciated, that type of production.

If we're being honest, the second era of Nas' career (Street's Disciple to Life is Good) was loaded with hard shyt, some of the hardest tracks of his career. People focus on stupid shyt like production and don't remember songs like "Message to the Feds," "Nazareth Savage," "These Are Our Heroes," "Disciple," "Reason," "You Know My Style," "Street's Disciple," "War," "Thief's Theme," "Money Over Bullshyt," "Carry on Tradition," "Hip Hop is Dead," "Black Republican," "Not Going Back," "Let There Be Light," "Hustlers," "Hope," "The N," "Where Y'all At"..........

*takes deep breath*

"Proclamation," "Queens Get the Money," "Breathe," "Hero," "Sly Fox," "Testify," "The Slave and the Master," "Louis Farrakhan," "Y'all My nikkas," "We're Not Alone," damn near the whole Life is Good album outside of "Summer on Smash," "Cherry Wine," and "Bye Baby." I know I'm forgetting some, but the point is, Nas has given us a lot of hard songs over the years. I don't have a problem with him making songs like "Replace Me" or "All Bad" or "No Phony Love" or "Brunch on Sundays." Not only are these all good songs, but I can tell this is the kind of music he loves as much as hip hop. 80s R&B definitely seems like his default genre if he's not making harder music.

 

[Thief's Theme]

The only thing about this album I don't like, literally the only thing, is Eminem’s verse on "EPMD 2." Everything else is just beautiful music.

only things I don't like about the album:

- the Em verse (skip it every single time)... and I also like Nas' lyrics on the pt1 track better, but it was cool to have EPMD on it
- Peter Popoff
- long intros on some tracks, I loved on KD1 how Nas would just go right in and I think I heard HB mention that's what he wanted Nas to do

actually I would've just put EPMD2 and YKTV as bonus tracks


also I remember when this first came out everyone was claiming that Nas wrote for Lauryn Hill (which I think is bullshyt)...

but nobody mentions how obvious it is that Nas wrote Hit-Boy's verse?

 

[Pop123]

If we're being honest, the second era of Nas' career (Street's Disciple to Life is Good) was loaded with hard shyt, some of the hardest tracks of his career. People focus on stupid shyt like production and don't remember songs like "Message to the Feds," "Nazareth Savage," "These Are Our Heroes," "Disciple," "Reason," "You Know My Style," "Street's Disciple," "War," "Thief's Theme," "Money Over Bullshyt," "Carry on Tradition," "Hip Hop is Dead," "Black Republican," "Not Going Back," "Let There Be Light," "Hustlers," "Hope," "The N," "Where Y'all At"..........

*takes deep breath*

"Proclamation," "Queens Get the Money," "Breathe," "Hero," "Sly Fox," "Testify," "The Slave and the Master," "Louis Farrakhan," "Y'all My nikkas," "We're Not Alone," damn near the whole Life is Good album outside of "Summer on Smash," "Cherry Wine," and "Bye Baby." I know I'm forgetting some, but the point is, Nas has given us a lot of hard songs over the years. I don't have a problem with him making songs like "Replace Me" or "All Bad" or "No Phony Love" or "Brunch on Sundays." Not only are these all good songs, but I can tell this is the kind of music he loves as much as hip hop. 80s R&B definitely seems like his default genre if he's not making harder music.

Good post, facts. With someone like Nas who churns out high level fire at such a high clip when he's in his bag, we tend to forget a lot of it. Of course I didn't totally forget them joints you named but they fall by the wayside over time when thinking about his output...and all them shyts are amazing songs. (I never fukked with "We're not alone" like that tho, ). I'm too tired to think right now but there's some more hard shyt you can throw in that mix too. I never understood why "Hero" didn't blow, he was rappin rappin on there and the beat is fire.

And I fux with the softer, more grown up chill vibe Nas been own, all I ever listen to 98% of the time when I listen to music in my leisure is R&B so I'm with it...I was just saying for a KD3 it'd be nice to see him change up the vibe a little...or just sidestep KD3 all together and make a whole new project.

 

[Ziggiy]

only things I don't like about the album:

- the Em verse (skip it every single time)... and I also like Nas' lyrics on the pt1 track better, but it was cool to have EPMD on it
- Peter Popoff
- long intros on some tracks, I loved on KD1 how Nas would just go right in and I think I heard HB mention that's what he wanted Nas to do

actually I would've just put EPMD2 and YKTV as bonus tracks


also I remember when this first came out everyone was claiming that Nas wrote for Lauryn Hill (which I think is bullshyt)...

but nobody mentions how obvious it is that Nas wrote Hit-Boy's verse?

Only like two people were saying that and both of them were idiots

 

[spliz]

If we're being honest, the second era of Nas' career (Street's Disciple to Life is Good) was loaded with hard shyt, some of the hardest tracks of his career. People focus on stupid shyt like production and don't remember songs like "Message to the Feds," "Nazareth Savage," "These Are Our Heroes," "Disciple," "Reason," "You Know My Style," "Street's Disciple," "War," "Thief's Theme," "Money Over Bullshyt," "Carry on Tradition," "Hip Hop is Dead," "Black Republican," "Not Going Back," "Let There Be Light," "Hustlers," "Hope," "The N," "Where Y'all At"..........

*takes deep breath*

"Proclamation," "Queens Get the Money," "Breathe," "Hero," "Sly Fox," "Testify," "The Slave and the Master," "Louis Farrakhan," "Y'all My nikkas," "We're Not Alone," damn near the whole Life is Good album outside of "Summer on Smash," "Cherry Wine," and "Bye Baby." I know I'm forgetting some, but the point is, Nas has given us a lot of hard songs over the years. I don't have a problem with him making songs like "Replace Me" or "All Bad" or "No Phony Love" or "Brunch on Sundays." Not only are these all good songs, but I can tell this is the kind of music he loves as much as hip hop. 80s R&B definitely seems like his default genre if he's not making harder music.

No love for “Hold Down The Block”? Lol