Nas - King's Disease III (Discussion Thread)

[I'm Blackman]

Great album by the goat. I still think cheat codes is my album of the year. I gotta run kd3 back tho
..only spun it once and it was really good. I gotta unplug from the reviews ect. and live it with it a while.

but kdot number 3 for me this year, and kd3 and cheat codes competiting for my rap album of the year.

 

[I'm Blackman]

That must mean you think the quality of rap shot all the way up this year as opposed to last year

Cuz imo, I know everybody’s opinion is different… but KD3 shyts all over KD2 and Magic

Y’all gotta understand how important it is that Nas ain’t pick and choose his spots to rap for a whole album…

The way Nas was rhyming on Nobody, Store Run, & Rare on KD2, & the majority of Magic… he did that shyt for this entire album and even leveled it up

Most people are still fronting like Nas wasn’t mostly coasting on KD2 like Jay did on the Blueprint & Magna Carter. The album was still great but it’s ok to tell the truth

Store run might be my favorite Nas song in the last 10 years.

 

[kes929]

on Thun and Nas is going off...he actually sounds close to his old self but he won't have that "not even trying" smooth delivery he had when he was younger

as for Hit-Boy...he's not a bad producer, I just feel like other producer would make superior versions of these same beats

Which producer. I would love to know

 

[HNIC973]

Feel the beat breaks, serial defaced for Jakes
A license to carry still ain't safe in New York State
It's still a lot of ways to manage the life expectancy average
The future of our next generation ain't been established
Conflicted by some of the same patterns that had us
Money and social status, tell me what really matters
So who are you when they turn of all the cameras?

BARS

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Kd2, Magic and Kd3 are better than

Nasir, Life Is Good (debatable tho), Untitled, Hiphop Is Dead, Streets Disciple, and God's Son


These guys strung together projects back to back to back to back that supassed anything GOAT did the previous 2 decades. That aint by accident

Not only is the quality there but he's not taking 5-7 years to release his projects now. Those two have clearly figured out the cheat code in the studio

HitBoy is Nas' Quincy for real.

The six-year gap between Life is Good and Nasir wasn't normal for Nas. Until 2012, he had a new album every year or two. And he was also starting to come into his own as a businessman while getting things in order for the move to Mass Appeal. First project he dropped was The Lost Tapes II, before Hit Boy came into the picture.

Also, Hit Boy had to get better as a producer. If they had hooked up ten years ago, that album wouldn't have been at the current level of quality. And as their chemistry grew, the music got even better. Everything had to happen exactly the way it happened for us to get the partnership we have now.

 

[Nero Christ]

Which producer. I would love to know

producers who Hit is emulating or producers I feel are superior to him?

 

[HNIC973]

One thing after Magic &KD3 this guy still exist not to be fukked wit

 

[kej718]

Sample credits

• "Reminisce" contains a sample of "You Remind Me", written by Dave "Jam" Hall and Eric Milteer, as performed by Mary J. Blige.
• "Beef" contains a sample of "N.Y. State Of Mind", written by Nas and DJ Premier.
• ^[a] “Til’ My Last Breath” contains a sample of “Narco”, written by Thom Jongkind, Idir Makhlaf and Timothy Jude Smith, as performed by Blasterjaxx and Timmy Trumpet.

 

[jensyao]

yeah i have no idea where these dudes be getting their footage sometimes or if people just voluntarily submit them in and then they get the watermark on the video....the ones on IG that i found have incomplete parts of the whole speech and this seems to be the whole thing...i'm still waiting for random other videos to trickle onto social media before i make the whole video compilation

....found a cool concept album cover concept on the way

 

[Canada Goose]

"My first album had no famous guest appearances/the outcome? I'm crowned the best lyricist"






I guess the GOAT was trying to channel that Illmatic energy with this one







This album feels more like Magic part 2 rather than KD album.

 

[Nero Christ]

Once a Man, Twice a Child

 

[bigde09]

All done in about 2 years. Good grief

Reminds me of Pac doing MATW, AEOM, Makaveli in the span of 2 years

My 2 GOATS

 

[Ziggiy]

The KD3 chick was on Twitter spaces and had some interesting things to say…


-Says that the streaming tracking is on par with KD2

-Says that Hood2Hood is currently the lowest streaming track on the album. Legit, Beef, and Michael & Quincy are the highest

-Says that the reason there was no New York date for the Nas/Wu-Tang Clan tour was because he was saving it for the Madison Square Garden announcement

-Says Mass Appeal is doing well in India and they have plans to open a label in another country next year. Says Divine is doing incredible.

-Says Mass Appeal in US isn’t doing so well and that Nas is one of only 3 artists currently on the label. He’s single handedly keeping the lights on.

-Says the bulk of Nas pure sales come from Amazon and that Amazon always rolls out the red carpet for Nas

-Says that for the first time every song on KD3 has charted on Apple’s Hip Hop top 200 charts

-Talked a little bit about Nas and Hit-Boy’s relationship and says Nas helped him with his contract situation so even though he’s still on the contract its more fair and favorable for him and that helped strengthen the bond between them.

-Confirmed Nas owns the Masters for all the Mass Appeal albums and says he’s “trying to get ownership of a few more from the past” but wouldn’t go into further detail.

-Says Nas laughed off the rumors Jay Elect wrote for him and felt no way about it.

-Says Nas writes for a lot of artists but never takes credit

 

[Ziggiy]

@Ziggiy
Im peeping you in the twitter space right now with the Illmaticesco

Im in and out and hear some info. Any details?

I heard about the tracking for KD3.

I just posted everything interesting.

She’s still on now but talking more about the pitfalls of the industry

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Nas deserves to win best hip-hop album in every year since he dropped KD1 but won one. He should have won Magic, KD2, now this KD3.

Magic is eligible for next year's Grammys so he could win Best Rap Album again. But Kendrick will probably take it.