Nas - King's Disease III (Discussion Thread)

[Pop123]

Voice is still the dopest, imo. Overall, he still sounds the same.

With the 2 joints I posted... in "Street Dreams" it sounds like he's just talking but in rhyme form, if that makes sense. That's how a lot of his shyt sounded from Stillmatic back.

Post-Stillmatic, it's like he's really rapping rapping rapping, like rapping hard, lol, I don't know the right wording.

Not a complaint or anything, just something I noticed.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

Nas and hit boy is a deadly combo but I don't want another one for now . 4 collabs album is a lot for a non group. The danger is to stale or worse.
For the next album maybe limit hit boy to 2 3 tracks and bring madlib large pro alc and primo. And then do magic 2 as final hit boy project

 

[Stick Up Kid]

No way he said that????

 

[NoHalfWay]

Yall think Nas over-raps/over-rhymes sometimes? Like he's too wordy? Lil discussion I was having at the barbershop today. I think that's what some of these hatin ass publications who talk about his flow being messed up really mean...he's madd wordy.

Post-Stillmatic I think the flow/cadence is way more sped up or sumn. His voice has changed a lot too, it's not as grimy/gutter/cool as it was.














Sounds almost like a different MC. Both are better than pretty much everybody tho, lol.

I think it’s mostly in your head.

Nas on It Was Written sounded young af, but his NY accent and slang was heavier back then so it gives off the illusion.

To me Nas on KD3 sounds for the most part the same voice-wise since the early-mid 2000’s. There’s been moments in more recent Nas era music where I felt age was creeping on his voice, tone, energy (No Bad Energy, Blue Benz on KD1, etc.)

On this he sounds great tho

There’s other legends out here that definitely sound different from the old days. Like Ghostface for example… you got Jadakiss voice almost sounding shot

Styles P sucked in a ton of helium post 2006 after the Time Is Money era and been high pitched af since

 

[Pop123]

There’s other legends out here that definitely sound different from the old days. Like Ghostface for example… you got Jadakiss voice almost sounding shot

Styles P sucked in a ton of helium post 2006 after the Time Is Money era and been high pitched af since

Facts! Styles P needs to take some of that pitch off his vocals, if it wasn't for the patented flow he got he'd sound completely like a different dude now

 

[spliz]

Facts! Styles P needs to take some of that pitch off his vocals, if it wasn't for the patented flow he got he'd sound completely like a different dude now

Man I WISH Styles would go back to the deeper tone he used to have in the early to mid 00s.

 

[Ziggiy]

Do y'all REALLY have no desire to hear a Premier album?

Nas ain't gonna put out any bullshyt at this point in his career. If it drops its bound to be dope

Nas can and should do whatever he wants it just feels like the constant push for a Premo collab is coming from a small minority of “stuck in the 90’s” nikkas who are going to do nothing more than nitpick the project and compare it to every other Nas/Premo song.

Everybody else is rocking with the Nas/Hit-Boy projects (i.e. a fresh, more CONTEMPORARY sound) Premier hasn’t switched up his sound since 2007, what you get is what you get from him and we already got the very best of what Nas/Premo have to offer in their PRIMES.

Nas and Premo did Beat Breaks this VERY year and…crickets. Where were all the dusty hip hop lovers to stream that song? They should have come out in DROVES right? Not only that, the whole “This is 50” EP project was full of bars and dope beats. Slick Rick, Nas, Remy Ma, Joey Badass, RTJ, all of these “rap purist” artists that the backpackers should be falling over one another to support…There was literally NOTHING.

On the flip side KD3 has dominated the conversation this entire past week. Its being hailed as a new age classic. Hit Boy has proven to bring the BEST out of Nas and vice versa

At this point I think we should trust Nas that if the Nas/Premo or “Insert dusty boom bap producer” collab hasn’t happened then its not the best avenue to go down. Not for HIM as an artist. He’s literally been there and done that.

 

[NoHalfWay]

Facts! Styles P needs to take some of that pitch off his vocals, if it wasn't for the patented flow he got he'd sound completely like a different dude now

Bruh, it’s one of the most head scratching changes I’ve witnessed vocally from a rapper. I still don’t know what provoked the voice change

Mean it wit no disrespect either cuz Styles one of my favorites ever. The shyt confuse me cuz when you hear him talk in interviews, he still got the same rough tone as his old rap voice

I remember listening to that Super Gangster Extraordinary Gentleman thinking “sumn is a bit different about P on this shyt ”

 

[spliz]

Bruh, it’s one of the most head scratching changes I’ve witnessed vocally from a rapper. I still don’t know what provoked the voice change

Mean it wit no disrespect either cuz Styles one of my favorites ever. The shyt confuse me cuz when you hear him talk in interviews, he still got the same rough tone as his old rap voice

I remember listening to that Super Gangster Extraordinary Gentleman thinking “sumn is a bit different about P on this shyt ”

Styles prolly in my personal top 5 and the shyt aggravates me. Lol.

 

[NoHalfWay]

Styles prolly in my personal top 5 and the shyt aggravates me. Lol.

Mane, I can go on a rant bout that shyt forever…

But fukk it, it’s been like over 15 years… he ain’t going back to that old voice

Still got love for ya tho Styles

 

[ArchStanton]

I am going to sound petty because I know 4 out of 5 or 8 out of 10 is a good review...but I feel like if this was anyone else's album they would get a 5/5. But with Nas you can't give him that because then you are saying it's as good as Illmatic or something, even if a 4/5 album for Nas is in reality a much better album than a 4/5 album from whomever.

 

[BiggWebb79]

"One day he talking about shooting me the next he saying I Can, Nas be confusing me"

 

[Ziggiy]

I am going to sound petty because I know 4 out of 5 or 8 out of 10 is a good review...but I feel like if this was anyone else's album they would get a 5/5. But with Nas you can't give him that because then you are saying it's as good as Illmatic or something, even if a 4/5 album for Nas is in reality a much better album than a 4/5 album from whomever.

The issue is is that there are no longer any real Hip Hop exclusive publications that we can point to as our “authoritative” take on the culture and albums released within it. The Source doesn’t do reviews, XXL doesn’t do reviews, Vibe doesn’t do reviews. So when you look on Metacritic its mostly white publications being looked at as the “authentic” stamp for the culture. Even the review on Hip Hop DX is from a white man.

All the reviewers worth their salt are on Youtube, and if you look on Youtube, all the reactions/reviews have been OVERWHELMINGLY positive. DEHH, The Rap Roundtable, A2HH, and countless others are calling the album a masterpiece. Even Anthony Fontano couldn’t hate on it.

The fact that we’re waiting with baited breath for Pitchfork’s inevitable bullshyt review is proof that we have a HUGE problem with so called Hip Hop journalism. We shouldn’t even be stressing Pitchfork and Rolling Stone knowing that The Source and XXL would easily and expertly counter whatever crap the “others” would spew

 

[CobaltBlue]

First post in this thread… been chillin with the album for a minute.

And all I can say is




Why you ain’t proud of Nas???

 

[AkaDemiK]

The Truth vs Legit

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