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BUSINESS AS USUAL said:
4.25/5 for me..i skip 4 songs on it..no introduction,worlds an addiction,accident murderers, and queens story
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i really don't care much for reviews, for me it's good seeing people like crooked I, wale, bussa, common, and royce 5'9 posting pics and talking about how great the album is.
 
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what??? no shock thread..them 4 songs are weak to me and i dont like them..justice league are bunch of fags for giving nas such a garbage track..that shyt should have never been giving to him to begin with so he couldnt choose it..i was so looking forward to a stillmatic-ish intro once i seen J.L. was on the boards..queens story beat is so trash and sounds like a track from 96 that was never released..drums are so oldschool and just wack..accident murderers beat is trash to and ross made no sense on the song..worlds an addiction is biggest disappointment for me..anthony hamilton is one of my fav artists and slept on...i expect greatness aka empire state of mind on this collab. wtf is with nas rapping over samples with no drums..thats garbage
 
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This review is the epitome of :umad::

That's Nas' ex-wife Kelis' wedding dress on the cover: she's a fellow recording artist, the two have a son together, and she wasn't consulted about the album cover or the album itself. Life Is Good is that kind of album, and for the moment, Nas is that kind of guy. He may have recorded some game-changing albums early on, and his recent collaboration with Damian Marley, Distant Relatives, was vital as well, but this puff-chested bytch session is a completely different animal, coming off as Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear, although this one prefers playing to radio over playing it as landmark disc, and prefers swaggering over staying on topic. Know that he's willing to take all the credit for his own Illmatic here, too, boasting that he's the best in the game before shooting insults at easy targets and his ex-wife/father-of-his-children, who never should have left because as "Roses" states, "I'm an ass magnet." This trashing without rebuttal is worth arguing about, and snarky and vicious aren't admirable qualities, so the best way to approach this unfiltered carpet bombing of love and marriage is thinking about how heartbreak can make a man go cold (808s & Heartbreak) or in this case, irresponsibly start fires. Well-funded fires, too, as Swizz Beatz's "On to the Next One" soundalike "Summer On Smash" gives Nas a bona fide club killer, and when it comes to headlines, that's the late Amy Winehouse on "Cherry Wine" in one of her last recordings -- on a track as intoxicating as its namesake. Don't let that vicious guy on the cover know that a woman also assists on the album's other truly rich moment, with Mary J. Blige in top form on "Reach Out," while Rick Ross winds up the album's top thug thanks to "Accident Murderers," a majestic street track with No I.D. on production and a reference to Illmatic's Jerome character, even when bringing that one up is sticky, seeing as Life Is Good isn't even in the same ballpark. Still, Nas doesn't seem to care, putting a Jim Jones-styled blast of boss talk called "Nasty" on the same album he pulls the heartstrings on with the well-written personal number "Daughters," but he sells it all, delivering everything here as if its classic status was assured and will never fall into an embarrassment trap, as long as the cover art isn't brought into the debate. If the game needed Illmatic, this is the one Nas needed to get out of his system, acting as a clearing house for all venom and bile, plus some gloss that doesn't fit but needed to go as well.
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Life Is Good - Nas : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic


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