Nas - Magic 2 (Discussion thread)

[Surreal]

Y’all stupid. This shyt go crazy hard.

I’m putting this over KD 1 and 2. Might be neck and neck with Magic. Hit-Boy bodied this shyt. Nas was spitting his ass off.

Motion
Ervin Magic Johnson
What It Really All Means
Slow It Down
Pistols On Your Album Cover

These joints is incredible. I don’t know what the fukk y’all hearing.

Their fave producer Nas don't fukk with

 

[criminology]

I guess I’m the only one who doesn’t hold Magic in that regard..

KD2 is the best Nas album since his prime
Magic is in the 8th to 10th range of best Nas albums

Nah I agree. Magic was good but KDII was inspired… Store run, composure, bible, rare, Nas is good, moments, nobody.

 

[Figaro]

Damn 50’s voice

 

[Stick Up Kid]

That’s probably cuz of the production. Kd2 was masterfully produced

But Nas was freestyling about half the album lol

Nas on KD3 is a completely different emcee from KD2, as a whole. The disparity is pretty glaring

Nas on KD 1 & KD 2 sounded like a legend aging gracefully. KD3 nikka literally sounded like he turned back the hands of time

Nas was spittin on Death Row East, Nobody, Composure, Store Run, Rare, 40 Side, etc

Magic is a bit overrated to me

 

[waynep]

fukk I feel like throwing my phone at the wall or something... Can I erase this listening experience from my memory and pretend this album never existed??

If somebody told me I'd wake up to One Mic One Gun being the track I'd enjoyed the most on this album, knowing it was one of the weakest amongst 55 Nas/Hit tracks, I wouldn't never believed them... Yet that's exactly how I felt..

They got too confident and dropped some uninspired tired shyt, that's TO ME at the very bottom of Nas' discography. The beats are almost all ass, some playskool cheap ass SoundCloud shyt. But really Nas is even worse, shyt feels like listening to him on Summer on Smash for a full album, uncomfortable and uninspired...

Motion could've been a dope joint but WTF is this chorus? Bokeem is a good track, but nothing groundbreaking either. Ah fukk it, don't even feel like going thru songs... Will never listen to that shyt again

Yea bro I'm hurt about this one
but they went 4/4 before this so I'm appreciative, but yea this ain't it.

 

[HNIC973]

fukk I feel like throwing my phone at the wall or something... Can I erase this listening experience from my memory and pretend this album never existed??

If somebody told me I'd wake up to One Mic One Gun being the track I'd enjoyed the most on this album, knowing it was one of the weakest amongst 55 Nas/Hit tracks, I wouldn't never believed them... Yet that's exactly how I felt..

They got too confident and dropped some uninspired tired shyt, that's TO ME at the very bottom of Nas' discography. The beats are almost all ass, some playskool cheap ass SoundCloud shyt. But really Nas is even worse, shyt feels like listening to him on Summer on Smash for a full album, uncomfortable and uninspired...

Motion could've been a dope joint but WTF is this chorus? Bokeem is a good track, but nothing groundbreaking either. Ah fukk it, don't even feel like going thru songs... Will never listen to that shyt again

that's a ridiculous take lol

 

[NoHalfWay]

Nas on Slow It Down is just incredible….

When he’s in the zone I don’t even know how he’s able to rhyme and articulate certain bars with such precision

“Let’s throw a nickel at the wishing well rappers
Watch it sink to the bottom, and I wish em all happiness”

On paper the words don’t even necessarily rhyme, but you listen to him spit it and the internal rhyming is insane

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

What the fukk was that 50 verse lmaoooo

 

[Ziggiy]

Y’all stupid. This shyt go crazy hard.

I’m putting this over KD 1 and 2. Might be neck and neck with Magic. Hit-Boy bodied this shyt. Nas was spitting his ass off.

Motion
Ervin Magic Johnson
What It Really All Means
Slow It Down
Pistols On Your Album Cover

These joints is incredible. I don’t know what the fukk y’all hearing.

KD2 is my absolute FAVORITE of the run. I didn’t put KD3 above it and i don’t know yet if I can put Magic 2 above it.

But Magic 2 might be the most AMBITIOUS Nas album ever, and thats saying something. The flows, the production choices, the creativity. I fukking LOVE experimental Nas. I also the pure unadulterated confidence Hit Boy and Nas inspire within each other. I thought Magic 1 was the pinnacle of modern day Nas aggression but on here he almost ALMOST takes it to Stillmatic levels with the aggression and just not giving a fukk. I think what separates this from Stillmatic is on Stillmatic Nas was truly angry and looking to take nikkas heads off. Here Nas’s only competition is himself

 

[HNIC973]

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

We're like 5 hours away from Nas stans labeling this a classic



Hitboy's production is elevator music. Cheap Casio keyboard sounding shyt. The beat on Lupe's new track shyts on everything on here.

 

[MikeStamina]

This muhfuka Crimson Tider stayed up for the album..lol n smh

That's a really sick man ladies and gentlemen

You're still blocked bytch

 

[NoHalfWay]

Nas was spittin on Death Row East, Nobody, Composure, Store Run, Rare, 40 Side, etc

Magic is a bit overrated to me

I’ll give you Nobody, Composure, Store Run, Rare (beat switch part)

Death Row East & 40 Side were ok by Nas standards, nothing to write home about. The Pressure was insane sonically, but again lyrically, flow, and energy wise very pedestrian by Nas standards

He free flowed quite a bit on Magic as well, but he also blacked out on more tracks. I respect if you find Magic overrated tho

But KD3 clearly is Nas lyrically not fukking around at all

 

[Awesome Wells]

His name is Hit Boy. That's what he's about and going into the studio with a mainstream artist you just want to crank shyt out. That's why you end up with nikkaz in Paris which is straight jack of premade loop but it's a hit. That works for popular music and he's not the only one doing that. The masses don't care about the details so it's a lot of microwave beats. Problem is when you start working with artists with a sample based background you can't always apply those same tricks and get away with it. People who listen closely will catch on to it.

He keeps thinking he can do any style but it's mimicry that misses all the nuance. He'll do a boom bap beat but the drums aren't hard enough. He'll do a soul beat with a sample pack loop. Perfect example is that reggae sample he used. There's examples of flipping a reggae sample that shyt on his attempt (Massage Seats, Sound Bwoy Buriell). He didn't put enough time in to perfect the vibe and get it sounding right.

TRUTH!!

 

[King Ming]

The way Nas raps on that "Motion" beat is unmatched!