Nas - Magic 2 (Discussion thread)

[detroitwalt]

Slow It Down is a fukking monster.

 

[nyknick]

People first started crying when they found out One Mic, One Gun was a bonus track. Then some started crying when they saw the tracklist, other people are upset that album's name is Magic 2, like he named it Illmatic 2 and not after an album that he released just two years ago. And now people are throwing their phones at the wall after one listen through.

Never change The Coli when it comes to Nas' music

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

On second listen I'm not 100% sure this ranks lowest, it might compete with KD1 in the future - but KD1 is STILL growing on me so that's saying a lot.

GOAT

 

[prophecypro]

Al is gonna give him some left field shyt in a different way. Like some obscure shyt. Life for instance. What he gave Roc Marci for Saw. But the problem is. I feel like these same people wouldn’t appreciate that type of shyt for Nas either. People need to come to terms that they just like to hear Nas over more traditional boom bap shyt and just call it a day. It's not about being a Nas fan and not being able to criticize him. It’s that nikkas been unfairly trying to pigeonhole son since his second album. The fact that IWW was met with any type of resistance is mind boggling as fukk. Issue is it’s not consistent criticism with everyone. Like. Some of them same people would tell u with a straight face LAD is the greatest hip hop album of all time. lol. That shyt got straight up disco flips on it. lol.

And we saw what happened when Nas and Primo linked up last year for what was the most safest song which would please them


I do fux with LAD though and I would have thought ppl who hate iww would hate that lol

 

[JCalli]

The out of Nas fans gonna hate this shyt

But, this the biggest risk he taken in a long time far as going against expectations. First Magic was like late 90s early 00s vibe, this is space aged in some ways

This post made me laugh lol.

i'm a say what it is, i'm the one takin the risks
Ya'll be creating the hate but i be creating with Hit
Aint no way we can miss (noooo)

Can't put a grade on my shyt
Ya'll should be ashamed of ya'll lists
I put some pain into this
I put my veins, blood, bones , soul i put my brain into this
ya'll moving brainless

 

[deeznutz]

There's about 7 gym worthy tracks on this lol It's a banger.

I noticed some real samples on here too they must have paid a lot for. Most of the albums in this run have had samples from I think sample packs (which is fine with me) That Office Hours sample is one of my favorites Ghostface used that one on Shakey Dog I'm pretty sure

 

[Life is Good]

Trending

 

[Figaro]

Albums cool.

Not sure why people expecting similar sound to Magic when all their albums have sounded different from each other.

This probably the weakest out the 5 but by no means is it garbage.

 

[waynep]

Yeah I can even feel it in Nas' voice, I've heard it before.. There's a few moments where he gets back to "normal" like on Slow it Down or a couple other verses, but globally he's sounding different, like on some of the bad moments of his career

Yea Slow it Down is crazy..
The album is growing on me I'm on the 3rd spin but it's still easily the weakest of the Hit-Boy era.

 

[nyknick]

The out of Nas fans gonna hate this shyt

But, this the biggest risk he taken in a long time far as going against expectations. First Magic was like late 90s early 00s vibe, this is space aged in some ways

Funny thing is even though the first Magic album had that vibe the usual suspects still complained. So there's really no winning, Nas even called them out on Wu for the Children but to no avail


You would think with any and all music available to stream they would just listen to his old shyt without having to dust off their walkmans, but no they want him to make 90s shyt in 2023

 

[CHAIN]

Bokeem Woodbine is a very crazy song.
Can't get past it. It's like the sequel to 'The Don'.







Ouch!

 

[MikeStamina]

Nah this album is fukking trash

Everyone will continue acting like the sun shines out of hitboys ass though and that these two can't do no wrong

I don't wanna see no one calling for KD4, the formula was played out before this album.

Anybody wanna bet kd4 drops this joker will be front row with his expertise takes

Then you clowns wonder why you have no credibility

 

[Slim Charles]

I think expectation Magic 2 would be similar to first Magic was a fair one. But same time, if that wasn't Nas' intention then that's also a fair one.

Hearing Nas with 50 makes you realise so many 40+ rappers sound completely while Nas still elite.

 

[Hannibal Fox]

All the "beatmakers" crying in here, please post up your beats and show everyone how it's done

 

[MikeStamina]

Album is only 9 songs.... consensus being
5 dope
2 above average
But the album is not good? The math doesn't add up but okay. To each his own