Nas - Magic 2 (Discussion thread)

[Mastamimd]

That modern flow been working lately but then again I liked Rare

That's his best modern flow song and one of my favorites

 

[The Dust King]

didnt listen to the album yet but just heard the nas/50 track… lets just say it was extremely disappointing for such an anticipated collab like that

gotta be tough for gunit stans

50 raps 6 bars

and nas disses him

great song

 

[prophecypro]

The idea of Nas rapping over slow ass Daringer drums makes me want to throw up lol. There are certainly Griselda-type beats that fit him but not as many as many fans think IMO.

Even Benny and Conway work with Hit Boy

 

[Supa]

I was at the barbershop earlier, and dudes said the same. That Nas should get WSG to "curate" his next album and get him on some Griselda production. That's another combo that I think would be really dope. Get Conway and Benny on some tracks with him.

That's NOT happening

I don't even need Nas to do a whole album like that but it would be nice if he did more features to get on some different production.
He'd sound great over a beat like Tyson vs Ali that's not too grimy and is more like his current vibe.

He did a song with Benny 3 years ago but it's in the vault because it's a chick song and Benny didn't think that's what people wanted to hear from them. Conway been reaching out to him and promising a verse for over a year but nothing happened.

After hearing this then going back to the KD series I need something sonically better. The beauty of those albums is the combination of how lyrical it is along with really good production. Griselda is still sonically the best doing it now, I wouldn’t mind if Nas uses something like that. Didn’t Dave East get Westside to produce his album?

Gunn just curated the art for Dave's album not the music.

 

[CourtesyFlush]

I like that it's different but it should not have been called Magic 2. Gave it too high of expectations. Plus it's nothing like the first.

Magic 1 is 10/10
Magic 2 is 7.5/10

It will probably grow on me with repeated listens.

 

[Prolific_1011]

Motion is Black Bond-esque. (Beat and his delivery)

 

[Ziggiy]

cats gotta stop with this Alchemist shyt. Y’all getting as bad as the “he needs to do a Primo album” cats. Alchemist is dope but y’all need to stop.

Nas don’t need Alc. he don’t need to be chasing the Griselda sound. He don’t need to bring back the illmatic team. He doesn’t need Rick Ross to EP his shyt. He doesn’t need the Magic series to be strictly 90s influenced.

Nas just needs to do what the fukk he wants. You either rock with it or you don’t. If he listened to everyone who didn’t like his shyt he wouldn’t be who he is today and we wouldn’t even have this KD/Magic run at all.

Couldn’t have said it better myself

 

[Ziggiy]

Nas - Magic 2 | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

There’s an oft repeated truism about Nas that he peaked too early; scaling the Himalayan heights of genius on ‘Illmatic’, some venture that the Queens

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first review

Second

 

[BaltimoreTwilightMarauder]

Your IQ ain't above 11

And I can say that confidently

Back when data was 50 cents a minute, you would've thought twice before posting this bullshyt

Trust the hate is mutual

It seems I upset you. it's ok bro. Nas isn't your friend.

 

[prophecypro]

I've been saying the same for years. Fat Joe said he was trying to get Nas to meet him in the studio when he was there to work on songs for HWH7 with WSG, but Nas couldn't make it. But that type of production is perfect for Nas, so I'm hoping they can get him in there at some point to put some sh*t together.

Nas rapping over a plodding beat with xylophones and Gunn doing Dootdootdoodootdootdoot sounds like a hellscape

 

[bigde09]

It’s growing on me. It wasn’t what I expected at first.

 

[CourtesyFlush]

50 deserves to be trolled hard for thinking he should submit that bullshyt "verse" for Nas of all people. It's laughably bad. And I'm a big fan of older 50 cent.

 

[Nostalgic]

I can definitely see Jessy Terrero directing a music video for MOTION.

 

[Nostalgic]

It's still hella early but off a few spins
In order from Best to worst.

KD3
Magic 1
KD2
Magic 2
KD1

 

[prophecypro]

Someone earlier in this thread who was complaining about the beats said they couldn’t tell if Bokeem Woodbine is a “dancehall track or not” and I just wanna say no disrespect to anyone but that’s all I need to know about someone’s musical opinions and awareness to say they have some nerve to question anyone else’s production