Nas - Magic 2 (Discussion thread)
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T.he I.nformant
1st Ballot HOF Teller
Braveheart Party, My Country, and Smokin are merely mid?
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
I don't count Braveheart party since that's not on most pressings but yeah i guess you're right about that. My COuntry and Smokin are skips but they're not awful, just whatever. When i think trash, I think Money Is My bytch, Big Things, and K-I-S-S-I-N-G (The last one probably isn't that bad in a vacuum but being surrounded by those first two makes it unbearable)Braveheart Party, My Country, and Smokin are merely mid?
Piff Perkins
Veteran
My Country is great. The interplay between the shackles of jail and war...come on that shyt is dope lol.
I don't think Smokin is bad but it's meh IMO.
I don't think Smokin is bad but it's meh IMO.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
For My Country I just can't get past the beat and especially the hook
ArchStanton
All Star
I hope Nas keeps releasing music as much as he wants to and when he wants to, I'll keep listening. It's not like anyone else has been keeping us fed. If anyone has had enough, go listen to whatever you want to and don't worry about Nas releasing too much! Just my take...
KISSING is a good song.
Smokin' and My Country are straight up not good songs, and I've always found What Goes Around to be largely hotep babble. And even Ether and Destroy & Rebuild aren't "great" songs in a vacuum, but elevated by context and the moment. And Rules' a pretty divisive song but I love cheesy earnest shyt like that so I give it a pass...same time though I won't argue with anybody who doesn't fukk with it. But still, the highs are so high that I still think it's a strong 8.5/10 album. I Am's highs are just as high as Stillmatic but the lows are way lower and leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth
What the hell is hotep babble,, white Jesus is poison is hotep babble?
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Slim Charles
All Star
only part of What Goes Around i'm not fan of is the 'Physicians prescriptin medicines which is poison, injecting our infants with the poison'. Otherwise great song.
Miss the aggressive political Nas.
Miss the aggressive political Nas.
He had to scale back because we're in the Cancel Culture society now and that boy is getting too much money with other corporations now lol After they got on his back over the Vaccine line on everything you can tell he's made it a point to stay away from saying anything controversial and I feel him. It's time for some new cats to take some risk with the content.
Slim Charles
All Star
I just disagree with it
I know in US perhaps I think people can get prescribed all sorts of negative poisonous shyt that isn’t fully the case where I’m at so that line perhaps I’m less negative about. But disagree with the injecting our children line. But to be clear I ain’t on that wave at all that happened post Nasir where everyone got anti Nas because he had some anti vax lines.
up in here
Superstar
I think the anti vax sentiment in older cats in the Black community is understandable when shyt like the Tuskegee experiment happened in very recent times and led to a strong distrust of medical science within their generation.I just disagree with it
I know in US perhaps I think people can get prescribed all sorts of negative poisonous shyt that isn’t fully the case where I’m at so that line perhaps I’m less negative about. But disagree with the injecting our children line. But to be clear I ain’t on that wave at all that happened post Nasir where everyone got anti Nas because he had some anti vax lines.
Not saying I agree with the anti vax shyt but when it comes to older Black folks, I can understand at least why they might feel that way.
Smokin is okay. Got Yourself is fire. I agree with you on the others. Like I said, remove 2, maybe 3 joints, and the album is damn near flawless.
How is it arguable that these Hitboy shyts have highs matching the highs on Stillmatic? No they don’t, lol, imo.
Out of all 5 Hitboy albums, I think I'd maybe give like 7 songs an A grade. On Stillmatic alone, I'd give 7 songs an A grade. Lol. All the Hitboy shyts range from pretty good to very good...Stillmatic is a borderline classic, different tier. Didn't Stillmatic get 5 mics? Not that it matters, I'm just thinking about it now. It didn't deserve 5 imo because of them 2 ehh joints and the 1 dud...but still, 11 songs of greatness?? You can argue that can still get 5.