Nas - Magic 2 (Discussion thread)

[Piff Perkins]

Unless he's mentioned it more than once, I'm pretty sure it was his interview with DJ Khaled, not Nore.

I think the implication was that he thinks he could get cancelled for the type of shyt he used to say during that era.

The impression I got is that Sony owns that stuff so he was interested in them getting paid off Lost Tapes 3. I don't remember exactly when that interview came out, but I want to say King's Disease was out. In 2021, Nas partnered with Sony for the release of KD2. It was released via Mass Appeal and The Orchard, which is a Sony distribution subsidiary. That told the "music label guy" part of my brain that he's in good graces with Sony, they fukk with him, etc. Which in my mind could mean that a Lost Tapes with Sony material is more likely now than it was when that Khaled interview dropped. Not saying Nas had a bad relationship with Sony previously but it's business. You leave one place to go to another (Def Jam), I'm sure there were some people in their feelings lol. But at this point with all the labels focusing so heavily on CATALOG, Nas is def gonna be getting more love from them.

 

[HHID]

The reddit insider won't drop the tracklist or any info before Friday. He did drop a big hint about a feature on his post tho.

LMAOOOO this my fault, I'll take the hate, sorry fellas

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Nas has the grown man game on lock. Never seen this man get this much love

 

[mson]

Agreed.

On his own do I enjoy hit boy more than the other producers mentioned here? No

But with the chemistry he has with Nas and how Nas feels the urge to create on such prolific level working with hit to go on to make 4 dope albums in 2 years if it isn’t broke why fix it?

Before hitboy it took Nas 6 years to make anything new and 8 years before a new full album I can’t complain

Would I be mad if he went in another direction this album? No but let’s not act like another Nas and hit album would be tough to take

If you would have told me three years ago Nas would find one producer to work with and drop 4 dope albums in 2 years I’d say you’re crazy and where do I sign up for that

He made new stuff. Probably couldn't put anything out. And don't forget Kanye.

 

[ThirdAct]

Joey Badass in Nas comments, he another feature?

 

[MikeStamina]

I don’t think I ever seen Nas on Shaderoom for music

That's a gotdamn s t o r y

 

[Primetime21]

Joey Badass in Nas comments, he another feature?

No.

 

[MikeStamina]

This shyt better have a Kodak feature. shyt is long overdue.

This will only make sense on a Kodak album

 

[Icewatermetallik]

How do you guys interpret the cover? The first one had a young Nas looking out the project window with the fronts in, what do you think of this one?

Maybe him going from the Nasty Nas to the Nas now? He got waves on the right hand pic though......hmmmm

 

[nyknick]

nikkaz don't feel this they can GTFOH

Only ones hating on those songs are people that want to go back to 1994 when they were 12-15 years old

No other explanation for all the crying about Nas not working with their favorite flabby producer that hasn't done shyt in last ten years

 

[ADP]

cover looks like young nasir on the left and current nasir on the right or am i tripping off the cola ?!

looks to me like that but im on my phone so...

hope this is great, awful year for hip hop otherwise

 

[Braman]

This might get people mad but Drillmatic was 5 mics. It was an amazing project.

It’s the quintessential ‘if this was 16 songs it’s 5 mics’ album. There are absolutely 16 A+ level songs on there.

But….he wanted to be Chris brown and drop a 30 song album

 

[Ziggiy]

How do you guys interpret the cover? The first one had a young Nas looking out the project window with the fronts in, what do you think of this one?

Maybe him going from the Nasty Nas to the Nas now? He got waves on the right hand pic though......hmmmm

He doesn’t have waves he clearly still rocking the braided loc style on the right pic.

I think its pretty simple that it symbolizes the growth of Nas from what he was as that teenager recording Illmatic to the man he is now. He’s bridging that gap, because as much as things change (from youth to elder) they stay the same (he’s still in the recording booth)

 

[Braman]

Oh shyt did Nas finally get his getback on jay w/ the release date Usually it’s jay purposely dropping at the same time as Nas. This time Nas announced the album the same time as that Book of Hov rollout

 

[Gizza]

Speechless