Nas - Magic (Discussion Thread)

[u mad son?]

We need a video for Wave God asap (no pun)

We need a part two once Max touches home

 

[No1]

Street's Disciple, Hip Hop is dead and Untitled were all brilliant albums that all get underrated for some reason.

They weren’t underrated, people didn’t love them like that. They also dropped in an era where sonically what they were doing wasn’t popular. I do personally really like HHID though.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Bruh nas done caught a 2nd prime…he gotta bounce in the flow and a sharpness with the schemes you don’t see from rappers passed a certain point..:shyt would be like if Cube dropped sounding like AMW and shyt

 

[erker]

Hyped of the little dirt you did
It ain't shyt to the kid

 

[semicko82]

Meet Joe Black is that grimy east coast make you want to do a stick up type of music

 

[Ziggiy]

They weren’t underrated, people didn’t love them like that. They also dropped in an era where sonically what they were doing wasn’t popular. I do personally really like HHID though.

Streets Disciple, HHID, and Untitled are amongst Nas’s most acclaimed albums. People definitely loved them when they first dropped I don’t know where the revisionist history comes from that people didn’t fukk with those albums.

 

[Artfull Dodger]

KDII is a great album and has stone cold classic songs to me...Rare, Store Run, Pressure, Death Row East, Nobody, My Bible, Count Me In, Nas Is Good, etc., etc. But you can make the argument that Magic is more raw and has absolutely no filler.

I know its real early but...top 5 Nas albums? Top 3?

KD2 & Magic

 

[ryderldb]

Nas is fukking floating on these beats man. The truth

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Streets Disciple, HHID, and Untitled are amongst Nas’s most acclaimed albums. People definitely loved them when they first dropped I don’t know where the revisionist history comes from that people didn’t fukk with those albums.

They were not acclaimed when they first came out, especially the first two . Untitled got some love at first but it dried up after a while

 

[Cuban Pete]

Bro was thinking the same thing Rocky floated like a motherfukker

My nikka ASAP Rakim did not disrespect himself on that mic hopping on there with a GOAT, I like his track with Nas better than J Cole's Let Nas Down remix bullshyt, Nas bodied Cole but ASAP at least kept up who would've thought

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

three years from turning the big 5-0 at that

Nas is fukking floating on these beats man. The truth

 

[JustCKing]

1. Nas





Everybody else.

I'm on track four. Nas is my favorite rapper, but haven't heard anyone be THIS good for THIS long. How is he this deep in the game and still showing growth?

 

[Artfull Dodger]

I still feel like you could put KD2 at 5 or 6, depending on where you put God’s Son. And I feel oddly similar about Magic. It’s early so I won’t make any statements but I feel like this is gonna land in the 5-7 spot somewhere. Closer to 5 than 7.

i said in the KD2 thread that to make a top 5 Nas album list is now very difficult. whatever you put on 6,7,8 & 9 someone will have in there 5 and with merit

 

[Spidey Man]

I'm bout to throw every Hit/Nas song on a playlist. Just hit shuffle and let it go

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Man, ya'll know drumless beats aren't my favorite, but Ugly is the one I've got on repeat right now. I've ran it back 5 times in a row now. It's just so moody and hypnotic.

The keys sound to me like a more somber version fo The World Is Yours.