Nas - Magic (Discussion Thread)

[Figaro]

I read a comment on twitter that Nicolas Craven put up a Instagram post/story not being happy about Nas having a song called Meet Joe Black because him & Ransom had a song titled that last year but he deleted it...

 

[Ziggiy]

I read a comment on twitter that Nicolas Craven put up a Instagram post/story not being happy about Nas having a song called Meet Joe Black because him & Ransom had a song titled that last year but he deleted it...

Yea it was some typical white boy bullshyt. A bunch of people called him out for it on Instagram and deleted it.

 

[Spidey Man]

I'm gonna need a Wu remix with Rae, Ghost and Deck and I'm gonna need a 40-16 remix with mega or AZ

 

[Big Dick]

Streets Disciple has a score of 80 on Metacritic. Thats higher than Stillmatic. Its also Nas’s last album to date to reach Platinum. It was definitely critically acclaimed when it first dropped.

Even Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, who typically shyt on Nas, praised the album.

Street's Disciple

Nas: Street's Disciple

Hip Hop Is Dead has a Metacritic score of 79 and is to date Nas’s second highest selling album in the first week. It also earned Nas his first Grammy nomination in 7 years. Again it was very well received when it dropped

two publications that should never be reviewing rap albums. If SD had been just one disc it might’ve been a classic tho

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

I'm gonna need a Wu remix with Rae, Ghost and Deck and I'm gonna need a 40-16 remix with mega or AZ

With a total new beat.

 

[Mega]

I read a comment on twitter that Nicolas Craven put up a Instagram post/story not being happy about Nas having a song called Meet Joe Black because him & Ransom had a song titled that last year but he deleted it...

Yea it was some typical white boy bullshyt. A bunch of people called him out for it on Instagram and deleted it.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ransom told him to take that goofy sh!t down.

 

[Loose]

I actually like streets disciple more than hip hop is dead way more. Cut off maybe 2 -3 songs its close to perfect. First disc classic material to me

 

[ThirdAct]

I actually like streets disciple more than hip hop is dead

I do too, SD has higher highs IMO

 

[Wargames]

Nas is such a great artist. Between Untitled and Nasir there was a 10 year gap and then he drops 3 better albums in less than a year and a half.



If you love art you got to love shyt like that. That’s the type of prolific inspiration that leads to periods of their careers being labeled and dissected by people just trying to get a spark of that level of creativity decades after it has occurred.

 

[tuckgod]

I'm honestly curious how many producers are jealous of Hit-Boy that have been around longer than him. A lot of producers have worked at a top level but not received such a huge rise in acclaim and status in such a short time frame. I have a gut feeling that there might be some jealousy towards Hit-Boy.

Not too many producers have put together fully produced classic level projects like him since 2000.

IMO that’s the ultimate test of a producer, making a cohesive sounding project that’s still entertaining and exciting, by yourself.

2nd is how much you make emcees sound better than they normally do due to your ear and knowledge.

He nails it in both categories every trip.

 

[Ziggiy]

Just throwing this out there, but for better or worse I've never found it to be the case that hip-hop heads' opinions align with publications reviews or receptions of albums.

And yet people will do the exact same thing if somebody says they like Nastradamus or Nasir. Point out that articles and publications shyt on them as proof that they weren’t acclaimed or well received when they came out. So who are we going turn to as “proof” an album or body of work was well received? The “Streets”? Because the streets aren’t what it was back in the 90’s.


I just find it hypocritical that somebody can just say “this wasn’t acclaimed or well received when it came out” but when someone posts PROOF to the contrary then ya’ll wanna scramble for second hand definitions of what was poppin and what was not. You got a poster saying someone fell asleep listening SD as proof of it not being acclaimed and yet the album is Nas’s last to go Platinum and one of the few to get praised by publications who rarely champion Nas music. Which one is supposed to hold more weight when really discussing a project’s place within its era?

 

[Ball]

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

This is my favorite Nas album. Personally, I'm putting it above stillmatic

Let the overrating of Magic keep flowing

Nas - Stillmatic (2001) BUY NOW!
Track Lyrics
1 Stillmatic (The Intro)
2 Ether
3 Got Ur Self A..
4 Smokin'
5 You're Da Man
6 Rewind
7 One Mic
8 2nd Childhood
9 Destroy & Rebuild
10 The Flyest
11 Braveheart Party
12 Rule
13 My Country
14 What Goes Around

 

[calh45]

Wu for the Children

 

[u mad son?]

Let the overrating of Magic keep flowing

Nas - Stillmatic (2001) BUY NOW!
Track Lyrics
1 Stillmatic (The Intro)
2 Ether
3 Got Ur Self A..
4 Smokin'
5 You're Da Man
6 Rewind
7 One Mic
8 2nd Childhood
9 Destroy & Rebuild
10 The Flyest
11 Braveheart Party
12 Rule
13 My Country
14 What Goes Around

But you admit that this album is one of the GOAT?