Nas - Magic (Discussion Thread)

[HNIC973]

I’m 21 years past the 27 club
It’s like I went back into may past and then I sped it up
Robert Johnson, Winehouse, and Morrison found where heaven was
Heaven on Earth, this shyt is magic with no fairy dust
Home of the gully, gangsta, the gruesome, and the scary stuff
I told my brother Jung fukk em they gon’ go thru hell with us
They don’t have the history in the streets that compare with us
Hood nikkas they wanna be us, thugs in the St. Regis
Only thing undefeated is time
Second is the internet
Number three is this rhyme
Before security my dog had to sneak in the nine
God must be on my side
I had to eat and provide
My winning streak is divine
I told thun leave the street shyt behind
Don’t let ‘em hype you a slow run beats cheatin’ the grind
Dog I’m tellin’ it like it is
You gotta deal with the consequence
When you run in a nikka’s crib nikka you better be ready to sit

How you set an album off bars Speechless

 

[Ty-Fife]

This is boring outside of 2-3 songs and Salaam work on Life is Good and God’s Son is better and more memorable than what he’s done with Hit Boy

nikka, if you don't stfu

 

[C-Styles]

sheesh nas putting out albums like its crack

Blue MAGIC... it's quality, he stands behind it, he GUARANTEES IT... brand name, like pepsi

 

[HNIC973]

Quotables all throughout this shyt nikka calling this boring not worth the time. Name another rapper 30 years after we heard him spit going harder, I'll wait

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Word up, let people make shyt up in their mind for their own head canon.

Lost Tapes was not an album or even released like one, it was advertised as a collection of old songs that didn't make his albums or songs that leaked and disappeared.

I don't even count his lost Tapes as part of his solo run

It wasn’t released as an album but it’s so damn cohesive and from the same couple year time span so it’s no surprise that people just considered it one anyways

 

[WOLF2007]

The way he worded this part and the flow here was fire! Had to rewind this part a few times.

Me too. I was like oh this neega snapped

 

[Artfull Dodger]

Test, test, yeah, yunno
To get to this point
I might have to write a script, a manuscript
Yo, yo, ghetto manners is you thuggin’ me or asking?
Finessin’ me or pressin’ me, well none of that is happenin’
Accessory to murder not necessarily Manson
I’m just a G in constructs a Pelle Pels or a Vanson
Ratty clothes we haven’t spoke in years, pat his coat
Check his waistline, he spyin’ on who has the most
Best to leave me alone, I get in my zone
Laughin’ with African presidents while over the phone
shyt be feeling like the last days, cash made
Mirrors on the ceiling with a bad babe
Same age with nikkas be having mad grays
Million Man March with real nikkas never last place
Blazin’ gats like young Haitian Jack
Me and money go together like the 80’s and crack
Shorty aura like Kimora rockin’ Baby Phat
I’m droppin bars nikka like I’m on stage with smack
To my nikkas who have staples from the navel up
Healed up, had to chill a while, lay in the cut
Shorty tried to wop me down in the Mercedes truck
Pulled up, cobblestone ground in my palatial hut
Paradis for nikkas still doing deals in the street
Original Backwoods I fill ‘em with green
Am I a musician? Or am I a magician?
No tricks, just real shyt, straight out the kitchen

 

[Brad Piff]

lmao I knew the coli would be hyping up this wack throwaway album

beats were wack as fukk

 

[Travelnomad]

lmao I knew the coli would be hyping up this wack throwaway album

beats were wack as fukk

lol yea ok

 

[BiggWebb79]

The purpose of Magic is to keep the buzz going, Nas made that clear, so did Hitboy. Magic serves as similar to Fab's Shootouts mixtape releases during the holiday.

Do not expect any videos whatsoever off Magic. You guys will have to hold KD3 for that.

Just like we didn't expect any videos for LT2 right

 

[Ball]

 

[HNIC973]

Ugly would win Source Quotable of the Month
It’s ugly outside, it’s muggy, it’s muddy outside
105 Fahrenheit thunderous skies
The clouds shape a clown face above where you reside
Under his eye, teardrop got the ugliest cry
They call my city Gotham City, opposite of pretty
Weatherman cannot predict bullets rainin’ from out the 50
It’s ugly outside, Big L would be here if it wasn’t
Hell will freeze over the day it doesn’t get ugly out
How can we hug it out
After we slugged it out
We should be buyin’ acres adjustin’ each other’s crowns
That was your brother back then, how could you gun him down
Yeah, Yeah
That’s what I live for
The inventor
The re-invention, I’m reincarnated, see what it hit for
Yo, even your mental can get you sent for
Get you chipped off if it’s a brick off, you hit a brick wall
Damn big dog
Dove in that water and got hit with a cannonball
Ugly Christmas sweater party with no Santa Claus
Companies profit off of black trauma
That’s ugly, mad ugly just like Sheneneh and Wanda
You been thru shyt I been thru shyt everyday is an honor
It’s ugly how Mercedes Moore lost her life to a stalker
I’m on offense everyday ‘til I see the love
KD3 on the way, this just to feed the buzz

Bars

 

[mikishere]

thought this thread was the standard nas stan hype train for anything he drops but finally checked for the album today and holy shyt

album was damn near a 5/5 for me on first listen. hit boy laced the fukk outta him and nas was talkin on this shyt

hov is my goat but this nas album run with the last 3 (especially KD 1 and this) got me like damn. i was someone who thought before KD1, nas albums were mid as fukk after gods son (excluding life is good). i need hov in the lab to match this quality one more time

to nas acknowledging the wave god max

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Just find another thread to spam cac

@ISO @Cladyclad and @CrimsonTider are undercover Nas stans.

dont pay them no mind

 

[Ziggiy]

I get how people can be confused by Lost Tapes.


Officially they are both compilations. Compilations of older material packaged together. The first Lost Tapes was marketed as such and Nas himself had little to do with the project except approving the final tracklisting. There was no single or video and only one commercial promoting it that I remember. Both Lost Tapes and From Illmatic To Stillmatic: The Remixes were released to capitalize off the success of Stillmatic.




Lost Tapes 2 is a bit different. Nas was heavily involved in the selection of the tracks. He released three singles and two videos promoting the project and also did several interviews. They had listening sessions all around the world in anticipation. So I could see how someone might think of LT2 as an “album”.


Officially speaking both are not however