Nas - Magic (Discussion Thread)

[ill_will82]

I doubt Kanye would ever sabotage Nas. He’s a Nas stan and has said multiple times that Nas is his favorite rapper.


It was simply lack of planning and narcissism. If you listen to Kanye speaking about the album, he truly acts like he gave Nas a classic. Like he BELIEVES that shyt whole heartedly.


I actually like Nasir for what it is, I listen to it regularly, but there’s no doubt that it SHOULD have been better. Kanye was on that bullshyt and the only album that didn’t suffer from it during that era was the one that he actually spent TIME crafting, which was Daytona.


Hell I think if you gave Kanye and Nas a MONTH in the studio together, you’d get a stone cold classic. Instead Kanye wanted to play MAGA Superman and fumbled.

The problem w/Kanye is that he's always been arrogant. He came into the game arrogant. So he thought he could just put some shyt together and thought it would fly.

Personally, I can't fukk w/nobody that says, "slavery was a choice" I'm glad that Van Lathan checked his ass about that bullshyt. After that statement, I was done checking for anything involving Kanye. Dude really needs to do something about his mental issues.

 

[The War Report]

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

Not enough GRAAAA GRAAAA BOOM for you

 

[Waterproof]

Lyrically this album is up there with Illmatic, It Was Written, Untitled & Nasir.

With this album Nas should be in the running for lyricist of the year

 

[Mike the Executioner]

I feel like it was sabotage because they had Nas rap over entirely different beats, then changed the beats without his knowledge, then tinkered with the mix until the very last moment so it went to DSPs late. People were saying Nas was off beat but he wasn’t rapping to those beats. It’s not on him. I just feel like the entire thing was very weird.

Especially given how smoothly the Pusha release went….it left a really bad taste in my mouth.

It's worse because this was Nas' first album in six years, and the beginning of his third era. Now, he was moving away from Def Jam and heading to Mass Appeal full-time. And Kanye promised Obama that he was going to produce a Nas album one day. He made it seem like it was his lifelong dream. And he treated it like a homework assignment that was due the next day, just writing shyt on the paper so he had something to turn in.

Also, Nas isn't known for turning around albums that fast. Last time that happened, it set back his career for a while (Nastradamus). And that was the same time Kelis brought up those abuse allegations against him. So critics were shytting on him for not addressing them on the album. There was a whole listening party right near Queensbridge for an album that wasn't even ready yet.

It's just fukked up looking back because Nas took all the heat for the album turning out the way it did. And it's a testament to his talent that he was still able to pull off tracks like "Everything" and "Adam & Eve" with the limited time he was given.

 

[ill_will82]

Lyrically this album is up there with Illmatic, It Was Written, Untitled & Stillmatic.

With this album Nas should be in the running for lyricist of the year

 

[Big Mark]

Was KD2 nominated for AOTY?

 

[ajnapoleon]

I'm a be honest, I would prefer if Kanye doesn't work on a Nas joint again b/c of that NASIR joint that he just threw together like it was some last min shyt. Every since that joint Nas been on his shyt.

Lok at it this way


Nas is seen as one of one


Started in 91

Was in the looking at the front door vid

Pretty much a hip-hop Prodigy

And you finally have Nas for a entire album



And you do him like that




Make it make sense


Pete rock would not do that he would clear out his life for 6 months to work with Nas on a album

Large pro

Premo

9th wonder

Madlib

Harry fruad

Alchemist


On and on



But Kanye over there bullshytting




I cant accept that

 

[CapitalOne]

Dedicated on repeat

 

[Ziggiy]

Was KD2 nominated for AOTY?

No just Best Rap Album


The only rap album that got nominated for AOTY was fukking Donda

 

[HNIC973]

This is like Nas leading up LIG when he was bodying everything. Stillmatic era he spitting like he trying to remind nikkaz who the fukk he is. We should've known this shyt was gonna be a problem off the album cover alone

 

[spliz]

Black Rock N Roll? nikka there's no such thing of Black Rock N Roll we created Rock N Roll, nikka Blues, actually Rhythm & Blues is the father and Blues is The Grandfather of Rock N Roll. You don't even know what you speak about, psychedelic soul we can do that also

Go on with your day homeboy I will save you embarrassment you will about to receive.

And being a DJ don't mean shyt because if you was a DJ your digging needs to learn the history

I make a DISTINCTION with Black Rock n Roll because white folks tried to TAKE it from us. Which is my point. How the fukk does my digging need to learn history? Son u giving me useless information that I know already that I didn’t ask for aint teaching me shyt.

 

[T.H.E.GOD]

This shyt just had my 30 minute cardio feel like it ain’t shyt just now. 40-16 had me the most hyped during my workout

 

[Ball]

Hit-boy courtside at the lakers game

 

[Yinny]

Just started playing this sequencing

 

[Ziggiy]

Nas dropped Magic on Christmas Eve and Donald Glover dropped the new trailer for Atlanta on Christmas…




The most high is blessing me something CRAZY