Nas - Magic (Discussion Thread)

[JustCKing]

The first beat on dedicated is so soulful.

Both of those beats are .

 

[JustCKing]

so much more musicality

When I see critics say this, I look at as "Ok, so you're telling me this is good because you're hearing more layers of instruments than what is normally heard in a Hip Hop song, but does it actually move you". Like, what they call musicality might be over producing to someone else. It's like MC's running a clinic in lyricism over dope production is wack to some of these critics. "Yeah, he's spittin' and the beats are dope, but it needs more instrumentation" is what they be sounding like.

 

[waynep]

My shorty is a piece
A peace of mind
A dimepiece
I might buy her a piece of property
I love that stretch right there..
Excellent use of alliteration..

 

[Pop123]

The first beat on dedicated is so soulful.

That's a great song, the first half I mean. I overlooked it at first because I be so gassed off the beat switches mid song, lol, that shyt is so fire to me. So all my attention was really on the second half...but now idk, that first half might be just as fire.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

For Nas' overall discog I'd go:

Illmatic - 10/10
It Was Written - 9/10
I Am - 7/10
Nastradamus - 5/10
Stillmatic - 8.5/10
Lost Tapes - 9/10
God's Son - 8/10
Street's Disciple - 6.5/10
HHID - 6.5/10
Untitled - 7.5/10
Life Is Good - 8.5/10
Nasir - 5/10
Lost Tapes 2 - 6.5/10
King's Disease - 7.5/10
King's Disease 2 - 8/10
Magic - 8/10

 

[bill]

This is so dope been saying for 20 years I wish I could own a part of his music. I wanna buy a piece of Ether lol

 

[Ty-Fife]

So Who Are You wasn’t leaked beforehand? You Mean The World To Me wasn’t leaked beforehand? Royalty was leaked under another beat and originally had Frank Ocean singing the hook.


You have no idea what you’re talking about

Exactly... imagine calling Beautiful Life a "throwaway" record

 

[Al Simmons]

The issue with Nas hate is there are two categories of fans. You have Nas fans who look forward to new music from the God, who actually listen to his music. Then you have fans who are not fans of Nas but fans of Illmatic.

 

[L. Deezy]

This is so dope been saying for 20 years I wish I could own a part of his music.

Holy shyt...Songs as stock

Yiu know how much money this could be for artists who own their music outright? My gawd

 

[prophecypro]

This is so dope been saying for 20 years I wish I could own a part of his music.

Was about to post this in the Nas thread. I know he knows the founder of royal Nait Jones who I followed a bit on some of the early stuff of cryptocurrency.
Its kinda what I thought NFT's applied to music would be (though not necessialry how it should be, I figure the artist themselves should be the orignal token owner) but its a cool little flex piece. Not sure how it would work, how much it costs or if you need a coin like Etherum to buy it but I'll check it out

 

[Slim Charles]

This is so dope been saying for 20 years I wish I could own a part of his music.

will be interesting to see how this plays out as could be huge for the industry. You'd get people doing promotion for you is one thing 'for free'. If a company or individual has high stake then they'll promote and push your music and the artist will still make money off the % they still own.

Haven't read much about Royal. I assume it's like shares there they go up and down in value and you can sell them?

 

[kes929]

It’s more than that with Nas. These nikkas is cocksuckers. Period. I swear. If I was a guest on one of these shows they would hate me. Lol

Bruh you and me both. I would be exposing these dudes.

 

[Mike Wins]

they kept saying it sounded great and the beats were hard and all this but in the same breath they turn around and say “but it’s not as good as Illmatic, why is Premo only doing scratches on this? If Nas doesn’t make songs with Premo better than NYSOM then I don’t want to hear it” like wtf, how can you hold Nas up to that type of standard but then sweat the fukk out of Kanye and Jay Z etc and saying that Kanye’s songs are so much better because there’s “so much more musicality”

they shyt on Oochie Wally but then turn around and tell a story about how Cipha bought that beat before Oochie Wally and wanted to get Mos and Kweli on it. They love the beat and say it’s a dope record but then the hook isn’t good enough or whatever.

Nas the only artist that gets this treatment but is what it is at this point.

Oochie Wally a perfect example. Yeah it's a stupid song but it was also a big hit. Nas drops a lighthearted throwaway verse on a party track and it's used against him. These dudes forget it was originally a Bravehearts track. Nas dropped a verse on the single version and it was such a big hit they reissued QB Finest album with the Nas version on it.

 

[Budda]

Nas the only artist that gets this treatment but is what it is at this point.

Oochie Wally a perfect example. Yeah it's a stupid song but it was also a big hit. Nas drops a lighthearted throwaway verse on a party track and it's used against him. These dudes forget it was originally a Bravehearts track. Nas dropped a verse on the single version and it was such a big hit they reissued QB Finest album with the Nas version on it.

Sorry to bring him up again guys, but Yh is post is too true, if Jay-Z makes Oochie Wally he gets less hate, but Nas apparently isn’t allowed to like freaky women, designer clothes and is apparently supposed to be the reincarnation of Jesus

These dweebs put their insecurities on the man, like what the hell, just cause a nikka slyly conscious they expect him to be this dusty backpack rapper that don’t like women and fancy things, when in reality these corny dweebs like Questlove be the ones fukking sti ridden porn stars behind the scenes

Hate me now in retrospect is one of the best and most real songs in Nas whole discography, Nas is just a normal talented street nikka from QB he ain’t Jesus.

 

[BossMobb]

I finally finished my blog about Esco titled, Kid Wave - The Once In A Lifetime Artist That 40-16 Birthed. If anyone wants to check it out, let me know and I’ll shoot you a PM.

While I was working on the blog post, I ran KD1, KDII and Magic back to back to back. Incredible run by Nas and Hit-boy.