Nas - Magic (Discussion Thread)

[Slim Charles]

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.

nice title! shoot me a PM with the blog please

 

[mson]

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

He's also an investor.

Joyner Lucas, Nas join $55m funding round in 3LAU’s blockchain-based music investment platform Royal - Music Business Worldwide

 

[bill]

Own a piece of Utra Black by Nas | Royal

Damn shyt start at $50 and go to 5gs

 

[HHID]

Damn I was hoping nobody would notice the news so I could have a better chance at copping one NFT It'll probably be bought up by bots and we won't stand a chance...

 

[BossMobb]

@Slim Charles I shot you a link to the blog post, thank you for checking it out.

 

[Slim Charles]

@Slim Charles I shot you a link to the blog post, thank you for checking it out.

great blog. Perfectly summarises Nas’ versatility and with that proof he lived up to the golden child status.

A compilation of 100 songs of Nas showing his versatility and skill probably can’t be touched. From Dance to I Gave You Power to mixtape songs like The Foulness it’s crazy. Some will perhaps do certain types of songs better but if this was a computer game Nas would be 90-100 on pretty much everything.

 

[Frump]

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.

Mr boom bap Peter Rosenberg all of a sudden needs a hiphop album to be a complex music masterpiece

 

[BossMobb]

great blog. Perfectly summarises Nas’ versatility and with that proof he lived up to the golden child status.

A compilation of 100 songs of Nas showing his versatility and skill probably can’t be touched. From Dance to I Gave You Power to mixtape songs like The Foulness it’s crazy. Some will perhaps do certain types of songs better but if this was a computer game Nas would be 90-100 on pretty much everything.

I appreciate you checking it out. I agree with you. I originally tried to include some content about songs from the Death of Escobar era that included Tales From The Hood, Projects Too Hot, etc and just had to cut it out. Esco has a lot of dope songs that cover a lot of different subject matters over different types of beats that highlight his versatility.

 

[HNIC973]

The most hilarious shyt about the Rosenberg& Cipha shyt was damn near everybody in the comment section was shyttin on both of em. "Rosenberg oh this sounds better with headphones on" STFU cac you didn't listen to it

 

[Frump]

I know Cipha worked for Jay z and is friends with him so he has a bias not sure about Rosenberg

 

[Ukbrotha]

Illmatic - 10/10
It Was Written - 9/10
I Am - 6.5/10
Nastradamus - 5/10
Stillmatic - 7/10
Lost Tapes - 9/10
God's Son - 7/10
Street's Disciple - 6/10
HHID - 6/10
Untitled - 7.5/10
Distant Relatives - 9/10
Life Is Good - 7.5/10
Nasir - 5/10
Lost Tapes 2 - 6.5/10
King's Disease - 7/10
King's Disease 2 - 8/10
Magic - 8/10

Forgot to add DR. Love that album.

 

[spliz]

Illmatic - 10/10
It Was Written - 9/10
I Am - 6.5/10
Nastradamus - 5/10
Stillmatic - 7/10
Lost Tapes - 9/10
God's Son - 7/10
Street's Disciple - 6/10
HHID - 6/10
Untitled - 7.5/10
Life Is Good - 7.5/10
Nasir - 5/10
Lost Tapes 2 - 6.5/10
King's Disease - 7/10
King's Disease 2 - 8/10
Magic - 8/10

There’s no way Stillmatic is only 7 out of 10.

 

[Ukbrotha]

There’s no way Stillmatic is only 7 out of 10.

You're probably right but I realised there's only 6 songs on there I listen to on my best of Nas playlist. Amazing highs but some of the lows don't so it for me.

 

[Tasha And]

You're probably right but I realised there's only 6 songs on there I listen to on my best of Nas playlist. Amazing highs but some of the lows don't so it for me.

I'm guessing 5 of the 6 are...

Stillmatic Intro
You're Da Man
Second Childhood
Rewind
What Goes Around

What's the 6th? Ether, One Mic, The Flyest, Destroy and Rebuild, Got Yourself a Gun, Every Ghetto?

 

[HHID]

https://www.passionweiss.com/2022/0...be-the-best-nas-album-of-the-millennium/?s=09