Nas - Magic (Discussion Thread)

[Izanami]

You just have to . It’s a 6.8 and it sounds like a compliment but again read what’s being said here. It’s got weird vindictive parts with a familiar writer.

If there was any doubt about how weird writers are about Nas this is it. It’s like he made an album so good they gotta lean in more to critique

I’ve never seen such animus poorly disguised as an unbiased objective critic of a rappers album. The Nas hate is so glaring wow. To suggest that “it’s grown ass women that’ll have you set up to die” is about Kelis is so ridiculous it’s comical. Calling hit boy a “b-list” producer. Just a lot of back handed sneak dissing throughout it.

 

[Mastamimd]

Y'all don't listen

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

FeeFo never learns

He'll always say some wild shyt (in this case Magic was "ok and he didn't need it") first and then spend the next half hour backtracking it because everybody else disagrees with him

Beezy called him out on it too, "we don't have NEED anything but I'll always accept good music....and you wouldn't be saying this if it was Jay "

 

[King Ming]

You just have to . It’s a 6.8 and it sounds like a compliment but again read what’s being said here. It’s got weird vindictive parts with a familiar writer.

If there was any doubt about how weird writers are about Nas this is it. It’s like he made an album so good they gotta lean in more to critique

Yeah, very consistent on hate... Sort of sounds personal. Now they hating on Hitboy's beats too

The saccharine melodies of “Hollywood Gangsta” and “Wu for the Children” each sound a half-chord off-key, and when he tries to conjure golden-era ambiance with digitized synths, it lends the air of a Vegas revue. Not to play fantasy sports, but DJ Premier is literally right there doing the turntable cuts on “Wave Gods.” Did no one think to ask him for some loops?

 

[Dolo]

Second sentence in the Pitchfork review they already mentioning Jay

 

[King Ming]

Vote for Nas. Can vote for him every hour.

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Let's get behind this. Vote Nas brehs

 

[prophecypro]

Nas might legitimately have a powerful enemy behind the scenes. This felt like it was writren by somebody who actually hates him.. ATV pub Mottolla can't touch might really be a significant line Smh

Yeah, very consistent on hate... Sort of sounds personal. Now they hating on Hitboy's beats too

The saccharine melodies of “Hollywood Gangsta” and “Wu for the Children” each sound a half-chord off-key, and when he tries to conjure golden-era ambiance with digitized synths, it lends the air of a Vegas revue. Not to play fantasy sports, but DJ Premier is literally right there doing the turntable cuts on “Wave Gods.” Did no one think to ask him for some loops?

I also like how he tries to shame Nas about being a crypto millionaire. Eat the Rich Cac Twitter will lap up a rapper doing coke bars over a drumless loop than anything blockchain

 

[prophecypro]

Man said "half chord off key"

These writers are miserable

 

[Budda]

I also like how he tries to shame Nas about being a crypto millionaire. Eat the Rich Cac Twitter will lap up a rapper doing coke bars over a drumless loop than anything blockchain

They gave Chief Keef new album an 8, they like when rappers talk about Black Death and their pretentious enough to think rating a drill rapper way out of his bag give them brownie points, weird hipster cacs

 

[kes929]

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Y'all don't listen

This writer needs to be beat up haha

 

[shazam]

You just have to . It’s a 6.8 and it sounds like a compliment but again read what’s being said here. It’s got weird vindictive parts with a familiar writer.

If there was any doubt about how weird writers are about Nas this is it. It’s like he made an album so good they gotta lean in more to critique

nas is never white enough for an unqualified pitchfork review

 

[kes929]

"I see the envy getting closer through my optics"

 

[waynep]

I also like how he tries to shame Nas about being a crypto millionaire. Eat the Rich Cac Twitter will lap up a rapper doing coke bars over a drumless loop than anything blockchain

I also like how he tries to shame Nas about being a crypto millionaire. Eat the Rich Cac Twitter will lap up a rapper doing coke bars over a drumless loop than anything blockchain

Also called the Kings Disease series Joyless Grammy bait lol This white boy was so heated writing this review I bet steam was coming from his pen.

 

[waynep]

Man said "half chord off key"

These writers are miserable

Hahaha

 

[RAW_SPK]

Yall gon keep crying about reviews from a platforms you keep saying you dont care about. Its been fukk Pitchfork for a while now but here we are…yet again….