Nas - NASIR (Discussion Thread)

[PoorAndDangerous]

i threw up tanqueray n blueberry lemonade all over myself this mornin and i aint even mad. some advil, gatorade, and this Nas album gonna hold me down till i can crawl downstairs and get some breakfast.

Staggerin', drunker than the cops that tupac shot

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

Life is good is better than this album conceptually & it's longer but this is a hell of an album

 

[Doctor Wily]

I gotta see him preform this song live

I haven't gotten goose bumps from listening to a Nas song in a YEARS like I did with song.

 

[Fctftl]

Staggerin', drunker than the cops that tupac shot

just threw on my LIG tee that came with the deluxe when i copped in 2012

 

[ECA]

Untitled - Distant Relatives - LIG - Nasir

That's one hell of a run considering Untitled was like his 10th album. The only vet who's been this consistent so far into their career is Ghostface.

I'm putting Roc and Ka up there as well

 

[OHSNAP!]

play this in the car,on proper speakers, with a proper amp n subs. might change your mind

Swagger Like Us 2

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

 

[Mr. Negative]

FINALLY somebody else sampled that RD Burman song.



Anyway, I'm giving this 4.5/5 off first casual listen. About to listen again while I clean the house.

 

[King Jove]

Stay tuned up and down your timeline
This fake news, people is all lyin'
Money is bein' made when a mom cries
Won't be satisfied 'til we all die
Tell me, who do we call to report crime
If 9-1-1 doin' the driveby?

 

[LinusCaldwell]

Listening to how good Nasir is and also realizing how good ALL of the other albums have been got me HOT that Kanye had to open his stupid fukking mouth about slavery being a choice and all the other c00nish shyt he did in April.

This nikka coulda UNDISPUTABLY ruled the summer. He gave us the streets with Pusha, the artistic/conceptual with Ye, the joyful and exuberant with Kids See Ghost, and now the cinematic and poigancy of the GOAT Nas.

But instead of the music taking the deserved focal point its undermined by Kanye’s bullshyt. There are some people who (justifiably I might add) are boycotting all this pifferry so as not to support him, and i don’t blame them ONE iota.


This nikka wore a MAGA hat and then dropped bars about police brutality on a NAS ALBUM. Nas, THE most pro-black mainstream artist of the past 15 years. Its like Nas lifted that nikka out of the sunken place for a hot minute to remind him what the fukk is going on in the world and then dipped him back in...

I got a response to all of this... but ima ask you first do you think Ye bipolar?

 

[10:31]

Life is good is better than this album conceptually & it's longer but this is a hell of an album

Maybe if it was in Kanye’s format.. see below:

No introduction
Locomotive
Bye Baby
Reach Out
Worlds an Addiction
Cherry Wine
Daughters

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

@Jimmy ValenTime bro. You’ve got a gross latency you need to get out after each verse before the hook.. and it sounds like it’s in the hook

Your version throws the song out alignment

I dont have the stems or wav so i cant do perfect drop in and outs

i went for a madlib thing and tried to simplify the hooks and intros and outros cause they felt overly busy

but its not for everybody

 

[Ziggiy]

Nope.

Y’all nikkas just didn’t listen to anything he really said in those interviews, now you’re confused and conflicted.

‘Ye the same nikka he always been.

Cape for him all you want. He said what he said

I can’t defend Nas for thr Gweneth Paltrow statement and NOBODY can defend Ye for the bullshyt he said.

 

[Ziggiy]

I got a response to all of this... but ima ask you first do you think Ye bipolar?

I think that if he is, he chose a truly fukked up time period to be off his meds

 

[tuckgod]

Cape for him all you want. He said what he said

I can’t defend Nas for thr Gweneth Paltrow statement and NOBODY can defend Ye for the bullshyt he said.

I don’t cape for nobody, and I don’t follow the crowd to fit in.

There was nothing wrong with anything he said during those interviews.