Nas - NASIR (Discussion Thread)

[Arithmetic]

Theres only really one line that should have been re-recorded:

Not for radio:
"In the process of dominance."

I don't like how the beat cutoff on Simple Things. They need to fix that and reupload

 

[Take It In Blood]

Finally got around to listening to it on Spotify.

Album wasn't bad but it isn't great. Right now I have Life is Good above it but it's always pleasant to hear new Nas in any way, shape or form since it's been 6 years.

444 is edging this one out also but I'm pretty sure Kanye and Nas probably knocked this album out in 3 months and he has a another album in the stash somewhere.


Some of Kanyes beats on this were garbage. Cop Shot The Kid makes my ears hurt and is unpleasant on the senses.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

elliott wilson says the common consensus is daytona>kids see ghosts>nasir>ye

i agree except switch ye with nasir

nobody cares what you think you a hater

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[prophecypro]

Finally got around to listening to it on Spotify.

Album wasn't bad but it isn't great. Right now I have Life is Good above it but it's always pleasant to hear new Nas in any way, shape or form since it's been 6 years.

444 is edging this one out also but I'm pretty sure Kanye and Nas probably knocked this album out in 3 months and he has a another album in the stash somewhere.


Some of Kanyes beats on this were garbage. Cop Shot The Kid makes me ears hurt and is unpleasant on the senses.

Agree except on the beats and I thought Cops shot the kid was dope the way he looped it and everything

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

everything was powerful music

but this adam n eve beat, kanye is the goat for real

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Off the first listen, Nas did it again.

This man has been in the game for almost 30 years and he still manages to come out with cohesive, entertaining albums. His songwriting has never declined, and his flow might be a little shaky at times, but he still sounds like he belongs in the booth. This is what it's supposed to be like as a legendary artist in your later years. Others make it sound impossible, with their start and stop flows, weak punchlines, unnecessary features, and awful throwbacks that no one asked for. But Nas keeps it simple. This is all you really need.

I'm also glad they changed the tracklist around because "Not for Radio" is a much better opener than "everything," even though both songs were dope.

 

[Youngdev]

I like every song except everything .


It's a dope album tho, I can't rock with this 7 songs, soon as u really start vibing that shyt is over

 

[Po pimp]

People in here all over the place. Some favorites are others’ worse. Some say the production is dope, while others say it’s bad. I was actually scared because nikkas said the beats were wack. This shyt is dope.

 

[904]

Nas kicking some crazy shyt on this

Jewels all throughout the album

Beats are crazy too.. I think i may like this more than Life Is Good overall..

Hopefully him and Pusha go on tour

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

my nikka talkin that shyt on simple things

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

They are still tweaking this. Tidal updated it again today. The first track with Puff now has Puffs vocals sounding like he’s talking through a megaphone.... like he did on BIGs “My Downfall”.

Excuse me?

So there are multiple versions of the same album. Then what's the point releasing an incomplete project?

Terrible marketing.

 

[krackdagawd]

Nas kicking some crazy shyt on this

Jewels all throughout the album

Beats are crazy too.. I think i may like this more than Life Is Good overall..

Hopefully him and Pusha go on tour

please hip hop Gods give us this

 

[prophecypro]

People in here all over the place. Some favorites are others’ worse. Some say the production is dope, while others say it’s bad. I was actually scared because nikkas said the beats were wack. This shyt is dope.

So basically the same reaction people always have to every Nas album

 

[obarth]

I fukk with this album, but I just have never been hype about the idea of a Nas album produced by Ye. I loved Still Dreaming but that was a different Ye that we'll never see again. I was very intrigued to hear Kanye's sound on Pusha, his own, and his collab album with Cudi because I wanted to see where his mind was production-wise leading into a Nas album. I fukk with those albums heavy, but I was definitely apprehensive about how Nas would come off on this type of sound/energy. My fears seem to be well placed. It feels like Nas is just featured on this album as opposed to it being his project. He's spitting, but it's Nas, what else would you expect? Life is Good was a Nas album through and through. This seems like part of the Kanye return tour. I fukk with it sonically, but these two have never been a pair I was hype to see work together.