Nas - NASIR (Discussion Thread)

[TheDarceKnight]

Nas is an Anti Vaxxer? :stewart:

I know...it doesn't surprise me though. Nas has a fair amount of smart-dumb raps, and so it doesn't surprise me.

Nas stans please don't roast me too bad for saying he's got some smart-dumb raps. I think he's probably the best rapper to ever do it.

 

[The War Report]

I know...it doesn't surprise me though. Nas has a fair amount of smart-dumb raps, and so it doesn't surprise me.

Nas stans please don't roast me too bad for saying he's got some smart-dumb raps. I think he's probably the best rapper to ever do it.

He dropped out in middle school.



Adam and Eve sounds familiar to Otis from Watch The Throne. Y'all know what I mean.

 

[Fortunate Lee]

Can we just appreciate how Nas and Jay are out here still dropping quality projects. Meanwhile Eminem dropping

He was never on their level musically

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Just goes to show he doesn't belong in their weight class. In boxing skill/class shows over time, just goes to show his skill level isn't where theirs is. No hate either but I am a fam of TES and his first album. but yeah.

Yeah man. Em really only had a 5 year run or so, tops, with no genuine classics (although MMLP is a Rolling Stone classic album).

Nas and Jay can always be counted on to drop strong projects, even if they have some mis-steps, and their best albums are some some the best albums in all of music, period.

 

[The War Report]

Just goes to show he doesn't belong in their weight class. In boxing skill/class shows over time, just goes to show his skill level isn't where theirs is. No hate either but I am a fam of TES and his first album. but yeah.

It has nothing to do with skill level. It's that Jay and Nas still sound the same as they did when they first debuted. There's that consistency. Eminem hasn't been consistent since the 8 Mile soundtrack.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

He was never on their level musically

Which is ironic considering he's the only one of the 3 of them to try his hand at producing and beatmaking.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Why does everyone (including me) always forget about this when it comes to Nas/Premier collabs?

I feel like it's never talked about.

EDIT: Yeah I guess it's probably the worst one they've done. It sounds more like they tried to recreate Nas Is Like.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Why does everyone (including me) always forget about this when it comes to Nas/Premier collabs?

I feel like it's never talked about.

It’s not among their best. Plus the jay song that came out the same year with the same title is better

 

[re'up]

I bought Nastradamus in either late 99, or closer to spring 2000, after "You Owe Me", as an 8th grader, and that song was always kind of bland, though I liked it more back then.

Even not knowing all the history and context of the song, and Premier on the beat, it was kind of uninspired. This was Nas era of some of the more regrettable phase of the Escobar era, lyrics were lazier and seemed like he was (and later admitted to being) a little adrift in the late 90's excess.

There are so few memorable lines from Come Get Me, it's really very forgettable.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

It’s not among their best. Plus the jay song that came out the same year with the same title is better

True on both counts.

I guess I never thought that there has to be a "worst collab" between Nas and Preem, but there does. Nas Is Like, 2nd Childhood, I Gave You Power, NY State of Mind, Memory Lane, and Represent are all better. I may be forgetting a couple, but those are for sure a step above.

 

[Abdi]

Kanye straight jacked an unknown producer's album cover and Adam and Eve beat







Also jacked someone else on Kids See Ghosts

https://djbooth.net/features/2018-06-14-kanye-west-sampled-my-song-reborn

 

[AkaDemiK]

I can hear The Weeknd killing the hook on everything just like dream....falsetto’s n all....

 

[CoCKy GeNiuS]

Nikkas in here being high maintenance listeners.... "Ummmm the production is dope and Nas is spitting but it doesn't sound like a Nas album."

Nikka huh, wtf?

The shyt is dope, period. Keep it simple with the ratings fellas, we got nikkas in here over thinking and shyt about a dope 7 song project.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Kanye straight jacked an unknown producer's album cover and Adam and Eve beat

Damn...if it was just the beat I would be hesitant to believe it, just because so many people go after the same samples without realizing it. If I heard that sample I would've probably heard Nas on it in my mind. But with the picture too? Not sure what to think.

I gotta say this though...that producer picked a good loop but that No Idea's Original acapella that he put on there sounds off-beat as fukk and really bad.

 

[deeznutz]

Damn...if it was just the beat I would be hesitant to believe it, just because so many people go after the same samples without realizing it. If I heard that sample I would've probably heard Nas on it in my mind. But with the picture too? Not sure what to think.

I gotta say this though...that producer picked a good loop but that No Idea's Original acapella that he put on there sounds off-beat as fukk and really bad.

Kanye the goat even when he's stealing!