Nas - NASIR (Discussion Thread)
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Family Man
Banned
Pusha T's album was fire and miles ahead of this Nas album.The Guardian rated Nasir 3/5.
Again going on about the Kelis stuff
And so, the Kanyethon continues. Nas’s first album in six years is the fourth Kanye West-helmed album in as many weeks (not counting his contributions to the new Christina Aguilera album) with at least one more album still to come. The forthcoming appearance of GOOD Music-signed vocalist Teyana Taylor’s KTSE is meant to signal the end of this deluge (comprising West’s Ye, his Kids See Ghosts collaboration with Kid Cudi and Pusha T’s Daytona), but given what you might politely call West’s capricious nature and the slightly frenzied edge to his current burst of creativity, who would bet against us all being here for months to come, looking on as the now-famous whiteboard in West’s Wyoming studio appears on Twitter yet again?
That said, Nasir may be the series’ most musically consistent yet. The self-styled “ghetto Othello” is conceivably one of the few figures in hip-hop to whom West feels a degree of deference – “I feel like I’m 18 years old again when I’m making beats for Nas,” he tweeted – which perhaps led him to focus his attention and energy, with frequently spectacular results. West, or someone on his team, has been busy digging out perfectly apropos samples from arcane sources. Not for Radio mines the soundtrack of movie The Hunt for Red October for its eerie choral/orchestral sample; White Label’s braggadocio is backed by a suitably grandiose-sounding snippet of exiled Iranian pop singer Shahram Shabpareh. Another Iranian artist who fell foul of the Islamic revolution, Kourosh Yaghmaei, provides the lo-fi piano figure that weaves its way through Adam and Eve, the autumnal melancholy of its sound a perfect fit with the reflective lyrics: “Grey hairs of wisdom, that means you’ve seen something.”
The one topic Nasir doesn’t really address are the recent allegations of domestic violence made by his ex-wife Kelis, beyond some all-purpose stuff about bad publicity: “When the media slings mud we use it to build huts.” In fact, suggesting that Nas is ignoring what Kelis had to say about his drunken violence in the hope it will all blow over is very much giving him the benefit of the doubt – you could just as easily interpret some of what he has to say here as him revelling in it. “Drinking like Dean Martin is nothing to me,” he suggests at one juncture. At another, he boasts of himself as a: “chin-grabber, neck-choker, in-her-mouth-spitter, blouse-ripper, ass-grabber.” It’s hard to imagine anyone would actually be that stupid, but intentional or not, it makes for queasily unpleasant listening, an ugly blot on an album whose flaws cannot be laid at the door of its producer.
Nas: Nasir review – shifting, mercurial, but ultimately queasy listening
They call it the most consistent of the Kanye produced albums but only give him 3 when they gave Ye 4
Family Man
Banned
I hope to God you're right.
coose
Pro
Was nervous when I skimmed it but got a chance to play at the proper volume, environment and sound system 
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
for the most part yeah but he always has those very visible, loud critics too
ThaEruditious
She luv it over here like Gold Watch.
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I'm just now seeing this, so what about the sample rate? It's still below what would be considered hi-res (48kHz and above is the threshold). Either way, it does sound good. I just feel bad that Tidal's Masters aren't considered proper since I learned how to rip from there
@ThaEruditious
So I can understand why now. MQA is considered a non-properly sourced format. They even have spectrals uploaded that really show the differences between MQA/Masters and a properly sourced 24-bit FLAC.
- Now, how can you ID an MQA release that doesn't have a 20k roll-off? Here's an example MQA file that doesn't have the 20k roll off (Sample track: Roundabout - Yes):
- If you compare this to the following spectral, with the same length, from a properly sourced 24-bit FLAC, you'll see it is silent (top is dithered, bottom is the undithered original):
I sent everyone the regular 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC..but I also have the Qobuz Hi-Res Audio 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC that is considered "properly-sourced" by Redacted as well for those who would like it.
I'm just now seeing this, so what about the sample rate? It's still below what would be considered hi-res (48kHz and above is the threshold). Either way, it does sound good. I just feel bad that Tidal's Masters aren't considered proper since I learned how to rip from there
Said it before but Daytona-KSG-Nasir works really well.
ThaEruditious
She luv it over here like Gold Watch.
I
I'm just now seeing this, so what about the sample rate? It's still below what would be considered hi-res (48kHz and above is the threshold). Either way, it does sound good. I just feel bad that Tidal's Masters aren't considered proper since I learned how to rip from there
@ThaEruditious
So I can understand why now. MQA is considered a non-properly sourced format. They even have spectrals uploaded that really show the differences between MQA/Masters and a properly sourced 24-bit FLAC.
- Now, how can you ID an MQA release that doesn't have a 20k roll-off? Here's an example MQA file that doesn't have the 20k roll off (Sample track: Roundabout - Yes):
- If you compare this to the following spectral, with the same length, from a properly sourced 24-bit FLAC, you'll see it is silent (top is dithered, bottom is the undithered original):
I sent everyone the regular 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC..but I also have the Qobuz Hi-Res Audio 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC that is considered "properly-sourced" by Redacted as well for those who would like it.
I'm just now seeing this, so what about the sample rate? It's still below what would be considered hi-res (48kHz and above is the threshold). Either way, it does sound good. I just feel bad that Tidal's Masters aren't considered proper since I learned how to rip from there
One reviewer called Bonjour & everything filler.
From what it sounds like, Tidal MQA/Master files are actually different from the standard hi-res file.. the spectral show the difference.
Here's another tidbit from that same article I came across..
Honestly, I think the MQA/Master sounds great and there's clarity in the music as well (just like the non-MQA hi-res file) Hopefully in the future they can allow those files to be uploaded maybe under their separate category within their respective albums for those curious listeners like ourselves.
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prophecypro
Hollywood North
Gonna have to address the Kelis thing it’s gonna dominate the reviews of the album
I think hes trying to get the custody stuff worked out in the courts first
Prolific_1011
All Star
idk man. I think Nas is playing it the only way you can. Staying silent. What is he gonna say? as soon as he speaks it'll become a "he say/she say" matter and the media will always side with the woman in those cases.
MustafaSTL
Achievement In Every Field of Human Endeavor
Lowest score is Stillmatic?
Good reason right there to never pay attention to this shyt.
