IllmaticDelta
Veteran
Lowest score is Stillmatic?
Good reason right there to never pay attention to this shyt.
exactly.....and his fan ratings are alot different from his official, critics ratings
Nas - NASIR (Discussion Thread)
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exactly.....and his fan ratings are alot different from his official, critics ratings
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
RIP MR. SMOKE
Nas needs to be rappin over beats like this. Matter of fact he should just let the game executive produce his next album. Game got one of the best ears for beats, especially when it comes to nas. Every game/nas collab is classic. Game is a true nas stan...he always tries to get nas on beats that fit him perfectly. Kanye tries to make every album he produces sound like his own.
Nas fukkin murdered this shyt. Now THIS was prime nas level
.......you can tell that beat triggered something in him.
Nas isn't for the average rap fan. In my opinion, to fully enjoy his music, you gotta understand his story, his position in the game, his longevity, how he started, his icon status. It's kinda like watching a movie series.... you'll only understand it all if you've watched from the beginning.
Nas needs to be rappin over beats like this. Matter of fact he should just let the game executive produce his next album. Game got one of the best ears for beats, especially when it comes to nas. Every game/nas collab is classic. Game is a true nas stan. Kanye tries to make every album he produces sound like his own.
Nas fukkin murdered this shyt. This was prime nas level
I had to Rep and Dap you for this post.
You’re stating facts right here.
That particular song is one of my favorite joints of all time. That Game Documentary 2/2.5 double CD is a classic that’s been criminally slept on by hip hop sites like this one.
I dunno what they are on about... Bonjour and everything are two of the best songs on the album.One reviewer called Bonjour & everything filler.
Prolific_1011
All Star
Nas needs to be rappin over beats like this. Matter of fact he should just let the game executive produce his next album. Game got one of the best ears for beats, especially when it comes to nas. Every game/nas collab is classic. Game is a true nas stan...he always tries to get him on beats that fit him perfectly. Kanye tries to make every album he produces sound like his own.
Nas fukkin murdered this shyt. This was prime nas level
Classic Nas.
This is a perfect example of a sound engineer properly mixing Nas' vocals on a track. I have no idea what Mike Dean was thinking.
Nas needs to be rappin over beats like this. Matter of fact he should just let the game executive produce his next album. Game got one of the best ears for beats, especially when it comes to nas. Every game/nas collab is classic. Game is a true nas stan...he always tries to get nas on beats that fit him perfectly. Kanye tries to make every album he produces sound like his own.
Nas fukkin murdered this shyt. Now THIS was prime nas level
That was actually from the Hip Hop Is Dead sessions. It was originally Nas’s song
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
RIP MR. SMOKE
It's a fukkin disgrace game wasnt nominated for a Grammy. Both those albums were remarkable. Easily the best work of his career.
pez
All Star
Nas is the fine wine of rap. You need to develop a palette of hip hop history and understand the bigger picture and world view. Then it'll click on why this 1 bottle of Nas is worth more than 1000 bottles of that other shyt.
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
RIP MR. SMOKE
How is nas supposed to get inspired over these weird ass beats with vocal samples completely drowning him out?.....shyt is retarded. Cops and white label are abysmal. These beats dont suit nas in the least bit.
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
RIP MR. SMOKE
Which even further proves that nas could use game to overlook his album. Game prolly heard that track like "are you fukkin serious"?
Game never fails to drop classic nas tracks
First major review is out.
Rolling Stone.
2.5/5 stars
Of course the Cacs hated Not For Radio
After the longest dormant period of his career, Nas returned last week with Nasir, the slightest, lowest-concept record in his discography. It’s executive produced by Kanye West––a generation-defining genius maybe, but just as importantly: the guy who produced “Takeover," Jay-Z's epochal 2001 evisceration of Nas. It’s the fourth of five G.O.O.D. Music albums dropped in five weeks, all overseen by Kanye, all seven songs long. It also comes in the midst of scandal for both men. West, as has been well-documented, started promoting this string of albums by flirting with the online alt-right and loudly proclaiming his love for Donald Trump. Less global but maybe graver: in April, Nas’s ex-wife, the artist-turned-chef Kelis, gave an interview in which she alleged brutal physical violence at the rapper’s hands. (Nas had previously been accused of striking Carmen Bryan, the mother of his daughter, in Bryan’s 2006 autobiography.)
Nas hasn't publicly addressed the allegations from Kelis, and he doesn't broach the subject on Nasir, either, unless you count an oblique line on the closer, “Simple Things” (“Was loving women you’ll never see me / All you know’s my kids’ mothers, some celebrities / Damn, look at the jealousy”). In fact, even considering the short running time, there’s little in the way of narrative or thematic design. It’s among Nas’s most scattered records, unfocused and unclear. And when it comes to simple execution, Nasir plays to his weaknesses as a writer and finds him staid and tired where Life Is Good probed for new ground, clumsy and subdued where he’s often been breathtaking.
Nas has, in the past, been a near-peerless writer when dealing in autobiography or writing linear, detail-rich narrative. He’s generally been at his least effective when he’s at his most abstract, or when he’s mulling over grandiose theories. Nasir’s opener, “Not For Radio,” dives headlong into a list of theories, some reasonable and some (“Fox News was started by a black dude”) easily disproved. Despite that, the song almost works––it sounds like a villain’s theme from a b-movie, and Puff is flown in simply to talk shyt––but Nas’s verses are ultimately too pedestrian, as writing and as performance.
While Nas has never been the most musically gifted rapper, he’s been a precise technician, able to rap exceptionally both with and againstthe beat. On Nasir, though, he often plods, which leaves his writing exposed. This makes for songs that are, frankly, a drag: “Bonjour” is a long-winded argument that Nas goes on a lot of dates, and “White Label” is basically content to revel in the fact that Nas has become a successful investor. (The latter song features a true late-Nas head scratcher: “What you love can kill you / Like a heart physician dying of a heart attack.”) While the seven-song format has served both Pusha-T and Kid Cudiwell, and while Nas has made perhaps the greatest short rap record ever in his classic 1994 debut Illmatic, the brevity doesn’t do him any favors here. The two dominant modes on Nasir are self-satisfaction and a sort of workmanlike stiffness, neither of which suits Nas and both of which make the album’s 26 minutes seem far longer.
'Nasir' Is the One Thing the Rapper has Never Been Before – Dull
Rolling Stone.
2.5/5 stars
Of course the Cacs hated Not For Radio
After the longest dormant period of his career, Nas returned last week with Nasir, the slightest, lowest-concept record in his discography. It’s executive produced by Kanye West––a generation-defining genius maybe, but just as importantly: the guy who produced “Takeover," Jay-Z's epochal 2001 evisceration of Nas. It’s the fourth of five G.O.O.D. Music albums dropped in five weeks, all overseen by Kanye, all seven songs long. It also comes in the midst of scandal for both men. West, as has been well-documented, started promoting this string of albums by flirting with the online alt-right and loudly proclaiming his love for Donald Trump. Less global but maybe graver: in April, Nas’s ex-wife, the artist-turned-chef Kelis, gave an interview in which she alleged brutal physical violence at the rapper’s hands. (Nas had previously been accused of striking Carmen Bryan, the mother of his daughter, in Bryan’s 2006 autobiography.)
Nas hasn't publicly addressed the allegations from Kelis, and he doesn't broach the subject on Nasir, either, unless you count an oblique line on the closer, “Simple Things” (“Was loving women you’ll never see me / All you know’s my kids’ mothers, some celebrities / Damn, look at the jealousy”). In fact, even considering the short running time, there’s little in the way of narrative or thematic design. It’s among Nas’s most scattered records, unfocused and unclear. And when it comes to simple execution, Nasir plays to his weaknesses as a writer and finds him staid and tired where Life Is Good probed for new ground, clumsy and subdued where he’s often been breathtaking.
Nas has, in the past, been a near-peerless writer when dealing in autobiography or writing linear, detail-rich narrative. He’s generally been at his least effective when he’s at his most abstract, or when he’s mulling over grandiose theories. Nasir’s opener, “Not For Radio,” dives headlong into a list of theories, some reasonable and some (“Fox News was started by a black dude”) easily disproved. Despite that, the song almost works––it sounds like a villain’s theme from a b-movie, and Puff is flown in simply to talk shyt––but Nas’s verses are ultimately too pedestrian, as writing and as performance.
While Nas has never been the most musically gifted rapper, he’s been a precise technician, able to rap exceptionally both with and againstthe beat. On Nasir, though, he often plods, which leaves his writing exposed. This makes for songs that are, frankly, a drag: “Bonjour” is a long-winded argument that Nas goes on a lot of dates, and “White Label” is basically content to revel in the fact that Nas has become a successful investor. (The latter song features a true late-Nas head scratcher: “What you love can kill you / Like a heart physician dying of a heart attack.”) While the seven-song format has served both Pusha-T and Kid Cudiwell, and while Nas has made perhaps the greatest short rap record ever in his classic 1994 debut Illmatic, the brevity doesn’t do him any favors here. The two dominant modes on Nasir are self-satisfaction and a sort of workmanlike stiffness, neither of which suits Nas and both of which make the album’s 26 minutes seem far longer.
'Nasir' Is the One Thing the Rapper has Never Been Before – Dull
That 1992 album was dope too
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