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Look at the rhyme pattern. How does he do it?
Nas - NASIR (Discussion Thread)
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Look at the rhyme pattern. How does he do it?
The sales projections are going to increase this week I GURANTEE it.
If he drops the Bonjour video this week that’ll increase streams as well
If he drops the Bonjour video this week that’ll increase streams as well
KravenMorehead™
Barrel Brothers.®
MillionMills
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thelonious21
I like my women tall
This fukking album is FLAMES!!! Yall hating if you disagree..
thelonious21
I like my women tall
"How many girls prebate
right before they date
so they can have restraint
they STILL get slayed"
TALK THAT shyt
Caught that line tonight too!! lolol
After a good listen..I give it 4.25 mics due to a couple choppy flow spots and Kanye and Dream wailin on Everything like fools. No way that wasn't a Ye track they gave Nas at the last minute
Hidden gems are White Label. Nas spit on that shyt
And Simple Things..sounds like Nas fukked somebody bytch
Funny enough that was the first track we saw on the whiteboard lol.
Everytime I listen to this album it definitely gets better to me. Don't know if that's everyone else's experience, seems like his most polarizing album since ******.
T.he I.nformant
1st Ballot HOF Teller
First off, after 25+ years, anything we get from Nas is gravy. His contributions to music and culture are legendary. In illmatic he created one of the best albums ever, excluding no genre. He’s been one of my favorite rappers ever since I first heard him rapping about sending prisoners to Africa. I always look forward to any projects he’s apart of. Even though my expectations have lowered a little as he has aged and it feels he’s past his prime and his career has maybe reached its twilight, I still find myself checking for anything with his name attached. I was really anticipating this album it being his first release post-LIG. As soon as Kanye tweeted he was doing the album, I started dreaming up what we were going to get. I loved their collabos in “Poppa Was A Player”, “We Major”, and the unmixed “The World.” To a lesser degree I also enjoyed “Let There Be Light” and “Still Dreaming.” I wondered what a feature-length album, even an EP, would bring. To be honest, I still didn’t actually believe it was really happening—that we were finally getting new music from Nas with Kanye on the boards no less—until those other GOOD releases started dropping on schedule. When it was announced that there was a listening party in QB I imagined a soundscape of boom bap, break beats, and chopped-up soul to capture this place that Nas has described so vividly over the years. And I was sure the music would be complemented by what would no doubt be vintage poetry, commentary, creativity, and storytelling from one of rap’s greatest lyricists. Last Thursday I was glued to my phone. shyt felt like a holiday. Made sure I found a functioning link streaming the whole scene. When I saw that the Bridge was in the background, it just felt fitting. And then after some delay with Nas and Kanye showing up it happened—“Escobar Season”...is buffering. I couldn’t hear it. So anticlimactic. So I was left left to read some of the most mixed reviews I’ve ever read for a Nas album—those hailing it as a modern-day classic and those dismissing it as trash. That night I heard some version of some songs and found myself somewhere in the middle, probably more in the camp that wasn’t blown away from what they heard. But I also heard they were still mixing the project for the official release so I wondered if it would sound different when I could actually buy it. By Friday night mixed individual tracks were on YouTube. I listened to them in the order of the tracklisting. Overall, it just felt...a little flat. Lackluster even. Nas’s flow is too often, for my still high standards of him, disjointed, dull, and lazy. Kanye’s production is alright for the most part but it doesn’t always feel like it suits Nas and sometimes Nas seems out of place. 070 Shake vocal performances feel weird on a Nas record. (The Dream and Tony Williams came correct, though.) Don’t get me wrong, Nas has his moments and the project certainly isn’t wack. It was just crazy uneven to me. Mad underwhelming. I hope his next project is more consistently strong and it doesn’t take six years to be released. I know he still has some magic left; just wasn’t on this project.
Not For Radio: 3.5/5
Cops Shot The Kid: 2.5/5
White Label: 3/5
Bonjour: 3.5/5
Everything: 3/5
Adam and Eve: 4/5
Simple Things: 3.5/5
Overall: 3.5/5
Not For Radio: 3.5/5
Cops Shot The Kid: 2.5/5
White Label: 3/5
Bonjour: 3.5/5
Everything: 3/5
Adam and Eve: 4/5
Simple Things: 3.5/5
Overall: 3.5/5
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
The third verse of "everything" is Nas at his finest. I really felt that verse in my soul. Especially the first few bars:
Watch me as I walk through the folly, golly, New York to Saudi
In Italy, I'm Eduardo Wiccari
But Nasty the hustler, nasty like mustard gas, sulfur
And I could sell Alaska to Russia, no pressure
I didn't have a problem with Kanye and Cudi's singing either, but they could have shortened it at the beginning.
Watch me as I walk through the folly, golly, New York to Saudi
In Italy, I'm Eduardo Wiccari
But Nasty the hustler, nasty like mustard gas, sulfur
And I could sell Alaska to Russia, no pressure
I didn't have a problem with Kanye and Cudi's singing either, but they could have shortened it at the beginning.
pez
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Sup with Vlad?
pez
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All of Nas' albums are polarizing. Even his songs. Every single album I noticed one person will hate a song and another will say love that one.
Literally every album. No other artist I know has that happen.
pez
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It's mood music. Just lamp out with no agenda and that song is perfect.The third verse of "everything" is Nas at his finest. I really felt that verse in my soul. Especially the first few bars:
Watch me as I walk through the folly, golly, New York to Saudi
In Italy, I'm Eduardo Wiccari
But Nasty the hustler, nasty like mustard gas, sulfur
And I could sell Alaska to Russia, no pressure
I didn't have a problem with Kanye and Cudi's singing either, but they could have shortened it at the beginning.
pez
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Great post.
I love what you said. Solid ideas and thoughts,
I've followed Nas since It was Written. He's 7 years my senior and he usually talks about his life slightly ahead of mine but it's been pretty parallel. When he did the radio songs, I was young and into that. He sort of fell out of chasing hits at the same time I stopped caring for what's on the radio. He rapped about ”daughters” at the same time I had my own. He's a business man now talking from a more elder position. At the same time I'm establishing my own too. I don't agree with any fall off. I think it's just a natural progression and he's completely honest with presenting his own life. If he did a club song itdi be weird even if it was a hit.
To be honest, I've so busy that LIG doesn't feel long ago. Life is going at 100mph so I didn't miss Nas too much so I understand him being gone for a while. It's just life happening.
Nas has been the soundtrack to my life so far.
This is why I love his music: Nas takes a position and stands for something. He knows the things he says will rile people up but he stays with his principles. It is what it is. That's a leader.