Albums Nas - The Lost Tapes 2 (Discussion Thread)
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Great idea. Im OG fan tho i still own the orginal silver illmatic cd..i stood in the pouring rain in times square for 4 hours by my damn self for bruh. Not to mention the many 5 hour Nas v Jay arguments i endured online AND Off. I think he be cool wit the Tidal stream
Is this really a single though or just something they released off the album?
When have Nas singles ever made any sense outside of "If I Ruled The World", "Nas Is Like", "You Owe Me", "Made You Look" or "Hate Me Now". We can go through every Nas album and find songs and question why certain songs were never singles and why he released the ones he did. Nas rarely puts out obvious choices as "singles".
Illmatic- he's rapping written letters to he's friends who are locked up on "One Love" (which is experimenting with concepts). I think we all agree it worked
It Was Written- he tells a story from the perspective of a gun on "I Gave You Power". "Shootouts" has him experimenting with characters in the vein of "Gimme The Loot"
I Am- I guess "Dr. Knockboot" was somewhat of an experiment, but this one didn't work IMO.
Nastradamus- no real experiment besides his verse on "Last Words" where he does it from the perspective of a cell
Stillmatic- "One Mic" has experimenting with pitch, there's also "Rewind"
God's Son- "Book of Rhymes"
Street's Disciple- the whole Scarlett think and "Makings of a Perfect Chick"
Unititled- "Queens Get The Money" with him rhyming simply over a piano loop. There's "Prohect Roach"
Given it's been a 16 year wait for LT2 and this is the first full new song people hear, the expectations were high. Hearing it in the context of an album, this song gets nowhere near the hate if most of the others are straight fire. Yes, it probably would still be hated, but nowhere near the magnitude that it is now. This is kind of a first impression, and it's an experimental song that was going to divide fans and casuals alike.
Piff Perkins
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Because as the single, it's the first song people hear from the album. It sets the conversation and tone...and both have been very negative. Whereas if it wasn't a single, I'm sure it would be clowned but people would focus their attention on the other, better tracks. Assuming the album is good. People might say the album has one wack song but they like everything else, and keep it like that.
This y’all king
Excuses bro.... This shyt is a poor choice for a single straight up
Tres Leches
Empire Business
I don’t remember the First lost tapes having a single 
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
that al jarreau Sample flip is dopePlus not many emcees could flex on that beat like Nas did.
Given how Al did his music he was damn near an emcee himself in regards to delivery, easily one of the goat vocal talents of all time
Anyone clowing the execution on this
Out of all Nas albums theirs three albums that I would question the single choices
Plus not many emcees could flex on that beat like Nas did.
Given how Al did his music he was damn near an emcee himself in regards to delivery, easily one of the goat vocal talents of all time
Anyone clowing the execution on this
I been said that the problem with the song ain't Nas rapping. That's 99% never the problem with a weak Nas song. It's usually a wack chorus and a wack beat. The problem is never his rapping because he's the GOAT at rapping.
So yeah, he's flowing nice but over a beat that doesn't deserve it. It's a repetitive and annoying beat. I mean sure you can make the argument he picked the beat because it would be a challenge to flow to but that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't sound good to my ears. The trumpet solo at the end is kinda cool but that's after the fact.
Sorry that's how I feel, deal with it and get over it.
I'll be honest, I didn't know much about Al Jarreau before this dropped, but I did peep some of his songs and he had much better tracks to flip than this one.
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