Albums Nas - The Lost Tapes 2 (Discussion Thread)

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Jarreau of rap actually is dope .....early on I hated the concept but it rides nicely....no where near as bad as what I thought

The flow is killer. But the beat doesn’t really work and overall the concept is better than the execution imo.

It’s bad imo. Not horrible. But it definitely disqualifies LT2 from fukking with Bandana.

Won’t knock your opinion tho. :yeshrug:
 

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He's been commenting on Nas IG posts for like a year mentioning he has the perfect record for Nas, telling breh to call him. I don't think it's anything shady, he just wants to connect.

lol, it's shyt like this about Nas that drives me crazy

call him back!
 

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Yeah I have Spotify but I was trying to hook my boy up because he has tidal. He still says it's not on there even though I looked it up on the tidal app. I couldn't find it when I searched lost tapes 2 but found it just looking up Nas... Not sure what is up with my boys shyt. Maybe he's just an idiot lol
 

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The Making of Nas' 'It Was Written'

Nas: We worked on “If I Ruled the World” for probably two months.

Poke: Nas did a couple of those verses over because it just didn’t work for the concept of the record. Some of the lines didn’t work with some of the records that we were doing, across the board. But sometimes it was just magic and everything worked.

As an artist, sometimes you get tunnel-vision and you don’t see every other aspect. Nas would always ask, “What do you think about this? What do you think about that?” and we would give him our real opinion, like, “Nah, I don’t think that verse will work” or “I don’t think that line works."

You alright dude? The quote does not jive with what you tried to portray. At all.
You're aware trackmasters did multiple tracks on IWW right?
What was described sounds like a regular studio session.
Nas even did the exact same thing with young unknown C Sick for the film session.
 
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Tidal interview

-Nas says he likes recording in the Winter but that he feels its better to put out an album in the summer

-Says that he considers the OG Lost Tapes an important offering in his discography. Says he loves Papa Was A Playa. He originally thought Lost Tapes was going to be a “waste” because it was throwaway tracks but he was surprised with its success

-Speaks on Pete Rock. Says that Pete is one of his “favorite” ever producers. He didn’t want to put out any Pete Rock records that he didn’t put his “all” into and he felt he had to put two Pete records on the album to compensate for all the years they missed

-He likes “dusty” sounding Pete Rock beats

- Says he originally only wanted a Pete Rock beat that could be a “single” to live up to The World Is Yours but then realized they didn’t have to make a single

-There is a real Tanasia in Queensbridge but the song isn’t about her. It was originally a freestyle called “Fantasia”.

-Confirms that Tanasia was part of the studio sessions that was supposed to be the RZA produced album. Says that he and RZA had discussions as early as last year about completing the album

-Says that he feels like Dave East is a star

-Says he’s been dying to work with RZA again since Verbal Intercourse. Shoutouts RZA and calls him a master

-Confirms that he and Swizz have alot of “joints” together. Confirms that No Bad Energy comes from those Sessions where they recorded an album of material. Says he forgot about the song but his man “G-Code” told him it should be on the album.

-Says that Statik Selektah is “Pure Hip Hop” and reminds him of a disciple of DJ Premier. Says he’s never heard a bad Statik track.

-Says Lost Freestyle first verse was written and the second verse is a freestyle

- Says he prefers writing to going off the top.

-Says that QB is a music landmark. Quotes Rakim writing Eric B Is President in an apartment in Queensbridge. Talks about New York City breakers. Says he had to make Queensbridge Politics a short song because he could have gone on for 5 minutes

-Mass Appeal was producing a tv show for Prodigy and Nas didn’t have alot of time to talk to him but when they spoke the last time it was all love.
 

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I don't have Tidal, I hope they put it on their YouTube page, would really like to hear more about the album.
 

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Tidal interview

-Nas says he likes recording in the Winter but that he feels its better to put out an album in the summer

-Says that he considers the OG Lost Tapes an important offering in his discography. Says he loves Papa Was A Playa. He originally thought Lost Tapes was going to be a “waste” because it was throwaway tracks but he was surprised with its success

-Speaks on Pete Rock. Says that Pete is one of his “favorite” ever producers. He didn’t want to put out any Pete Rock records that he didn’t put his “all” into and he felt he had to put two Pete records on the album to compensate for all the years they missed

-He likes “dusty” sounding Pete Rock beats

- Says he originally only wanted a Pete Rock beat that could be a “single” to live up to The World Is Yours but then realized they didn’t have to make a single

-There is a real Tanasia in Queensbridge but the song isn’t about her. It was originally a freestyle called “Fantasia”.

-Confirms that Tanasia was part of the studio sessions that was supposed to be the RZA produced album. Says that he and RZA had discussions as early as last year about completing the album

-Says that he feels like Dave East is a star

-Says he’s been dying to work with RZA again since Verbal Intercourse. Shoutouts RZA and calls him a master

-Confirms that he and Swizz have alot of “joints” together. Confirms that No Bad Energy comes from those Sessions where they recorded an album of material. Says he forgot about the song but his man “G-Code” told him it should be on the album.

-Says that Statik Selektah is “Pure Hip Hop” and reminds him of a disciple of DJ Premier. Says he’s never heard a bad Statik track.

-Says Lost Freestyle first verse was written and the second verse is a freestyle

- Says he prefers writing to going off the top.

-Says that QB is a music landmark. Quotes Rakim writing Eric B Is President in an apartment in Queensbridge. Talks about New York City breakers. Says he had to make Queensbridge Politics a short song because he could have gone on for 5 minutes

-Mass Appeal was producing a tv show for Prodigy and Nas didn’t have alot of time to talk to him but when they spoke the last time it was all love.

All dope information, thanks.
 

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