Albums Nas - The Lost Tapes 2 (Discussion Thread)

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Nas already did one project that I always wanted from him, which was an orchestra backed album, although they released the physical too.

I always wished Nas would put out a project ala Gangstar’s Full Clip. It the size of a box set. He once mentioned putting out the first single artist, multi disc box set in hip hop. Nas has several greatest hits albums and my guy, Noah Uman, Did a standard 4-disc Nas compilation a few years back for Legacy Records (I got my name in the liner notes)... but I what I envisioned for Nas’ box set was much greater in scale. It was to contain original studio remixes (like the version of Memory Lane that Q-Tip was fukking with), alternate takes (there are different tales of Take it in Blood, What it is with different lyrics and it was said that Nas had a non- raggae version of Anybody text ), more unreleased tracks, extended versions (like extended street dreams, watch dem nikkas and You the Man) plus soundtrack cuts (Escobar 97, Nas’ Angels, etc) and freestyles.

Jay Z beat him to a B-Side concert but Nas could also do a very tight b-sides concert.
Watch Dem nikkas had completely different verses between the clean version and the dirty version
 

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How many tracks ya'll think the god is going to hit us off with? The original had 12 and then there was an extended version that had an additional 4-5 tracks but it only had older remixes that has been previously released. I'm hoping its about 15-17 tracks on there. Maybe through a couple exclusive tracks to a Japanese bonus or even apple or something. Thoughts?
 

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How many tracks ya'll thinkn the god is going to hit us off with? The original had 12 and then there was an extended version but it onyl had older remixes that has been previously released
 

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How many tracks ya'll think the god is going to hit us off with? The original had 12 and then there was an extended version that had an additional 4-5 tracks but it only had older remixes that has been previously released. I'm hoping its about 15-17 tracks on there. Maybe through a couple exclusive tracks to a Japanese bonus or even apple or something. Thoughts?
Nas said in 2010 that lost tapes 2 and 3 were supposed to each also be 12 tracks each.
 

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Nas hooked us up with LIG. There were about 6 extras on there if you copped the Japanese import version. If TLT2 give use bonuses like that, it just might be worth the wait.
 

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Tales From the Hood

It's hard to say, but I think if this would have been on I Am, in perfect quality, I would have loved it, as it was I liked it, but there is something slightly off about it, it doesn't have the intensity, cinematic quality of "Small World", or the haunting realism of "Undying Love".

It tells three loosely connected stories, that never really add up to much, but it has that Nas/Escobar/alcoholic style he was playing with so much around the time,

Wanna Play
Hustlers And Killers
You Don't Know Me
Blaze a 50

it just never felt fully formed, but I used to play it all the time when I finally got in on a burned cd in like 2000.
 
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