Vernon Family/You Mean The World To Me (Hip Hop Is Dead)
Who Are You/Queens Wolf/War Against Love (Untitled)
Lost Freestyle/Royalty/It Never Ends/Beautiful Life (Life Is Good)
The Art Of It (Lost Tapes 2 exclusive)
No Bad Energy/Tanasia/Adult Film/Highly Favored/Jarreau Of Rap/Queensbridge Politics (Album before Nasir)
good list but technically no bad energy, tanasia, highly and adult film were for life is good
qb politics/art of it and it never ends are all from the album after life is good (nas album done)
Slight correction. The “Big Queens Dude” song is from the pre-HHID era (called by some the “NASdaq Dow Jones” era) this was when he was still on Columbia and perhaps maybe six months before The I Declare War concert. Nas had announced an album called NASdaq Dow Jones and this album initially spawned the “2 million dollar Neptunes beat”, “Bullet X” (rumored 50 Cent diss) and a few other odds and ends that turned out to be internet rumors and bullshyt.
This was also around the time Nas and Premier did the Scratch Magazine Cover talking about the joint album.
i now believe the 2 million dollar neptune beat WAS vernon family
For real?
I coulda swore I heard not too long ago that nas and az have enough unreleased material for a whole album
I forgot where I heard this
Anybody know what I’m talking about
it was one of AZ's homies who told the story of how they met and he said they have an albums worth of material we have never heard
this was recent, like last year
though i presume the material hes speakin of is from illmatic to the firm
Right on for this
@Ziggiy beautiful thing about the Lost Tapes projects are that they naturally cause you to revisit previously released projects and see how the Lost Tapes songs recorded at the same time fit sonically and thematically within the context of those albums. LIG is pretty fukking tough. Took some shyt off that I didn’t really like too much and replaced them with Lost Freestyle, It Never Ends, and Beautiful Life.
just quoted you since i corrected zigs list above
Hold Down The Block is one of the top tracks on the that album
factual. no if ands about it
Fukk that last picture. I could care less about hearing nas with JT on a timberland beat.
That first photo though, I’m dying to hear the GOAT of the 90’s with the GOAT of the 2000’s on a track together. Nas would of killed any feature on drogas wave.
nas on a timberland beat is proven tho but i can see JT crooning and ruining it
One of Nas best tracks ever.
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That Nas, JT, Timbaland song could very well be better than a Nas/Lupe song and I say that as a fan of both Nas and Lupe. Why? Any collabo could go either way (dope, meh, or wack). Same people called Nas a sellout for having Lauryn Hill singing a hook on Trackmasters beat and it turned out to be one of his best. And yeah, Lauryn >>>>> JT, but that's beside the point.
timbo is known for hiphop rnb collabos so i hope for the best. shyt could be flames but could also be corn. well see. maybe lol
MOST of the production on HHID is good. Untitled’s production is excellent in my opinion.
I feel like I understand what Nas was trying to do on HHID. The first half of the album was exploring how Hip Hop died and from Black Republican on he’s trying to show how to resurrect it.
Black Republican- Unity between once warring factions
Not Going Back- Not allowing the hood to dictate your moves.
Still Dreamin- Not allowing other people’s dreams to bring you down/deter you
Hold Down The Block- How to represent where you come from while still progressing
Blunt Ashes- learning from the mistakes from our musical elders
Let There Be Light- How to sustain a long career as a rapper
Play On Playa- If you gonna spit that pimp/flay shyt. Do it with skill and some form of integrity.
Can’t Forget About You- Appreciating Nostalgia and those who paved a path
Hustlers- Unity between East and West Coast
Hope- Nas summarizing it all
perfect summary. never seen anyone break it down aside from myself
add to the fact he has a song examining whos responsible for hiphops demise.
and yo what was up w that link u put up when the album dropped??
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