Albums Nas - The Lost Tapes 2 (Discussion Thread)

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Still hasn’t left my rotation :wow:

Album didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved in the media, a true masterpiece and milestone in Nas’s career. Some of his best verses are on this album imo.

album is classic

its just shorter than life is good


No sir. Not for me. Life is good is probably his second or third best joint. Lost tapes 2 is good. I don’t see it as better than the first lost tapes. But also with this joint, I can tell when he recorded certain songs and where the better versions of those songs landed. There’s a lot of life is good leftovers here and I much prefer the tracks we got

no intro
loco
qnsstry
reach
wldnt undrstnd
back
don
bye
nasty
bond
trust
love
roses

add lost freestyle and life is good and it more than makes up for shyt
 

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album is classic

its just shorter than life is good




no intro
loco
qnsstry
reach
wldnt undrstnd
back
don
bye
nasty
bond
trust
love
roses

add lost freestyle and life is good and it more than makes up for shyt

Life is good is redundant because he hits on all of those topics and themes throughout the album. I see why he left it on the cutting room floor because he said all of that and said it better throughout that entire album.
 

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Still hasn’t left my rotation :wow:

Album didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved in the media, a true masterpiece and milestone in Nas’s career. Some of his best verses are on this album imo.
Nazir album?
 

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Life is good is incredible if you ask me

It's cool. But I get why he left it off. An album is one collective body of work, or at least they were lol. When you're telling a story from beginning to end, you cut scenes that aren't needed or have already been done. That's a scene already there so I get why its not on the album :manny:
 

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I personally love lost tapes 2 and life is good
Oh I see, I love Life is Good as well minus that Summer On Smash record but I never got that hate for that record.

As for Lost Tapes 2 it had some dope records on there but as a whole body of work it was just a compilation of random songs imo so I can't really say it was great but it was cool for what it was. I don't really go back to it much but maybe I should some time this week.
 

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Oh I see, I love Life is Good as well minus that Summer On Smash record but I never got that hate for that record.

As for Lost Tapes 2 it had some dope records on there but as a whole body of work it was just a compilation of random songs imo so I can't really say it was great but it was cool for what it was. I don't really go back to it much but maybe I should some time this week.
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Life is good is redundant because he hits on all of those topics and themes throughout the album. I see why he left it on the cutting room floor because he said all of that and said it better throughout that entire album.

he touches on a myriad of topics on that song that he doesnt discuss elsewhere

the song would have fit around bye baby
 
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