Albums Nas - The Lost Tapes 2 (Discussion Thread)
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TheDarceKnight
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Man. This needs to be referenced for later.
Either @savoutch or myself should be able to tell within 2-3 year time period what era the beat is from when we hear the song. If it's got any of that hazy mix and match collage style to it then it's gotta be from when you said. Al was saying he would love to do an album with Nas exactly around that time, and if Nas was at the crib, I'm sure they recorded something. People don't usually go to 'the rap camp' and not record.
That actually makes me more interested in the joint. I wouldn't be mad at another God's Son/Street's Disciple/Hip-Hop is Dead leftover, but there's been nothing with Nas and Al since his Gutter Water/Covert Coup era collage style beat-making began.
Thx for the info.
Yeah that's it. Most of the tracks I listed I guess showed up on mixtapes and compilations
Just wanting full CDQ mastered versions
drugxglory
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I might not listen for awhile... just so i can have some (new) Nas music to look forward to listening
Jesus...Vinyl I needs it.
TheDarceKnight
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Not to be overly nerdy but Mastering only happens when an album is sequenced to basically make it so one song isn’t quiet while another blows your ears out. Mastering is damn near an automated process that takes a couple days or sometimes less.Yeah that's it. Most of the tracks I listed I guess showed up on mixtapes and compilations
Just wanting full CDQ mastered versions
My Will is a totally finished song and was mixed by Eddie Sancho (Gang Starr/DJ Premier/Alchemist) main engineer.
The full version of My Will should be on Al’s Cutting Room Floor 2 project on streaming services. Or if you order the CD it’s properly mixed. That’s the song. There’s no other verses that he left off.
Nas only blessed us with one 24 bar verse on there.
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I'm calling it now, this will be his best body of work since the last Lost Tapes. I can tell by the song titles that this shyt about to be fire.
"Vernon Family"
"Queens Wolf"
"QB Politics"
The Swizz joints will probably be the only 2 ehh jawns on there
Those titles is what I’m most excited about on this album.
I can't wait to see the disappoint 
I'm not trying to be a downer but my thing is I don't expect this to really sound like an album, since the songs are likely from a pretty large time period, and I think it'll sound more like a mixtape. I do expect the quality of the individual songs to be very high but Lost Tapes had a cohesiveness that in hindsight is pretty fukking crazy. It sounds tighter than any of his albums besides Illmatic IMO, and I just don't expect anything like that especially with this many tracks and this many different producers.
I can't wait for it though.
No doubt. RZA did fall off but the shyt he did for Dark Fantasy was dope and even the joint he had on Watch the Throne was dope and would've been doper if Kanye didn't autotune the Nina Simone sample.
Word?
Its NOT a large timeline though. Its roughly the same amount of years that make up OG lost tapes. Lost Tapes was sessions from the original Double Album of i am... (99) and Stillmatic (2001) so lets say he started working on I am in 98, thats 4 years of material. Lost Tapes 2 is Def Jam era from HHID-Life Is Good. The timeline of those sessions is roughly 4 years (taking away 2010 for Distant Relatives) so its not like we’re spanning the entirety of Nas’s career. There is no “Nasty Nas” or “Escobar” era songs on this compilation.
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Nas-Beautiful Life??? Maybe Wishful Thinking
Was hoping for this to make the cut
Was hoping for this to make the cut