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Truth be told Nas is already preparing for the next one to drop while the very people who claim to hate his music and call him lazy will be waiting to negatively critic his every word/beat and attach their lame to his fame.
Nas - The Season (full version)
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HNIC973
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if this is considered ''lazy'' what's Nas like motivated
yeah, that's definitely one way to look at it.
it's not even about the fact that jay elec and others used the beat before. to keep it 100, it used to annoy me watching jay just use all these dilla beat tape beats to rock over, meanwhile i'm getting C&Ds from Nottz management when he used the beat for Bilal's Something To Hold On To after it was already sold. Like, bruh, you even got permission to use these joints? LOL
but yeah, definitely just adequate to me. I'm on some marlo "want it one way, but it's the other way" shyt. like there are so many dilla beats that Nas could have used and made even more of a statement like "Dilla shyt so tough, AND here's some shyt you never heard of". I was just hoping he'd come out the gate and snap on it the way royce and elzhi and cats like that have snapped on dilla records in the past. but like 3 bars in, he already shoutin out the producer like, as shoes says, a sway in the morning freestyle. then gonna waste 20+ bars on his first time on a Dilla beat ever, talking about some 2 year old shyt that most people forgot, don't believe, don't care about.
like, what a wasted opportunity. not savy or wise imo.
but yeah, the bright side is i have seen more people open praise this beat than i ever did when anyone else rocked on it or when donuts came out, so there's that. dilla's kids gonna eat.
up in here
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Droog was some straight Internet shyt that realistically wasn't that well known outside of Internet heads. you can't really use that as an example of Nas being "disconnected from the game". I mean you can but really it's kinda reaching for straws and doesn't really have anything to do with the topic at hand.
Actually, Nas was put up to rock over this and release it by the founder of Decon Records (now known as Mass Appeal Records). it wasn't Nas idea, cuz all he do is stay high all day.
I mean, he so disconnected from what's going on in the game, that after months of people thinking Droog was him, he ain't even know who he was until he got asked a question in an interview by homie at MTV. Like, even if you not paying attention, you supposed to have people on your team pay attention for you. But now he wants to get back on his 'underground', 'grimey' shyt and make music "like these guys [run the jewels]". okay.
Nas has recorded to a handful of Dilla beats during the ****** album days, at the behest of Jay Elec, but never released em. Yes, Jay told me and many others of us in the 'circle' back then that as well. This isn't some master/grand design to troll dream hampton, myself, or anyone else that have publicly stated he's used writers at the very least, this one time in his career. Because, as many of you have said, who am I and who is dream to even warrant a response from him on a proper song? If what we said held no weight at all, he'd have continued to never address it.
But here we are getting not so sublim'd on a simply adequate outing.
shyt ain't wack, it's just 'okay'.
Who else besides hov, bleek, mega, cam, and 50 has nas dissed on record. i don't listen close enough anymore to keep up (checked out somewhere btwn streets disciple and ******). interesting he'd dedicate so much as a bar, much less a verse and a half to dream and myself. you know, with it being untrue and all
anyway, Nas is my personal GOAT. no rapper (when he's had perfect production anyway) has molded my view on what rap should sound like at it's apex more than him, from his voice, to his topics, to his bars, and no album outside of illmatic exemplifies that better for me either. he just ain't doin' that no more.
As far as using nas dedicating a bar to dream and you as proof the old rumor was true, whatever dude. dream is well known enough to warrant a response, you not so much, but I don't think it really was about you personally anyway so much as it was about dream. But I know the idea that your personal GOAT was talking about you is kinda good for your ego, so don't let me stop you breh.
Life is Good
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Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones...does what he wants and when he wants and for some reason his way has people like you upset and catching feelings all the time. You are even stalking a forum to see how his release is being perceived. The controll that Nasir has over his confused admirers is profound.lol. oh, not a lot of time for writing rhymes.
Actually, I think the legions of Nas' faithful have made it about dream and to a lesser extent me. ain't nobody perked up and jumping in front of no truck for props or chasin no ambulance. i just been lurkin on here since that legendary 'the nod' post got shared on OKP, saw my initials, and decided to post. i can't control how people are reacting to nas finally acknowledge the 'shared writing responsibilities' being brought to light over 2 years ago. no need to play stupid.
so ambitious it took em 10 years to grab a dilla beat and debut it at a run the jewels event.
you're not even with his management you're a psycho stalker get off the internet and take care of your children
Mike Otherz
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yeah that " all nas do is get high all day" let me know this dudes whole energy towards nas. the subtext is so revealing.
Mike Otherz
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its like when dream hampton dedicated 500 tweets to a topic she doesnt care about. lol
but it took him nearly a decade to get on a Dilla beat. AFTER being in the studio with Jay Elec for the better part of a year and having him play him Dilla beats. Disconnected.
OG Maco is some 'internet shyt' (like most anything that really pops off is, just the age we're in) with a cool video and some viral vines of white dads telling their kids "they guessed it!" its time to do they homework, but Nas know that about LOL. And even if he don't, someone on his team must have have heard it and be like "Yo Nas, check this dumb shyt".
I was at Droog's first show a few weeks ago in NY, and everyone was in the building. From Tamron Hall, to J-Zone, to Jon Caramancia or however you spell his name from the times, to Paul Rosenberg, to J-Zone, to 88 Keys, to hella people in the scene and industry in NY that I guess if you dont know already would be lost on you and would start to sound unnecessarily name-droppier than it already does.
The problem is, when you're a legend, and you did legendary shyt in raps 2nd golden age essentially changing the game and making EVERYONE step their game up, you prolly feel like, nah, i dont gotta pay attention to shyt cuz my place is already cemented. hooves up, grown man gut growin, putting it down for a minute. and that's fair. but the game ain't always gonna revolve around you if you don't focus. i aint mad like i used to be when i heard the news the first time, it just is what it is, and just made me look at the game a lot more realistically. no sacred cows here.
my ego's fine without all this. i been online since 93, i'm about 15 years removed from needing props online.
i'm aint got no plex, most of this is for the lulz. he's not my personal hero or nothing, i just think some of his work is rap at it's apex, and it's annoying watching that not happen, at what i feel is, consistently enough. dassit!
someone said he youtube-to-mp3'd the trackcome on man
