Nipsey Hussle tweets about Nas' scrapped double album "I Am" & songs from it

[Rapmastermind]

He's right and wrong. NaS did tell a connected story across 3 songs but "Fetus" was going to be the intro (Him being born) and doesn't connect to the other three. The transistion is actually:

"Drunk by myself" (My wife's tired of f*ckin me)
"Undying Love" (Finds his wife cheating and kills her, her lover and himself)
"Amongst Kings" (Wakes up in the Afterlife)


Also I wish people would stop saying "Tracklist". There wasn't one. There were 4 different bootlegs in college. The thing is you could piece together the songs and see what NaS was trying to do. Man the MP3/Bootleg/Napster sh!t was revolutionary looking back, even back then I knew something had changed. That Metallica Drummer lead the fight and lost but he predicted this future that it would ruin music. "I Am" is the first victim of the Ditigal Age. Us diehard NaS fans know the truth.

If he could of executed it right it could of been a "Life After Death", "All Eyez On Me" situation as far as Double LP's. But NaS did not lose in 99, he sold over 4 million albums between two projects. Also "I Am" remains his highest selling opening week of his career with over 450k. And "NaStradamus" may have been his weakest album but there was still bangers. Reguardless of the retail release, "I Am" was fire and "The Lost Tapes" would not have been dope without the "I am" era tracks. Here's the track list of the bootleg I had in college (I still have the tape). I paid 3 dollars for it, lol.

1. Small World
2. Drunk by Myself
3. Hate me Now (Choir Version) (Also on DJ Clue tape)
4. Blaze a 50
5. NaS is Like
6. Wanna Play Rough
7. Poppa was a Playa

Straight up that's a Classic EP right there. I played the tape out and Thought NaS was about to drop the best album of his career.

 

[H.S.]

3. Hate me Now (Choir Version) (Also on DJ Clue tape)

What's this about, breh? Never heard this version.

Good point about Lost Tapes. If the original double album would have dropped, I doubt that Lost Tapes would even exist. I mean, the songs would all be out there, but I don't think we would think of that collection of songs in the same way.

 

[H.S.]

Also I wish people would stop saying "Tracklist". There wasn't one. There were 4 different bootlegs in college.

That kind of makes sense. I wish I still had my bootlegg from high school, because my memory is kind of hazy. But I can say for sure that "Nas Is Like," "Life We Chose," "NYSOM Pt. 2" and "Favor 4 a Favor" wasn't on my version.

EDIT: "Wanna Play Rough," "Blaze a 50," "Project Window," and "Small World" were definitely on there.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

I wonder Which Version of Fetus was going to be on the double disc

 

[Rapmastermind]

I wonder Which Version of Fetus was going to be on the double disc

The original version not the one on "Lost Tapes" because they couldn't clear the sample. Also "Project Windows" was different was well.

This was the version:

What's this about, breh? Never heard this version.

Good point about Lost Tapes. If the original double album would have dropped, I doubt that Lost Tapes would even exist. I mean, the songs would all be out there, but I don't think we would think of that collection of songs in the same way.

The "Choir" Version was exactly that, A Choir in the back of "Hate me Now". It was Epic. Here is version on the Clue Tape called "You can't impeach the president". Wish there was a "Mastered" version. They changed the album version probably for sample purposes.




Here's the sample:




Also I had "Blaze a 50" on CD 3 years before "The Lost Tapes" because I traveled overseas to visit a family member and brought a "Hate Me Now" international single and it was a Bonus track but it was the "Clean" Version.

 

[The Dust King]

He's right and wrong. NaS did tell a connected story across 3 songs but "Fetus" was going to be the intro (Him being born) and doesn't connect to the other three. The transistion is actually:

"Drunk by myself" (My wife's tired of f*ckin me)
"Undying Love" (Finds his wife cheating and kills her, her lover and himself)
"Amongst Kings" (Wakes up in the Afterlife)


Also I wish people would stop saying "Tracklist". There wasn't one. There were 4 different bootlegs in college. The thing is you could piece together the songs and see what NaS was trying to do. Man the MP3/Bootleg/Napster sh!t was revolutionary looking back, even back then I knew something had changed. That Metallica Drummer lead the fight and lost but he predicted this future that it would ruin music. "I Am" is the first victim of the Ditigal Age. Us diehard NaS fans know the truth.

If he could of executed it right it could of been a "Life After Death", "All Eyez On Me" situation as far as Double LP's. But NaS did not lose in 99, he sold over 4 million albums between two projects. Also "I Am" remains his highest selling opening week of his career with over 450k. And "NaStradamus" may have been his weakest album but there was still bangers. Reguardless of the retail release, "I Am" was fire and "The Lost Tapes" would not have been dope without the "I am" era tracks. Here's the track list of the bootleg I had in college (I still have the tape). I paid 3 dollars for it, lol.

1. Small World
2. Drunk by Myself
3. Hate me Now (Choir Version) (Also on DJ Clue tape)
4. Blaze a 50
5. NaS is Like
6. Wanna Play Rough


Straight up that's a Classic EP right there. I played the tape out and Thought NaS was about to drop the best album of his career.

Yes there was multiple versions but they came out one by one. I can list the first 2 versions in a few mins

And yeah nipsey wrong

His reasoning I believe comes from the fact that belly button window was an ode to Jimmi hendrix and was the last song on his 1971 album cry.

I never seen your particular bootleg but the vinyl for hate me now has nas is like and blaze a 50 so.

That kind of makes sense. I wish I still had my bootlegg from high school, because my memory is kind of hazy. But I can say for sure that "Nas Is Like," "Life We Chose," "NYSOM Pt. 2" and "Favor 4 a Favor" wasn't on my version.

Yes all the songs you mentioned were recorded after the first bootleg had leaked

Hate me now fits better in your paragraph because life we chose wasn't till nastradamus year later

I wonder Which Version Fetus was going to be on the double disc

The orig8nal version had the mentions of abortion and domestic violence in the first verse. Nas changed it for lost tapes out of respect for his mother who past.

I can tell yell the FIRST leaked tracklist

I still own the 3 vinyls that create this, these tracks are exactly in this order


I wonder (sometimes I wonder)
Stay alive (hardest thing to do)
Drunk 4 self (drunk by myself)
Playin rough (wanna play rough)
Put to death (blaze a 50)
Dedication (we will survive)
Reap what you sew (small world)
Stay scheming (day dreaming)
Belly button window (fetus)
Dos and don'ts (Dr knockboots)
Player poppa (poppa was a player)
the game lives on (project window)

This leak was fall 1998.

Feel free to quote me and pass the word around. It's time we stop spreading misinformation.

God knows I had the death of escobar album more than a 15 yrs ago and people just started leaking it

I was the one resp9nsible for ripping the rise and fall and never gonna give it up back in 2001

Hence the reason I been working on this Nthology tape. I got mad exclusives

I would've shared more over the years but decided to take all of what i have and create the best nas mixtape a few yrs ago

 

[Rapmastermind]

Yes there was multiple versions but they came out one by one. I can list the first 2 versions in a few mins

And yeah nipsey wrong

His reasoning I believe comes from the fact that belly button window was an ode to Jimmi hendrix and was the last song on his 1971 album cry.

I never seen your particular bootleg but the vinyl for hate me now has nas is like and blaze a 50 so.




Yes all the songs you mentioned were recorded after the first bootleg had leaked

Hate me now fits better in your paragraph because life we chose wasn't till nastradamus year later



The orig8nal version had the mentions of abortion and domestic violence in the first verse. Nas changed it for lost tapes out of respect for his mother who past.

I can tell yell the FIRST leaked tracklist

I still own the 3 vinyls that create this, these tracks are exactly in this order


I wonder (sometimes I wonder)
Stay alive (hardest thing to do)
Drunk 4 self (drunk by myself)
Playin rough (wanna play rough)
Put to death (blaze a 50)
Dedication (we will survive)
Reap what you sew (small world)
Stay scheming (day dreaming)
Belly button window (fetus)
Dos and don'ts (Dr knockboots)
Player poppa (poppa was a player)
the game lives on (project window)

This leak was fall 1998.

Feel free to quote me and pass the word around. It's time we stop spreading misinformation.

God knows I had the death of escobar album more than a 15 yrs ago and people just started leaking it

I was the one resp9nsible for ripping the rise and fall and never gonna give it up back in 2001

Hence the reason I been working on this Nthology tape. I got mad exclusives

I would've shared more over the years but decided to take all of what i have and create the best nas mixtape a few yrs ago

My Bootleg wasn't a CD or Vinyl. It was recorded on a tape and sold to me by a classmate so it may have been a Bootleg of a Bootleg,lol. Also I didn't get mines in the fall of 98, I got mines closer to 99 around Christmas time in December. That's why I said mutiple Bootlegs because there were so many circulating around that time. The album was still scheduled to drop in April of 99 and the Source Ad in 98 still said it was a "Double LP". Wow, I wish I got the first round, that tracklist is dope.

I also remember it said "I Am....The Autobiography" not "I Am....NaStradamus'. Remember this was 3 years after "It Was Written" so he was recording Heavy post "Firm" album. The whole thing was sad but the bright side is indirectly it caused "STILLmatic" and "The Lost Tapes" to be born so it worked out in the end. Also digital techology improved and we were able to get ALL The leaked tracks back. Back then I was mad for 3 years as my tape got worst and worst for overplaying it that I would never hear the songs again.

 

[RAX 010]

Subs

 

[MillionMills]

Nas is already the GOAT but if I Am.. had came out the way he intended he would be pretty much immortal

Illmatic
IWW
Original I Am.. double album

3 straight classics. Pretty much blending The Lost Tapes with the best songs on I Am and Nastradamus. Got damn

He was only 26

 

[IllmaticDelta]

If that album came out as intended he would have bodied the game something fierce. Just incredible what dude is capable of.

Scary for his competition

I Am would have been the GOAT double album

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Listening to Doo Rags and realizing how its more relevant than ever

Think it was meant for Stillmatic but wanted to post anyways

 

[malbaker86]

GOAT

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Dope dope dopppppe

 

[TillWeDie]

Nas must smoke good weed

 

[BossMobb]

I Am as a double cd would have surpassed LAD as my favorite double.

Also what if Death of Escobar had dropped a year or a year and half after I Am