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

[H. Selassie]

First KRIT (my favorite rapper) was seen in the studio with The GOAT

Now Nip, my second favorite rapper is appreciating the music of The GOAT

Almost 3 years later nothing has changed. Nas the GOAT, KRIT that dude, and the Marathon continues...

 

[Sinister]

Scrapping an album or pushing it back after it leaks in hindsight was dumb as hell. Especially pre-internet. Like 1% of the fans actually hear leaks. If people say its trash, sure go back and change it but if people fukk with it, just hurry up and release it...

Where are you from?

 

[feelsthecitybreathin]

Almost 3 years later nothing has changed. Nas the GOAT, KRIT that dude, and the Marathon continues...

 

[boskey]

No it wasn't. It was a different time back then. If it leaked we didn't listen on YouTube. We consumed the music differently back then. Leaks were heavily bootlegged and then hurt your sales. No need to buy from Blockbuster Music when Pookie the hustler got it and you get it before it comes out. So yes, changing up the album did make sense.

At least 90% of the people who were gonna buy it are still gonna buy it. The alternative is putting out a rushed/lower quality album. We had the Blueprint 2 weeks before it came out, the shyt still sold millions. If he would have scrapped it Jay wouldn't have a classic album...

If anything add a bonus track. But scrapping the album is just a bad idea

Where are you from?

DMV

 

[Rell Lauren]

Anywhere I can get a digital version of the bootleg I Am?

 

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

What did Nip say?

Those tweets aren't showing up in the original post

 

[NoHalfWay]

The greatest album ever to never get released

 

[Gizza]

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Wow ... not even a Nas fan but the way he started that verse out ... woahhh the equanimity and duality


Definitely above Jay

 

[Controversy]

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

@Awesome Wells let me guess, this guy is lying too

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

I think this experience is what kinda made Nas look lazy or like he fell off. If you know his material he had the work for an epic double album. We know the story it was heavy bootleged Sony rushed the album out Nas games to record an entire new album they was pressuring him to release. That’s why I think Nostradamus sounds kinda rushed non cohesive like his earlier work. Stillmatic had his back against the wall he made some of his best music in years.