"No one has ever requested a Nas song at a party"

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Solo_87 said:
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Underground Rap fans saw something in Nas that he wasn’t, they tried to paint him as some underground anti mainstream savant who would be the figure they stand behind to decry all the mainstream rap that was running the airwaves, the Bad Boy wave, Jay-Z and etc.

Even to the point a highly lyrical album like IWW was bashed in certain segments for being too glossy, and having production by Trackmasters, for a lot of people they wanted Nas to stay in the Illmatic Lane for the rest of his career. Anytime he tried to branch out for example like he did with You Owe Me he was widely lambasted even though the women loved it, this put a cap on how far Nas was allowed to go artistically without everyone saying he fell off.

No other rapper really had that pressure on them, all his contemporaries like Biggie Pac Jayz were allowed to make numerous records catered to women and pop records for the charts, only time Nas was allowed to step out his box was on features with Rnb singers.

In retrospect the 98-2000 period where Nas said fukk it and did his own thing was one of the best decisions of his career, linking with Steve Stoute also, Hate me Now was a direct shot at critics and the underground fans

My bad, should I step out my shoes, give 'em to you?
Here's my cars and my house, you can live in that too
Criticize when I flow for the street, hate my dress code
Gucci this, Fendi that – what you expect, hoe?

They were trying to put a cap on Nas artistically if he was allowed the same freedom as others you would have got more songs like You Owe and and Hate Me Now, by the time the same burden wasn’t on him he was already a veteran and out of that type of energy that would lead to these type of songs.
 
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Budda said:
Underground Rap fans saw something in Nas that he wasn’t, they tried to paint him as some underground anti mainstream savant who would be the figure they stand behind to decry all the mainstream rap that was running the airwaves, the Bad Boy wave, Jay-Z and etc.

Even to the point a highly lyrical album like IWW was bashed in certain segments for being too glossy, and having production by Trackmasters, for a lot of people they wanted Nas to stay in the Illmatic Lane for the rest of his career. Anytime he tried to branch out for example like he did with You Owe Me he was widely lambasted even though the women loved it, this put a cap on how far Nas was allowed to go artistically without everyone saying he fell off.

No other rapper really had that pressure on them, all his contemporaries like Biggie Pac Jayz were allowed to make numerous records catered to women and pop records for the charts, only time Nas was allowed to step out his box was on features with Rnb singers.

In retrospect the 98-2000 period where Nas said fukk it and did his own thing was one of the best decisions of his career, linking with Steve Stoute also, Hate me Now was a direct shot at critics and the underground fans

My bad, should I step out my shoes, give 'em to you?
Here's my cars and my house, you can live in that too
Criticize when I flow for the street, hate my dress code
Gucci this, Fendi that – what you expect, hoe?

They were trying to put a cap on Nas artistically if he was allowed the same freedom as others you would have got more songs like You Owe and and Hate Me Now, by the time the same burden wasn’t on him he was already a veteran and out of that type of energy that would lead to these type of songs.
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They still doing it in 2024.. look @ the responses in this thread :heh:

Iww
Stillmatic
Lig

Are his best albums lots of variety
 
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