Now Jay-Z knows how Nas feels

[prophecypro]

More like the Grammys just like to gloss over categories and just give one winner and be done with it

Y'all notice in recent years (past 15 -17 years) They tend to give all the Rap Grammys to one guy or split between two. The result is people get left out even if the best guy won

Thats why Eminem and Kanye amassed so many from the 00s but like Snoop and Nas have a ton of nominations but aint won

Aint no real diversity in the award giving

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

Use to slight people for album sales, and bragging how he wasn't "Rapping like Common since", and dissing Nas for "tryna kick knowledge"


Ironic that his boy Biggie dissed Nas with the line

"Its ill when, MC's used to be on cruddy shyt
Took home, Ready to Die, listened, studied shyt
Now they on some money shyt, successful out the blue"


Same thing Jay-Z did. Took home Untitled, Distant Relatives, and Life is Good... studied that shyt. All of a sudden 4:44 is born. Politically charged, historical contexts putting a bright light on white institutional racism, social commentary on being black in America, etc etc

Then he shows up to the Grammy's thinking he'll get the same love for putting out such an album. Then gets trolled being nominated 8 times, losing 8 times. Not knowing the Grammys only loves you when you sing nikkas in Paris . Now he knows what it feels like when you challenge the status quo and show no mercy and put your Black Pride on frontstreet



By the way, love the 4:44 album, so no hate there

He was dissing Rae and Ghost with those lines, not Nas

 

[DontEemTry]

There's not a single topic on 4:44 that Hov hasn't rapped about before, starting with RD even (except his mom's sexuality)

That's how I know y'all nikkas ain't real hiphop heads.

 

[Taadow]

Same thing Jay-Z did. Took home Untitled, Distant Relatives, and Life is Good... studied that shyt.

U wanna use those albums to make your point?

 

[Piff Perkins]

I'm a Nas stan who hated Hov for years. My thoughts...

1. Hov been rapping about ownership since Reasonable Doubt

2. One of the things I hated about the response to 4:44 was the argument that it was the first mature rap album, as if Life Is Good didn't exist. Hell, and LiG wasn't even the first mature rap album. Plenty of dudes release albums like that but they're usually not on the level of Hov or Nas. Brother Ali comes to mind.

3. I don't see how you can say Hov sharked Untitled on 4:44. Again...he has rapped about racial stuff before. And let's be reality, 444 is the superior album by far. Untitled was a failure to me, from the beats to the songs; handful of good tracks but lots of forgettable to bad stuff on there IMO. Not a fan of the album. Conceptually it should have been great but Nas, as he has done many times, got the basics wrong: the beats.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I'm a Nas stan who hated Hov for years. My thoughts...

1. Hov been rapping about ownership since Reasonable Doubt

2. One of the things I hated about the response to 4:44 was the argument that it was the first mature rap album, as if Life Is Good didn't exist. Hell, and LiG wasn't even the first mature rap album. Plenty of dudes release albums like that but they're usually not on the level of Hov or Nas. Brother Ali comes to mind.

3. I don't see how you can say Hov sharked Untitled on 4:44. Again...he has rapped about racial stuff before. And let's be reality, 444 is the superior album by far. Untitled was a failure to me, from the beats to the songs; handful of good tracks but lots of forgettable to bad stuff on there IMO. Not a fan of the album. Conceptually it should have been great but Nas, as he has done many times, got the basics wrong: the beats.

I like the fact that you mention Brother Ali. I think his album was the best of 2017.
Jay-Z album was really dope to though.

 

[AMcV'88]

Jay-Z doesn't know what its like to...
have you're apparent rival fukk your baby mother, brag about it on several songs and still end up winning the battle.

(pause)

LIG should've won a grammy

no album with Worlds An Addiction on it deserves to win anything.

edit-actually...i take that back.
that song is the sort of melodramatic overproduced garbage that Grammy's voters would love.

 

[UpAndComing]

U wanna use those albums to make your point?

Why, only like when Jay tries to kick knowledge?

 

[Taadow]

Why,

because I don't think Jay listening to them albums like they was the chit...

 

[BO BARON]

Jay got much more influence on the young & old black entrepreneur's in hip hop & the streets he owed it to the culture fukk a grammy

 

[JahFocus CS]

also Jay-Z wanna get all political now when less than 5 years ago he was publicly beefing with Harry Belafonte and calling him "boy":blobmj: gtfoh :marbrook:

 

[RhymesWell]

Jig probably showed up thinking he had at least 3 locked in the bag because usually Jay won't show up if he ain't performing or getting some air time. Shame they couldn't give the man 1 damn grammy.

 

[UpAndComing]

because I don't think Jay listening to them albums like they was the chit...

- Nas makes an album with Damien Marley, then Jay makes a song with him

- Nas makes Untitled. Racial politics and social commentary. Jay makes same songs

- Nas makes Life is Good. Grown man rap, talking about family crisis, showing vulnerability. Jay does the same this


Yupp, I don't see the correlation

 

[Taadow]

- Nas makes an album with Damien Marley, then Jay makes a song with him

- Nas makes Untitled. Racial politics and social commentary. Jay makes same songs

- Nas makes Life is Good. Grown man rap, talking about family crisis, showing vulnerability. Jay does the same this


Yupp, I don't see the correlation

Me neither.

 

[Dboy41]

Jay z is a grown man with huge amounts of money and power., What the fukk do you expect him to rap about??

You people are the type to hate on a person when life changes for them while y'all stuck in the same place your whole life doing the same shyt. 2nd childhood ass nikkas,lol

Jayz and Beyonce both made similar black power albums just to ride the wave since they saw the acclaim kendrick and cole got.

Nothing wrong with growing, but it was more of a marketing tool. His campaign of cheating on Beyonce reeked of desperation.