Official Nas Thread
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That’s just some shyt people like to say. illmatic was great but Nas raised the bar with his writing in IWW. I Think I am the double album material and even some the back up material was in par as a whole. Lyrically but also it’s concepts. Blaze a 50, Drunk by myself, project window, fetus, among kings, we will survive, life we chose, find your wealth, undying love, I wanna talk to the mayor. Great concepts, not just frivolous rapping and street talk. I was on Illmatic and IWW but it was I am and the mystique surrounding him scrapping the double album that pulled me in all the was as a Nas Stan.
Alexander Wiggin
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On the real, if you look closely at nas' career, he never fell off in terms of art. His songs and his flow were always great and he even improved in concept and storytelling.
What fukked him up is the artistic direction. He don't have the sense of dropping the right single at the right moment, make such song a single, picking the right track on the album and not let gems rot in the vault.
Even the beats man, contrary to popular beliefs, he's the rapper with probably the most classic beats on his belt. you just realize that when you're going to his shows
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Nas has also had some bad breaks and sets back too with puttiing out his albums. Bootlegging with Illmatic, leaking of I am and scrapping of the double album, Def Jam holding back TLT2, Def Jam back tracking on the ****** album forcing him to change up some songs, Kelis and Kanye drama pre NASIR plus the not so efficient rollout of NASIR and then the Carters dropping their weak album the day after Nas drops.
Hopefully these issues won't happen again on Mass Appeal. Now he just has to let the music go and the shyt int he vaults too.
I have a legit question, was Nas ever working on an album tentatively titled Seasons or Seasons of Nasir. I know he had that song "The Season" over a J. Dilla Donuts beat, but I remember reading something to the effect of "hands in the air, it's the season of Nasir" in reference to a song. This was between 2013 and 2014.
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spliz
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The media runs with that narrative ever since Jay said it. I try to tell people. The Lost Tapes is the fukkin I Am era. No way in hell did Nas fall off. He just had album complications at that time. Bootlegging of I Am forcing him to change it. Even tho even the retail release was very well received in real time. And him rushing out and throwing Nastradamus for label reasons. Most of these people dont even realize both albums dropped in the same year.