Thats dope he's stilll incorporating Life is Good tracks into his set. When I saw him headline in Dubai back in December he did Mostly Illmalitc-God Son era joints and Adam and Eve and Cops Shot the Kid. Last couple of times before that when I seen him with no album to promote thats been his set (Illmatic-God Son) and Im hoping for the 25th Anniversary set he would throw in HHID and LIG more regularly as he does those cuts sometimes (Dude never does Streets Discuple and Untitled aside from when he had to promote those albums)
Seems like Nasir might be one of those albums he might not do too many cuts off either as he continues to preform, but I feel you on Not for the Radio, I actually think for all the flaws on it, it sounds like it would work as a fire intro to his shows. Nowadays he omes out to Get Down.
I seen dude like 12 times so while I think hes actually pretty good I also get how some shows might not be epic as other times you seen him
I'm probably gonna be seeing him again in the summer as there's a couple of festivals in June in the UK hes doing that might be passing throug anyway. One of them De La Soul and Nippsey Hustle will be opening for him and then theres a festival up north in Manchester happening the following week and Pusha T, Earl Sweatshirt and Solange are performing same night as him....so seeing as I never got that Pusha T-Nas tour we thought we might be getting last summer I might roll to that
Overall how was the arena atmosphere? I've seen him do a couple of Arena shows in London (Ironically one where Erykah Badu opened up fo him and Damian) and it was kinda dope, especially Life is Good at the O2 cause they tired some big arena type stuff (Changing sets, utlizing video, going into crowd on a stage) but didnt go all the way with it as he's a much more conservative stag perfomer (DJ and band and thats it) but I'd like to see him try stuff
The arena setup was very simple. Like i said, at the shows where he was the headliner it had a more epic feel. When i saw him on the Illmatic 20th anniversary he had a FIRE setup but this one was pretty bare. He had the DJ, a small band (they were dope) and a small projector screen that played snippets of his classic videos when he performed the corresponding song. I don’t go to Nas shows for theatrics so it was all good for me
In contrast, Erykah’s setup was more expansive. She had this cool rotating platform that beamed different colors into the audience. But she WAS the headliner so i expected her to all that kimda stuff.
Nas had great energy and kept us all engaged in the show. I think Stay might be one of his personal favorite songs that he’a written because he did the first verse over twice and put alot of feeling and emotion into the second verse. I think he also enjoyed the fact that everybody lost their shyt when You Owe Me started, you could see him laughing a bit while he did the hook.
