Official Nas Thread

[kes929]

Does anyone else think Life is Good is a classic, or is it just me?

The standard edition is borderline, but the bonus tracks take it way over the top for me.

Classic Easy. That deluxe version something special. The range on that album is crazy. Life is Good and Victory Lap my favorite solo albums from last decade.

 

[Big Mark]

Life is Good is classic to me too. You know how you have what you consider to be the best albums in your favorite artists catalogue but then you also have your favorites. LIG is both for me when it comes to Nas. One of his best and one of my favorites. If I were to make any changes I would take Swizz off summer on smash and it would then be tolerable for me, add Trust to the standard album, find a way to have used Beautiful Life even if it meant re-writing rhymes so it wouldn’t feel like an album closer, finally, I would have wrote a focued rhyme for the Statik selectah beat and released it as a street single ahead of LIG. It would’ve discuses Nas and his wife strgguking through their relationship.

 

[JustCKing]

Classic Easy. That deluxe version something special. The range on that album is crazy. Life is Good and Victory Lap my favorite solo albums from last decade.

That whole era of Nas's career was crazy:

Features- "Triple Beam Dreams" (he dropped one of his best verses ever), "Kings and Queens" off Tyga's album, "This Thing of Ours" off MMG 2, "Champions" off Nicki's sophomore album, "Mirage" off Chris Brown's album

His cameo in Nicki's video.

Performing "Summer On Smash" at the ESPY's

Nas week on Complex

The cool covers for the singles

 

[kes929]

That whole era of Nas's career was crazy:

Features- "Triple Beam Dreams" (he dropped one of his best verses ever), "Kings and Queens" off Tyga's album, "This Thing of Ours" off MMG 2, "Champions" off Nicki's sophomore album, "Mirage" off Chris Brown's album

His cameo in Nicki's video.

Performing "Summer On Smash" at the ESPY's

Nas week on Complex

The cool covers for the singles

Bruh he was on nothing but heat during that time frame.

 

[DrHackenbush]

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[kes929]

I think some people have Nasir Jones catalogue f***** up. If its 20 song versus Nas can go against anybody. I see alot of the conversation about the battles people want and some people know but alot of people never sleep.

 

[Big Mark]

I think some people have Nasir Jones catalogue f***** up. If its 20 song versus Nas can go against anybody. I see alot of the conversation about the battles people want and some people know but alot of people never sleep.

One of the things I like about Nas is that without a ton of hits, Nas’ catalog still can match anyone’s. Nas is a legendary artist because he is the kind of rapper that is so lyrical and creative, that his deep cuts are going to be works of art. He is the type can spit a whole song and it can be a masterpiece all the way down to a single bar. Few can do this.

 

[kes929]

One of the things I like about Nas is that without a ton of hits, Nas’ catalog still can match anyone’s. Nas is the two of rapper that because he is so lyrical and creative, his deep cuts are going to very good too.

Facts

 

[DrHackenbush]

Grabbed this off another forum

VOL I: The Life of A Don



01 Rule the World (I Came From the City)
02 Echo
03 Angels With Dirty Faces
04 Accross The Tracks
05Good Morning
06 Livin It
07 Foul Breeze
08 Systematic
09 Be Right
10 Life's Gone Low
11 More Than I Can Say (feat Keyshia Cole)
12 Like Smoke (feat. Amy Winehouse)
13 Let Nas Down (Remix)
14 Surviving the Times
15 Top Down (feat. Swizz Beatz)
16 Victory (feat John Legend)
17 Nas Album Done
18 The Season

VOL II: The Usual Suspects Co-starring Rick Ross



01 Triple Beam Dreams
02 Usual Suspects
03 Do What I Do (feat. Scarfaces & Z-Ro)
04 Accident Murderers
05 Check
06 Powers That Be
07 One of Us
08 It's A Tower Heist
09 This Thing Of Ours (feat. Wale & Omarion)
10 Maybach Curtains (feat. Meek Mill & John Legend)

VOL III: The Street General



01 War
02 Esco Lets Go
03 Where Ya'll At
04 Serious (feat. AZ)
05 Star Wars
06 Talk of New York
07 Stay Chisel (Remix)
08 War Is Necessary
09 Enemy Tomorrow
10 Too Late
11 Calm Down (feat Tragedy Khadafi & N.O.R.E)
12 The Second Coming
13 Don't Body Yaself
14 Salute Me (Remix)
15 Film
16 Trust

VOL IV: The Rise of Escobar


01 Escobar Season Begins
02 Soundtrack To The Streets
03 Westwood Freestyle
04 High
05 Live From the Bridge
06 Nas to Escobar
07 Queen's Finest
08 Escobar 97'
09 Turn It Out
10 The Foulness
11 Day Dreamin' Stay Schemin'
12 Sinful Living (Extended)
13 Take it in Blood Pt. II
14 True Dialect
15 Silent Murder
16 Tales From The Hood
17 Seeds Of Heaven
18 The Curse

VOL V - The Origin of Escobar

01 Introduction (Lunchroom battles Freestyle)
02 I'm a Villain
03 Just Another Day In The Projects
04 On The Real
05 Life Is Like A Dice Game
06 The World Is Yours (Q-Tip Remix)
07 One on One
08 Nas Will Prevail
09 Wake Up
10 Everything is Real (feat Shapelle)
11 Understanding
12 One Plus One (feat Large Professor)
13 Deja Vu
14 Jungle Jay (feat Olu Dara Jones)

Download - Vol 1 - 5

Download files - Filemail

 

[Ukbrotha]

What do you guys think about the song Revolutionary Warfare?

It was one that didnt immediately grab me when Godson dropped But after the initial hype of the album drop the song quickly grew on me and became one of my favourites on the album. I remember my initial reaction was that I could hear Tupac featured on this so I always think of Pac whenever I hear this particular song which is weird because I dont remember Pac on any song that sounds remotely like this. Anyways, not saying its one of Nas' best songs because its not but its a pretty good Nas song that no one really talks about. As usual Nas was spitting and Lake did a good job too.

 

[kes929]

What do you guys think about the song Revolutionary Warfare?

It was one that didnt immediately grab me when Godson dropped But after the initial hype of the album drop the song quickly grew on me and became one of my favourites on the album. I remember my initial reaction was that I could hear Tupac featured on this so I always think of Pac whenever I hear this particular song which is weird because I dont remember Pac on any song that sounds remotely like this. Anyways, not saying its one of Nas' best songs because its not but its a pretty good Nas song that no one really talks about. As usual Nas was spitting and Lake did a good job too.

Great song. Nas has alot of records like this that are just dope hip hop songs. Nothing flashy just dope.

 

[Big Mark]

Nas “Never Too Late” is a cold track. Anybody know anything about this joint? What era is it from? I don’t think a CD, no DJ version exists. Who produced it?

 

[Budda]

What do you guys think about the song Revolutionary Warfare?

It was one that didnt immediately grab me when Godson dropped But after the initial hype of the album drop the song quickly grew on me and became one of my favourites on the album. I remember my initial reaction was that I could hear Tupac featured on this so I always think of Pac whenever I hear this particular song which is weird because I dont remember Pac on any song that sounds remotely like this. Anyways, not saying its one of Nas' best songs because its not but its a pretty good Nas song that no one really talks about. As usual Nas was spitting and Lake did a good job too.

It’s one of his best songs, perfect song similar to Every Ghetto on Stillmatic in that you have an unknown guest verse who goes just as hard as he does, Lakes verse on this track was great.

 

[kes929]

Esco was on D nice Instagram live last night.

 

[kes929]

I wonder whose project this will be on