Official Nas Thread

[Mike the Executioner]

Replace SUMMER ON SMASH with any of these and LIG transcends to perfection:

Who Are You
Adult Film
Tanasia
War Against Love
Beautiful Life

I think "Summer on Smash" could have been replaced by any of the bonus tracks on LIG (except for "Roses," because if you put it there, you have to get rid of "Bye Baby").

 

[kes929]

I think "Summer on Smash" could have been replaced by any of the bonus tracks on LIG (except for "Roses," because if you put it there, you have to get rid of "Bye Baby").

Nah you gotta keep Rose's and Bye Bye Baby. Both very dope. We needed trust on atleast the deluxe version.

 

[spliz]

Replace SUMMER ON SMASH with any of these and LIG transcends to perfection:

Who Are You
Adult Film
Tanasia
War Against Love
Beautiful Life

It Never Ends, Lost Freestyle, Queens Wolf, Highly Favored as well.

 

[spliz]

I think "Summer on Smash" could have been replaced by any of the bonus tracks on LIG (except for "Roses," because if you put it there, you have to get rid of "Bye Baby").

I mean I look at LIG as having all of these. It’s just all a part of the album to me. It still feels weird when people say he ends the album with Bye Baby.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Nah you gotta keep Rose's and Bye Bye Baby. Both very dope. We needed trust on atleast the deluxe version.

The reason I say that is because if I'm just looking at the standard version, which has 14 tracks, I don't know if "Roses" and "Bye Baby" can both be there. One of them sounds like an acceptance that the marriage is over and Nas tried his best to make it work, it just didn't. The other one sounds more like a "fukk you" to Kelis because she turned out to be an awful person. I guess if you want to close things out on a positive note, you go with "Bye Baby" but if you just want something harsh and painful, you choose "Roses." I like "Roses" more, but they're both great songs.

I mean I look at LIG as having all of these. It’s just all a part of the album to me. It still feels weird when people say he ends the album with Bye Baby.

For sure. The album has to end with "Where's the Love." Those bonus tracks are what put LIG over the edge for me in terms of it being a classic album. It's like cheating, but unlike a lot of albums that have bonus tracks, these feel integral to the story. LIG literally isn't the same without these songs because of how important they are.

 

[waynep]

The reason I say that is because if I'm just looking at the standard version, which has 14 tracks, I don't know if "Roses" and "Bye Baby" can both be there. One of them sounds like an acceptance that the marriage is over and Nas tried his best to make it work, it just didn't. The other one sounds more like a "fukk you" to Kelis because she turned out to be an awful person. I guess if you want to close things out on a positive note, you go with "Bye Baby" but if you just want something harsh and painful, you choose "Roses." I like "Roses" more, but they're both great songs.



For sure. The album has to end with "Where's the Love." Those bonus tracks are what put LIG over the edge for me in terms of it being a classic album. It's like cheating, but unlike a lot of albums that have bonus tracks, these feel integral to the story. LIG literally isn't the same without these songs because of how important they are.

I feel the same way. The deluxe version moved the album to
a classic to me.

 

[kes929]

I mean I look at LIG as having all of these. It’s just all a part of the album to me. It still feels weird when people say he ends the album with Bye Baby.

That's how I few life is good as well. I wish trust was on the deluxe version as well. I think it was just on the iTunes version.

 

[Big Mark]

LIG is a dope, dope piece of work. It's class material if you ask me. I feel Beautiful Life so I wish it was on there. The way I view the entire project is that Bye-baby ends part one and the bonus is a second part but still all in the same concept. If I could change something, I would take Swizz off the Summer on Smash hook. I'd still take it off the album. I also feel Lost Freestyle. I know it was submitted for LIG and I wish Nas would've come through with more tight rhymes, perhaps some stories or something, related to their his and Kelis[ rocky marriage.

 

[Thief's Theme]

LIG would be perfect, if:

remove Summer on Smash
remove World's An Addiction.. I love Nas' flow on Addiction, but it sounds out of place to me with its long ass intro and the pastor into bestiality porn line always throws me off - that's a track that would've been better for Lost Tapes 2

add the bonus tracks and end it with Beautiful Life

This would be my hindsight tracklist:

1. No Introduction
2. Loco-Motive
3. A Queens Story
4. Accident Murderers
5. Where's the Love *(Accident Murderers right into Daughters was never a good transition)
6. Daughters
7. Reach Out
8. Trust *(replaces World's An Addiction)
9. You Wouldn't Understand
10. Back When
11. The Don
12. Stay
13. Roses
14. Black Bond
15. Cherry Wine
16. Bye Baby
17. Beautiful Life
18. Nasty *(bonus track)

 

[Izanami]

Nas just bodied Dave East in Godfather 4. And there’s tracks on Lost Tapes 2 that we’re newer, He also killed that Lil Nas X shyt. And had some dope RnB features just this year where he sounded like God’s Son era Nas. U just gassed off that Written Testimony shyt cause 4:44 aint THAT new and he ain’t rap THAT great on it. And shyt. nikkas be talkin bout Nas’ flow but there is songs on Written Testimony where both Jay and Jay Elec’s flow was like they ain’t even listen to the beat when they was rappin. Far worse than ANYTHING Nas has done in years. So I know u aint talkin bout flow and mentioning Written Testimony in the same sentence. Either way. Jay is the type that elevates depending on who he rapping with. Steel sharpens Steel. But let’s get it straight. Let’s not act like Jay ain’t have a stretch of mediocre to wack features at one point as well.

I think Jay did a great job on AWT but his last verse on Smile, what’s free>>>
He spits at an elite level most times. But so does Nas.

 

[Thief's Theme]

I think Jay did a great job on AWT but his last verse on Smile, what’s free>>>
He spits at an elite level most times. But so does Nas.

agree, and Drug Dealer's Anonymous was only 4 years ago

 

[kes929]

LIG would be perfect, if:

remove Summer on Smash
remove World's An Addiction.. I love Nas' flow on Addiction, but it sounds out of place to me with its long ass intro and the pastor into bestiality porn line always throws me off - that's a track that would've been better for Lost Tapes 2

add the bonus tracks and end it with Beautiful Life

This would be my hindsight tracklist:

1. No Introduction
2. Loco-Motive
3. A Queens Story
4. Accident Murderers
5. Where's the Love *(Accident Murderers right into Daughters was never a good transition)
6. Daughters
7. Reach Out
8. Trust *(replaces World's An Addiction)
9. You Wouldn't Understand
10. Back When
11. The Don
12. Stay
13. Roses
14. Black Bond
15. Cherry Wine
16. Bye Baby
17. Beautiful Life
18. Nasty *(bonus track)

Woah woah I love world is addiction. We gotta keep that Haha

 

[Big Mark]

LIG would be perfect, if:

remove Summer on Smash
remove World's An Addiction.. I love Nas' flow on Addiction, but it sounds out of place to me with its long ass intro and the pastor into bestiality porn line always throws me off - that's a track that would've been better for Lost Tapes 2

add the bonus tracks and end it with Beautiful Life

This would be my hindsight tracklist:

1. No Introduction
2. Loco-Motive
3. A Queens Story
4. Accident Murderers
5. Where's the Love *(Accident Murderers right into Daughters was never a good transition)
6. Daughters
7. Reach Out
8. Trust *(replaces World's An Addiction)
9. You Wouldn't Understand
10. Back When
11. The Don
12. Stay
13. Roses
14. Black Bond
15. Cherry Wine
16. Bye Baby
17. Beautiful Life
18. Nasty *(bonus track)

This is almost perfect for me. The list of tracks is perfect and although I don't mind The World is an Addiction, I could remove it and saved it for the LT2 instead of Beautiful Life. My only slight changes would be to make The Don a bonus track and separate By Baby so I would put it after Roses.

 

[spliz]

This is almost perfect for me. The list of tracks is perfect and although I don't mind The World is an Addiction, I could remove it and saved it for the LT2 instead of Beautiful Life. My only slight changes would be to make The Don a bonus track and separate By Baby so I would put it after Roses.

Perfect.

 

[Big Mark]

What the hell is Nas cooking up? I want to know. We have discussed this topic several times but Nas has been working on several incarnations of his next solo album for years. I don't think we are getting anything this year but the question is why? Nas and his business aspirations aside. What is the music industry/hip hop reason he hasn't dropped, I wonder. If its that he is still working on it, then let that shyt be known. We starvin' out here.