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JustCKing said:
Yah or nay: God's Son is Nas's most versatile album flow wise.

Every song on this album employs a different flow and a lot of times, he is switching it up mid verse. He was experimenting with different flows and even deliveries. It is noticeable from the opening words of "Get Down" to the last verse on "Heaven". There's a segment of his verse on "The Cross" where he switches mid verse.
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Yes for example his flows on ‘Heaven’
 
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JustCKing said:
Who remembers Don Ferquan or simply Quan from "Just A Moment"? This is a recent interview from him explaining how things went wrong with he and Nas:

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This always happens, talking like Nas ows them something for delivering them a hit record. Nah nikka, it's the other way around. The world wouldn't know him if it wasn't for Nas.
You can't go to another record label and go to prison while it's your moment to shine, and expect Nas to keep holding your hand.
 
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erker said:
This always happens, talking like Nas ows them something for delivering them a hit record. Nah nikka, it's the other way around. The world wouldn't know him if it wasn't for Nas.
You can't go to another record label and go to prison while it's your moment to shine, and expect Nas to keep holding your hand.
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My issue is him talking about "Just A Moment" as if it was a massive smash for Nas. It was a great record, that some might even consider classic. Nas has plenty of those. Quan just had the one. The name of the game is to keep delivering, which is what a lot of artists don't understand. Quan had the opportunity of opportunities. Not many artists can say that their first placement was on a Nas song AND it was a single with a video.

I get "Just A Moment" was Quan's song first, but like I said before, the name of the game is to keep delivering. Nas wouldn't be Nas if all we heard was his one verse from "Live At The BBQ" and "Back At The Grill" or he "Halftime" when it dropped on the Zebrahead soundtrack. He kept delivering even when Illmatic wasn't a commercial smash out the gate. His work was appreciated with time and he became one of the GOATs because he kept delivering instead of being one of those "could've been artists playing the blame game".
 
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JustCKing said:
My issue is him talking about "Just A Moment" as if it was a massive smash for Nas. It was a great record, that some might even consider classic. Nas has plenty of those. Quan just had the one. The name of the game is to keep delivering, which is what a lot of artists don't understand. Quan had the opportunity of opportunities. Not many artists can say that their first placement was on a Nas song AND it was a single with a video.

I get "Just A Moment" was Quan's song first, but like I said before, the name of the game is to keep delivering. Nas wouldn't be Nas if all we heard was his one verse from "Live At The BBQ" and "Back At The Grill" or he "Halftime" when it dropped on the Zebrahead soundtrack. He kept delivering even when Illmatic wasn't a commercial smash out the gate. His work was appreciated with time and he became one of the GOATs because he kept delivering instead of being one of those "could've been artists playing the blame game".
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Agreed on all points. Just a Moment was a nice song, but it wasnt even the biggest song on Street's Disciple. Let that sink in. Thief's Theme was bigger and better.
 
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JustCKing said:
Yah or nay: God's Son is Nas's most versatile album flow wise.

Every song on this album employs a different flow and a lot of times, he is switching it up mid verse. He was experimenting with different flows and even deliveries. It is noticeable from the opening words of "Get Down" to the last verse on "Heaven". There's a segment of his verse on "The Cross" where he switches mid verse.
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I think it's Street's Disciple. Nas wasn't attacking those beats, he was throwing nuclear weapons at them. :damn:

Or maybe it was his delivery because that was also on point. Either way, his performance on that album was fantastic.
 
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