Official Nas Thread
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Piff Perkins
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I’m not mad at people who dislike I Am. It has arguably his worse song (Big Things), some other middling commercial misses and a couple beats I don’t like. But it’s not a bad album. It’s a 3, 3.5 type album. Not bad, but in a climate where something is either classic or bad it results in being over hated.
Friend of mine made a great comparison: he said it’s Nas’ Lethal Injection. People act like Lethal Injection was a crime against humanity because it’s not as good as his first two albums. But it’s a good album, and just as I Am has a couple dope commercial tracks like Hate Me Now, so does Lethal Injection (You Know How We Do).
Friend of mine made a great comparison: he said it’s Nas’ Lethal Injection. People act like Lethal Injection was a crime against humanity because it’s not as good as his first two albums. But it’s a good album, and just as I Am has a couple dope commercial tracks like Hate Me Now, so does Lethal Injection (You Know How We Do).
spliz
SplizThaDon
Hate Me Now was literally forced into a single by the people. It was the first time Flex ever dropped bombs on a track as well. At the album listening party they kept running it back and that’s when Nas decided to push it as a single. There is only 1 or 2 songs I don’t like on that whole album.
Stuckinthe90s
Pro
If people really want to put the money up, some hacker found like 30 Nas songs (def jam era) that he's selling for like $30-45k total for all those songs on thesource.to (including sinatra in the sands, just begun..no confirmation on the scientist because just was still working on it or all the vocals may have not been done) ...I can ask again if he's willing to do a groupbuy
Nas forgets how many songs he has and he's lowballing the amount of songs he's recorded over the years...There was some Nas interview saying that Salaam Remi was acting mysterious around Nas because Salaam wouldn't remind Nas about all the joints they did, etc
most of Nas' interviews are named generically under one umbrella title and I remember watching them...but can't refind them for shyt
Stuckinthe90s
Pro
Thats lowkey some scumbag shyt.
Nas didn’t want the songs released so NOBODY should be making profit off of what amounts to stolen material.
If a song just happens to leak then that is what it is but to horde them shyts and try to make money when the artist themselves aren’t going to make a dime off their own songs is criminal
Nas would never sign off on a bunch of random nikkas buying his unreleased material and Sony would NEVER sell them. This is a pipe dream
I think I read somewhere he recorded 100 tracks for I Am. I don't know how true that it is but I wouldn't be surprised, he records a lot.
True indeed. I was just sharing info...still expecting some of them to drop on Lost Tapes 3+
people need to stop hating on Nas when he tries experimental shyt that don't turn out "as expected of him or have Nas confined to some box"...how would the genre grow if artists aren't allowed to take chances and make mistakes?...as other people said in this thread, other rappers like Jay gets a pass because Jay is operating under the false pretense that he was a hustler first and a rapper 2nd, so people don't hate on Jay as much when Jay makes bad songs, write lazy bars, or clout-chase but we hold Nas to a higher standard and Nas can't make the same type of mistakes that every other rapper gets a pass on for the sake of progressing the genre forward, etc
people arguing back and forth about alternative timelines and revisionist history for past songs that weren't necessarily wack is wasted energy -- just appreciate Lost Tapes 2, I Am, and whatever experimental songs that Nas did for what they are, and hopefully, Nas sees our support and releases Lost Tapes 3+ so we don't have to buy from these hackers trying to capitalize on stolen property
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