Official Nas Thread

[IllmaticDelta]

word, what do you have that i missed? post them, lmao

I'm trying to remember them all:

Fat Man Scoop
Angie Martinez
Funk Flex
Ms Jones
Star & Bucwild (I think)
Lisa Evers ( I can't remember)

 

[HNIC973]

I'm trying to remember them all:

Fat Man Scoop
Angie Martinez
Funk Flex
Ms Jones
Star & Bucwild (I think)
Lisa Evers ( I can't remember)

Yo remember when Star wanted to play the Stillmatic freestyle but he said he couldn't because Hot 97 wouldn't let em the Jay media machine all that help still took the L

 

[kes929]

That's it.

People forget that Takeover was that vicious, it was kinda over for him, he was in the gutter. 'I Am' didn't have the reception that the last album had.

He was on the floor for the count, somehow got up and Ether resuscitated everything. The public swayed back to Nasir and the rest is history.

I am got 4.5 mics it had a great reception. It was nastradamus that didnt get the great reception. Which is crazy thinking nas fell off during that time when he still had heat. It was just the bootlegging that interrupted that. Jay that he could bully the goat Nas and got handled, that's where the story ends.

 

[jensyao]

I'm trying to remember them all:

Fat Man Scoop
Angie Martinez
Funk Flex
Ms Jones
Star & Bucwild (I think)
Lisa Evers ( I can't remember)

you gotta upload and post that audio...people need to hear that shyt, but the "revisionist history copyright infringement trolls" are also on youtube, so we gotta watch out for them...I sincerely feel like whenever I mention Jay-Z in any of my videos even when the video does not feature Jay-Z gets immediately flagged by someone from the roc nation lawyer camp, so I don't even mention him by his full name or namedrop him in any of my video descriptions or titles anymore

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Yo remember when Star wanted to play the Stillmatic freestyle but he said he couldn't because Hot 97 wouldn't let em the Jay media machine all that help still took the L

yup

 

[HNIC973]

That's it.

People forget that Takeover was that vicious, it was kinda over for him, he was in the gutter. 'I Am' didn't have the reception that the last album had.

He was on the floor for the count, somehow got up and Ether resuscitated everything. The public swayed back to Nasir and the rest is history.

No he wasn't he sold 3 milliion albums in 99. I Am was received fine Nastradmus was the one universally panned. He was was on platium selling single oochie wally in 2000 & honestly anybody that was listening to Nas at the time knew he didn't fall off it just bullshyt narrative that Jay ran wit on Takeover

 

[JustCKing]

Lmao, I thought people found this already earlier in this thread...yeah we need more jungle stories...both jungle and nas have storytelling abilities...jungle can be captivating with his words without rhyming, as he is on multiple interviews. that video never gets old and has mad replay value.



I put these on my other channel and people still find them, lmao...I actually found that clip off a dead youtube channel with no traction and I'm just archiving it...there's so many channels that had Nas stuff from back in the days but got terminated by youtube because of flimsy reasons...I had the chance to grab them when I saw them, including ALL OF ARSENIO HALL'S VIDEOS the 2nd time he show relaunched in 2013 before his show was terminated a year later (because Arsenio was using his platform to crowdfund buying the Clippers from Donald Sterling at the time, and it was working because b/millionaires got involved). It's a catch 22 because CBS or whoever would come after me for reposting all his shyt again on youtube, but when arsenio hall's show and his youtube channel really got terminated by its producers/networks, people who had bootleg arsenio rips became the place for people to revisit that show.

I really had a hindsight moment because I should have grabbed those videos when I had the chance -- Nas had a full interview with Arsenio sitting on the couch in 2013 and nobody has a copy of it....there's a video of Nas performing on Arsenio but there's no FULL Nas interview. Ever since people cut their TV cable cords and radio began phasing out, there's still good video production around Nas' stuff that are syndicated on streaming services and I grab them from there and check IMDB for when Nas has credits featured as an actor or just himself. Nas - IMDb



Bring back Arsenio / Hip-hop was aborted so Nas breathes life, back into the embryo - Queens Get The Money



so many people just know Nas' music and unreleased joints but don't know all the ideas he has via interviews that he hasn't put into song yet. There's plenty of stuff that Nas said in interviews that may be a concept vaulted songs or those ideas never made it into song that people barely address.



word, what do you have that i missed? post them, lmao



my main channel has random videos that you guys quote all the time on various threads, lmao, but as you can see by my channel name, I've been banned by youtube multiple times since google acquired youtube in 2007, hence the #4 and #5 at the end of my channel name.

EDIT: I am currently still trying to find a Prologue/Introduction to a book that Nas wrote and read for an audiobook...I recall having my mind blown to hear Nas' writing and/or voice on an audiobook but given that I been thru a lot of audiobooks (and return them to the library), i can't seem to refind that audiobook for some reason...it's for one of those random obscure books, like "tanning of america" by Steve Stoute or somebody similar that Nas cosigned by writing the intro to that book www.amazon.com/dp/1592407382 ...There was a 5 Part series about the Tanning of America (when the book became a VH1 show) that Nas participated in and I can't find that footage either The Tanning of America (TV Mini-Series 2014– ) - IMDb

Do you have Nas's 1999 performance on Soul Train. He performed "Nas Is Like" and "You Won't See Me Tonight" according to the program guide on Wikipedia. If that holds up, that is like the only live performance of that song.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

I am got 4.5 mics it had a great reception. It was nastradamus that didnt get the great reception. Which is crazy thinking nas fell off during that time when he still had heat. It was just the bootlegging that interrupted that. Jay that he could bully the goat Nas and got handled, that's where the story ends.

It didn't have a great reception, people fukked with a few songs off it but not like the albums prior to that, thats a fact.

Jay released a song talking about piping his babies mother in his car. It was looking worse than bad.

Then he flipped it on them.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

No he wasn't he sold 3 milliion albums in 99. I Am was received fine Nastradmus was the one universally panned. He was was on platium selling single oochie wally in 2000 & honestly anybody that was listening to Nas at the time knew he didn't fall off it just bullshyt narrative that Jay ran wit on Takeover

It's okay, im not taking shots at your demi-god, i'm applauding him in fact. I Am to Nastradamus was a steep decline from It Was Written, he was a superstar at that stage.

I should be smarter than to try to have a constructive discussion in a worshipper thread.

 

[Big Mark]

My question is how will being 100 mil richer impact his recording career? More music? Less music? Purchase the masters? Make movies? What?

 

[jensyao]

Do you have Nas's 1999 performance on Soul Train. He performed "Nas Is Like" and "You Won't See Me Tonight" according to the program guide on Wikipedia. If that holds up, that is like the only live performance of that song.

I'm pretty sure Nas performed Nas is Like various times after that

just did some light googling: Nas performed "Nas is Like" and "You Won't See Me Tonight" on Season 28 Episode 26

 

[kes929]

It didn't have a great reception, people fukked with a few songs off it but not like the albums prior to that, thats a fact.

Jay released a song talking about piping his babies mother in his car. It was looking worse than bad.

Then he flipped it on them.

Jay wanted to follow in Nas footsteps, so I'm not surprised he went after her. I'm sure it wasnt hard to smash a Carmen back in the day.

 

[JustCKing]

I'm pretty sure Nas performed Nas is Like various times after that

just did some light googling: Nas performed "Nas is Like" and "You Won't See Me Tonight" on Season 28 Episode 26

I meant to say "You Won't See Me Tonight" was the rare performance. I don't think he's done that one live. If so, not much.

 

[Ziggiy]

That's it.

People forget that Takeover was that vicious, it was kinda over for him, he was in the gutter. 'I Am' didn't have the reception that the last album had.

He was on the floor for the count, somehow got up and Ether resuscitated everything. The public swayed back to Nasir and the rest is history.

This narrative never made any sense to me.


I am was critically acclaimed when it dropped. Got a 4.5 Mic rating in the Source when that magazine still meant something to the culture. I am also was Nas’s biggest first week sales of his career to date and outsold Jay-Z’s Vol 3 first week. Say what you will about Nastradamus but it made Nas one of only TWO rappers at time who had ever put out two Platinum albums in the same year.


So how is a man who put out not one, but TWO platinum albums the last time he released “down for the count”? How Sway

 

[jensyao]

I meant to say "You Won't See Me Tonight" was the rare performance. I don't think he's done that one live. If so, not much.

Soul Train Season 28 Episode 26 Watch Online | The Full Episode

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who owns Soul train? ABC? i'm not sure if you can stream soul train anywhere...someone must have a basement full of soul train VHS' just like they do for video music box...I wonder if the aaliyah fanbase has that episode...not sure if nas performed it with aaliyah or just her vocals

I did manage to find this rare ass Nas live album that I can't seem to find:

My collection: Hip-hop albums

NaS - Live at Chicago's House of Blues 2002

1. Intro
2. Phone Tap Intro
3. Got Yourself a Gun
4. Interlude
5. Represent
6. One Love
7. The World is Yours
8. It Ain't Hard to Tell
9. Street Dreams Interlude
10. If I Ruled The World
11. Nashawn Spits
12. K-I-S-S-I-N-G
13. It's Mine
14. Hot Boyz
15. Hate me now Intro
16. Hate Me now
17. Nas Is Like
18. Nastradamus
19. You Owe Me
20. Oochie Wally
21. Interlude
22. Smoking
23. Ether Intro
24. Ether
25. fukk Jay-z Interlude
26. Rewind
27. Destroy and Rebuild
28. One Mic Intro
29. One Mic

^this is the 2002 version where he had a fukk jay-z interlude after he played ether...I wonder what Nas said...Nas always has something crazy to say when he's angry and this was around the peak of his anger

www.amazon.com/dp/B07LGYLYK3

there's a 2008 version of Nas performing at the house of blues but I suspect this is a different line-up

also, who is this ebay seller? he has sold some rare ass shyt but I can't find out a way to contact him given that he sold it years ago and ebay doesn't keep track of past sales

29.99 USD: Nas One Love, One Mic (7 CD Set) Rare Jay Z, 2pac, Dr. Dre, 50...



I found the Nas Amsterdam Live album from 2003 but he didn't say anything crazy

I wrote a whole fukking reddit thread just to find this motherfukker...he has some rare ass shyt big Biggie, Nas, Big L, and Mobb Deep, not to mention the rare acapellas that I can't find anywhere else

www.reddit.com/r/sleuths/comments/miku4o/i_need_to_find_the_ebay_sellers_username_to_the/

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