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Man that shyt would be annoying to only relive like 3 years of your life constantly. Like fukk the other 30+ years you lived lets ask about this small time frame of your life until you die. We got it the story ain't gonna change as long as Snoop ain't the one telling it.
 
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Ziggiy said:
ANYTHING with the Trackmasters was considered Commercial back then. Remember IWW dropped RIGHT BEFORE the shiny suit era where Puffy and Bad Boy drew a clear and distinct line between mainstream and underground. Anything with that “shiny” type of cinematic sound was considered commercial.


Illmatic literally had zero “polish” to it so the backpackers who expected Nas to adhere to that sound and that sound ONLY labeled it commercial without even realizing that the ambition that went into the production VASTLY helped Nas grow and expand as a writer. It Was Written is one of the best WRITTEN (no pun intended) albums of the entire 90’s. Nas’s pen matched those beats perfectly.


It’d be like if Spike Lee were able to follow up She’s Gotta Have It with Inside Man. Inside Man is slickly produced, with better actors and cinematography than She’s Gotta Have It. But if Inside Man were released as a direct follow up it might throw some people off because the leap into a different genre, with bigger actors and set pieces might rub people who were looking for a more “independent arthouse” feel the wrong way
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If a backpacker type hates Nas shift that's fine. It isn't what many wanted and that's fine. What annoys me and i see it on instagram from both fans and rappers. Jay Z and Biggie get crazy love from a lot of backpackers but Nas gets way less as if still not forgiven. Perhaps because Jay Z and Biggie from the get go did the commercial stuff and Nas only did it on his second album, but seem ridiculous Nas viewed differently for his music.

As i've always said, Nas stood on that very thin line between underground and commercial in his sound, which means both groups don't give him the love he perhaps deserves. Underground fans never looked at him like they did Ghostface, Mos Def or proper underground rappers like Doom but Nas also wasn't commercial enough to get the love Jay and Biggie get.
 
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Slim Charles said:
If a backpacker type hates Nas shift that's fine. It isn't what many wanted and that's fine. What annoys me and i see it on instagram from both fans and rappers. Jay Z and Biggie get crazy love from a lot of backpackers but Nas gets way less as if still not forgiven. Perhaps because Jay Z and Biggie from the get go did the commercial stuff and Nas only did it on his second album, but seem ridiculous Nas viewed differently for his music.

As i've always said, Nas stood on that very thin line between underground and commercial in his sound, which means both groups don't give him the love he perhaps deserves. Underground fans never looked at him like they did Ghostface, Mos Def or proper underground rappers like Doom but Nas also wasn't commercial enough to get the love Jay and Biggie get.
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Nas got a lot of love during the I am era but that fact gets swept under the rug. People forget that I am was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful when it dropped. Nastradmus was less so but 99 was still a year of massive success for Nas and people treat it like it was his worse year as an artist because of the battle shyt.
 
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A Thug Changes & Love Changes & Best Friends become Strangers:lawd:

...IWW:mj: has always been my GOAT Nasir album, and I feel his magnum opus:wow:


Fiends get Skinny as if Queens was a Craig Jenny instead of Diet Plans it's crack 200 Grams:banderas:
 
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Song randomly popped in my head earlier on some summer vibe shyt:wow:



Looking back in time when I had on my shine I saw you staaaanding theeeeeeere :ahh:

I never tried to diss you, you didn't need your pistol why'd you have to take it theeeeeeeeere :ld::ahh:

But then again it was just my imagination
When my crew told me it was you that was player hating :ahh:

Then we had to have that terrible confrontation
Theres nothing I can do to help the situatiooooooon :ahh:

And speaking of summer vibe



GOATsir unreleased bag is really ridiculous, man... :wow:
 
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