Official Nas Thread

[jensyao]

The Bravehearts and Raekwon rapped on Ja Rule's Clap Back instrumental in 2003 on Rap City...I wonder if 50 saw this back in the days



Big Tigger was smart enough to rap on a different beat (youngbloodz - damn) before this, lol



Raekwon had a problem with 50 cent since the clyde skit but Jungle probably went at 50 just to promote his album back then, lol



50 name-dropped Nas repeating the same bars as "Too Hot" while dissing wu tang on the 2nd verse

 

[Big Mark]

S - Illmatic, IWW, Lost Tapes
A - Stillmatic, LIG, Distance Relatives, I Am
B - Lost Tapes 2, Untitled, King's Disease, God's Son
C - Nasir, HHID
D - Nastradamus, Street's Disciple

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Tier 1: Illmatic, IWW, Stillmatic, Lost Tapes
Tier 2; Godson, I AM, Life is Good
Tier 3: Kings Disease, Untitled,
Tier 4: Streets Disciple, Distant Relatives
Tier 5: Nasir, HipHopisDead, Nastradamus

 

[Pop123]

5 mics - Illmatic, Stillmatic, LT1

4.5 mics - IWW, LIG, KD

4 mics - Untitled, God's Son, DR

3.5 mics - I AM

3 mics or less - Nasir, HHID, LT2, Nastradamus, SD



6 Top Flight, 3 Dope, 1 Cool, 5 Ehh...imo


"Ehh" to me is like average...or at least close to average. I don't think it's possible for Nas to put out some straight basura, his pen won't allow that, no matter what he's rapping over or experimenting with

 

[ThirdAct]

S - Illmatic, The Lost Tapes, It Was Written
A - Life Is Good, Stillmatic, Untitled
B - I Am, The Lost Tapes 2, King's Disease, Street's Disciple, God's Son, Distant Relatives
C - Hip-Hop Is Dead, Nastradamus
D - Nasir

Personal enjoyment on I Am is an A but I gotta put it in B category considering it could have been the best album of all time. There's a couple beats on Stillmatic and Untitled that I'm not crazy about but I gotta put them in A cuz I feel like he was mad focused on those albums.

 

[kes929]

Good read

Why Nas Is One of Hip Hop's Original Pioneers | Cultured Magazine

 

[Dylmatic]

 

[mson]

Fashawn?

 

[Piff Perkins]

whewww

 

[Piff Perkins]

Saleh is 100% right but I really think Stoute got exposed on the NFT gimmick.

 

[xiceman191]

Saleh is 100% right but I really think Stoute got exposed on the NFT gimmick.

Thats interesting so I looked at spotify and it says the top 5 locations that people listen to Nas is:

1. LA
2. London
3. Chicago
4. New York
5. Atlanta

 

[Ziggiy]

Fashawn?

Good to see Fashawn back up and at it. Dude was going through some shyt last year

 

[Ziggiy]

Thats interesting so I looked at spotify and it says the top 5 locations that people listen to Nas is:

1. LA
2. London
3. Chicago
4. New York
5. Atlanta

Half those Atlanta streams are from me

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

S - Illmatic, IWW, Lost Tapes
A - Stillmatic, God's Son, LIG
B - Distance Relatives, Untitled, King's Disease
C - HHID, I Am, Lost Tapes 2
D - Nastradamus, Nasir, Street's Disciple

If I could replace Summer on Trash and The Don (good track but just felt out of place, would've been perfect as a bonus) on LIG with bonus tracks Nasty and Roses it'd be S tier IMO.

pretty much my same exact ranking.

 

[kes929]

whewww

Nas in that zone