Official Nas Thread
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HNIC973
R.I.P Bandana P
I Am is 4 mics the highs out weigh the lows. Nastradamus is his 4th worst album but has some gems on it
Prolific_1011
All Star
I Am... = 4.5 mics
Nastradamus = 3.5 mics (call me a stan but I enjoy listening to this album every once in a while)
Nastradamus = 3.5 mics (call me a stan but I enjoy listening to this album every once in a while)
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
He said last year that he doesn't remember what songs are on his older albums and doesn't revisit them, so I'm not surprised. Especially because he's always recording music.
I'm also not surprised with the albums he chose because it wasn't supposed to happen like that. You could argue those are the two albums in his catalog where his vision wasn't executed properly, unlike the others.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Ghetto Prisoners is an example of a good song with a weak beat. I hate that Dame Grease shyt but overall the song just works. Great verses, hook is cool.
To me I Am is like...the typical big budget rap album of the era that is a 3/5 mic type thing. It's not great, it's not bad, singles are good and you can def hear the $$$. I feel the same about Vol 3, Amplified (Q-Tip), And Then There Was X...it's the era. To me the frustrating thing is that it could have been a 5/5 if the OG came out. My wish is that they scrapped the double album, recorded the new tracks (Hate Me Now, Nas Is Like etc), then at the last minute decided to add the old tracks too. Maybe spice them up. Always felt like putting Slick Rick on Stay Schemin, Stay Dreamin would have been brilliant.
To me I Am is like...the typical big budget rap album of the era that is a 3/5 mic type thing. It's not great, it's not bad, singles are good and you can def hear the $$$. I feel the same about Vol 3, Amplified (Q-Tip), And Then There Was X...it's the era. To me the frustrating thing is that it could have been a 5/5 if the OG came out. My wish is that they scrapped the double album, recorded the new tracks (Hate Me Now, Nas Is Like etc), then at the last minute decided to add the old tracks too. Maybe spice them up. Always felt like putting Slick Rick on Stay Schemin, Stay Dreamin would have been brilliant.
spliz
SplizThaDon
I don’t know why people don’t like the Ghetto Prisoners beat. That shyt is hypnotizing to me.
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
exactly
spliz
SplizThaDon
Sounds like the time but I just listened tonight I still love it.
up in here
Superstar
I am… and Nastradamus was both dope to me, but I can understand him wanting to redo those since it was supposed to be a specific vision for “I am… the autobiography” and it never got fully realized.
Slim Charles
All Star
basically this. I properly got into hip hop in 2001 when I was like 12 and when I went back to pretty much all mainstream albums from that late 90s era nearly all have 3 or 4 amazing tracks and the rest have beats that aged awfully. Even by 2001. Same reason I never understood the love for Vol 2 and Vol 3 by Jay. Lyrically he is on point and there is some classic joints but for someone who didn’t grow up on that era bar the singles I’d hear as a kid, most of the beats are terrible to me
rappers just didn’t make personally led cohesive albums in that era. To me they were record label albums. You’d have the street song, the catchy hook single, the lazy filler tracks, the classic hip hop song. Albums were just done like a checklist to me when I listen to them