Official Nas Thread

[kes929]

ah yes we reached the stage where we discuss what producers Nas needs to work with

Hey man. I’m not a picky Nas fan like others haha. Im not saying who he needs to work with, I was just saying my wish list album.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

Nas and Eminem both come to mind as two artists that hurt themselves by releasing wacker material on albums like I Am and Encore because it hadn't leaked and left better songs off their albums because they had leaked. They would have ultimately been better off releasing the stronger songs, bootlegged or not.

Clearly and especially nas. Yes the songs were leak but outside a small portion of hip hop heads who used to purchase mixtape in the street or hip hop shops.
The general population didn't had access to the unreleased songs until years later when download became easily accessible.
In the grand scheme of things, only the singles were really important and made the sales. The leak of some albums cuts wouldn't hurt an album that bad

 

[Wargames]

I just hope we get a new Nas album this year.

 

[H.S.]

Clearly and especially nas. Yes the songs were leak but outside a small portion of hip hop heads who used to purchase mixtape in the street or hip hop shops.
The general population didn't had access to the unreleased songs until years later when download became easily accessible.
In the grand scheme of things, only the singles were really important and made the sales. The leak of some albums cuts wouldn't hurt an album that bad

This isn't true at all. At least not in the states. You're underestimating how much those bootlegs multiplied in the streets. It only took one person in your neighborhood or school to get their hands on it before everybody had it.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

I’m looking for a nas song dropped around 2012-2015

dont know the name

all i remember was it had some horns or trumpets as the beat
@Ziggiy

 

[Prolific_1011]

I’m looking for a nas song dropped around 2012-2015

dont know the name

all i remember was it had some horns or trumpets as the beat
@Ziggiy

This one?

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

This one?

there it is

this song randomly pops in my head and i always forget to look it up

rep

 

[triplehate]

This one?

That nicca too gotdamn good

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Nas and Eminem both come to mind as two artists that hurt themselves by releasing wacker material on albums like I Am and Encore because it hadn't leaked and left better songs off their albums because they had leaked. They would have ultimately been better off releasing the stronger songs, bootlegged or not.

Back then, a bootlegged album hurt your sales because everyone had it before you released it. There was no need to pay $16 at the record store for an album if you were able to get a copy for free. Even if the quality was worse, it didn't matter. Sometimes, bootlegged albums would have songs that the retail version didn't, so you would be paying for tracks you don't even want to listen to.

Illmatic and The Eminem Show were both bootlegged. That's why Illmatic only had nine songs and didn't sell as much as it could have, and that's also why The Eminem Show was released earlier than planned. Eminem was pissed when TES leaked and he didn't want to deal with it again with Encore. That album could have been better even with the leaks, but he was popping Valiums like Skittles back then.

As far as I Am..., I think Nas just gave up on the double album idea and rushed to get it done because Columbia needed it finished ASAP. There's no official tracklist for the double album because it was never finalized, and there's no chance Nas remembers it at all. I'm always going to wonder what I Am... could have been, but then I remember that "Dr. Knockboot" was one of the bootlegged songs and "Nas is Like" was recorded at the last minute. Maybe things turned out the way they were supposed to.

 

[HNIC973]

This isn't true at all. At least not in the states. You're underestimating how much those bootlegs multiplied in the streets. It only took one person in your neighborhood or school to get their hands on it before everybody had it.

yep back when the bootlegging game was crazy we used to ask the street vendors "yo where you getting that shyt from" told us NY bet we was on that Path train 4 times a week tryna find new shyt . Especially Nas because it seemed at the time his shyt was all over the place