Official Nas Thread

JustCKing

Superstar
Joined
Jun 17, 2012
Messages
25,570
Reputation
3,976
Daps
48,680
Reppin
NULL
I don’t think the fact that You Won’t See Me Tonight or Kissing didn’t have videos was because of bytchy fans it was because the label pivoted to push Nastradamus. He got two videos out of Nastradamus which was basically the substitute for the two I Am singles. You Owe Me basically became the new You Won’t See Me Tonight.

The strategy itself wasn’t bad from a business perspective. Nas and the label got TWO platinum albums in the same year, but artistically Nastradamus was rushed and in hindsight it would have been better to either stick to the double album idea or just push the single disc I Am to quadruple platinum with two more singles/videos.

Even dropping Nastradamus, imagine if they removed songs from Nastradamus and added some of the songs from the leak and songs that made it to Lost Tapes. If they dropped a single/video for "Project Windows". Then followed it with "You Owe Me". They could've given "Come Get Me" and "Shoot Em Up" pre- album, street single treatment.
 

TV

All Star
Joined
Jul 6, 2013
Messages
1,570
Reputation
295
Daps
4,858
Reppin
NULL
I'm just finding out the version of "Represent" on Illmatic was a remix and not the original! Mindblown. I had no idea but the original sounds dope too.



 

LJLYDK!

All Star
Joined
Nov 20, 2017
Messages
1,470
Reputation
1,075
Daps
3,303
They finally found the recovered version or did they AI it?

It was groupbought on a leaked music forum via discord. Some Frank shyt was AI for buys before and peeps got scammed w that but this ones legit.

It took them ages to leak it because the people running the buy were clueless. they did it via bitcoin and fukked themselfs on the conversion of the bitcoin to cash and the funds didn't add up.

I posted about it earlier in the thread. Here's the file if anyone wants it.


I didn't listen yet as i'm not home. someone said theres a diff Nas verse to the released joint on Lost Tapes 2 though.




Someone else has:

Believe
Crabs in A Barrel
Hungry
Nobody Move
Padded Room
Single Man in America
Slow Movin

All Gods Son Era unheards. they tried a groupbuy for one of them last year and it failed spectacularly. im gonna try getting the ball rolling for all of them again though. need them joints. but theres no market for unreleased Nas. as all the stuff that sells on that forum is todays bs rappers mainly.

Reason the Buy for the initial song failed was because the seller wanted 900 for it. which is ridiculous. but that was the first groupbuy for a Nas joint ever on there so they had no idea what they were doing.

And the fact that Nas fans/oldheads don't wanna part with money & expect everything for free/Don't know how to use discord lol
 

Alexander Wiggin

All Star
Joined
May 29, 2012
Messages
3,542
Reputation
1,442
Daps
10,854
Reppin
Paris Saint-Germain
It was groupbought on a leaked music forum via discord. Some Frank shyt was AI for buys before and peeps got scammed w that but this ones legit.

It took them ages to leak it because the people running the buy were clueless. they did it via bitcoin and fukked themselfs on the conversion of the bitcoin to cash and the funds didn't add up.

I posted about it earlier in the thread. Here's the file if anyone wants it.


I didn't listen yet as i'm not home. someone said theres a diff Nas verse to the released joint on Lost Tapes 2 though.




Someone else has:

Believe
Crabs in A Barrel
Hungry
Nobody Move
Padded Room
Single Man in America
Slow Movin

All Gods Son Era unheards. they tried a groupbuy for one of them last year and it failed spectacularly. im gonna try getting the ball rolling for all of them again though. need them joints. but theres no market for unreleased Nas. as all the stuff that sells on that forum is todays bs rappers mainly.

Reason the Buy for the initial song failed was because the seller wanted 900 for it. which is ridiculous. but that was the first groupbuy for a Nas joint ever on there so they had no idea what they were doing.

And the fact that Nas fans/oldheads don't wanna part with money & expect everything for free/Don't know how to use discord lol

900 for a song was assanine

The songs I was interest to hear in full is the chapo track and the 10 second snippet from 2010

 

Icewatermetallik

TheEastisintheHouse
Joined
Jun 16, 2012
Messages
463
Reputation
55
Daps
1,147
NGL though in terms of those Discord tracks I could really go for a Lost Tapes part 3 with leftovers from the Stillmatic, God's Son, and Streets Disciple era.

Wasn't there also a leaked 10 second snippet of Believe or Crabs in the Barrell last year? Could've sword I heard it. I remember one of the lines being something about NY Post and Page Six lol
 

LJLYDK!

All Star
Joined
Nov 20, 2017
Messages
1,470
Reputation
1,075
Daps
3,303
Did this leak back in the day? Don’t remember hearing it until a couple years back. Almost that time of year



Don't think it did nah cos same here i only heard it when that album dropped but im sure most the joints on there aren't CDQ some of em even have dj tags on em i bet they are sourced from old youtube uploads. under rated song tho its nice as fukk
 

LJLYDK!

All Star
Joined
Nov 20, 2017
Messages
1,470
Reputation
1,075
Daps
3,303
NGL though in terms of those Discord tracks I could really go for a Lost Tapes part 3 with leftovers from the Stillmatic, God's Son, and Streets Disciple era.

Wasn't there also a leaked 10 second snippet of Believe or Crabs in the Barrell last year? Could've sword I heard it. I remember one of the lines being something about NY Post and Page Six lol

Three snips from those joints i listed were posted when that initial buy was attempted yeah. forgot what three now but crabs might have been one.

im trying to grab a few nas heads and if theres interest im gonna message the guy whos selling em see if he will do all them joints for a sensible price. but at 900 for one im not hopeful.
 

987654321

Superstar
Joined
Jun 15, 2018
Messages
8,431
Reputation
4,222
Daps
30,522
Andre is not a top 10 MC literally zero solo work

:manny:
Tough titty. Y’all keep crying about him being in people’s top 10, but there’s nothing you can do to about it. Y’all got to let this shyt go. The “solo” bullshyt is imaginary. His rhymes as a member of OutKast + features are enough.
 

Alexander Wiggin

All Star
Joined
May 29, 2012
Messages
3,542
Reputation
1,442
Daps
10,854
Reppin
Paris Saint-Germain
:manny:
Tough titty. Y’all keep crying about him being in people’s top 10, but there’s nothing you can do to about it. Y’all got to let this shyt go. The “solo” bullshyt is imaginary. His rhymes as a member of OutKast + features are enough.

Yeah but no. This is a goat top 10 discussion. The best of the best. Which means at this height there's some minimum require to even be in the discussion.
That's like doing a top 10 goat conversation for NBA players and mention a player with no rings. I don't care if you're Barkley Carmelo or Iverson, you're not getting a top 10 placement without a ring.
Same thing with rap, you're not getting in without a solo album, and at least one classic at that. And more importantly you can't be in the goat conversation without having solo classics songs, which Andre don't got (hey ya don't count)
 

HNIC973

R.I.P Bandana P
Joined
May 16, 2012
Messages
24,883
Reputation
2,671
Daps
49,375
Reppin
Brick City,New Jerz
Yeah but no. This is a goat top 10 discussion. The best of the best. Which means at this height there's some minimum require to even be in the discussion.
That's like doing a top 10 goat conversation for NBA players and mention a player with no rings. I don't care if you're Barkley Carmelo or Iverson, you're not getting a top 10 placement without a ring.
Same thing with rap, you're not getting in without a solo album, and at least one classic at that. And more importantly you can't be in the goat conversation without having solo classics songs, which Andre don't got (hey ya don't count)
We don't even know what a solo rap Andre song sounds like but he's top 10? :dead: :mjlol:
 

kes929

Superstar
Joined
Jun 20, 2012
Messages
5,197
Reputation
595
Daps
17,162
Reppin
NULL
Three snips from those joints i listed were posted when that initial buy was attempted yeah. forgot what three now but crabs might have been one.

im trying to grab a few nas heads and if theres interest im gonna message the guy whos selling em see if he will do all them joints for a sensible price. but at 900 for one im not hopeful.
Find out the cost. He out of his mind for $900 haha
 
Top