Official Nas Thread

[prophecypro]

I just hope everyone comes through and finishes the albums. That thing in Nas diary looks like that is definetly

Dont want it to end up like those producer EPs for Hip Hop 50

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

bow ties and tuxedo, bust eagles
dump drugs in acid then they rush with the rico

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

wont hestitate
imma spray fire

 

[Mike Wins]

This verse was sitting on the shelf for 10 years, wasn't even on LT2, make you wonder how much more heat is stashed away.



My instincts guide me through this Kurtis Blow culture
Good angel, bad angel sitting on both shoulders
One be trying to gas me, manipulate me, tempt me
Make me have no soul, so I like to take a tally
All the favor of the days when the paper wasn't major
But love was abundant
Before the God got the "God's Son" upon the stomach
Let these nikkas know it was a feeling I would get
From music that they would come with
Hate start with H cause the H come after a G
They won't say it face to face, they say it after I leave
After the first night at my place, she asked for the keys
It's my season, Garden of Eden, we Adam and Eve
Now we're naked in savage hedonism from a lack of belief
I ain't a pastor, pass the Lafite
We ain't in no relationship, but do relationship things
No ring, but she slide through when I ring
Ha, let's put success to the side
I'd still be this fly if I worked at Popeyes
That's a whole lotta spinach, whole game full of gimmicks
Make a fool out of yourself for a post on Akademiks
We are not the same, I am a alien
Hovering over your city, shutting down all the stadiums
Wiping out everything in my radius
Don't play with us, y'all ain't made enough

 

[mson]

Nas set to perform 'Illmatic' alongside Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in July

In a spectacular one-night-only event, Grammy Award-winning hip-hop legend Nas is set to perform his groundbreaking debut album "Illmatic" alongside the Baltimo

foxbaltimore.com

I just hope everyone comes through and finishes the albums. That thing in Nas diary looks like that is definetly

Dont want it to end up like those producer EPs for Hip Hop 50

Was that a diary or a schedule/calendar?

 

[HNIC973]

Nas set to perform 'Illmatic' alongside Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in July

In a spectacular one-night-only event, Grammy Award-winning hip-hop legend Nas is set to perform his groundbreaking debut album "Illmatic" alongside the Baltimo

foxbaltimore.com

Was that a diary or a schedule/calendar?

schedule

 

[HNIC973]

This verse was sitting on the shelf for 10 years, wasn't even on LT2, make you wonder how much more heat is stashed away.



My instincts guide me through this Kurtis Blow culture
Good angel, bad angel sitting on both shoulders
One be trying to gas me, manipulate me, tempt me
Make me have no soul, so I like to take a tally
All the favor of the days when the paper wasn't major
But love was abundant
Before the God got the "God's Son" upon the stomach
Let these nikkas know it was a feeling I would get
From music that they would come with
Hate start with H cause the H come after a G
They won't say it face to face, they say it after I leave
After the first night at my place, she asked for the keys
It's my season, Garden of Eden, we Adam and Eve
Now we're naked in savage hedonism from a lack of belief
I ain't a pastor, pass the Lafite
We ain't in no relationship, but do relationship things
No ring, but she slide through when I ring
Ha, let's put success to the side
I'd still be this fly if I worked at Popeyes
That's a whole lotta spinach, whole game full of gimmicks
Make a fool out of yourself for a post on Akademiks
We are not the same, I am a alien
Hovering over your city, shutting down all the stadiums
Wiping out everything in my radius
Don't play with us, y'all ain't made enough

that beat Swizz man

 

[Mike Wins]

that beat Swizz man

fukking up classic verses since 1998

 

[spliz]

Excited for all of them especially Nas and Preme, but can’t believe they got Slick Rick to actually record another album. Imagine an album full of Auditorium type joints.

I hope it sounds like this.

 

[HNIC973]

fukking up classic verses since 1998

It's like son don't even be trying like wtf is that shyt

 

[Icewatermetallik]

I doubt there’d be more than one Premo track even if Premo had the time. Stoute and Trackmasters were trying to steer Nas in a new direction (some might say “commercial”) I Gave You Power fits perfectly on the first half of the album but that second half belongs to the Trackmasters (with Dre and Havoc thrown in for good measure)

If I remember correctly Primo said in an interview once long ago that Gang Starr was on the Hard to Earn tour around the time of the IWW recording sessions in late 95' and that's why Primo was late/ didn't get a chance to make more than 1 beat for the album.
Or so that's what I remember

 

[Icewatermetallik]

Mannnn, I’d love a Lost Tapes style jawn of unreleased shhit from Esco right now man, damn. He was in a zone on Stillmatic…I’m sure he recorded 30+ records for that easy…we need them vaulted joints kid.

Slow Movin was the one I remember from last year with the Page Six line lol.
I need Slow Movin and Yellow Bird man.......Yellow bird sounds next level

It's crazy that Nas didn't put these on Lost Tapes 2, I wonder why, but he put shyt like No Bad Energy and Who Are You.

I would have taken off Adult Film, Who Are You, and You Mean the World to Me and put in Crabs in a Barrel, Yellow Bird and Slow Movin'.

 

[brianwuzhere]

Slow Movin was the one I remember from last year with the Page Six line lol.
I need Slow Movin and Yellow Bird man.......Yellow bird sounds next level

It's crazy that Nas didn't put these on Lost Tapes 2, I wonder why, but he put shyt like No Bad Energy and Who Are You.

I would have taken off Adult Film, Who Are You, and You Mean the World to Me and put in Crabs in a Barrel, Yellow Bird and Slow Movin'.

While those are likely all better songs, Lost Tapes 2 was pulling strictly from the Def Jam era. Adding them to the tracklist creates a 15-year range between the oldest and newest songs, so the difference would clearly stand out. I do wonder if any of them were considered for the Sony Lost Tapes 2 that fell through.

 

[HNIC973]

Do you remember your first reaction when you first heard this?

I was literally Speechless

 

[JustCKing]

do wonder if any of them were considered for the Sony Lost Tapes 2 that fell through

The Sony Lost Tapes 2 was going to be crazy. There's some press release or Nas interview that confirmed the songs would be taken from Pre-Illmatic, It Was Written, and Firm sessions.