Official Nas Thread

[Icewatermetallik]

I agree, something like 12 songs is a nice spot. Would love NaS, AZ and Premo. As for other features, I don't know. K Dot is hot right now and he shouted out NaS for the Super Bowl love. Maybe someone from the 90's that fit Premo's sound. A posthumous Guru verse would be cool like Ziggiy said. Again he basically did "Magic 3/KDIII" with barely no features. Maybe NaS pulls a "Illmatic/Lost Tapes" and this has minimal features.

Yea, if he has any QB features I'd like to see Havoc up in there, of course AZ or Cormega too. Large Pro maybe?

Outside of QB, maybe some Wu dudes like Meth, Ghost or Raekwon.

Call o Da Wild, L the Headtoucha, Godfather Don, Common

 

[spliz]

Yea, if he has any QB features I'd like to see Havoc up in there, of course AZ or Cormega too. Large Pro maybe?

Outside of QB, maybe some Wu dudes like Meth, Ghost or Raekwon.

Call o Da Wild, L the Headtoucha, Godfather Don, Common

AZ is East NY.

 

[mson]

 

[HNIC973]

check the scratches

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Y’all got me catching the Holy Ghost just from reading lyrics, so many incredible rhymes

 

[HNIC973]

20 Genius Songs Nas Wrote After 40 Years Of Age

Hip-Hop is often viewed as a young man’s game, but Nas has defied that notion by continuing to evolve as an artist well into his 40s and beyond. The Queensbridge legend, who first set the rap world on fire with Illmatic at 20, has shown no signs of slowing down, crafting some of his most […]

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[Mike Wins]

 

[HNIC973]

I feel like A2HH missed some gems where's
Ugly
My Bible
Based on True Events 2
Sitting with my thoughts
Rare
Death Row East
he's got so many gems with HB

 

[HNIC973]

Eyes blurry, sayin' goodbye at the cemetery
I murder nikkas on wax and forget where they buried

gave me flashbacks of this old gem
Who's the next label I'ma bury
CEO's, rappers and A&R's go to the rap cemetery

 

[mson]

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

I feel like A2HH missed some gems where's
Ugly
My Bible
Based on True Events 2
Sitting with my thoughts
Rare
Death Row East
he's got so many gems with HB

Shyyyt BEEF. That song is insane.
My goat WROTE and SAID:

The devil is a lie I could confuse a genius
Have him moving real dumb over nothing at my convenience
When empires fall over women I am the reason
USA and Al-Qaeda I'm the tension between 'em
I'm the words that get misinterpreted
I'm the get back I'm the first to hit I'm the worst of it
Lurkin' on your premises I am your nemesis
Parents of every slain rapper wish I didn't exist
But I'm alive and I thrive on your ignorance
I'm a thousand foot fence that keep you from getting rich
Get around me

And that was just the first verse. I played that back like 3-4 times before moving on the first time I heard it.

And then in the last verse, this motherfukker flips the script has us feeling bad for BEEF

Why it's always gotta be resorting to me?
I ain't asked for this power, it's torture, it forced me to see

 

[Headcase]

I recently listened to the vinyl rip of the "I Am... the Autobiography" that came out for RSD Black Friday in 2023. It was really cool hearing all those leaked songs in such high quality. Granted there were some changes (the version of Project Windows is the album version from Nastradamus and not the initial leak), but it was still dope.

 

[HNIC973]

Go off legends btw Face by far the best MC from the South any other debate is silly

 

[skillz2]

Song is flawless. Unfortunate the R. Kelly association caused it to kind of get buried, Nas definitely seem to have distanced himself from it. Not including it as a bonus on the 25th anniversary IWW for example. Should just re-release it with someone else on the hook.

The song wouldn't be the same without R. Kelly on it he adds so much flavour to the song so re-releasing with someone else would be a bit pointless. R. Kelly is highly questionable character but his talent is undeniable and at this point it clear his bad behaviour is just a reflection of the industry. Also most of the industry knew what Kells was even back then but it didn't seem to stop anyone wanting to work with him right up until that surviving R. Kelly documentary.

 

[Ziggiy]

The song wouldn't be the same without R. Kelly on it he adds so much flavour to the song so re-releasing with someone else would be a bit pointless. R. Kelly is highly questionable character but his talent is undeniable and at this point it clear his bad behaviour is just a reflection of the industry. Also most of the industry knew what Kells was even back then but it didn't seem to stop anyone wanting to work with him right up until that surviving R. Kelly documentary.

Ironically enough Nas himself was one of the first, if not only celebrities to publicly renounce R.Kelly once the tape of him urinating on that 14 year old girl came out. Nas dissed him several times during performances, he even reworked the lyrics to I Can during his concerts

Nas Buries 50 Cent, Disses R. Kelly

<b>Nas</b> makes his statement and fires back at <b>50 Cent</b> while labeling <b>R. Kelly</b> a rapist at Las Vegas concert

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