Rory ask Mal and Mecca what are the bad beats Nas picks and they couldn’t name one
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Me too, dudes just don't have a groove in their bodies especially for the era if you was alive and at least a teen.
EastsideRio
You Can’t Stop The Rain ☔️
Timbaland made rap beats that sounded like parody club bangers when you think about it… even the ones that sound good 
This was a hard beat but ain’t nobody dancing to this.
But his R&B tracks sound like they were made for the club …I don’t get it.
This was a hard beat but ain’t nobody dancing to this.
But his R&B tracks sound like they were made for the club …I don’t get it.
Cryptocurrency Scarface
Coinbased
Facts this is awful
Metal Face
Superstar
i ran back Street's Disciple and sheesh most of these beats are mid
Piff Perkins
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Because people conflate beat perceptions with how he sounds on the beat. Nas never sounded good on Timbo shyt IMO. He struggled to double time rap in 1999 whereas Jay does it effortless because that's how he came into the game. Same with Neptunes beats. Jay just had a more acrobatic flow VS you knowing exactly how Nas was going to rap on those beats, for good or bad.
Jay made better pop rap songs over those types of beats so nobody complains about them.
rap music post like 98 has generally aged like milkBro wtf was that beat Fab was rapping over?! Did he really hear that and was like “this the one right here!” He probably hit a Harlem Shake in the booth too
But honestly I need for these podcasts to take a deep dive into the production of the late 90’s into the 2000’s and realize that a lot of people picked wack beats. Swizz was one of the guys of the moment and he gave rappers some bullshyt. Busta was really hanging on by a string before he got with Dre. Eminem gave us some so so production. Meanwhile cats like Paul and Juicy J was giving us heat that’s still being remixed and sampled todayAt the end of the day, a lot of these beats from different rappers ain’t hitting in 2025 like they did back then.
u mad son?
All Star
Im a huge nas stan but we cant act like dude wasnt picking some corny fukking beats for a big part of his career
Every rapper has bad beats on an album...
and GodSon has some fire beats... Book of Rhymes, Get Down, Revolutionary Warfare, Made You Look
Not ever rapper stop it
Tribal Outkast
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Yep. People talk about Nas but don’t want to bring up the obvious early 2000’s Harlem Shake ass beats that nobody likes anymore:
name a rapper that has perfect beats on every album.
Black thought
Bro wtf was that beat Fab was rapping over?! Did he really hear that and was like “this the one right here!” He probably hit a Harlem Shake in the booth too
But honestly I need for these podcasts to take a deep dive into the production of the late 90’s into the 2000’s and realize that a lot of people picked wack beats. Swizz was one of the guys of the moment and he gave rappers some bullshyt. Busta was really hanging on by a string before he got with Dre. Eminem gave us some so so production. Meanwhile cats like Paul and Juicy J was giving us heat that’s still being remixed and sampled today
I'm saying lol, that Fab beat is terrible
He got shytted on for You Owe Me and that's a MUCH better Timbo beat than The Bounce
Yeah he didn't pull off the double time flow on Big Things. He did it correctly a few years later on Heaven. He sounded good on You Owe Me tho IMO