Street Disciple Aged Perfectly for this Timeline

[JustCKing]

Almost all of Nas stuff ages well because he wasn’t trend-hopping, like for example (I’m sorry) a Jay-z during his heavy Swizz-sound, Neptunes-sound, Timbaland-sound, whatever is hot at that time-sound, phases.

Something not sounding like it’s from when it was created and something being quality are two different things tho, lol. Illmatic sounds kinda dated, tbh…but it’s the greatest rap album in rap history, in my personal opinion

SD has tremendous highs, some fire fire records…but there’s a healthy amount of triddash all over that jawn. It doesn’t sound dated at all tho..

Nas had some Swizz tracks during this period, but they were on mixtapes or were bonus songs. They were type wack amd I like Swizz.

The Neptunes were on my wishlist of producers I wanted Nas to work with. I loved "Popular Thug", which is the best Nas/Kelis track and was better than some of the relationship songs that made SD. That song was already on The Neptunes' The Clones a year earlier though. It still sounds as great as it did day 1. I hated "Nas's Angels" though. That song soured my want of another Nas/Neptunes collabo.

Timbaland is a producer I wished Nas released more work with.

 

[Cladyclad]

production was all over the place. Cinematic on one track, then muddy blues on another...then all Jazzy on another..boom bap on another. Most of the production didn't age well in my opinion. And I bought that album. Title track is a banger. "War" is a classic. But alot of the songs I thought were dope back then just don't get any play from me nowadays. There was also some tracks on there that I thought were pretty ass back then to be fair. One thing I appreciate about Nas is his creativity even if his experimenting results in some missteps here and there. There may be more of that on this album than any of his others.

I agree with everything you said

 

[Pop123]

Nas had some Swizz tracks during this period, but they were on mixtapes or were bonus songs. They were type wack amd I like Swizz.

The Neptunes were on my wishlist of producers I wanted Nas to work with. I loved "Popular Thug", which is the best Nas/Kelis track and was better than some of the relationship songs that made SD. That song was already on The Neptunes' The Clones a year earlier though. It still sounds as great as it did day 1. I hated "Nas's Angels" though. That song soured my want of another Nas/Neptunes collabo.

Timbaland is a producer I wished Nas released more work with.

They’re all great producers (Swizz? Ehh, lol)…I’m just saying that their sounds marked a time in hip hop, that early 2000s was their time. Jayz was milking them dry because they were the sound of the time…and as a result, when you listen to a lot of his older shhit today, it sounds like 2001 shhit. Respectfully, Jigga might be TBE, no disrespect…just a lot of his shhit aged like milk. Nas shhit like wine, imo