The Needle Drop reviews: Nas - Life Is Good

[mc_brew]

I'm actually one of the soundest, most rational, knowledgeable and tenured posters you'll ever come across on any forum.

I'm in this thread providing Insight that stems from that.

omg...

 

[Mr Miyagi]

This thread is doing numbers because he detailed why he doesn't like the new Nas album and really Nas' post Illmatic career entirely with sound reasoning.

His reasoning was sound, it was the common white hipster rhetoric, straight outta pitchfork.

 

[yseJ]

Even worse, on this album his rhyming is NOT on beat on some of the tracks, which smacks of him freestyling off a notepad

Ill agree with this; its kinda weird since on some tracks he comes off very sharp, but on a few hes just all over the place. and thats been the case lately with him sadly.

stillmatic is his last album when he was perfect on damn every beat.

 

[Big Mel]

Is he a hipster though? Hipsters are fickle. This guys dedicated and passionate.

 

[daze23]

This thread is doing numbers because he detailed why he doesn't like the new Nas album and really Nas' post Illmatic career entirely with sound reasoning.

Nas' "post Illmatic career" is water way under the bridge. Nas is not the MC you want him to be, or think he should be. he is who he is

so much of this hate is just cats butthurt because of some mythical potential they thought they saw 18 years ago

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Is he a hipster though? Hipsters are fickle. This guys dedicated and passionate.

Hes pretentious as well. I like this reviews, but face it, the guys a damn hipster

Being a hipster isnt a bad thing by default, but acting like you know everything about everything turns people off

Its not like he ever says "to be honest, I dont know all that much about this topic or that artist, and this is new to me so this is how I found it". Instead you get the impression that he breezes over history to give his opinions a form of "educated" context. Admitting ignorance shows some humility and makes the review more relatable. Hes trying to be everything to everyone and its clear that he talks out of his ass in a lot of hip-hop reviews (I dont really watch the others)

 

[SummerNights]

is that fkng cac again

 

[Hannibal Fox]

SMH at anybody taking what he was to say seriously. The second I got a look at him it was a wrap for me. There'd be no reason for me to ever discuss anything with him or even take seriously anything he has to say. He looks like a future hate crime victim who won't even bother defending himself during the incident.

And because you judge a persons opinion based on what they look like your opinion also holds no weight.

Your attitude is similar to white women who clutch at their handbags when they see a black male.

 

[Darts]

I honestly think critics don't know what the fukk they want from Nas they damn selves...

If he makes another Illmatic/IWW etc. - but but...he's rehashing the past

If he tries to experiment - but but...nah that ain't his lane

If he produces a well balanced album - but but but...i dunno, I gotta find something wrong...right?


Some Nas critics are worse than hard to please females.

 

[mc_brew]

I honestly think critics don't know what the fukk they want from Nas they damn selves...

If he makes another Illmatic/IWW etc. - but but...he's rehashing the past

If he tries to experiment - but but...nah that ain't his lane

If he produces a well balanced album - but but but...i dunno, I gotta find something wrong...right?


Some Nas critics are worse than hard to please females.

they wanted him to make illmatic 2 instead of it was written.. therefore some people will hate NaS forever...

 

[Big Mel]

Nas' "post Illmatic career" is water way under the bridge. Nas is not the MC you want him to be, or think he should be. he is who he is

so much of this hate is just cats butthurt because of some mythical potential they thought they saw 18 years ago

I don't think it's hate. I'm staring at my copy of life is good as I type. I think it's calling a spade a spade. He definitely is who he is. And what he isn't is the GOAT.

 

[Big Mel]

Hes pretentious as well. I like this reviews, but face it, the guys a damn hipster

Being a hipster isnt a bad thing by default, but acting like you know everything about everything turns people off

Its not like he ever says "to be honest, I dont know all that much about this topic or that artist, and this is new to me so this is how I found it". Instead you get the impression that he breezes over history to give his opinions a form of "educated" context. Admitting ignorance shows some humility and makes the review more relatable. Hes trying to be everything to everyone and its clear that he talks out of his ass in a lot of hip-hop reviews (I dont really watch the others)

A hipster to me is more like a fakkit like Diplo. The "let me play old rap a lot stuff for this all white party in williamsburg" type. Fantano jst seems like a music nerd.

 

[FreeNuggz]

ILLMATIC IS THE GIFT AN THE CURSE FOR NAS CAUSE NO MATTER HOW DOPE OF AN ALBUM HE DROPS PEOPLE WILL COMPARE IT TO ILLMATIC.... LIKE nikka IT'S 2012, NAS DROPPED ILLMATIC WHEN HE WAS STARVING AN WAS HUNGRY AS A MOTHERfukkER... YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE CRITICS AN IDIOTS THAT ARE LIVING IN THE PAST... SMH ANYONE JUSTIFYING THAT 3/10........... KILL YOURSELF

 

[Big Mel]

Why hasn't Cuban Linx had that same effect on Raekwon then? His next two albums were dud and were called just that. Now he's back.


Why didn't Criminal Minded forever curse Kris?


How was Rakim able to ever remove the shadow of Paid In Full?



Cut the bullshyt.

 

[CapFromMCU]

i think Nas stans get it twisted by actually believing that those of us who don't jock him actually even care about what he does. we don't. that ship sailed looooong ago.


now, that doesn't mean we won't chime in on his albums.


Nas could never make another album and i wouldn't lose a wink of sleep.

you'd be on some

sh!t and you know it.





hatin is confused admiration, so said a wise man.