The Needle Drop reviews: Nas - Life Is Good

[Big Mel]

that's just how you want to frame things so you can feel better about yourself and your argument. it's a strawman and a ad hominem

Eh. Between the Avi, the tolerance of a blemished career and the Ghost slander to prop up the valid def jam compatison i made you're looking like, walking like and talking like....


And ad hominem has been used too much on this board today.

 

[Consigliere]

Nas is my favorite rapper, but Art Barr and Big Mel are in here schooling yall on how he fell to the position within the industry he has now and WHY it mattered to the culture.

And by position in the industry, I mean declining to appear on OB4CL2 and BP3 and then turning around to feature on projects by Tyga, Wayne, Nikki, & Ross.

 

[daze23]

you have no facts to support you, against me.

see how you roll. you just want to have a competition... over I don't know what. but whatever it is, you're very confident your arrogance will prevail. enough to pre-maturely claim victory with an appeal to "facts"

 

[daze23]

and the Ghost slander

you're the one that put him out there as an example

 

[Art Barr]

see how you roll. you just want to have a competition... over I don't know what. but whatever it is, you're very confident your arrogance will prevail. enough to pre-maturely claim victory with an appeal to "facts"

you are the only one.

who has never learned.

you CAN NOT DISPUTE A fact.

that is why you lauced't even attempting to even start with:

art barr

 

[Pack2]

An artist puts out a 14 track album (excluding bonus cuts) with 10 or so of the tracks being 4/5 or better and people complaining and arguing for days over it

 

[Big Mel]

you're the one that put him out there as an example

I correctly stated that his Def Jam output is superior than Nas'. Which shouldn't be at all disagreeable but predictably you rushed to wizard of poetry to make an argument against that.

 

[daze23]

I correctly stated that his Def Jam output is superior than Nas'. Which shouldn't be at all disagreeable but predictably you rushed to wizard of poetry to make an argument against that.

if it was so predictable what my response would be, why offer that example?

I don't care about who's better than who. musically I'm not sure what that even means. there's music I like and music I don't like. after that I could sit here all day comparing various aspects and explaining why I think one is superior, but ultimately none of that matters to me. the only thing that does is that I like the music

I think people get too caught up in all that extra-curricular shyt. that's why I don't like to talk about album-sales, rapper's personal lives, personal beefs I have with rappers, and all that

 

[JYoung24]

Point is, the firm, I am and Nadtradamus all came out in a row....after the split decision that was IWW.

Let's not act like Gods Son wasn't also half a dud that got an enormous lift from a red hot, upstart 9th Wonder remixing it too.

None of them are duds even nastraudomus wasn't as bad as bad as people say

 

[up in here]

until you can rival my actual track record and cultural respect as a bboy.

don't ever say anything negative about:


art barr

you dont have an actual track record or cultural respect as a bboy. you know if i google search "bboy" and "art barr", the only results are online forums posts by yourself professing to be a bboy.

plus i thought you were a pook now who spends all day banging dimes and saving up dough to buy a car. but i guess that occurs when your not out in the community centre teaching shorties how to top rock and do windmills.

 

[Hannibal Fox]

"IWW" shyts all over "Ready To Die". Besides that "Ready To Die" was pretty gritty as well. Biggie's most popular songs were R&B jacks and the most succesful of them all wasn't even on the album.

 

[JayBaldacci]

Nas is my favorite rapper, but Art Barr and Big Mel are in here schooling yall on how he fell to the position within the industry he has now and WHY it mattered to the culture.

And by position in the industry, I mean declining to appear on OB4CL2 and BP3 and then turning around to feature on projects by Tyga, Wayne, Nikki, & Ross.

it's ok, raekwon went on to record with justin beiber

 

[JayBaldacci]

btw, fishcale>life is good>the rest of ghost's albums since fishscale > hhid and untitled.

 

[daze23]

you dont have an actual track record or cultural respect as a bboy. you know if i google search "bboy" and "art barr", the only results are online forums posts by yourself professing to be a bboy.

plus i thought you were a pook now who spends all day banging dimes and saving up dough to buy a car. but i guess that occurs when your not out in the community centre teaching shorties how to top rock and do windmills.

it's not easy constructing a consistent internet personality

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Who in here is denying Nas "sold out" with IWW? Nas himself said that he went that route so he can get that paper. That don't mean that IWW was not dope as fukk. Jay sold out with Blueprint, the shyt's a classic. Biggie the same and You guys may not believe this but IWW is a classic, sell out or not.

Long story short, I ain't mad he reviewed the album and shat on it. We all humans with different opinions, why be mad at his. The part that irks me is him tryna give the history on Nas' career like he a hip-hop historian, so much false statements in that overview it was obvious he NEVER really listened (he probably played it, but never listened) to Illmatic let alone his other albums and it was also obvious that he don't know Nas' musical history. He just plucked talking points from the Hipster hip-hop manual and ran with it. His review lost all weight from the jump.

Big Mel and Art Barr co-signing ol' boy but convieniently overlooking the flaws in that is crazy because they supposed to be some Hip-Hop heads from back in the day yet they don't smell the funk

That was my problem with the interview too. Like he was trying to pretend he had been a Nas fan but it was obvious he hadn't. When he does reviews and speaks on the artists' past material it always seems like he's reading off a checklist of what other reviewers said back in the day.