Listening to them often and just knowing how old heads are, they hold Nas to unrealistic standards of Illmatic and It Was Written. So if he's not making those type of albums, then they act like it's trash. Nas isn't that same artists anymore, not sure why they expect him to make music like that now, or make music like Ransom and RJ Payne make. Ransom and RJ are two of my current favorites, but Nas never rapped like them. Nas rapping was poetic and storytelling based and just happened to be super lyrical. Ransom has some substance but it's pretty surface level stuff and more just show casing his lyricism and RJ is 100% just aggression and barring out. He doesn't really tell stories, create concepts or get philosophical.
I respect they give a lot of attention to artists that often are overlooked by mainstream media, but it's funny how out of touch they are with modern Hip Hop. I'm enjoying Pap's monthly projects but they treat them like he's reinventing the wheel and dropping 4.5-5 mic projects every month and it's laughable. They're literally the one two people probably on planet Earth that think in 2021 Papoose is the MVP of Hip Hop. It's like they live in their own reality sometimes.