Nas-God's Son

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Oh man, he's back. Best thing since Illmatic. "Thugz Mansion" is hte only bad tune, and boy is it bad, but there are 9 great songs on this thing. The ratio of tight/trash is much higher than The Lost Tapes.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i kind of like it, too. on stillmatic he was way too excited and he couldn't maintain it. he burned himself out on the first few tracks. but i thought it was better than it was at first. it kind of ungrew on me. 'get down' is good. 'the cross' is good. 'hey nas' is good. 'revolutionary warfare' is okay. 'heaven' is good. i actually like 'thugz mansion.' it doesn't have any big guest starz other than tupac. none of the big producers, i don't think.

i kind of wish people would stop trying to fill the cd. if it had about four or five songs cut off it'd be a classic thing. it's still better than stillmatic and the one before it, though.

― d k (d k), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, it really suffers from trying to fill that 80 minutes.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

even though "god's son" is only 57 minutes long.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Nas, do you like hitler?

http://www.sohh.com/thewire/read.php?contentID=4117

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

So really the album should have been called "Godwin's Son"?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

[insert J Edga Hova joke here]

― zebedee, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you all are actually underrating this thing. It's suprisingly good. Eminem has a banging track! Alicia Keyes has a banging track!?! There's a song with lots of bitchy gossip about Biggie, Tupac, Puffy and Jay-Z! There's a cool concept where he flips through his rhyme book trying out different lyrics! I don't even mind the Tupac exhumation! I like this more than Stillmatic. He got good production for once.

― Ben Williams, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i really liked "Get Down" when i heard it on the radio the other day. not so much for the JB stuff but just all the little touches added to the beat throughout. who produced that one?

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Nas did that one himself.

― Ben Williams, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

yo dis record right here is probably one of nas's best. he is the last real nigga alive, and he got his own style fo sure now. he pure premoting a positive messege, and he explaining all that bull that went on and shyte. so dont hate....PROPS 2 MY BOI NaS

― Julia, Sunday, 16 February 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

I love NAS song "I Know I Can" it is a very good song

― Elizabeth Viola Ebron, Thursday, 13 March 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

Elizabeth Viola Ebron = the new cash sitta

― and what, Sunday, 20 April 2008 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

This is still my favourite Nas album ever, like I've said before, I prefer emotional Nas to cool and detached Nas, and he was never so emotional as here. Too sad it took her mother dying, but the tune dedicated to her, with Olu Dara playing the coda, is the most heart-tugging rap song about death I've ever heard. Even the 2Pac posthumous verse works, only on this context I think Nas and 2Pac fit together. If you'd just drop "Braveheart Party" off the album it'd be perfect.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 20 April 2008 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

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