NAS POX

(three of these are guest appearances, but they are also some of my favorite verses ever in rap so I figured what the heck)

Jay said two of them shits were "doo", and two were "eh" I think. so I think two at least are mediocre in Jay's book (so they'd have to have some good songs on them), but still a one hot album every ten year average....

He's a legendary rapper but I'm inclined to agree that he says some of the stupidest shit I've ever heard in interviews and has been inclined to choose some of weakest beats in history (around I Am and Nastradamus)

Although I get a perverse enjoyment out of WW's Nas POX because it doesn't include anything from Illmatic!! (f--- the canon for real)

wasn't he saying "two of them shits were due"?

Hm... that never occured to me! It's a more complex reading of the lyric....I always just thought he meant poop.

I would POX Jigga without "Regrets", for sure. "One Love" has never resonated with me like it has with, well, everyone else.

+ Made U Look, 2nd Childhood, Nas Is Like, The Message, NY State of Mind pt. 2

um...Braveheart Party?

hahaha what the fuck!?

New album is SO good.

I'm not insane and I do care - Nasty Nas was one of the best rappers of all-time. Still is actually. Unfortunately these guys who called themselves Nastradamus (haha) and God's Son (HAHAHA) kidnapped him and locked him in a basement and we haven't heard from him in ten years. Nasty Nas had this soft, wise tone to his voice. I'm thinking of "One Love" and "It Ain't Hard To Tell" right now. He's never sounded like that again. These other guys are just trying to take Nas' identity and make it "harder". Its time for people to stop blaming beats for Nas' decline. He's ruined his fair share of good beats over the years too. Damn, at one time, I thought Nas was the greatest to ever pick up a mic. So I'm not hatin' just to be hatin'.
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh

i'm pretty sure he was british

if someone was going to compare jay-z/nas albums ten years ago, jay had a string of consistent classics, one after another, but ten years later, after blueprint became a trilogy, a black album and a kanye album, american gangster... it looks a lot different.

yeah honestly i would prob rate every post-2001 Nas album over every post-2001 Jay album

I definitely would. but I probably like Stillmatic and God's Son (and even the s/t) more than most of this board, so read into that what you will!

and Life is Good shits on MCHG from great heights

The Lost Tapes (2002)
God's Son (2002)
Street's Disciple (2004)
Hip Hop Is Dead (2006)
Untitled (2008)
Distant Relatives (with Damian Marley) (2010)
Life Is Good (2012)

vs.

The Blueprint2: The Gift & The Curse (2002)
The Black Album (2003)
Collision Course (with Linkin Park) (2004)
Unfinished Business (with R. Kelly) (2004)
Kingdom Come (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
The Blueprint 3 (2009)
Watch the Throne (with Kanye West) (2011)
Magna Carta... Holy Grail (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmZ5Muqyx8s

tbh i haven't heard the Damian Marley thing, i wasn't even counting that. does that have some joints?

nothing to sniff out really but 'nah mean' is cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNbWSExg47Y
'as we enter' kinda in that same zone as 'otis' where the beat is undercooked and thin but the song is fine anyway cos they seem like they are having fun bouncing off each other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMGd3mAfl-0

forgot all about "nah mean," that song is legit

sadly the rest of the album had, like, k'naan guest spots

the knaan stuff was bad.

Forgot I low-key liked 'Friends' too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-KBON4cqY

first and only time i got a chance to see nas was at rock the bells in '09 just before distant relatives and right when the first single was out and he came out that night with damian marley to do "strong will continue." dope album but i'm not sure it'd be your thing, al.

post 04 nas pox +5
1) streets disciple intro/message to the feds
2) the don
3) rest of my life ft amerie
4) bye baby
5) queens get the money
6) just a moment ft quan
7) you can't stop us now
8) you wouldn't understand ft victoria monet
9) stay
10) hold down the block
11) no introduction
12) proclamation
13) thief's theme
14) black president
15) locomotive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDZY25hnLo4

william wiggins should have put this on his list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHwQa68HIo

"the album getting ready to come out in january. the name of that is illmatic."

doo rags
stillmatic (the intro)
life's a bitch
ny state of mind
if i ruled the world
2nd childhood
nastradamus
it ain't hard to tell
the message
my way

1) take it in blood {it was written]
2) you can't stop us {untitled]
3) 2nd childhood {stillmatic]
4) money is my bitch {i am...]
5) the firm - affirmative action
6) the message {it was written]
7) az - gimme yours ft nas
8) u gotta love it {lost tapes]
9) one love {illmatic]
10) az - the essence ft nas
11) revolutionary warfare {god's son]
12) project windows ft ron isley {nastradamus]
13) shoot em up {i am...]
14) family ft mobb deep {i am...]
15) scarface - in between us ft nas
16) hold down the block {hip-hop is dead]
17) tragedy khadafi - calm down ft nas and noreaga
18) the flyest ft az {stillmatic]
19) what goes around {god's son]
20) stay {life is good]

correct #1

my #2 might be his verse on mobb deeps' "give it up fast"

new nas album comments.
i like a nas album to be a sprawling mess, rococo mediocrity studded with sudden genius, mix of stoned paranoia and nostalgia, sentimentality, room for even bad ideas to be worked out. 7 tracks all kanye beats is like all advice given in reviews of nas albums since 1996: too long can't pick beats please no weird sex talk or pretending to be a gun. praying for a real album with 16 tracks no i.d., salaam remi + a dozen lesser producers, go out with that.

or pretending to be a gun

lmao

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