Taking Sides: Nas vs. Pras

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Pras has better production and guest spots. Nas has less fluff. Pras has the fugees (who are due for some critical reevaluation anyway). Nas has QB's Finest. Nas has "keepin it real" street-style, yo. Pras has ghetto superstar. Go.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, give me a break. Nas by light-years.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pras has better production?

― Ian, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nas can rap; Pras can't.

― Kris, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pras is the rap version of sisqo....

― dave k, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If only "Wyclef" rhymed with "Nas".

Pras is never likely to disappoint like Nas (due to lowered expectations rather than consistency, true) and for the same reason his proclamations of immortality are less annoying. But ultimately I've heard Nas records I've liked.

― Tom, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Fugees are due for critical re-evaluation? And that's because...?

Pras without the Fugees is like a day without sunshine - what's the point?

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They were the "it" kids & could do no wrong. But the original Killing Me Softly was so much better. Puffy got shit for huuuge samples, but when The Fugees did it, they were hailed. Ms. Hill became the "it" girl, & sure her album was good, but I always found it oppressive in large doses & further having less of a female-lib message than the Spice Girls. Then there's Wyclef, whose second album is like Big Star's third but without the hooks.

And getting posed as the "answer" to gangsta when their whole ethos was straight from old 40s gangster fliks? As far as I can tell, they turned down the graphic nature of the lyrics and turned down the hard beats, but left everything else intact.

And finally, could any group be good enough to absolve Lauryn's role in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit?

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Involvement in Sister Act 2 = classic. Or maybe = rockist.

Happily, some of the tracks I've heard from Nas' new album are really quite good - search "Nasty Ways" in particular - along "self-conscious attempt to return-to-form but not too self-conscious" lines.

The most that he could be said about Pras is that he introduced Mya to the world. And even I'm not going to absolve him because of that, as much as I like Mya.

― Tim, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But I think Ghetto Superstar absolves all sins.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Admittedly his sins are not that great (basically his crime is *being* not that great) - the only other song of his I can think of is that one where he played a security guard in the video clip, and I can't even remember the tune.

"Ghetto Superstar" was good, but largely because of Mya.

― Tim, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Lol

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 6 November 2017 04:18 (eight years ago)

truly old ilx was a golden age

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 November 2017 05:16 (eight years ago)

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