Serg said the whole blues = hip-hop thing sounds like a song Nas would do for sesame street and I think he's right but all the same you can't deny that beat. I also like that this song seems so retrospective, like Nas realizes his best days are behind him.
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
that's a hotter beat than it sounds on paper....
like the off beat snare hits....it's like Jon Specer blooz....good verse too....
it's probably a cooler vers. of some of the stuff that timbaland was trying to do on the bubba aparx record
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
THIS SONG IS FAMILY VALUES FUCK U GWB!!!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link
(WOW!)
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike Muir!!!! (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 25 September 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
"Cops Shot the Kid" is fucking great
― flappy bird, Sunday, 17 June 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
is it really? Nas' verse seems pefunctory, Kanye's is not good
gave this album a spin yesterday, Nas by the numbers, which is ofc OK but not nearly as good as Life is Good on first listen, also the Kanye aesthetic does nothing for Nas (quality-wise, that is - it may very well help to introduce him to a younger demographic)
― niels, Monday, 18 June 2018 06:30 (five years ago) link
perfunctory*
― niels, Monday, 18 June 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
Kanye's production is so indulgent, really dislike when he over-repeats some simple motif/sample as if it's really clever (most obv example would be the Runaway intro but on this Nas album you get the same thing with the "I think they scared of us" chorus on the first track, which is m/l sonically empty for me)
similar to what Daft Punk did on Robot Rock, plain annoying
― niels, Monday, 18 June 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
yeah seems like 7 random Nas tracks with not that great productionLife is Good had a lot more interesting production
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 June 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
yeah this is mostly bad
― paul mccartney & whinge (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 June 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
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― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 18 June 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
the beat is sick it sounds like an Eric Copeland track
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 June 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
kanye's verse isn't 'bad' on cops shot the kid, altho ppl keep interpreting it as unwoke in this really shallow way
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 18 June 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
the album as a whole, though, is bad
what the hell does "Fox News was started by a black dude - also true" mean?
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 June 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrolli/2018/06/14/nas-new-album-nasir-abuse-allegations/#58d0a75bffbf
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 18 June 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
gotta love the vaccine talk
A parent hates to watch his baby's faceTakin' his first immunization shots, but this is greatThe child's introduction to suffering and painUnderstands without wordsNothin' is explained or rushed to the brainLookin' up at his parents' faceLike, "I thought you would protect me from this scary place?""Why'd you let them inject me?""Who's gonna know how these side effects is gonna affect me?"
― niels, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:24 (five years ago) link
Everyone breaking down nas’ politics like he didn’t say the vaccine shit on stillmatic 🤣
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link
lol I didn't realize that
nas vmic anyhow
― niels, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:35 (five years ago) link
that kelis stuff is terrible and he's always seemed like a creep
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link