Choose Your Favorite Nas Album Poll - BUT ILLMATIC IS EXCLUDED *GASPARILLIDOONIE*

yeah it's not like my standards for rap were very evolved yet in '96 either, those songs just didn't grab me much

IWW is dope overall. This thread brings me back to the days of rec.music.hip-hop when everyone went apeshit over how terrible IWW supposedly was and how Nas was a sell-out traitor. (Those folks hated Reasonable Doubt too, but half-heartedly.)

xp to myself: which is probably why a station that was playing strictly west coast/southern/BTNH/r&b/LL Cool J at that point picked it up in the first place. it fit right in in a way that, say, mobb deep would never have.

BTNH?

RESURRECTION

oh duh

even though I am well aware that Stillmatic and God's Son are technically "better" albums

Whiney -- explain?

i've always meant to start a thread or something grandstanding this (possibly challenging) opinion, but Nas albums post-Stillmatic >>>>> Jay albums post-Blueprint

even though I am well aware that Stillmatic and God's Son are technically "better" albums

i mean, Stillmatic has stories, wicked battle raps, and the call-it-a-comeback vibe. God's Son has 'Pac-style poetry. They're way more emotionally affecting than the grumbling of HHID and have touched WAAAAY more rap fans on a sincere and personal level, which is is pretty why we elevate guys like Nas in the first place

i just like Hip Hop Is Dead because the beats are real lithe, throwbacky and it's kind of cranky in a cool way.

I mean, even in 2001, sampling the crappy Sopranos song was CoRnY aS fUcK

the fucking worst theme song of a great show. dude would have been better off sampling the theme from The Nanny...

HE'S THAT BROTHER IN RED WHEN EVERYBODY ELSE IS WEARING TAN

I'd probably vote for God's Stepson, 9th Wonder's reworking of God's Son, if it was an option.

Stillmatic also interpolates the Tears For Fears song that was the theme to the Dennis Miller Show at the time, leading to my theory that Nas was sitting around watching a lot of HBO during the long break between albums

ahahahahaha

too bad he didn't flip Arli$$

Also, Whiney hilariously OTM.

xp

I never had HBO (or heard that Tears For Fears song) until after Stillmatic, so I was just as clueless to those reference points as I had been 5 years earlier. Always dug "Got Urself a Gun" tho.

rev, you do know if you're gonna be a successful critic you have to start pretending like you know everything, not braggin about all the stuff you don't know

personally, i was actually born with a working knowledge of the john zorn discography and all the eighties afropop that didn't appear on Indestructible Beat Of Soweto

I didn't know shit when I was a kid, I do now!

it was written. hhid is a turd

should probably give IWW a listen. I was among those who was convinced by nas stans saying everything inbetween illmatic and stillmatic wasn't worth it

lol @ nas the pharaoh though

it was written. hhid is a turd

― am0n, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 10:59 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u still have a copy of your whirlwind of beef photoshop? i just looked for it but the URL i had doesn't work anymore.

more challopsing xposts but bone thugs suck

nice trolling

u still have a copy of your whirlwind of beef photoshop? i just looked for it but the URL i had doesn't work anymore.

― waka yoga flame (some dude), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:31 AM

haha what thread was that on. i'll be bummed if that got lost to the ether (no pun) of the 'net

i'm not even sure, i looked but it doesn't appear to have been on any of the 3 threads about HHID

more challopsing xposts but bone thugs suck

― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 8:43 AM Bookmark

sb 51 eternal, amirite?

maybe it was a rolling thread. was that 2k6 or 7?

Rolling 2006 Hip Hop Thread

lol

http://www.crailtap.com/c3/newrandoms/1-3-05/hyphy.jpg

ah it was on the sandbox. i must have nuked that flickr acct :(

Rolling Temporary Hip Hop Thread

damn, classic material though

god's son, just for the first three tracks + the alicia keys one and 'revolutionary warfare'

firm slice pies, couple of trife guys in tinted up white 5s

i had the firm cd for forever without bothering to listen to it, but i got the bootleg-ass az/nas duets cd a while ago and the last 20 (out of 60, i think-- another 20 of the 60 are az drops for the no name dj that put it together, then another 10 are remixes of 'life's a bitch'...) tracks are just the firm album.

some of it is CLASSIC nas, like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy-s0dCbEYY

nas late 90s super arrogance organized crime raps

JEEPS TAHOE, SHOES BE SALVATORE FERRAGAMO

some of it's good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ByY849CeNI

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKKqKTM7RqQ

az verse is ridiculous

too bad nas wasn't on those bravehearts albums more, or we'd have a consensus pick for worst album.

anyways, here's something with bravehearts with everyone coming pretty credibly on a beautiful beat. i'm feeling this so much right now. this is my soundtrack today. ha, EVERYONE is good on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2uG4nWCzw

sorry for making a mess, posting nas youtubes here, unreleased or guest tracks or whatever, but, you see, i'm generally making a case for post-illmatic nas.

KOOL G RAP FT. NAS AND AZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOU8RXGQ1LI

and i'm gonna just put this here because we're talking about nas and that's a good enough excuse. this is the realest piece of music i've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umf0jJSMXnQ

post away man, nothing makes an argument better than aural proof!

i don't think digging nastradamus is some crazy fringe thing. man, it's got some good songs on it. if nas released 'life we chose' or 'project windows' as a single right now, what would it sound like? these still sound really fresh to me, really real. what are the really lame tracks on nastradamus? even 'you owe me' is aight now and it's stuck way at the end of the album so you know it's just the radio song like the lauryn hill one was (also stuck at the end of the record).

come get me (premo beat) <-------- just hope ur favorite rapper's consensus worst album has a track like this on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpuVaCA8_gg

life we chose <--------- top 10 nas verse, sorta it was written vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4lLFoDJx4

project windows ft. ron isley <------ sensitive nas shedding tears for the streets, for illmatic loving crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV_-aemTtTc

family ft mobb deep <---------- tinny beats (dame grease), p and havoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9GPbXllBLc

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq2aHcDkYkE&NR=1

so i waited with them sigs blat blat blat

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

pretty good results

kinda surprised by the strong showing for HHID, liked it at first but have come to regard as the weakest of his '00s albums

ha weirdly i had HHID on in the car today. it's a good album but it's definitely flawed and corny as hell at times ("who killed it?" in particular has aged even worse than i'd expected). probably liked it more when it came out than i do now.

totally forgot how gay "black republican" is

"esco, what up"
"what up, homie"
[nas and jay grunt and moan in synchrony]
"yeah, that's perfect" [grunts]
[more grunting]
[laughing]

hahaha

i totally don't remember "Black Republican" sounding at all like they were ever in the same room, let alone any "Coming of Age"-style pillow talk

haha it's in the intro, listen to it

that black republicans intro sounds like it was cut and pasted from dj drops and other intros.

preemptive updated "myths nas stans believe" entry:

nas murdered jay on black republicans.

finally checked out I Am. think this one's a little underrated. obv not a patch on God's Son, Stillmatic, or It Was Written but a worthy addition imo