Yahoo ranks every Nas album

[Ziggiy]

Interesting rankings to say the least.

Every Nas Album, Ranked

Nas has released 21 albums in his storied, 30-year career. Here are all of those albums, ranked.

www.yahoo.com

 

[JustCKing]

I didn't know I owned 21 Nas albums, physical copies, until this thread. Crazy.

 

[I'm Blackman]

They got the top 2 right (the order is debatable to me).

Glad to see kd3 being recognized as upper echelon in his discography.

No 14 is bullshyt. Nas doesn't have 13 albums better than that Marley one.

 

[I'm Blackman]

That post was a quick glance...let me actually read their reasoning now lol

also edit: fukk whoever don't like u owe me lol

 

[Metal Face]

terrible ranking

 

[Patrick Kane]

Stillmatic at 9

With Magic and KD3 ahead?

I Am being too 5 doesn’t seem right either

 

[RalphKramden]

Stillmatic is a top 3 nas album easily

 

[Budda]

KD2 is underrated and Lost Tapes has to be in the top 3-4

 

[Sire366]

I actually agree and have no problems with almost the whole ranking, other then flip I am and stillmatic.. rolling stone, or whatever publication that has highest paid writers, should offer this one a job

 

[Ziggiy]

Stillmatic at 9

With Magic and KD3 ahead?

I Am being too 5 doesn’t seem right either

I was SHOCKED they put I am top 5.

 

[BangBike]

Stillmatic didn't crack the top 5, but I Am did?

 

[Izanami]

Lost Tapes is top 4 minimum but a like the ranking. Nasir being dead last is 100% accurate

 

[I'm Blackman]

alright I finished reading it.

I Am....I am....I am.....I do not like that album why is it so highly rated?

Also the stillmatic disrespect is insane

 

[Fortunate Lee]

My mans Al Shipley is def on crack with that list

Nobody will argue the first two, but the rest is hilarious

 

[Ziggiy]

alright I finished reading it.

I Am....I am....I am.....I do not like that album why is it so highly rated?

Also the stillmatic disrespect is insane

People love I Am because at the time it was Nas best attempt at fusing the Esco and Nasty personas into one artist.

I think the LORE of I Am and what it was supposed to be have added to the legacy of I am more so than the retail product we got. People love those leaked songs. People love Lost Tapes joints like Papa Was A Player and Fetus and Blaze A 50. These were all supposed to be on I am. Nipsey Hussle was going to do a documentary about it.


I love I Am but its not top 5 in MY opinion

I also sometimes feel the Lost Tapes series shouldn’t “count” amongst rankings because they are compilations but if we’re going to do that LT1 is top 5.

I love that they put KD3 and Magic in the top 3. I think they’re properly ranked. Nastradamus is worse than Nasir to me and still stands as Nas “worse” album. Distant Relatives and Magic 2 are too low in my opinion and i’m not sure how I feel about Gods Son at number 3. But i’m happy with Life Is Good in the top 10.


I think it would make a great case study for how Nas more than likely has the most gracefully aged discography of any rapper who ever lived. I remember Jay-Z fans and the “fukk Nas coalition” absolutely TRASHING It Was Written online in the mid 2000’s. Clinging to the “one was nahh” like it was gospel. It Was Written today is looked at as a bonafide classic. Rolling Stone went from shytting on the album in a 2 star review in 96 to calling it one of the 100 greatest rap albums of all time.