Is Hit Boy Nas' Quincy Jones?

[Metal Face]

 

[BulletProof]

Im not a big fan of comparing artists from significantly genres because their requirements are so different.

However since they dropped that song, whoever would get credit musicly would have to share it with Steve Stoute for molding him commercially.

 

[Artfull Dodger]

 

[JustCKing]

I look at Nas more as the Quincy Jones of the duo. Nas for the following reasons:

1) Nas is the seasoned veteran

2) His catalog was already stacked before meeting Hit Boy

Hit Boy did for Nas what MJ did for Quincy: give him that late career run that really propelled Quincy into another stratosphere. On paper, Quincy and MJ wasn't supposed to work and the collaboration was questioned, but the results and the execution was phenomenal.

Quincy in turn helped develop MJ into a legitimate solo superstar of the highest level. Nas has helped Hit Boy to become an elite producer because he helped four of the best projects from the GOAT.

 

[Knucklehead]

I’m a huge Nas fan but this is an absolutely delusional insane comparison.
However much we love Nas we can’t compare a run that contained three of the best selling albums of all time and propelled MJ to perhaps the biggest celebrity the world had known to that point to a run of albums that dropped off the charts almost immediately.

 

[Budda]

Nah Large Pro is, quincy came into Mikes career early into it, just like Large Pro and Nas, Large pro has more influence on his career, before he met Hit Boy he was already the GOAT

 

[Budda]

I’m a huge Nas fan but this is an absolutely delusional insane comparison.
However much we love Nas we can’t compare a run that contained three of the best selling albums of all time and propelled MJ to perhaps the biggest celebrity the world had known to that point to a run of albums that dropped off the charts almost immediately.

You taking it the wrong way, no one can be compared to MJ, we’re talking about in context of their careers. Nas is the greatest rapper but Mj is the greatest of all time period, MJ and Quincy>Nas and HB or whoever we’re just talking about in context of their own careers.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

Nah. Hit boy is more like his teddy Riley. Primo is

 

[dj-method-x]

Am I the only one that thinks hit boy is a bit overrated? His beats sound like they’re missing something, I can’t explain it. I love the MOBB disease series and Magic for the cohesion if anything but the production doesn’t blow me away.

 

[Ziggiy]

It's LP. He did what Quincy did, and got him the high end music he needed to put together a timeless classic.

He didn’t do it THREE times on the level of Quincy and MJ and he didn’t executive produce Illmatic the way Hit has co-executive produced every KD album.

Its 100% Hit-Boy

 

[Ziggiy]

Am I the only one that thinks hit boy is a bit overrated?

 

[Ziggiy]

Nah Large Pro is, quincy came into Mikes career early into it, just like Large Pro and Nas, Large pro has more influence on his career, before he met Hit Boy he was already the GOAT

Michael was already SIX solo albums and 15 years deep into his professional career when he linked with Quincy. There was absolutely nothing “early” about MJ’s career when he and Quincy started working. Mike was a vet

 

[mson]

I would say LP, or Premo.

 

[ABlackMan]

Quincy didn’t “make” Michael

He helped take him to another level just like Hit Boy HELPED take Nas to another level



Put it this way, just because Thriller and Bad were wildly successful, all time classics doesn’t take away from the success and impact of Off The Wall. All three albums are celebrated within Michael’s discography and Quincy is given credit for helping MJ evolve and improve with each album.

Off The Wall they experimented with the (at the time) popular Disco sound. Its got the lush and vibrant love songs (Girlfriend, Its The Falling In Love) the odes to romance lost (She’s Out Of My Life) and the catchy single (Don’t Start Til You Get Enough)

KD1 they experimented with more trap sounding beats. Its got the lush and vibrant love songs (Replace Me, Til The War Is Won) the odes to romance lost (All Bad) and the catchy single (Ultra Black)

Thriller they fused R&B, Pop, and Rock into a sound all its own. Its got the superstar features (Paul McCartney and a overall bigger more ambitious scope with the music videos to match (Beat It, Billie Jean)

KD2 they fused Boom Bap, Drill, West Coast G-Funk, and even a little Southern Trap into a sound all its own. Its got Superstar features (Lauryn Hill, Eminem) and an overall bigger more ambitious scope with music videos to match (Rare, Brunch On Sundays)

Bad they went grander and more epic with the sounds and focused more on Michael’s song writing ( He wrote 10 of the 11 tracks) the album was Michael at his most confident:

“Your lyin' eyes gon' tell you right, ah
So listen up, don't make a fight, ah
Your talk is cheap, you're not a man, ah
You're throwin' stones to hide your hands
Well, they say the sky's the limit
And to me that's really true, ah
But, my friend, you have seen nothin'
Just wait 'til I get through”

Michael at his most vulnerable:

“I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could've been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change”

Michael at his most confessionary:

“There was a time I used to say, "Girl, I need you"
But who is sorry now?
You really hurt, you used to take and deceive me
Now who is sorry now?
You got a way of making me feel so sorry
I found out right away
Don't you come walkin' beggin' I ain't lovin' you
Don't you get in my way”

KD3 they went grander and more epic with the songs and focused more on Nas song writing (there are no features across 17 tracks) the album is Nas at his most confident:

“I didn′t have to die so that they could call me the great one
Didn′t take a couple albums, people said it from day one”

Nas at his most vulnerable:

“Bold, beautiful, dangerous
And I blocked out the hate that was aimed at us
Community love, providing jobs
Why would you try to come for me, why you ain't proud of Nas?”

Nas at his most confessionary:

“Time is precious
One day I might need my diaper changed inside a convalescent The soul is different than the flesh is
Life is teachin' me more, wisdom and ignorance is kin
To have peace, you need war
By the time you see the stars in the skies they already burnt out Same way these dudes be shinin' but been burnt out
But we don't change, as we get stuck in our ways
We just act like we agree so we can end the exchange
What's meant for you is sent to you
But you could be the problem, it's not always them my dude”

You really typed all this from a cellular? Lol even from computer. You a blogger or what? I’m asking because it’s good comparison

 

[semicko82]

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