Albums Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years (December 12th)

[Stick Up Kid]

Not shytting on you directly or personally, but why does this shyt even matter? I'm so confused as to why cats are complaining about what singles/snippets get chosen over others, what interviews and podcasts they should or shouldn't be doing, the level of intensity of the press run, etc. WT flying fukk does any of that have to do with THE MUSIC??

So many pages of this thread remind me of cats arguing and debating about record sales. Unless you have a financial stake in the album's commercial success, what possible relevance does any of that have to do with the quality of the product? I get that these topics will come up because it's a discussion about all aspects of the album. But people are preemptively adjusting their opinions about an album they haven't even heard based upon how the record label is promoting it.


It's the weirdest shyt in the world to me that people allow the enjoyment of the music they listen to to be influenced by whether or not other people like it or show interest in it.

Me personally, I like to hear stories of how it came together, studio sessions, other random shyt etc. like the old days of The Source, XXL before an album drops

 

[Budda]

Yep. It's not about Primo. It's about Nas. People were begging for Nas to rock with Preem when he was with Hit Boy. And now they shifted their sick twisted scrutiny of Nas' music on Primo. Nas had to battle with this his all career pretty much. It's almost unbelievable how he keeps releasing music with that ungrateful crowd. A lot of mc's would have quit a long time ago. Hell, Jay and Andre 3000 basically did

Look the same fans made him a multi millionaire, who cares really.

 

[Zero]

Stop disrespecting the GOAT off 20 seconds of 45 minutes of music. The new Gang Starr album shows he's not washed. This joint shows he's not washed

 

[Morose Polymath]

Damn, you just now hearing this fam?? This one of the tracks that made me a Premo fan again

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Me personally, I like to hear stories of how it came together, studio sessions, other random shyt etc. like the old days of The Source, XXL before an album drops

Which is fine and reasonable. We all came up copping magazines and fiending for info. That's just normal fandom.

But I never heard of anybody back when we were younger deciding before they even heard an album that it wasn't worth their time, that it must be wack, or that they'd only skim through it because there were no videos for any of the songs or the single didn't generate a radio buzz.

Maybe it's just cuz I'm an underground head by nature and preference, but part of what made me WANT to listen to the shyt I did was about finding the gems that other people weren't up on. Dope shyt is dope shyt, even without all the bells and whistles attached. The vibe I'm getting is that what Nas and Primo are doing here. Fukk the bullshyt. Two turntables and a mic and let's create history and let the product stand on it's own.

As the Blastmaster put it,
"I'm strictly about skills and dope lyrical coasting
Relying on talent
Not marketing and promotion"

 

[spliz]

I was listening to Livin Proof and imagining if that was the snippet beat for this album. Older nikkas would’ve went stupid. lol.

 

[RoseWooD]

Y'all goofy ass weirdos are clamoring for a 50+ year old man, worth a couple 100 million to be running from podcast to podcast, show to show for the sake of "promo" y'all do this to yallselves every album, when he has shown his entire career that is not somethingHE WANTS TO DO. I'm happy Nas never give a fukk about satisfying y'all emotional attachment to him. Just so y'all could be like "look at my goat, he's crushing it. He's everywhere right now". He makes y'all losers actually have to get a real life

 

[Artfull Dodger]

Isnt it Friday already in Japan?

はい。私たちはすでにここで宴会をしています

 

[Figaro]

Brehs are too concerned about promo or other people’s opinions about the snippet

Wasting energy on things not under their control.

 

[HHID]

Stop disrespecting the GOAT off 20 seconds of 45 minutes of music. The new Gang Starr album shows he's not washed. This joint shows he's not washed

This beat is an instant classic, first time I heard it I must've rewinded it 20+ times and just did it another 5-6 times just now, shyt is so infectious! I need at the very least one beat of that caliber on this Nas joint now

 

[REAL6]

Nas is closer to the rapper he was back then than Premo is as a producer, therein lies the difference, Premo hasn’t been making great production for the last 10 years, Nas has been making great albums and great verses.

Premo is in my number 1 producers list, but that list also contains Dr Dre Havoc and RZA, out of that list probably only Havoc I would want to produce a full Nas album in an ideal world.

I think it’s actually the opposite of what you say, Premo is almost universally known as a top 5 producer in this genre, but time has move on and a lot of his recent work hasn’t been up to par. Acknowledging that it’s actually the opposite of wanting your youth back..

I'd rather hear Nas over 90's Necro.

 

[ThirdAct]

My favorite recent Premier beat:

 

[Tetris v2.0]

I like the Welcome to the Underground snippet lol

Sounded closer to what I want than Define My Name so it's a positive in my book

 

[BK The Great]

I’ll wait until it’s out to see if it’s good.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

はい。私たちはすでにここで宴会をしています

なるほど, あまり言わない
今行こ！（私の夢中 でも、六月本当に行きます)