Albums Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years (Discussion Thread)

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

This shyt mid as fukk. Only liked about 3 songs.
The production on this shyt isn't wack, but its not good either. Everything about this shyt screams average. Nas is still spitting for the most part tho, but its just not enough. The AZ song is the best joint.

shyt feels like the eastcoast equivalent to that snoop n dre project where snoop rapping his ass off, but dre is trash.

It's crazy cuz Preme gave De La and Ransom better beats than this.

No, it’s entirely well-executed

You’re mad/disappointed because Nas is being Nas

Not sure what you were expecting but this is a Nas album

What were you expecting Hate Me Now? Guess what … peel back the instrumental and cookie cutter song producer chorus and you still have Nas being Nas on every verse. You can literally swap out most verses and interchange them and the song would be the same

DMX did the same thing his whole career with a much more limited lexicon



Here guys, you want some Nas

Rearrange the following words in any order


equity, leverage, dividends, compound, ledgers, margins
corner store, project hallways, marble lobbies
kingpin, syndicate, cartel talk, consigliere
manifest destiny, prophecy, scriptures, Quran, Torah
illmatic, cinematic, panoramic
timepieces, gold links, cufflinks
bloodlines, ancestry, genealogy
chalk lines, crime scenes, affidavits
fly talk, silk shirts, private planes
thought patterns, brain trust, mastermind
survivor’s guilt, fallen soldiers, legacy talk
Wall Street metaphors over street parables
eternal, infinite, ether, gods, kings

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

No, it’s entirely well-executed

You’re mad/disappointed because Nas is being Nas

Not sure what you were expecting but this is a Nas album

What were you expecting Hate Me Now? Guess what … peel back the instrumental and cookie cutter song producer chorus and you still have Nas being Nas on every verse. You can literally swap out most verses and interchange them and the song would be the same

DMX did the same thing his whole career with a much more limited lexicon



Here guys, you want some Nas

Rearrange the following words in any order


equity, leverage, dividends, compound, ledgers, margins
corner store, project hallways, marble lobbies
kingpin, syndicate, cartel talk, consigliere
manifest destiny, prophecy, scriptures, Quran, Torah
illmatic, cinematic, panoramic
timepieces, gold links, cufflinks
bloodlines, ancestry, genealogy
chalk lines, crime scenes, affidavits
fly talk, silk shirts, private planes
thought patterns, brain trust, mastermind
survivor’s guilt, fallen soldiers, legacy talk
Wall Street metaphors over street parables
eternal, infinite, ether, gods, kings

Responding to myself:

Your diagnosis is correct.

From first principles:
Criticism and creativity consume similar cognitive energy. Criticism feels more rewarding because it triggers immediate social feedback with lower risk. Creativity delays reward and exposes identity. When creativity is ignored, the brain learns that criticism produces faster reinforcement, so it substitutes output with judgment.

What is actually happening:
• Criticism = low-cost dominance signal.
• Creativity = high-cost value creation.
• Engagement ≠ value. Engagement is often just friction.
• Your brain optimized for response, not outcome.

The jealousy is not moral failure. It is misdirected calibration. You are benchmarking against outcomes without accounting for input asymmetry: timing, distribution, audience capture, and variance. You then convert that discomfort into critique because it restores a sense of agency.

The fix is mechanical, not emotional:
1. Ban critique unless paired with creation. One creative output earns one critical thought. No exceptions.
2. Measure output, not response. Track hours and artifacts produced. Ignore likes, comments, silence.
3. Reframe criticism as unfinished creation. Every critique implies a better version. Build that version or discard the thought.
4. Delay judgment. Judgment before volume kills compounding. Volume precedes signal.
5. Assume indifference, not rejection. Most creativity is ignored because of noise, not because it lacks merit.

Hard truth:
Criticism is a spectator sport. Creativity is ownership. One produces identity. The other produces residue.

If you want a single rule to enforce:
No commentary unless it advances a thing that did not exist before you touched it.

Everything else is leakage.

 

[CHAIN]

To stay on topic.

Writers is a classic.
It sounds like a more cosmic 'Speechless'.

Go take your “meds” dumbass

You use black emojis in your 'real' group chats too bud?

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

No, it’s entirely well-executed

You’re mad/disappointed because Nas is being Nas

Not sure what you were expecting but this is a Nas album

What were you expecting Hate Me Now? Guess what … peel back the instrumental and cookie cutter song producer chorus and you still have Nas being Nas on every verse. You can literally swap out most verses and interchange them and the song would be the same

DMX did the same thing his whole career with a much more limited lexicon



Here guys, you want some Nas

Rearrange the following words in any order


equity, leverage, dividends, compound, ledgers, margins
corner store, project hallways, marble lobbies
kingpin, syndicate, cartel talk, consigliere
manifest destiny, prophecy, scriptures, Quran, Torah
illmatic, cinematic, panoramic
timepieces, gold links, cufflinks
bloodlines, ancestry, genealogy
chalk lines, crime scenes, affidavits
fly talk, silk shirts, private planes
thought patterns, brain trust, mastermind
survivor’s guilt, fallen soldiers, legacy talk
Wall Street metaphors over street parables
eternal, infinite, ether, gods, kings

I'm not reading any of this shyt you fukking Stanley.

I just gave my opinion. You don't have to agree with it.

I'm not here to argue how I felt about a fukking Nas album.

I rather listen to Nastradamus than this bullshyt.

 

[Figaro]

Who played Bis Vs Rip after hearing Nasty, Esco Nasir

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

nikka in here giving chat gpt responses for a fukking weed plate.

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

I'm not reading any of this shyt you fukking Stanley.

I just gave my opinion. You don't have to agree with it.

I'm not here to argue how I felt about a fukking Nas album.

I rather listen to Nastradamus than this bullshyt.

Listening to this and Nastradamus back to back would be a worthwhile exercise

Your sensitivity is also in need of worthwhile exercise

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

To stay on topic.

Writers is a classic.
It sounds like a more cosmic 'Speechless'.



You use black emojis in your 'real' group chats too bud?

You literally out here at 4AM Pacific Standard Time hallucinating some strawman conflict you made in your head over your connotations associated with a single world

You’re walking yourself into diagnosable territory

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Listening to this and Nastradamus back to back would be a worthwhile exercise

Your sensitivity is also in need of worthwhile exercise

Stop exercising your mouth on Nas dikk you stanly

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Stop exercising your mouth on Nas dikk you stanly

You only get half a post
*jaguars fan gif* and pacspit smilie

 

[Primetime21]

If you like the album, cool. You dont have to convince anyone else to try to like it. If you dont like the album, thats cool too. You’ve probably already made it known and thus have no need to be posted up in the thread.

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

I turned off the album at “Bouqet” it was hard to listen to that level of contrived pandering

I turned the album back on and he is doing his shout out on the track routine, takes up significant track time, but is skip bait in stream era

Now at “Junkie”

 

[spliz]

Responding to myself:

Your diagnosis is correct.

From first principles:
Criticism and creativity consume similar cognitive energy. Criticism feels more rewarding because it triggers immediate social feedback with lower risk. Creativity delays reward and exposes identity. When creativity is ignored, the brain learns that criticism produces faster reinforcement, so it substitutes output with judgment.

What is actually happening:
• Criticism = low-cost dominance signal.
• Creativity = high-cost value creation.
• Engagement ≠ value. Engagement is often just friction.
• Your brain optimized for response, not outcome.

The jealousy is not moral failure. It is misdirected calibration. You are benchmarking against outcomes without accounting for input asymmetry: timing, distribution, audience capture, and variance. You then convert that discomfort into critique because it restores a sense of agency.

The fix is mechanical, not emotional:
1. Ban critique unless paired with creation. One creative output earns one critical thought. No exceptions.
2. Measure output, not response. Track hours and artifacts produced. Ignore likes, comments, silence.
3. Reframe criticism as unfinished creation. Every critique implies a better version. Build that version or discard the thought.
4. Delay judgment. Judgment before volume kills compounding. Volume precedes signal.
5. Assume indifference, not rejection. Most creativity is ignored because of noise, not because it lacks merit.

Hard truth:
Criticism is a spectator sport. Creativity is ownership. One produces identity. The other produces residue.

If you want a single rule to enforce:
No commentary unless it advances a thing that did not exist before you touched it.

Everything else is leakage.

the fukk are u even taking about? God damn this site got nikkas wildin.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

NYSM3 grew on me & I now love it!!!

 

[Prolific_1011]

"And I'm grateful, middle fingers up to the hateful"