There were multiple people on this forum who defended the Nasir album, which tells you everything you need to know about how certain people will defend anything no matter what. But a quick glance at twitter when that album came out told you everything you needed to know, if the music didn't. Nas was getting straight up clowned, the album was bad, and then we'd have people in here saying nah it's good.
It's not as pronounced now since fewer people care but the dominant Twitter reaction is that the beats are bad, Premo is washed, Nas did his thing, etc. This shyt came out and barely even made a dint on social media man. And what has been said has largely been about disappointment.
A lot of people on social media are dumb as fukk and just say things to score points with whatever the popular opinion is. I care more about what people are saying here than on Twitter.
My thing is, when people say the beats are bad, what the hell are they talking about? There's nothing on this album that's objectively terrible. I already knew where this was going to go with how much people were trashing "Define My Name," which was just a hype track meant to announce the album. The snippet of "Welcome to the Underground" was being dissected. The expectations everyone had for this were high. There are people that have been up at night for twenty years, having weird fantasies about what this album would sound like. Then it came out, and because it's not what
they wanted, it's trash. It's been one day and people can't even let the music sit before coming out with wild opinions.
I loved Mr. Morale when it came out and I didn't know what people were saying about it beforehand. Turns out a lot of people didn't like it, not because it's objectively terrible, but because it wasn't what they wanted from Kendrick's first album in five years. It's not for everyone, which is fair. But saying Mr. Morale is trash or this is the worst Nas album you've ever listened to? It becomes ridiculous at some point.
I listened to some songs from the De La album and there was some great stuff there, but I couldn't get into it. Even Nas' verse sounded off to me, like I could barely hear what he was saying. I don't think I'm in the right space to take that album in, so I'm going to let it sit for a while and come back to it later. I can't say it's trash or that I don't like it. It's just not for me right now, but the Mobb Deep album is. When I'm ready, I'm going to give it a fair shot and judge it accordingly.
I've learned this lesson too many times with music. People need to let things grow on them. If you
really think the album sucks, like Premier shouldn't be producing anymore, then that's cool, I guess. But if you're on the fence, then go back to it in a week or a month and see if your opinion changes instead of just writing it off after one listen.
Or is that different?
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