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

[spliz]

I could be wrong, I'm not saying I'm 100% sure. I just think it's interesting.

Also...why is Marco Polo all over the album. I'm gonna assume Premo doesn't need help with scratching right. So...is this album full of Polo's drum kits? Which would be another way to avoid samples, alongside the obvious live drums on certain tracks (Welcome To The Underground). I don't know if Ian manages Polo

BTW speaking of the live shyt. Ian has promoted Bass & Bars (Brady Watt) multiple times on his IG. He's the white guy who does bass covers of rap songs, often gets rappers to do live performances with him. Is Ian his manager? Is he the bassist on this album? Not to discriminate...obviously there are funky white bassists out there (Pino Palladino for instance) but having some corny white guy playing grooveless basslines on an anticipated rap album instead of just getting an actual musician sounds like something a manager would do. To get his people paid on every end of the process.

Yea I know who Brady Watt is. I just feel like if this is true than Premo deserves ALL the smoke he’s getting. U don’t pull some shyt like this with an anticipated project like this.

 

[JoelB]

Madman, Shine Together. For sure.

I think Junkie is really good too.

I think Sons is the better beat, MadMan and Junkie as well.

the strings here are immaculate. This would be the best beat on the album, and it would have been elevated once u swapped Westside vocals for Nas'

Sons is a close 2nd tho

 

[MeachTheMonster]

the strings here are immaculate. This would be the best beat on the album, and it would have been elevated once u swapped Westside vocals for Nas'

Sons is a close 2nd tho

To each his own, but Madman Sounds like what hiphop sounds like in my head.

Perfect beat for a spitter IMO

 

[bigde09]

Shyts on the entirety of light years

 

[spliz]

Honestly if Premo pulled the shyt that @Piff Perkins saying I can see why Nas don’t fukk wit certain OG producers cause so far he got burned by Marley Marl, Pete Rock and now it would be Premo. This is what was dope about Hit Boy cause him and Nas was genuinely enjoying making music together. And it wasn’t too many hands in the pot. Literally just them two and whatever feature was on a track at the given moment.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Nasty Nas Esco is grimey as fukk.

I really don’t know what dudes want out of an album like this.

shyt got my face screwed up the whole time

 

[Pazzy]

we live in a world where Group Home has a better DJ Premier album than Nas

Premo did those guys a helluva favor for real with those beats. That should have been an Primo instrumental LP.

As for the Nas album, I havent finished listening to it yet. See that yall arent feeling pause tapes. That shyt is fire. im still processing the album.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It should be noted that Premo's productions had been getting sh1tted on (unfairly IMO) with most of his recent work (Ransom and Roc Marciano off the top of my head), outside of maybe, "Sunny Storms" on the De La Soul album; and even then, cats were trying to say it was meh compared to the Pete Rock joints on the same album (that was cap too, "Sunny Storms" was better than all of the Pete Rock joints). Basically, Premo had too much stacked against him in the collab with Nas, to the point cats was gonna be complaining no matter what

 

[L. Deezy]

Shyts on the entirety of light years

Who cares... real talk

Yall gon spend the whole thread reminiscing on older records. Trackmasters got Nas shyt better than that. See how that works?

 

[threattonature]

These recent Snoop and Dogg pound beats are WAY better than anything on here. But then again snoop has always had a great ear for beats.







Throwback

Nah Rage went nuts on that first track. Thanks for posting.

 

[Grand_Verbalizer]

Started this beat years back and circled back to it recently, The influence is pretty obvious though it has more of a somber tone
(HQ edit when I get a better acapella)


If NYSOM 3 has grown on you fantastic
If not ch-check out my melody



or fukk it play both

@Icewatermetallik @ReWiNd @Regular_P

 

[Cladyclad]

What’s that first week we looking at

30k

 

[xiceman191]

https://x.com/SlimGoodie10STP/status/1999689155346072032

Them Titties

 

[L. Deezy]

https://x.com/SlimGoodie10STP/status/1999689155346072032

Saw this.. this was dope

 

[MicIsGod]

Nah, that beat is better than most of this album, and I like the album.

This is better than the intro? And the az track?