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

[L $ C]

Jay-Z wouldn’t have the courage to rap over these beats. And thats no disrespect to jay but he’s never been a “daring” artist and not much of a traditionalist outside of Reasonable Doubt. He wouldn’t know what to do with a beat like Welcome To The Underground or Git Ready.

He wouldn’t rap over welcome to the underground cuz he’d have the heart to tell preme it’s total buns


Nas is my goat bro but come on

 

[semicko82]

He’s talking about in comparison to Jay-Z. Jay got a LOT of undeserved credit for being THE rapper to make “mature” rap when Nas had been doing it since Streets Disciple and, more palatably successful on Life is Good.

Everything Jay rapped about on 4:44, minus perhaps his mothers coming out story, Nas rapped about on Streets Disciple, Untitled, Distant Relatives and Life is Good. ESPECIALLY Life is Good.

Ehhh in real time Nas got props for Life is Good being the first grown man album

 

[L $ C]

The album is a middle of the pack Nas album. Below middle. Still great because it the GOAT and it’s Nas

The production is just too weak , shyt the best beat I heard preme do in last month was on de la shyt. He needed to come way harder than this for the goat it’s dissapointing the production

 

[L $ C]

Compare the warm of production on de la album to this. It’s rough

 

[Ellen Degeneres]

I thought about 4:44. I wouldn’t call it “daring” in the sense that Light Years is in that Light Years REALLY goes for the gusto with the minimalism, some of these beats sound like Nas & Premo transported back to the 80’s on some Marley Marl Roxanne’s Revenge steeze. I can’t see Jay-Z making Pause Tapes or Writers.

Jay jumped on I Do It For Hip Hop with an 80s park jam flow. It sounded grating compared to what Nas and Luda were doing, but nah he can do hip hop homages no problem, even out of pocket sounding ones.

 

[Cladyclad]

Ehhh in real time Nas got props for Life is Good being the first grown man album

What is a grown man album lol

 

[semicko82]

What is a grown man album lol

Yikes
I'm probably a bigger Hov fan than you, but Life is Good is the first grown man album

 

[Cladyclad]

Yikes
I'm probably a bigger Hov fan than you, but Life is Good is the first grown man album

what Makes a album a grown man album?

 

[semicko82]

what Makes a album a grown man album?

I don't know
You got me

 

[Cladyclad]

I don't know
You got me

i do got you lol

to call Life is good the first a grown man album ever when Chuck D been out since the 80s is wild to me

just because Nas made a song about his daughter and and surface level song about kelis don’t make it the first grown man album lol

 

[semicko82]

i do got you lol

to call Life is good the first a grown man albums are ever when Chuck D been out since the 80s is wild to me

just because Nas made a song about his daughter and and surface level song about kelis don’t make it the first grown man album lol

Hmmm

 

[L $ C]

No video. Not any interview before album. It’s a bit weird the roll out considering what Nas has at his disposal now

 

[L $ C]

I also don’t think it threw Nas any favors production wise dropping after the De La album and before it the mobb album. The production on those projects was elite

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Just bumped this album front to back for the 3rd time.

I absolutely love this album. Noddin' and grinnin' on some shyt each track. Can't even keep a favorite track from hour to hour. Even my girl likes Sons, and she doesn't even fukk with hip-hop like that.

 

[bigde09]

Jay-Z wouldn’t have the courage to rap over these beats. And thats no disrespect to jay but he’s never been a “daring” artist and not much of a traditionalist outside of Reasonable Doubt. He wouldn’t know what to do with a beat like Welcome To The Underground or Git Ready.

Rapping on so so beats is courage now