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

[Cladyclad]

Come on @Cladyclad you can be top 3 by the end of next week, I believe in you

Yall dudes got 50 posts talking about me. Im not even famous and yall on my dikk. One more @ you will be in the top 3 weirdo

 

[ItWasWritten]

Man I was just watching the Joe budden podcast

He said he was disappointed by the Nas and AZ track because he heard another version or demo way before and he said the beat was fire - if you listened to the song they rapping but you can tell they was rapping to something else … kinda like a dj take a instrumental and acapella from one song and beat from another and mix em

Maybe that’s what happened on some of these , I wonder how much shyt was changed

I refuse to believe Preem sat down and did my life is real or NYSOM3 - maybe something happened with the samples or something

 

[Mike the Executioner]

U don’t gotta explain shyt to that bytch ass nikka. He said Nas ain’t top 5 no more at rapping and he mad cause I called him out about this album being more lyrical than GNX. lol.

Yeah, when he said Kendrick is a better songwriter than prime Nas, I thought my jaw was about to come off.

He heard "cryptocurrency Scarface" and it triggered him into thinking Nas isn't rapping about anything anymore.

 

[KingsOfKings]

Come on @Cladyclad you can be top 3 by the end of next week, I believe in you

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Nah nikka u a hoe. U can criticize me and my rapping or whatever u wanna do. U still a hoe and u still a punk. U p*ssy and u a dikkrider. Ya mans was rappin some bullshyt on GNX get over it.

Shut up fakkit

 

[MikeStamina]

According to Nas stans every album he drops is a 10/10. It's ok to admit something is 6 or a 7. Calling every Nas album a masterpiece only makes you guys look foolish. At best this is a 3.5 mic album to me. Maybe 3. There's like 3-4 very good beats on here. With the rest ranging from terrible to average. Nas is still very sharp with the flow but he's also repeating a lot of the same shyt he's said on his past 5 albums. So that also takes some points off. Once you start calling yourself the crypto currency Scarface it's probably time to fallback for a while and challenge yourself to write something with a little more substance. Nas has also been writing for so long it's probably not easy to come up with new ideas. So I get it. But a spade is still a spade.

Nas is similar to guys like common and ghostface now. All these guys are in my personal top 5 but they're also not elite with the pen anymore and I can admit that. Just like rza is my GOAT producer and I can admit he's absolutely garbage now. All these guys found their comfort zone and they're sticking to it. Every song is just a complete rehash of something they already made or something they already said. But they're all in their 50's now. They don't need to be elite anymore. Them still being very good and making decent albums is the best you could hope for at this stage of their careers. But I'm also not going to grade them on a curve because of who they are. Cause that would only degrade the artform. There's a standard of hip hop greatness and that bar shouldn't ever be lowered. Not even for the legends.

Y'all want it one way...but it's the other way.

If what Nas is currently doing doesn't work for you, DON'T fukk WITH IT . It's okaaayy

Why is that such a difficult concept. I don't understand people that act like they're being forced to like a Nas album

Why do y'all wanna be SEEN so bad?

Saying you wouldn't grade 50yr old rappers on a curve is probably the dumbest thing you ever wrote.

If MJ could return to the bulls right now and average 18 for the season, he'd win mvp going away.

Nas has a lotta albums, play the ones he doesn't say Crypto Currency Scarface

 

[spliz]

Man I was just watching the Joe budden podcast

He said he was disappointed by the Nas and AZ track because he heard another version or demo way before and he said the beat was fire - if you listened to the song they rapping but you can tell they was rapping to something else … kinda like a dj take a instrumental and acapella from one song and beat from another and mix em

Maybe that’s what happened on some of these , I wonder how much shyt was changed

I refuse to believe Preem sat down and did my life is real or NYSOM3 - maybe something happened with the samples or something

Hmmm this is interesting.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Yeah, when he said Kendrick is a better songwriter than prime Nas, I thought my jaw was about to come off.

He heard "cryptocurrency Scarface" and it triggered him into thinking Nas isn't rapping about anything anymore.

Kendrick is a better songwriter than Nas ever was. By miles. The only rappers who can compare to Kendrick in that department are Pac, Big, and Jay. And even those guys don't have Kendricks versatility with the pen. Nas was never in that category as a song writer. I don't know why you guys pretend that he was. I have Nas ahead of Jay all time but he could never construct a song like hov.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Kendrick is a better songwriter than Nas ever was. By miles. The only rappers who can compare to Kendrick in that department are Pac, Big, and Jay. And even those guys don't have Kendricks versatility with the pen. Nas was never in that category as a song writer. I don't know why you guys pretend that he was. I have Nas ahead of Jay all time but he could never construct a song like hov.

What is your criteria for a great hip hop song? If you're talking about making hits, that's an entirely different thing.

Are "N.Y. State of Mind," "One Love," "I Gave You Power," "Street Dreams," "Nas is Like," "Hate Me Now," "Undying Love," etc. not examples of elite songwriting? Nas has talked about damn near everything in music, rapped from multiple different perspectives. He rapped a two-part song as a woman. How is not that a sign of versatility?

 

[perfectblack999]

Halfway through, this is gonna be a divisive album…hmmm…

This thread

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Everybody is doing too much on this Kendrick/Nas convo, get a fukking grip.

"Kendrick has no quotables" has always been a dumb nonsequitir from dusty old heads trying to protect their era but so is saying that Kendrick is better than prime Nas lmao

 

[spliz]

What is your criteria for a great hip hop song? If you're talking about making hits, that's an entirely different thing.

Are "N.Y. State of Mind," "One Love," "I Gave You Power," "Street Dreams," "Nas is Like," "Hate Me Now," "Undying Love," etc. not examples of elite songwriting? Nas has talked about damn near everything in music, rapped from multiple different perspectives. He rapped a two-part song as a woman. How is not that a sign of versatility?

Stop even talking to that stupid nikka man. lol. These nikkas are mentally ill.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Stop even talking to that stupid nikka man. lol. These nikkas are mentally ill.

You're right. A lot of people talk about how insane Nas stans are, but in reality, the people who complain about them are far more insane.

 

[MikeStamina]

It’s at least an aspect of good songwriting. Ask any songwriter what the hardest thing to do is and almost every one will agree that it’s to craft a hit. These are commercially released albums not SoundCloud uploads.
Let’s not pretend Nas is Prince here either releasing album after album of wildly experimental songs that don’t even have a potential radio song. He has collabs with an extremely long list of commercially viable singers, rappers and producers where he is clearly trying to make a hit.

Exactly....Hence why Coolio n Flo Rida are high on the list of hip hop's greatest writers.

 

[ItWasWritten]

Kendrick is a better songwriter than Nas ever was. By miles. The only rappers who can compare to Kendrick in that department are Pac, Big, and Jay. And even those guys don't have Kendricks versatility with the pen. Nas was never in that category as a song writer. I don't know why you guys pretend that he was. I have Nas ahead of Jay all time but he could never construct a song like hov.

You know Nas rapped as a gun right …

Now you getting out of pocket