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Albums Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years (Discussion Thread)
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Who was posting the iTunes chart Nas Or Preemo?
FunkDoc1112
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Recession Proof is probably the best beat Hit-Boy has ever made, goddamn
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Nas wanted to put Em on Daughters but Eminem said he had done so much Hailey bars he didn't want to go back to that well.
New Jeruzalem Journalist
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And this argument about who's realer and more hip-hop than the next person in regards to THIS album ain't even that serious.
I don't give a fukk if Kool Herc hates this album. I fukk with it HEAVY, way more than any of the Hit-Boy projects (only one of those I fukk with is KD2, which I love, but has more skippable tracks to me).
I don't have to pull somebody's bboy card if they're not feeling this album, but I do find it odd how people were constantly shytting on Premier and anything golden era adjacent in every Nas/Hit-Boy album thread, and then swear up and down anybody liking this album is coping or lying. That criticism doesn't seem genuine moreso than just following a predetermined narrative some people have attached themselves to because of their own identity crisis over aging.
I don't give a fukk if Kool Herc hates this album. I fukk with it HEAVY, way more than any of the Hit-Boy projects (only one of those I fukk with is KD2, which I love, but has more skippable tracks to me).
I don't have to pull somebody's bboy card if they're not feeling this album, but I do find it odd how people were constantly shytting on Premier and anything golden era adjacent in every Nas/Hit-Boy album thread, and then swear up and down anybody liking this album is coping or lying. That criticism doesn't seem genuine moreso than just following a predetermined narrative some people have attached themselves to because of their own identity crisis over aging.
H. Selassie
Black Royalty
He also said that Em was appreciative of the fact that Nas reached out to him for a real content song and not a “bar-for-bar” battle verse like most rappers want when they call him.
HNIC973
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the 2nd half of the album is where it shines imo. It's a solid I disagree with ALC I rather HavocBy the 3rd listen, a few joints really stuck:
Madman
Writers
Young Kings
My Story Your Story
Junkie
Shine Together
Nas’s writing detail/rapping is just. Easily has at least another 5 albums in him.
When I look at this through the lens of Nas & Preme’s ode to the era of Hip-Hop they came of age in, I’m not mad at it. That said…I do NOT need another one of these. Bring back Hit-Boy…bring Alchemist with him.
Was happy to hear in the Joe Budden interview he & AZ are trying to link for a full Esco/Sosa EP. That will be fire.
I like KD2 better than this album. I still can't decide if Light Years is better than the rest. KD3 is great, maybe that's on par with this one. This is definitely better than KD1
Magic 1 might be better but I don't adore it like everyone else...I also don't hate Magic 2 like everyone else, but it was the weaker one. Magic 3 is dope but kinda inconsistent
That said, Wave Gods is kinda what I was hoping for on this one and it's still better than this whole album lol
Magic 1 might be better but I don't adore it like everyone else...I also don't hate Magic 2 like everyone else, but it was the weaker one. Magic 3 is dope but kinda inconsistent
That said, Wave Gods is kinda what I was hoping for on this one and it's still better than this whole album lol
Tommy Gibbs
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non of the Mass Appeal releases cared about sales. And neither does anyone that purchased them or listened to them repeatedly. Sales are a social media talking point for clicks.
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ArchStanton
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I'm just saying, some of the trolls will be insufferable.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
To be fair I have too much respect for Marco Polo to call him some white boy. He's a legend, I respect him. My issue is twofold. I vividly remember nikkas clowning Hit Boy for sample packs during the KD run. Especially when he'd have horns in tracks. I vividly remember Pete Rock laughing about the sound being an imitation of the real thing. Even on this forum there was discussion about it. Can't remember the track but Hit Boy sampled a very basic, super common pack for one of the horns and dudes gave him a lot of shyt for it.
I don't fukk with most sample packs, which is why I can't stand a lot of modern Griselda shyt (Beat Butcha). I will say when it comes to white boys, Alchemist and Jake One have good drum kits. But it gets to my second issue: I don't think the sound translates well in a lot of rap music because it sounds static and lifeless. It rarely sounds like musicians are naturally jamming and being recorded - instead it sounds like guys are standing around playing what they think will work for rap. It's very glaring on this album. Like that AZ track where it seems like they're trying to interpolate/riff off some Nautilus type shyt and it just sounds lame as fukk. That's a Polo sample pack btw.
One of the biggest reasons i know this albun aint shyt
Not one song warranted its own thread. 4 days and not 1
Bu bu but its a album thread
Not one song warranted its own thread. 4 days and not 1
Bu bu but its a album thread
