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

[Cladyclad]

Yall so fukn dumb. This thread should be locked. Dudes talking in circles in here the past few days.

Cladyclad will bring levity to this madness

whats the best verse on album excluding AZ

 

[HNIC973]

Madman, It’s Time, or even Shine Together would’ve been better intros. This album suffers from such an awkward slow start. Not bad but not great either. And that’s why it’s bit frustrating. I feel like the first 3 tracks on the album gotta be stellar

That's what I said from Writers on the album shines imo. With Magic Speechless hit you like , then MJB,then Ugly,40-16. It felt like we was getting hit with haymakers that's why I said Magic is special. Preemo was good on here but we all know he's capable of better. Overall it's still a solid album

 

[Prolific_1011]

This dude is too nasty on the mic, man. The illest lyricist of all time. No question.

Love this album.

 

[JayBaldacci]

I took a drive to Atlanta today and the drive was so long, I was able to play all 6 Nas/Hit-boy albums AND the Nas/Premmo album consecutively. Here's how I'd rank em:

KD 3
Magic
KD 2
Magic 3
Light Years
KD
Magic 2

You could possibly switch Magic 3 and Light Years, but the rest of it is pretty much set in stone for me.

No, you can't...

For me:

Magic
KDIII
KDII
Magic 3/Light-Years (more consistent production on M3 but better rapping on LY so tie)
Magic 2 (grew on me a lot)
KDl

The rapping on LY isn't better... like at all.

 

[ThirdAct]

The rapping on LY isn't better... like at all.

I fukk with Magic 3 but I thought Nas flows were more versatile here, tighter rhyme schemes...agree to disagree

 

[Prolific_1011]

KD3/Light-Years
Magic 1
KD2/Magic 3
KD1
Magic 2 (I still enjoy this album)

 

[JayBaldacci]

Cladyclad will bring levity to this madness

whats the best verse on album excluding AZ

Sons first verse probably.

 

[Cladyclad]

Sons first verse probably.

Out of 10 what you rank it

 

[OJ Simpsom]

nikkaz didn't like Magic 2

 

[OJ Simpsom]

This dude is too nasty on the mic, man. The illest lyricist of all time. No question.

Love this album.

Grown man talkMost won't appreciate this

 

[ajnapoleon]

This was masterfully done





Yes I got it in my library can’t remember where I downloaded it from



But this is amazing perfect for riding and gym

 

[rabbid]

Did you drive from Narnia to Atlanta ?

I’m mad only you noticed that and he never answered you cause what? lmaooo breh went to hell and back with some Nasty Esco. That’s a wild amount of time like did he mean Atlanta as in what used to be known as Atlantis? ain’t no way bro…. Ain’t no way. And then he said it casually like he just went to pick up some sand bags at his grandma house.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

nikkaz didn't like Magic 2

Magic 2 is overhated imo

The joint with 50, Black Magic, Motion, Pistols on the Album Cover are great records

I like that Abracadabra shyt too, Hit makes good beats like that and Nas is just flexing his skills

It's at the bottom of this run but it's not bad at all

 

[spliz]

It's not that sales numbers are fake now. It's that they gauge something quite different from the physical media era. They gauge consumption. How many times are people listening to this song, and are they paying to listen (subscription). That business model does not benefit older artists like Nas, who have fanbases that don't stream music like that. Which is why you see first week numbers from old rock bands where they sell 60k first week and only 10k is streaming. And as others have said, Nas being independent makes it much harder to get his physicals shipped on time for 1st week reporting.

Do I think 5k would be a disaster? Yes. That's a fair assessment IMO. But at the end of the day when Nas did 56k with KD2 he got clowned by the same clowns who are prematurely clowning 5k. So the haters gonna hate regardless at the end of the day. And even as someone who isn't a fan of the album I'll push back on the "people listened once and moved on" crowd because those types of people predominantly aren't streaming a Nas album in the first place. That's how younger fans operate...hence the 21 Savage sales number. My general opinion? I don't think a lot of fans knew the album came out. Not fans as in Coli Nas soldiers who know about every Instagram post seconds after it goes up. Regular dudes with jobs and families who need a music single or movie/tv trailer to know when something is coming.

Streaming has always been retarded to count as a sale. It never made sense and never will. And it’s VERY easily manipulated.

 

[BK The Great]

That Ian dude who is with Budden A&R'd this shyt, no wonder it was put together horribly. King's Disease was a very good run, same with Magic. They need to run this back and create other shyt. I know they can do better.