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

[TV]

My favorites on this album are:

My Life is Real
Madman (This is my shyt)
Pause Tapes
Writers
Sons
It's Time (Probably my favorite)
Junkie
Shine Together

 

[Cladyclad]

Impressive how you listened to five songs in four minutes flat

I heard 2 before breh

 

[ItWasWritten]

Does anybody know what type of music genre Preem sampled on Wlecome to the Undergorund … like Broadway ? Jazzy Gospel ? I just
Don’t get it

 

[spliz]

Dude said earlier in the thread he ain't listened to a Nas album since KD1 and now he pretending to know all the topics discussed in the series

He talked about his childhood, current life, politics, social commentary, history, religion, relationships, being a parent, past present and future of hip hop culture, philosophy, business shyt, street shyt, fly shyt, uplifting topics, storytelling, concept tracks, probably more on those albums. Subject matter literally the dumbest criticism you can make about Nas. No rapper with his level of reach and success consistently speak on a wider range of topics.

Yep. It’s him and Pac. That’s it.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Nas is a single man in his 50s

Make a song about it

I think its a hit in something like that

He's living a crypto bro VC low stress life, I think that comes out clearly. He has money and doing all of this strictly for the love and the culture

Listen to Junkie lol

 

[-DMP-]

listened this morning. Agree with those that said the album finds its groove at tapes and writers.

I like the Nasty/esco song the most. I wanted more of that concept tbh.

 

[spliz]

Nas is a single man in his 50s

Make a song about it

I think its a hit in something like that

Nas has songs in the KD series about that. U just full of shyt man. U actually ain’t even listening to this shyt u just talking. U literally REFUSED to listen to KD3. U have no right to speak on what he does or doesn’t talk about if u not willing to even listen to his shyt.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Why do y'all even entertain that contrarian bozo?

 

[Cladyclad]

Nas has songs in the KD series about that. U just full of shyt man. U actually ain’t even listening to this shyt u just talking. U literally REFUSED to listen to KD3. U have no right to speak on what he does or doesn’t talk about if u not willing to even listen to his shyt.

Ok you got it. Nas best trait was details

He dont go into detail about anything anymore breh

If you here a verse from him you catch everything first go round

 

[Cladyclad]

He's living a crypto bro VC low stress life, I think that comes out clearly. He has money and doing all of this strictly for the love and the culture

Listen to Junkie lol

I did it was ok

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I hate that I don't like this production more. I'm so frustrated with myself that I don't just enjoy it more. Primo did 17 beats this year for Roc Marci, Ransom, and De La Soul, and I like 13 of those 17 a good bit more than I like the ones on Light Years.

I also really dislike some of the framing of the talk of this project I've seen online today. Not even so much here. But there's a lot of "oh if you don't like you just want to hear Metro Boomin or Mustard, etc." Which I think is dumb.

Preem has been my GOAT producer of all time and has been for over 20 years. I really tried to temper my expectations on this too. I think Nas showed up, 100% and delivered amazingly. I was not expecting anything on the level of their 90's and early 00's work, but damn...a good half of the beats on here are mostly forgettable to me.

Again, I'm gonna give these beats time to grow on me, because they definitely might.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Writers is the highlight for sure

 

[Tetris v2.0]

The Seinfeld bass on 3rd Childhood is hilarity and I wonder if they realized that

I can't unhear it lol

 

[Crumple]

Wow…



…and not in a good way.

The track list had me hyped, but reality is not meeting my expectations.

I bought Illmatic on CD the week it dropped. I’ve been a Nas fan since the beginning. H to the Omo Nas… not shawty what’s your price or that wack ass album he dropped with Kanye, Nasir, Nas.



The rapping on this sounded uninspired —like he’s bored with rap. This will get no more listens from me. I won’t even talk about the beats.



Weed plate status.

What albums do you like in hip hop?

I want to understand your perspective

I guess as far as stuff relevant to this thread (ie beats I could picture Nas on)


(My most blatant Premo imitation lol)














(My Gang Starr era Premo imitation)

Big daps, you're very dope. Make things happen!

I wanted to know where you were coming from on your critique on certain parts of this album.

What you said about reverb personally freaked me out.

Because I was thinking of using reverb.

But in all my music making I never intentionally used reverb on my vocals or beats?

Were you talking reverb on his vocals or the production?

I'm going to experiment with it.

The plus for me not using it was this - when people see me live or hear my speaking voice they know it's me. It's the same.

Where I have seen artists live sound completely different live because I assume they used heavy effects on their vocal production.

What are your thoughts on reverb usage?

Thank you.

 

[spliz]

I hate that I don't like this production more. I'm so frustrated with myself that I don't just enjoy it more. Primo did 17 beats this year for Roc Marci, Ransom, and De La Soul, and I like 13 of those 17 a good bit more than I like the ones on Light Years.

I also really dislike some of the framing of the talk of this project I've seen online today. Not even so much here. But there's a lot of "oh if you don't like you just want to hear Metro Boomin or Mustard, etc." Which I think is dumb.

Preem has been my GOAT producer of all time and has been for over 20 years. I really tried to temper my expectations on this too. I think Nas showed up, 100% and delivered amazingly. I was not expecting anything on the level of their 90's and early 00's work, but damn...a good half of the beats on here are mostly forgettable to me.

Again, I'm gonna give these beats time to grow on me, because they definitely might.

I think Premo played in my face wit that damn NYSOM 3 beat. The fukking sample was right there for the taking. Sometimes u gotta make dope shyt rather than try to be too creative. And listen. I love creative shyt. I mean look at the shyt Roc Marci does. One thing is Roc Marci has a sort of creative style to fit certain different shyt so I don’t know. It’s a level of humor, wittiness etc etc that carries the weirdness.