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

[HNIC973]

Writers is classic Nas Preemo

 

[CHERUB]

Nasty Esco Nasir reminds me of DMX Stop Being Greedy especially with Voice changes with the different characters

 

[Crumple]

What @spliz said about it sounding better the next day.

I had it on while making food and picked other parts of his rhymes. I felt the same. Gonna check the whole thing again soon.

Grateful they made it!

 

[Apollo Kid]

 

[HNIC973]

Serendipitous, always move with confidence
You may not see me sweat, but trust, yo, I work hard for this
Grew up around heroin addicts before that crack shyt
Crack was light compared to what the smack did
Y'all played with marbles
We played with dope fiend needles we found
Injected worms when the rain brought 'em up from the ground
It's nothin' changing
Some of my men, we go back like daylight savings
My third childhood, that third course, that's the main dish
Hope we get dessert, that's the cherry on top
Peaceful Sundays, but we still carry the Glocks registered
If you made it this far, then it's all good
It makes me proud, I love that we going out hood
I swear this why he stands above the rest imo. He's just different the visuals he gives you especially if you from that type of shyt

 

[L. Deezy]

 

[Ruck]

4.25/5 mics

This old ass 50 year old rapper is aging like fine wine. Hairline immaculate, skin flourishing, stocks compiling, wisdom stay sharpened. Nasir, health is wealth

 

[Awesome Wells]

 

[yesiambowling]

It's early but I'd say for Nas this decade:

1. King's Disease III
2. Magic
3. King's Disease II
4. Magic 3
5. Magic 2
6. Light-Years
7. King's Disease

 

[InstantKlassik]

My story, Your Story sounds like a posthumous collab. The back and forth doesn’t sound natural.

They definitely weren’t in the studio together recording, which is a shame because it’s a fire track, would be 5/5 if they cleaned it up.

Havoc & Prodigy’s back and forth sounded seamless.

 

[Love Sosa]

Gave this the whip test on my commute today. We needed this

 

[beenz]

I been traveling all day. Gonna try to check this out on the airplane. The 4 songs I heard were good tho

 

[Tres Leches]

the hitboy beats were better nas did what he could he still nice with it


some of my favorites are the nasty esco nasir and the AZ joint

 

[Mike Wins]

So we gotta do the obvious Coli thing and compare this to other recent veteran rapper-producer albums right

Got to put the LL album comfortably on top but that was special. To me the best hip hop album the last couple years, maybe a top 3 LL album and he hadn't rapped at that level in a long time. And Tip production was incredible the way it was vintage but still fresh and unexpected.

Would put this about the same level as the Common-Pete album at this point. That album was dope, had a good energy to it and more crowd pleasing production choices but was kinda safe and predictable. This one more ambitious lyrically and conceptually, weirder and not as accessible musically but the top tracks are more interesting.

We won't get into the Snoop-Dre one

 

[re'up]

That sample is fire on NY State of Mind 3

but that beat is pretty weak. I know it's all different now, all these years later, but it didn't sound good to me.