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

[InstantKlassik]

I knew this nikka was gonna be tight. Imma keep it a stack tho I don’t like a lot of his opinions on shyt. He come off as a know it all sometimes.

Absolutely. His whole “I know it all, yet I’m a nice guy “schtick is LAME as hell.

 

[spliz]

Also im surprised that comment section most people like the album and callin son out.

 

[Piff Perkins]

 

[spliz]

Absolutely. His whole know it all, yet I’m a nice guy schtick is LAME as hell.

Yea ive had to call him out a few times about some of his takes. I don’t think he’s a bad dude I just think he over analyzes shyt sometimes and he doesn’t like to hear the opposing view.

 

[TripleAgent]

This shyt mid as fukk. Only liked about 3 songs.
The production on this shyt isn't wack, but its not good either. Everything about this shyt screams average. Nas is still spitting for the most part tho, but its just not enough. The AZ song is the best joint.

shyt feels like the eastcoast equivalent to that snoop n dre project where snoop rapping his ass off, but dre is trash.

It's crazy cuz Preme gave De La and Ransom better beats than this.

Not liking it is whatever, but comparing it to Missionary is WILD. The execution here is infinitely better.

 

[FreshFromATL]

Man the production could have been better on this, SMH.

Nas/Hitboy >> Nas/Premier 2025

 

[Po pimp]

Blue Benz
The Cure
Rare
Store Run
Nobody
Composure
Nas is Good
Speechless
40-16 Building
Ugly
The Truth
Legit
Thun
Reminisce
Don’t Shoot
Slow It Down

And it was HARD for me to choose only 15 but them 15 joints better than this whole album clearly. lol.

Store Run might be my favorite Nas track since Life is Good

 

[Piff Perkins]

I knew this nikka was gonna be tight. Imma keep it a stack tho I don’t like a lot of his opinions on shyt. He come off as a know it all sometimes. Also. He was never gonna like it. He been low key shytting on Premo for like a year straight. lol.

Honestly I've never seen this dude say anything negative about a Nas project so this is surprising. He always comes off as a hype man in the vids I've seen. He's 100% right about people trying to blame Nas for this, or claiming Nas was telling Premo to make "minimal" beats lol. Again, show me the classic boom bap records that had a live band playing samples or basslines. Where's the early 90s KRS album with Welcome To The Underground. Where's the 80s Rakim album with that lol. Dudes acting like Premo didn't have bangers until Nas Is Like. Stop it.

Did Premo get told to limit the samples? Maybe, but the Mass Appeal records have been full of samples. And obviously there are samples on Light Years. But there's also multiple tracks with a band that sound just as slow and un-funky as those records with Royce and Adrian Younge. That bass on 3rd Childhood...

 

[InstantKlassik]

Yea ive had to call him out a few times about some of his takes. I don’t think he’s a bad dude I just think he over analyzes shyt sometimes and he doesn’t like to hear the opposing view.

1000%. It’s like bro, what you’re saying is opinion just like what I’m saying. You’re not the end all be all.Him gaining a lil online attention has only magnified his ways.

 

[HNIC973]

Nobody complained about Nas breh, if they did its an insignicant few. Nas brought his game in abundance, the concepts alone are in bucket loads

a couple goofies in this thread was

 

[MikeStamina]

Apparently some of you are under the impression Nas was/is trying to impress you.
Mr Jones is clearly doing HIM. Doing the Art how he finds compelling. It's on YOU to jump on board or Jump off. Either way he’s good with your decision. Hence, He's not out here trying to overly sell you to support him. It's called a Comfort Zone.


So please, stop with the "he needs to work with such n such producer" posts. You're using Fan Logic and clearly not reading the Tea Leaves.

Nas n Premier made the album THEY wanted to make

You can always play the old shyt

 

[TripleAgent]

Exactly, to me this better than the Com/Pete album, De La was better too. Com/Pete is the let down album IMO, best tracks were the singles. Opinions I guess.

 

[Ziggiy]

Apparently some of you are under the impression Nas was/is trying to impress you.
Mr Jones is clearly doing HIM. Doing the Art how he finds compelling. It's on YOU to jump on board or Jump off. Either way he’s good with your decision. Hence, He's not out here trying to overly sell you to support him. It's called a Comfort Zone.


So please, stop with the "he needs to work with such n such producer" posts. You're using Fan Logic and clearly not reading the Tea Leaves.

Nas n Premier made the album THEY wanted to make

You can always play the old shyt

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[Metal Face]

 

[FlyRy]

Nas picked some wack beats. He's resorted to name dropping and telling "remember that?" stories. Wikipedia raps