Albums Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years (December 12th)

[the cac mamba]

Released 15 years ago it would be fine. Released after more than 30 years of nas/premo hype? That shyt was light.

i think like some have said in here, that shyt was a "street single". no way in hell it's the best song on the tape

as a warmup, i think it did its purpose

 

[Ziggiy]

Man, Nas doesn’t care about all that man, lol. He’s Nas, this whole campaign has been promo, anybody into “real” hip hop, whatever that means, is fully aware and has been waiting for Nas’s joint. Whoever else? Fukk em, lol. Man is 52 years old, and playing with 9-figures, he doesn’t need to convince and try to reach a new fan or sumn to buy his shhit.

All of this is true, every single word.


I’m just being selfish when I say I wish Nas & Preme would have went on a press run, not something super elaborate, but similar to the promo run he went on for KD1.

I like getting Nas’s insights into his art, the timing of it, what motivates him, etc.

But Nas has told us time and time again he hates doing interviews, he hates press, and he thinks modern day news and blogs are one big monkey circus.

 

[Ziggiy]

Yep. I was sick when he chose to do an joint album with Damian Marley instead of Az and it turned out to be a great idea. Same thing with Hit Boy. I was sceptic at first and they knocked it out of the park. As an artist you don't always need to listen to the fans.

He did the album with Primo as a gift to us but he did it now because he felt it and didn't want to forced it. It also help that he did it now that he's independent on his own label where he don't have the pressure of releasing a single, worry about the promo and having a deadline, that's why they took their time with it

If Nas would have listen to the fans. Iww would have not exist the way it is and his carreer would have be way different. Not necessarily for the best

Another post with nothing but the truth.

Its ok to fantasize and want certain things from our favorite artists. A Nas & (circa 98-2006) Dr Dre album. Nas/AZ. Nas/Mobb Deep. Nas/etc but the problem with Nas and so-called “fans” is that Nas is the ONLY rapper who people feel like OWES these mythological projects to. Like he’s not an artist with his own vision and desires for his career and legacy. Like people really feel like Nas owes Large Professor an entire album, despite the fact that any moral debt Nas mighr have owed LP was paid twenty times over by having LP produce three songs on what is considered the greatest rap album of ALL time. He’ll literally eat off royalties for the rest of his life from that one album, maybe more so than any of his solo or Main Source projects. But people DEMAND more.

People feel like Nas OWES Pete Rock an entire album, this despite Pete Rock publicly trashing Nas’s follow up album It Was Written and being jealous he wasn’t on it. Nas was trying to expand as an artist and also become a star in his own right so he could get out the hood and take care of his family. What Pete Rock did could be taken as akin to trying to snatch food out of Nas mouth because HE didn’t cook it. nikkas really thought Nas shouldn’t be eating unless THEY were sitting at his table. Then 30 years later after Nas works with him again Pete does the same thing, trashing the Hit-Boy albums and, to add insult to injury, tries to SUE Nas over some bullshyt he had no power or control over. Pete Rock hasn’t changed from who he was THIRTY YEARS AGO. And then Nas called him out on it on Kings Disease 3 and he tried to switch up and change his tone like he was unaware of the firestorm of bullshyt HE started. Pathetic. But Nas is supposed to do albums with someone like that? We DEMAND that?!?!?

Nas has done literally an album’s worth of material with AZ over the past thirty years. From Life’s A bytch to Mo Money Mo Homicide to The Firm. Nas has done more for and with AZ on a professional level than Jay-Z has done for Memphis Bleek. But we DEMAND an album, automatically assuming it would be this all time classic, despite these men having their own visions and perhaps wildly different goals.

Its crazy how people demand Nas float nikkas and continue to give them a leg up off HIS name and reputation whilst allowing other artists the freedom to do what they want and feel. And its not even like these people show some sort of undying loyalty or fealty towards Nas for what he HAS done for and with them. Nas went to war with Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella AND Dip-Set pretty much at the same time and AZ was quiet as a church mouse. Large Professor was mad that the Nasir album launch event produced by Kanye dared be a celebration highlighting NAS & KANYE and tweeted that he should have put somebody else on Live at The Barbecue.

When it comes to Nas, its like all context and pretext and common sense goes out the door and he’s just supposed to bow down to what fans think his career should be or who he should work with, when he’s proven us wrong time and time again. Q-Tip told Steve Stoute he was ruining Nas career when he heard It Was Written for the first time. He was dead wrong. Jay-Z thought Nas was ripe for the pickings when he dropped Takeover. He was dead wrong. 50 Cent said Nas was Ice Cold. He was dead wrong. People were up in arms about Nas working with the likes of Salaam Remi, Will I Am, and Damien Marley. They were all dead wrong.

Nas chose Hit-Boy and certain fans did the whole “ why not DJ Premier, Alchemist, Pete Rock, J.Dilla, Madlib, RZA, Havoc, blah blah cry cru whine whine” shyt. But Hit-Boy not only gave Nas a sonic landscape to reintroduce himself to a newer generation whilst retaining his boom bap roots, he helped get Nas a Grammy, helped make Nas tie Jay-Z as the ONLY rappers with the most billboard top 10 placing albums, helped get Nas the most critically acclaimed album of 2022, and a host of other achievements. Hit-Boy’s production inspiring Nas literally helped legitimize Mass Appeal as a company, which has led to the Legend Has It campaign. Nas doing it HIS way has led him to where he is now. Not listening to fans.

 

[The Dust King]

@REAL6 @Barney Rubble

dj premier did not produce any variation of one love. the sadat version was don

sidebars;

salute to rome streetz for name droppin on every album at least once

never thought id hear jungle on a de la soul record

wheres freddie foxx been? that last album he did wit premier back in 2000s was bananas

 

[JulesMusic719]

Leave it to the coli to turn a Nas X DJ Premiere album anticipation thread into a shyt show translating to: Lets HyPOtheTIcly sAy NaS was wOrKING AlCheMiST or MaDlIb InStEad

 

[Formerly known as...]

Leave it to the coli to turn a Nas X DJ Premiere album anticipation thread into a shyt show translating to: Lets HyPOtheTIcly sAy NaS was wOrKING AlCheMiST or MaDlIb InStEad

This. Let's just appreciate he's giving us the album produced by the producer we've been asking for. Regardless if it's later than we wanted we are still getting it. Let's just get it, enjoy it and keep it moving. I don't care who's next for Nas to work with I want to get this and listen before talking about the next producer.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

Leave it to the coli to turn a Nas X DJ Premiere album anticipation thread into a shyt show translating to: Lets HyPOtheTIcly sAy NaS was wOrKING AlCheMiST or MaDlIb InStEad

To the defense of Coli poster, it'll be easier if there was something to talk about : a tracklist, interviews, a single, snippets... up until one of those happens, the frustration will take over and negatives comments will rise above
But I agree with you, we should be blessed than this day is finally coming