Nas - King’s Disease (Discussion Thread)

[Ty-Fife]

I Am is definitely one of those late 90s/early 00s albums that would be undeniably great if not for 4-5 tracks. And just like those albums it's the ladies tracks that take the L. I would have kept You Won't See Me Tonight..that shyt would have been a hit if it was pushed and given a video. I remember Timbo saying him and Missy were stunned they didn't release it as a single. I'd also keeping Kissing, which is corny but the beat is kinda cool, the verses are good and it later ties into Undying Love.

Everything else? Big Things, Dr Knockboot, I Want To Talk To You, Money Is My bytch...straight to the bushes. Give me a time machine and I get rid of those tracks and try to get another Premo track, and another Hitmen track from Diddy (assuming they wouldn't let me use any of the leaked tracks from the double LP).

I always liked Money Is My bytch

 

[thekidfromqueens]

I think undying love is top 5 Nas song in terms of imagery and story telling. Beat is amazing and haunting also. When he talks about the van wyck and giving horse dap before he fukks out the back - I felt that

 

[Ty-Fife]

I think undying love is top 5 Nas song in terms of imagery and story telling. Beat is amazing and haunting also. When he talks about the van wyck and giving horse dap before he fukks out the back - I felt that

Top 5 story telling track, period.

Imagine if Blaze a 50 made the album too

 

[Ziggiy]

Y’all see this?

Jay-Z & Pharrell Williams Dropping New Single "Entrepreneur"

I told you!

I don’t want to see Jay-Z’s fukking name in this thread for the next 48 hours. Ya’ll are SICK with this forced competition yet.


Nas ain’t thinking about Jay and Jay ain’t thinking about Nas. Let it GO

 

[Billy Ocean]

I think undying love is top 5 Nas song in terms of imagery and story telling. Beat is amazing and haunting also. When he talks about the van wyck and giving horse dap before he fukks out the back - I felt that

Definitely Top 5 storytelling track in Hip Hop ever.

 

[Ziggiy]

I Am is definitely one of those late 90s/early 00s albums that would be undeniably great if not for 4-5 tracks. And just like those albums it's the ladies tracks that take the L. I would have kept You Won't See Me Tonight..that shyt would have been a hit if it was pushed and given a video. I remember Timbo saying him and Missy were stunned they didn't release it as a single. I'd also keeping Kissing, which is corny but the beat is kinda cool, the verses are good and it later ties into Undying Love.

Everything else? Big Things, Dr Knockboot, I Want To Talk To You, Money Is My bytch...straight to the bushes. Give me a time machine and I get rid of those tracks and try to get another Premo track, and another Hitmen track from Diddy (assuming they wouldn't let me use any of the leaked tracks from the double LP).

I might be the only person in the world who liked Big Things.


Big Things gets me hype

 

[John Mexico]

Take like 4 songs off I Am its damn near classic some of Nas best shyt is on there. Nas is like Small World Undying love Hate me Now NYSOM 2 WWS F4F Ghetto prisoners LIWYMI IWTTTY all classic or at the very least dope ass tracks. Never understood the hate for this album must of became popular after you know who said it. Pretty much every I knew in my hood fukked wit it

Because outside of the handful of amazing tracks that album is late 90s bullshyt and it where the Trash Beats trope came from. IM with you there are 6 GREAT tracks, many of those classic. But its like the other half didn't even get a budget.... I forgot all about Small World though, thats a great track

The hooks Nas had in 1999, yuck.... KISSING, Money is my bytch....

 

[Izanami]

I AM... got 4.5 mics

 

[spencerforhire]

Few hours left brehs, I'm in Europe so I'll wake up to this shyt.

I have a 12 hour drive ahead of me tomorrow (Poland to Netherlands) so I'm giving this straight repeats

How's Poland right now? Are things back to normal? And everybody still wearing masks over there? I wanted to checkout Warsaw this summer before the pandemic happen.

 

[Thief's Theme]

I might be the only person in the world who liked Big Things.


Big Things gets me hype

I was just about to say Big Things might be Nas' most underrated joint

I love that one

 

[H.S.]

Funny reading some of these posts about I Am. I HATE "Big Things" and "Dr. Knockboots".

But "Money Is My bytch" and "I Wanna Talk To" are dope to me.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

I'm in France right now so when I wake up the album will be available. Christmas before Christmas

 

[ThirdAct]

Money Is My bytch is soooooooo underrated. Plus lowkey one of the funniest songs he ever did. "I gave you back shots in ya assets"

 

[Figaro]

I Am is cool...slightly above average LP...the highs are crazy but the lows are some of the worst music Nas has created...

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

I Want To Talk To You...straight to the bushes.

Blasphemy

How's Poland right now? Are things back to normal? And everybody still wearing masks over there? I wanted to checkout Warsaw this summer before the pandemic happen.

Cases are getting worse, where I'm at (summer house near Lodz) most people obey the rules but I can't really speak for the cities, haven't left the house in the 3 weeks I've been here.