Nas - King's Disease III (Discussion Thread)

[spliz]

Thun
Legit
Get Light
First Time
Reminisce
30
Michael and Quincy
Once a man, twice a child
Beef

Anyone of these might be the best track for me at any time

I would switch out Beef with Don’t Shoot.

 

[prophecypro]

Well to be fair as great as magic 2 and 3 are, they were basically overkill and weren't better than kd3. Magic 2 was a let down compared to the previous work at first (I appreciate it much better now) so I can't really retract my words. It was a good thing they came out shortly after with Magic 3 to close their series which was a little bit better

Now I'm still glad that m2 and m3 exist cause there's a lot of great tracks between them two but yeah at a certain point the nas and hit boy formula started to stale and I'm glad they didn't try to push it further

It’s is unfortunate that people got tired of them because Hit’s a diverse enough producer that I think Nas could have worked with him exclusively but people look at names vs how it sounds


Cause after he dropped that Bron track for Benny I’m like he’s always good to run it back with Nas

 

[spliz]

Just because you campaign doesn’t guarantee a win. The Grammys have a formula when it comes to the rap categories and unfortunately neither Nas nor Mike fit that formula, if either of them win it would break every unstated but consistent “rule” that Grammy voters have followed in the rap field.


I’m holding out hope for Nas because i’m hoping that with Hip Hop 50 the voters take into account what Nas has done all year to celebrate the art-form, progress the art-form, and give the traditional pillars of the art-form their flowers. Nas put a LOT of money into his peers pockets last year and the Grammys are (outside of the rap field) as much about narrative as they are quality if the work. Nas has the NARRATIVE to win but we’ll see.


Either way it’ll be interesting. I hope Mike wins Best Rap Song because I definitely think he deserves SOMETHING

KD3 is better than Killer Mike’s album and it’s also higher rated critically. People get it confused because Killer Mikes album came out 2023 and Nas’ came out in 2022. People keep thinking Nas’ Magic albums are going up against Killer Mike’s.

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[Ziggiy]

KD3 is better than Killer Mike’s album and it’s also higher rated critically. People get it confused because Killer Mikes album came out 2023 and Nas’ came out in 2022. People keep thinking Nas’ Magic albums are going up against Killer Mike’s.

Agreed

In a perfect world Killer Mike walks away with Best Rap Song in a rout and really Best Rap Performance too (though that’ll go to Kendrick and Keem guaranteed) and Nas takes Best Rap Album


But I don’t foresee the Grammys going against their long established formula of awarding the highest selling of the bunch and calling it a day.

Unless Nas has garnered a lot of goodwill behind the scenes from the Hip Hop is 50 celebrations and people want to award him for both the album, his run as a whole with Hit-Boy (lets not discount that Hit-Boy got into the General Field) plus the work he and Mass Appeal did for Hip Hop 50. @Piff Perkins has an in with Grammy voters and said that in 2022 it was very close between Nas and Tyler for Best Rap Album so there’s still plenty of respect Nas has amongst voters.


I’d say this is actually his second best chance of winning of all of his 17 nominations besides 2021 when he actually did win.

 

[Ziggiy]

IMO, Reminisce is the best track on KD3.

Reminisce is extremely dope

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[Ziggiy]

Exclusive: Nas KDIII Letterman Jacket (Genuine Leather & Wool)

Our exclusive red & cream Nas KDIII Letterman Jacket features genuine leather sleeves, a wool body, along with multiple gold & black embroidery hits celebrating Nas' critically acclaimed album, King's Disease III. Custom Made-To-Order Item. No Returns / Exchanges.

shop.massappeal.com

SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS THOUGH?!!?

 

[Pop123]

Exclusive: Nas KDIII Letterman Jacket (Genuine Leather & Wool)

Our exclusive red & cream Nas KDIII Letterman Jacket features genuine leather sleeves, a wool body, along with multiple gold & black embroidery hits celebrating Nas' critically acclaimed album, King's Disease III. Custom Made-To-Order Item. No Returns / Exchanges.

shop.massappeal.com

SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS THOUGH?!!?

If it was an ill “illmatic” joint in black I might jump the gun, . Not on this tho, that’s way overpriced. But if he can sell it for that then why not, lol

 

[DeuceZ]

Exclusive: Nas KDIII Letterman Jacket (Genuine Leather & Wool)

Our exclusive red & cream Nas KDIII Letterman Jacket features genuine leather sleeves, a wool body, along with multiple gold & black embroidery hits celebrating Nas' critically acclaimed album, King's Disease III. Custom Made-To-Order Item. No Returns / Exchanges.

shop.massappeal.com

SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS THOUGH?!!?

It's so fire though

 

[mson]

 

[Ziggiy]

 

[John Mexico]

Went to 1996's Ironman and this last night. Thirsting like a thot.

I dont know what kind of crack Nas and Hit were smoking for that 2021 to 2022 run. I'm pretty sure they have material between those two years that we still haven't heard that blows a lot of this other shyt out of the water. THe last two Magics were just Vicory laps and didn't produce the same aura.

 

[Trace]

Went to 1996's Ironman and this last night. Thirsting like a thot.

I dont know what kind of crack Nas and Hit were smoking for that 2021 to 2022 run. I'm pretty sure they have material between those two years that we still haven't heard that blows a lot of this other shyt out of the water. THe last two Magics were just Vicory laps and didn't produce the same aura.

What are you basing this on?

 

[Pop123]

Went to 1996's Ironman and this last night. Thirsting like a thot.

I dont know what kind of crack Nas and Hit were smoking for that 2021 to 2022 run. I'm pretty sure they have material between those two years that we still haven't heard that blows a lot of this other shyt out of the water. THe last two Magics were just Vicory laps and didn't produce the same aura.

I don’t think they were trying to recreate the aura…quite the opposite actually. I still don’t really get the overarching theme for the Magic series and KD series and why which is which…like what distinguishes one from the other, etc… Initially I thought the KD series was gonna be the big production kind of records, just jammin ass songs…and Magic was gonna be the more dirty/hip hop bop…but that wasn’t necessarily the case at all past part 1 of each..

But yeah, imo they’re just all albums they put together and Magic 1 is the gutter/street one out of the bunch. Probably the most concise project out of the bunch, there’s really nothing below good on there imo.