Nas "Lost Tapes" >>> TPAB

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Kendrick stans are the new Kobe stans I guess.

OP is correct. That's not to say TPAB is bad. It's very good. But the hype train needs to relax.
 

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Even though it's a compilation and they shouldn't really be compared I can't lie. "The Lost Tapes" is a better album and more lyrical. And I enjoyed it more. Also NaS did amazing on social concepts like "Doo Rags" and "Black Zombies". I was working on something the other day and played the album straight through. Amazing Album. Check out my 10th Anniversary Thread:

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/happy-10th-anniversary-nass-the-lost-tapes.39876/
 
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The lost tapes is better: better hooks, better production, better raps, no yelling.
Absolutely.

And by no means is this a knock on Kendrick. His album is great but nikkas giving it the holy grail, Thriller of hip hop treatment are getting exposed :camby:

Talking bout musicality, composition and shyt..:childplease:
Ain't a damn thing TPAB does that is objectively superior to Lost Tapes.

Y'all know damn well you don't wanna compare Nas to Kendrick, bar for bar, verse for verse, concept for concept, or storytelling :whoa:

Production, I hear y'all saying Nas could't pick beats on this album? :wtf:

There's songs on here that put a lot of TPAB beats to shame. Alchemist laced "My Way", classic Barry White sample on "No Idea's Orginal", Ye on "Poppa Was A Playa", L.E.S. "U Gotta Love It"
my favorite album ever and Nas' best in my opinion:banderas:
 

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TPAB is better


the productiobn on tpab is so good that it makes Lost Tapes sounds like a mixtape recorded with teamspeaks :banderas:
 
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TPAB is better


the productiobn on tpab is so good that it makes Lost Tapes sounds like a mixtape recorded with teamspeaks :banderas:


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Yo, you believe when they say we ain't shyt, we can't grow?
All we are is dope dealers, and gangstas and hoes?
And you believe when they be tellin you lie, all on the media?
They make the world look crazy to keep you inside?
Why you listen when the teachers at school
know you a young single parent out strugglin, they think you a fool
Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in dumber classes
Killin shorty future, I wonder how do we last it
Underground in they casket? Ancestors turnin
I'm learnin somethin every day, there is no Lazareth
Words like God is Greek or Latin
My nikkaz is chillin, gettin high, relaxin
Envisionin, ownin shyt, yo it can happen
What do we own? Not enough land, not enough homes
Not enough banks, to give a brother a loan
What do we own? The skin on our backs, we run and we ask
for reperations, then they hit us with tax
And insurance if we live to be old, what about now?
So stop bein controlled, we black zombies
 

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Bundy that nikka though "No Maam":mjlol: anyway nikkas just on that new Kanye weird shyt talking this dumb artist shyt when his last album was a weedplate matter of fact it was a "throw out the window" shyt didn't deserve too have my bud broken up on it can't risk a downgrade in quality of my smoke!

Fetus isn't out the box and artistic:manny:
 
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