Nas - Magic (Discussion Thread)

[FruitOfTheVale]

Dang he never felt like this with Cole smh

To be fair like @Riffi said he grew up on Nas so it's a little different.

 

[Jamaro85]

Wu for the Children ends, and the first thing you hear after that is...Wu.

Hold up, and analyze

A Rae sample... From a song he was on with Nas no less. I know Primo scratched that in but I can't help but feel like Hit-Boy might've made the suggestion so it could be sequenced like that. Little things, but dope regardless.

 

[up in here]

Just realized Nas mad a reference to Juvenile on KD1 and 2 and now on Magic. You can’t tell me he wasn’t fukking with Juve

 

[waynep]

Really gave us Illmatic the 2021 version for Christmas.. My Goat is such a thoughtful Goat.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

The whole album is your favorite

Yeahhhhhh

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

"We don't respect fake jewelry and silly outfits
Window down, blowing out kush
grey tints, New York's J. Prince on Houston Street"

This line is dope for a couple reasons... In New York the street is pronounced the way Nas pronounced it ("howsten") but it's spelled just like the city in TX. What makes the line really dope is that SoHo (South of Houston) is one of the fashion/culture/high-life meccas in New York along w/ LES, the whole intro of the track being about Nas being a trendsetter who doesn't follow trends (particularly w/ hip hop fashion) ties into what he's saying here. The way I hear the line, he's saying he's seen as a real boss even amongst NYC's upper-echelon, in spite of the fact that he doesn't flaunt the way most rappers flaunt and carries himself like he never left the hood.

 

[Redwing80]

Can't fukk with me
I've been outside since a buck 50
Was the only way to get your face done
Doggystyle CD turn that Murder Was The Case Up
Thinking when I drop my first shyt ima leave they face scrunched
Black from the dark side of Vernon, Drawz from the Dime Block
They had it clickin but today there's some new slimes out
Instagram tricking the hood, what they crying bout?
Crimes, bytches and money, that's what they lying bout


Man the way he blacked out on this doesn't make any damn sense

 

[kes929]

Can't fukk with me
I've been outside since a buck 50
Was the only way to get your face done
Doggystyle CD turn that Murder Was The Case Up
Thinking when I drop my first shyt ima leave they face scrunched
Black from the dark side for Vernon, Drawz from the Dime Block
They had it clickin but today there's some new slimes out
Instagram tricking the hood, what they crying bout?
Crimes, bytches and money, that's what they lying bout


Man the way he blacked out on this doesn't make any damn sense

He is on another level.

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

The truth is DISGUSTING

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Nas has this way of doing braggadocio raps in a "you can do it too, let me tell you how" type way that Jay just never comes across doing. With Jay it's obnoxious, and high handed - like how he's better than you. With Nas it's just more organic, and as if you're being spoken to, not down on.

Jay would have a breh feeling down on himself for not rocking $300 diesel jeans

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

Doo rag esco

 

[noodles]

This album is SERIOUS

I stand corrected.. @Amestafuu (Emeritus).. Beats are definitive.

 

[mr.africa]

I don't bang but I'm making that Cryp.....lol

 

[noodles]

"Turning down Bohemian Grove invitations..." Went over a few heads

 

[Slim Charles]

"Turning down Bohemian Grove invitations..." Went over a few heads

I’ll be honest I didn’t know what the fukk that was until someone reacted to the album and explained the line. I’m from UK so perhaps part of reason never heard of them