Nas Says He Wants Rappers From His Era To Start Dropping Albums 🟥 "I Don't Wanna Hear No Trends, I Wanna Hear Art"!!!!!!

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AZ on a JansportJ track
AZ on alc production

Kool G on alc- the one song they have got repeated to death

Method man on a hit boy track

Kool Keith on a Tyler track

 

[MJ Truth]

It’s funny hearing Nas talk like this considering that period between Life Is Good and Nasir when everyone was pressing him to actually release music.

 

[I'm Blackman]

True, but like I always say, these older rappers have to stop rapping over cheap trash beats. I'm not a Hit-Boy fan, but at least Nas put some effort into rapping over quality tracks.

yeah but quality costs. from their perspective you pay to get quality beats or bring musicians and you don't make the money back. Further in the clip Face talks about how it's really bad because you basically get nothing from streaming. I'm not in the music business but I'd imagine a tour with sponsors isn't cheap so how do they make the bread back.

Killer Mike said he spent 500K on his album (AOTY to me) and his wife was looking at him crazy. It sounds like money was spent on it. But because he does a lot of RTJ shyt he'll make it back touring..without a major label budget someone like Willie D wouldnt.

 

[Elim Garak]

Most rappers with a catalog aren't going to spend the money to drop albums when they can just tour.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Nas out here lookin like Proposition Joe

 

[Him]

I agree with this. Old heads dropping could start a resurgence back to an Og hip hop sound and within the next 15 years we might be byke

 

[TripleAgent]

yeah but quality costs. from their perspective you pay to get quality beats or bring musicians and you don't make the money back. Further in the clip Face talks about how it's really bad because you basically get nothing from streaming. I'm not in the music business but I'd imagine a tour with sponsors isn't cheap so how do they make the bread back.

Killer Mike said he spent 500K on his album (AOTY to me) and his wife was looking at him crazy. It sounds like money was spent on it. But because he does a lot of RTJ shyt he'll make it back touring..without a major label budget someone like Willie D wouldnt.

1. It takes money to make money.
2. There are legions of beatmakers that will look out for a lot of these names due to love and respect. No one is saying go get Timbaland or Dre. They need to learn direct to consumer marketing as well. They (or their managers) should be calling Ryan Leslie to get as much game as he's willing to give. With Hip-Hop 50 and all that, if any of them spent the last year preping music, merch and other ventures, they could cash out. Old school tours are doing well, there is no better time.

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

If Nas can win at the age of 50 in this young boy era, so can the washed

No excuses to not put out piff. Get a modern producer, dust off the pen game and miracles a float.


Looking at you Hov

Don't even need this. It's a market for that older shyt. We got the Internet. We don't have to fall victim to the deterioration of tangible memorabilia of yesteryear forcing us to move onto new shyt anymore. We live in an age where we can literally buy all the shyt we wanted growing up.

 

[MJ Truth]

To be fair, it’s not like Nas said it in a tone as though his contemporaries are lazy or anything. He basically just said he hopes his releasing music at his age will inspire others to do the same.

 

[NormanConnors]

All the OG’s need to hear this

 

[IShotTheSheriff]

I think we all are in want of this.

The OGs should do precisely as Nas advised. Make timeless records, records about the current times and what we need for the soul.

 

[spliz]

I mean....

Nas is my guy but dude got $40 million from the Ring deal plus whatever other business ventures he has.

He can afford to drop albums nonstop and not care what they sell or chart, 90% of 90's rappers do not have that luxury.

Fred.

It’s cheap as fukk to find or even build a studio Brodie.

 

[NYChase718]

Convention

 

[hex]

Maaan...naw...Z-Ro stay dropping work and his albums don't chart. You an artist this what you do.

Z-Ro is a bad example because he's always been underground. So his lane has basically been the same since day 1.

A lot of older rappers sold back in the day, they don't want to put a bunch of effort into some shyt that's gonna sell 18 copies.

It’s cheap as fukk to find or even build a studio Brodie.

True, but like I always say, these older rappers have to stop rapping over cheap trash beats. I'm not a Hit-Boy fan, but at least Nas put some effort into rapping over quality tracks.

These two posts go hand-in-hand because the issue isn't recording. The issue is beats half the time.

There's some great cheap ($-wise I mean) producers out there....but most of the time a lot of "unprofessional" (for lack of a better term) beats sound cheap as fukk. So the rapper either spends more money for some shyt that most likely ain't gonna sell like that....or use lesser known producers and roll the dice on them being trash.

Also....

If they ain't got nothing else going that's what they need to be doing is making music.

Unless you talking about them dropping music for free then I can dig it

No I mean, let's use Wu-Tang as an example.

People want new music from the group and/or them solo. Cool, but the fact of the matter is they'd make 100x more money touring until the day they die, off their '93-'00 shyt alone. Solo, or as a group. So there's not much incentive to make new music.

Fred.

 

[King_Kamala61]

Z-Ro is a bad example because he's always been underground. So his lane has basically been the same since day 1.

A lot of older rappers sold back in the day, they don't want to put a bunch of effort into some shyt that's gonna sell 18 copies.





These two posts go hand-in-hand because the issue isn't recording. The issue is beats half the time.

There's some great cheap ($-wise I mean) producers out there....but most of the time a lot of "unprofessional" (for lack of a better term) beats sound cheap as fukk. So the rapper either spends more money for some shyt that most likely ain't gonna sell like that....or use lesser known producers and roll the dice on them being trash.

Also....



No I mean, let's use Wu-Tang as an example.

People want new music from the group and/or them solo. Cool, but the fact of the matter is they'd make 100x more money touring until the day they die, off their '93-'00 shyt alone. Solo, or as a group. So there's not much incentive to make new music.

Fred.

It's not tho...you are an artist right? Then make art and then they wonder why established music genres don't respect hip hop/rap...the rappers don't even respect their craft. And by establishing genres I'm referring to jazz/oldies/black musicians etc.

And Ro isn't a bad example. He making music regardless. He got another album coming out soon and I can't wait.