Albums Nas - The Lost Tapes 2 (Discussion Thread)

[head shots101]

This shyt is amazing

 

[MillionMills]

Standout tracks for me:

No Bad Energy
Vernon Family
Lost Freestyle
Who Are You
War Against Love
The Art of It
Queens Wolf
It Never Ends

Royalty has great verses but the hook is forgettable. Whoever was shytting on Alc is nuts. It Never Ends is flames

 

[Ball]

I REALLY want to see Nas win his first Grammy for this compilation. Beautiful fukking music brehs

It's fukking beautiful. It's a perfect culmination of the greatness of his story telling, beat riding, and flowing abilities. The production is so good.

 

[T.H.E.GOD]

Loved that little line that can be seen as a shot to 69...

“Never do it for clout,
Don’t snitch,
If it was me do my bid,
And just look at it as paying my taxes” or some shyt like that..
Hardest line to me in the album. I don’t even remember what song it’s on because so much shyt on this to keep listening to. Good Album to bump all throughout this weekend.

 

[Ball]

I feel like I'm going to be listeing to some of these songs 10 years from now too. The production on this makes the album vibe so hard.

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Rza brought that dusty Kung Fu soul on Highly Favored

 

[ShaDynasty]

How is this your understanding?
Nasir Jones is not for education now?
Maybe you're not familiar with his work

Lol. His whole reason for making the song was somebody being "kinda cold" to him in a restaurant, so he decided to rant about people who he considers pretentious but who in the same song he admits are correct.

I'm a Nas fan for 20 years, but he's made his fair share of inaccurate claims in his songs, and his fair share of songs that aren't well thought out. Trackmasters made him rewrite 'If I Ruled The World' a bunch of times because it didn't make sense (arguably that song still has some weird lines).

 

[Ball]

In Royalty from 0:54 to 1:02. I love when nas raps like this depicting emotion. how he ends with the slowed down 'deep cut' and then a slight pause. shyt is story telling at it's finest.

 

[re'up]

"Adult Film

potentially

I can hear Swizz yelling sexual provocations, with a lot of whistles in the background

HOLD UP (WHISTLE NOISE, HORN SOUND)

PANTS DOWN...PANTIES OFF....BRA OFF.....TOPS OFF

(WHISTLE NOISE)

NOW PUT EM BACK ON AGAIN"

What I said, (all in fun) and it's actually maybe in my top 5 on the track. Running the Lost freestyle now, his personification of the drug game in that verse was a throwback to the Esco era, what an effortless return to form, that verse would not have been out of place on IWW, or an unreleased 1998 song, it sounds like the last verse of "Watch Dem nikkas".

 

[areohbee824]

Great way to close it out with "Beautiful Life"

 

[deeman]

How the hell was some of these songs left off albums ??

Word imagined if he had The art of it on LIG instead of fukking summer on smash

 

[CHERUB]

All the haters and naysayers quiet as FUKk right now where all them dikkheads thats was talking crazy about Nas legacy and discog bout 40 pages ago . All i know Is Joe Budden and Mal better not try to downplay this shyt on the podcast

 

[ManBearPig]

War is Love

 

[the cool]

where can i buy the cd?

 

[Ball]

"Could you imagine Nas the exec?
The artist on the masters controlling your release
Probably they wanna wait 'til I'm deceased to honor me
So my product'll be a big commodity
Not bothered if my son and daughter eat off of me
Cautiously I write this next line honestly 'cause I'm a G, there's no beef
I used to open off making fifty G's
But now I spend that on a diamond to make her neck freeze"

This shyt off of "The Art of It" was insane