Official Nas Thread

[Ziggiy]

I had this thought earlier about Untitled. He directly confronted race, politics, and media in America before the onset of the hyper fragmented political climate we have today. 17 years later, I'm not sure how many rappers on a major label have even attempted to do the same on a full length project.

Kendrick did with To Pimp A Butterfly

Common did with Black America Again

Lupe Fiasco did in an esoteric fashion with Drogas Wave


Those are the only three.

 

[spliz]

Kendrick did with To Pimp A Butterfly

Common did with Black America Again

Lupe Fiasco did in an esoteric fashion with Drogas Wave


Those are the only three.

To Pimp A Butterfly..
Black America Again was ok.
Lupe was too abstract for the masses.

Nas was literally fighting and protesting Fox News. shyt was just bigger in scale.

 

[L $ C]

I had this thought earlier about Untitled. He directly confronted race, politics, and media in America before the onset of the hyper fragmented political climate we have today. 17 years later, I'm not sure how many rappers on a major label have even attempted to do the same on a full length project.

@Ziggiy said it earlier...Untitled is just an incredible piece of art man its his most emotional album to me




come on man this is better than peoples entire albums lol

 

[L $ C]

Kendrick did with To Pimp A Butterfly

Common did with Black America Again

Lupe Fiasco did in an esoteric fashion with Drogas Wave


Those are the only three.

GREAT comparisons

Black on both sides has a lot of elements too

 

[L $ C]

@Ziggiy said it earlier...Untitled is just an incredible piece of art man its his most emotional album to me




come on man this is better than peoples entire albums lol

Toomp was an amazing producer btw

 

[Primetime21]

To Pimp A Butterfly..
Black America Again was ok.
Lupe was too abstract for the masses.

Nas was literally fighting and protesting Fox News. shyt was just bigger in scale.

He was on one in that era. I remember he cut a promo talkin about "we don't need Jesse Jackson no more we got Nas and Young Jeezy now"

 

[DaRock]

CHRIST, HE LEGIT WAS SAYING EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING TODAY 25 YEARS AGO

I never listen to this song in like 10 years and this just blew me

"What you trying to knowledge, nah I'm trying to kick the shyt you need to learn though "

I tell people all the time, Nas will never run out of material and be able to rap forever literally if he wanted..dude way of living/seeing life and speak about it from any angle is his super power! No one can do it like him, it's why he's pretty much known as the golden child and the God in this rap shyt even to his peers..

The fukkin GOAT!!

 

[Ty-Fife]

@Ziggiy said it earlier...Untitled is just an incredible piece of art man its his most emotional album to me




come on man this is better than peoples entire albums lol

One of his most underrated tracks period.

Nah
I’m
Gangsta
Gotta
Eat
Rappers

 

[Ziggiy]

GREAT comparisons

Black on both sides has a lot of elements too

It does but it precedes Untitled

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Gods Son and Untitled are my internal justifications for ranking Nas over my other goat PAC. It's where Nas finally came through on "2Pacalypse, I understood your style".

Makes me wish Def Jam let him truly go ham with this and HipHop is Dead.

"Try telling Dylan and Billy Joel they can't sing what's in they soul"

Y'all My Niccaz is one of my favorite (and most played) Nas songs, of all time.

 

[ArchStanton]

I had this thought earlier about Untitled. He directly confronted race, politics, and media in America before the onset of the hyper fragmented political climate we have today. 17 years later, I'm not sure how many rappers on a major label have even attempted to do the same on a full length project.

Sly Fox called that perfectly.