Official Nas Thread

[deeman]

People wanted Nas to “leave earth” on his verse like a hov or 3 stacks. It was good but forgettable in the grand scheme. Clips probably felt the same way seeing as they put that shyt at the end of the album.

 

[Ziggiy]

 

[Mike Wins]

Nas did promo for KD3




Rae and Ghost are on a world tour with the Wu so it makes sense they can’t go all out for promo but De La and Havoc for the Mobb Deep album have zero excuses. They damn sure should promo the hell out of their respective albums.

Slick Rick had an outstanding marketing promo with the visual album. He had merch and physicals as well.

Rae’s got merch and physicals lined up and he’s been promoting them pretty heavy on IG.

Agree the Slick rollout was good, only real knock is it wasn't clearly announced the film was dropping a week after the audio.

I bought the vinyl but it don't ship until 2 months past the release, same as Rae vinyl. I know that's standard now even for most major labels. Just saying Clipse and their team gone above and beyond and done things differently than the current standard and that's more about them than the label. But of course the Roc Nation promotional machine got way more pull and resources than any indie.

 

[Ziggiy]

Agree the Slick rollout was good, only real knock is it wasn't clearly announced the film was dropping a week after the audio.

I bought the vinyl but it don't ship until 2 months past the release, same as Rae vinyl. I know that's standard now even for most major labels. Just saying Clipse and their team gone above and beyond and done things differently than the current standard and that's more about them than the label. But of course the Roc Nation promotional machine got way more pull and resources than any indie.

Clipse got “lucky” in a sense because the album was supposed to release last year. So they had Vinyl and physicals ready to go and they shipped this week meaning they help count towards Clipse first week sales which is also why i’m betting the Physical sales will outweigh the streams.

 

[HNIC973]

People wanted Nas to “leave earth” on his verse like a hov or 3 stacks. It was good but forgettable in the grand scheme. Clips probably felt the same way seeing as they put that shyt at the end of the album.

those nikkaz ain't even active when's the last time Jay left the earth?

 

[spliz]

those nikkaz ain't even active when's the last time Jay left the earth?

That mid ass "God Did" verse.

 

[prophecypro]

Clipse got Pharrell behind them, put a video dissing Travis & had a crazy Kendrick verse. That helped with the sales too.

But press runs now days are pointless unless your a big artist, the amount of money you put in to it & your return is streaming money….which hardly amounts to anything.

That facts too, definetly. I did mention that on twitter when talking about how the narrative of the promo for the album probably isnt gonna work for others.

 

[prophecypro]

People wanted Nas to “leave earth” on his verse like a hov or 3 stacks. It was good but forgettable in the grand scheme. Clips probably felt the same way seeing as they put that shyt at the end of the album.

I think also there was some expectations. This Clipse album was done a year ago (apart from the Kendrick joint) and when they had listening partie last summer, we heard from people that said the Nas verse is crazy.

 

[prophecypro]

Premo and Alchemist are going on tour from November-December. Makes me wonder if the Nas/Premo album is finished and coming earlier than expected.

Rae is this week and Ghost is now slated for August

So that leaves the Mobb project, Big L, De La and Nas/Primo

I think its possible it drops then unless the plan is drop each album once a month and the Nas/Primo album (Which kinda has to be last one headliner) gets a winter/Christmas drop.

 

[Pop123]