Just got back from the Nas show in Atlanta. I took my younger brother, his first Nas concert and my 8th.
Ilmatic with the symphony was amazing but I have ONE issue and its been an issue i’ve had for a minute when he does the Illmatic shows and thats he ALWAYS skips over One Time For Your Mind! He skipped over it when I saw him in 2014 at the One Music Fest and he skipped it tonight. The One Time For Your Mind slander MUST end!
This was the most “talkative” Nas i’ve ever seen live. He was joking with the crowd, telling stories about certain songs, and even went into a “Ghetto Dictionary” to explain the meanings of certain slang that was used in the 90’s right before he did One Love. shyt was hilarious hearing Nas explain what “Phat” and “Oh-Wops” meant lol
He talked about how Ain’t Hard To Tell was meant to be the “commercial” single for Illmatic but then “SWV came and STOMPED my shyt!” Lol
After the Illmatic portion he went into his hits throughout his career. I was pleasantly surprised that he performed Rare and Spicy. I was expecting him to do Thun or 30 afterwards but he didn’t, he also didn’t perform any Magic series songs. Also this was the first Nas concert i’ve ever been to that he didn’t perform Nas is Like or Hate Me Now. With the whole Diddy debacle I get not doing Hate Me Now but I was little surprised at no Nas is Like, especially with the symphony backing him. He DID perform Oochie Wally and You Owe Me and had EVERY female in the joint in the palm of his hands. One lady behind me was screaming for Nas to let her lick his mole! shyt was wild
I would say of all the times i’ve seen him live this is my second favorite after 2014’s One Music fest. Illmatic REALLY translates well to an orchestral version and seeing Nas be funny and crack jokes and have fun was awesome.
My brother enjoyed it. He was disappointed that Nas didn’t perform Hip Hop Is Dead as thats his favorite Nas song but I told him afterward that Nas rarely performs any songs from the HHID/Untitled era (A shame really) there was also a sizable amount of white people in the audience that I hadn’t really noticed before at any other Nas solo show i’d been to. It was interesting to see what had to be a 45 year old white woman singing the hook to If I Ruled The World at the top of her lungs lol.
Ilmatic with the symphony was amazing but I have ONE issue and its been an issue i’ve had for a minute when he does the Illmatic shows and thats he ALWAYS skips over One Time For Your Mind! He skipped over it when I saw him in 2014 at the One Music Fest and he skipped it tonight. The One Time For Your Mind slander MUST end!
This was the most “talkative” Nas i’ve ever seen live. He was joking with the crowd, telling stories about certain songs, and even went into a “Ghetto Dictionary” to explain the meanings of certain slang that was used in the 90’s right before he did One Love. shyt was hilarious hearing Nas explain what “Phat” and “Oh-Wops” meant lol
He talked about how Ain’t Hard To Tell was meant to be the “commercial” single for Illmatic but then “SWV came and STOMPED my shyt!” Lol
After the Illmatic portion he went into his hits throughout his career. I was pleasantly surprised that he performed Rare and Spicy. I was expecting him to do Thun or 30 afterwards but he didn’t, he also didn’t perform any Magic series songs. Also this was the first Nas concert i’ve ever been to that he didn’t perform Nas is Like or Hate Me Now. With the whole Diddy debacle I get not doing Hate Me Now but I was little surprised at no Nas is Like, especially with the symphony backing him. He DID perform Oochie Wally and You Owe Me and had EVERY female in the joint in the palm of his hands. One lady behind me was screaming for Nas to let her lick his mole! shyt was wild
I would say of all the times i’ve seen him live this is my second favorite after 2014’s One Music fest. Illmatic REALLY translates well to an orchestral version and seeing Nas be funny and crack jokes and have fun was awesome.
My brother enjoyed it. He was disappointed that Nas didn’t perform Hip Hop Is Dead as thats his favorite Nas song but I told him afterward that Nas rarely performs any songs from the HHID/Untitled era (A shame really) there was also a sizable amount of white people in the audience that I hadn’t really noticed before at any other Nas solo show i’d been to. It was interesting to see what had to be a 45 year old white woman singing the hook to If I Ruled The World at the top of her lungs lol.
