Papoose: Nas Greatness gets downplayed because....

[Cladyclad]

All them songs was on the Billboard 100 and among Nas most popular records

Nas is Not breh Nature said it best

those are hits in Nas universe lol

 

[Awesome Wells]

That Reggie album was so bad man I was like oh he’s done done

LOL!! I didn't even bother to listen to that for mad months after it came out.

 

[Budda]

I didn't see anyone comparing Nas to Redman.

The point was just that when our favorite MC's fall off, we have to be able to say so. Really doesn't matter which MC it is.

Nas has fell off lyrically from his peaks of 96 yes, like every rapper that’s been around for 30 years, but him falling off he is still a better rapper than nearly every rapper out there lyrically.

His ability to make songs is still good as well, what’s different is that he is a 50 year old man in a genre that values youth above everything else.

 

[Budda]

It’s a good song that’s Nas rendition of Trip by Ella Mai featuring Big Sean and Don Toliver

It’s not a hit though at that tempo and there’s not a great demand amongst the young generation for Nas music to carry it

He could have had one with Spicy had outside been open specifically in NYC and had he not dropped a trash video it briefly cracked the Billboard when it dropped Fivio Foreign was on fire at that time

That’s why I said with Drake or J Cole behind it, literally the same verse with Drake behind it or as a feature is a hit. These two named rappers have many a hit at a slow pace, it didn’t have a machine behind it and the rapper at the face of it is a 50 year old.

 

[Cladyclad]

A hit is as much about promotion and the machine


This should be a hit song, it has the right sound to be a hit, replace Nas with Drake or J Cole and it is, this is nothing to do with the quality of the song but with promotion and profile, that’s why the whole hit debate is pandered by people with little grasp on popular music. Rappers and singers make hit songs everyday but don’t have the right machine and profile behind them to make it into a viable hit, this is why you get ghostwriters and people who write hit songs for others.

Y’all be shytting on the god and don’t even know

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Ke hi

A hit is as much about promotion and the machine


This should be a hit song, it has the right sound to be a hit, replace Nas with Drake or J Cole and it is, this is nothing to do with the quality of the song but with promotion and profile, that’s why the whole hit debate is pandered by people with little grasp on popular music. Rappers and singers make hit songs everyday but don’t have the right machine and profile behind them to make it into a viable hit, this is why you get ghostwriters and people who write hit songs for others.

This song had a great hook & a cool beat. In some instances hits are about promotion....Then again we’ve seen enough instances in this social media generation where fans put songs over the top. You can’t fool people especially nowadays. Is Replace Me like some life altering song that would take an unknown to stardom? No but if this was released on Sony or Interscope instead of Mass Appeal could this have done some damage? Sure

Then again it’s nobody’s fault but Nas that he chose to put out songs like this and Spicy when he was Indy

 

[Budda]

This song had a great hook & a cool beat. In some instances hits are about promotion....Then again we’ve seen enough instances in this social media generation where fans put songs over the top. You can’t fool people especially nowadays. Is Replace Me like some life altering song that would take an unknown to stardom? No but if this was released on Sony or Interscope instead of Mass Appeal could this have done some damage? Sure

Then again it’s nobody’s fault but Nas that he chose to put out songs like this and Spicy when he was Indy[/QUOTE]

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True

 

[Budda]

Y’all be shytting on the god and don’t even know

How lol, it’s to tell you that there’s more that goes into a hit than just songwriting ability.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Nas has fell off lyrically from his peaks of 96 yes, like every rapper that’s been around for 30 years, but him falling off he is still a better rapper than nearly every rapper out there lyrically.

His ability to make songs is still good as well, what’s different is that he is a 50 year old man in a genre that values youth above everything else.

I don’t even know if I can honestly say it's the lyrics. I still think Nas is up there lyrically. I think the projects are what really fell off, as a whole. Just the ability to listen through a Nas album without skipping a lot. That's where the quality dropped, for me. They started getting mad inconsistent.

 

[Bed$tuy]

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[Cladyclad]

How lol, it’s to tell you that there’s more that goes into a hit than just songwriting ability.

I can imagine u telling Nas

budda: if we take u off your record and replace u with a even more boring rapper like Cole this would be a hit

nas:



















nas:

 

[Taadow]

Hit record don’t necessarily have to mean Billboard

No - that’s exactly what it means, and muthafuccers need to quit this chit.

A song is a “hit” if it “hits” the Billboard Hot 100...that is literally what a “hit” is.

 

[Budda]

I can imagine u telling Nas

budda: if we take u off your record and replace u with a even more boring rapper like Cole this would be a hit

nas:



















nas:

I would have told him to replace Sean lol, even though his verse is good.

 

[ISO]

No - that’s exactly what it means, and muthafuccers need to quit this chit.

A song is a “hit” if it “hits” the Billboard Hot 100...that is literally what a “hit” is.

Faneto by Chief Keef ain’t a hit ?

 

[Cladyclad]

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It’s over when I say it’s over bytch!