Pete Rock Likes Twitter User-‘Only Nas would make 5 LP w/ The Least Inspired Producer of All Time" Tweet

[Frump]

It Was Written had great beats

Nas has tons of good albums with good production

Does he have some mediocre beats/albums sure so does everyone

The people who say this id bet anything haven’t listened to much Nas outside of his hits

They aren’t interested in the truth they’re interested in pushing an agenda

 

[Frump]

I mean he’s not exactly wrong

Hit boy is not a bad producer at all, he definitely has great beats…but lost in all this excitement over ‘Omg new Nas’ is that we got 5 albums and not 1 is classic or unskippable. Maybe not even a 4.5 micer. It’s more about the blessing of getting new Nas music, more about quantity than pure quality.

Production wise there is no ‘Be’, no Almost Dry, no hell hath no fury, not even a 4:44. Dudes like Alchemist, madlib, Pharrell etc have better batting average on fully produced albums. You get 5 cracks at it with Nas you supposed to have at least 2 classics

Now in Hit boys favor he hs a more diverse sound than those guys. His range is crazy, he doesn’t have a signature ‘sound’. But the potential downside to that is I you just KNOW a hit boy produced album is gon have a bunch of beats you don’t like and don’t even fit Nas

Wheter they are classics or not putting out 4 or 5 dope albums in a row 30 years in the game is unprecedented in hiphop and should be commended

Nas is the only artists held to the standard of his first album which is arguably the best hiphop album ever and anything less then that is somehow a failure

He’s not making a Illmatic or It was Written anymore people need to get over it and just appreciate him somehow still making some dope music after all these years

 

[Solomon Lurke]

Low key may need to be a smiley

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

It’s music. Unless numbers are involved shouldn’t that be implied?

Ehh people argue ball players all the time

 

[prophecypro]

Nas type of rapping don't fit hitboys beats yea it be some.good stuff there but not exactly classic hip-hop replay.value type stuff so the mid label is pretty accurate...there's lack of soul in those beats

This is the stuff I don’t get. You can hear literally soul instrumentals and samples in the KD series and even here on this new. He did with Benny too

I just feel like people are trying to say he’s unauthentic cause he didn’t come into the game like that. But since the Chauncey Hollis tape I feel like he’s shown it

 

[Ziggiy]

I hope Nas trolls everyone and drops 2 more of these with HitBoy this year.

Thats the thing Nas ain’t trolling. The man said himself multiple times that this is all inspired music he’s making. Hit Boy has been able to sonically unlock something within Nas that no producer ever has.

I think Pete Rock is just insane lmao. Like seriously his complaints even with the Illmatic shyt makes NO sense. Thats why the lawsuit was never actually filed

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Y’all say he the goat. The goat of its genre should have impact. And for 20 years he been shooting and nothing is landing. U got to go back to Godson when he made a significant impact

I personally never said he’s THE GOAT. I feel like Jay is

 

[ThirdAct]

I really don't get how people can listen to Speechless, Store Run, Rare, The Truth, The Pressure, Nobody, Office Hours, Thun, Legit, Michael & Quincy, 27 Summers, The Cure, etc. and think Hit-Boy is an uninspired producer.

 

[IIVI]

Hit-Boy this last decade has been a monster and low key still tries to show homage to previous eras.

Don't know what dude's talking about.

Hit-Boy is one of the only few bigger-named modern producers who can probably mesh with Nas's style and do it justice.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

 

[ItWasWritten]

Loading screen beats is crazy

Everyone knows I’m not the biggest Hit-Boy fan but he has given Nas some fire shyt

Kings Disease (intro)
Blue Benz
Ultra Black
The Cure
EPMD
Rare
Store Run
Moments
Nobody
No Phony Love
Nas is Good
Speechless
Meet Joe Black
40-16 Building
Wu for the Children
Dedicated
Ghetto Reporter
Legit
Thun
Michael and Quincy
30
Recession Proof
Reminisce
WTF SMH (specially the beat switch)
First Time
Don’t shoot
Office Hours
Black Magic (seems people don’t like this, but I like the piano)
Motion
Slow it Down

In my opinion the above are all 8-10 level beats


His other joints to me are like 5-7 and that’s where he loses me. I also hate how he has his beats mixed. The drums never really hit like they should. It is what it is. He’s an 8/10.

A man of many talents but unfortunately, a master of none.

 

[IIVI]

It's weird people expect somebody to sound as "hard, raw and real" as they did nearly 30 years ago.

People want to stay rebellious for some attention so they want the soundtrack for it. Grow up.

 

[Cuban Pete]

Yall really not trying to hear Nas on shyt like this anymore? bet let me just stay quiet cause we obviously caught up in the moment, all praises to Hit for bringing Nas out that SLUMP and making TRULY modern classics but we need Nas on Pete Rock and Alchemist a few more times God. I personally dont think Premier has it like that anymore so if I want to hear Legacy Nas Im going for those two. Especially Pete tho





All the videos linked are recent too no super old school shyt neither, this sound could still fit Nas in 2024

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Nas type of rapping don't fit hitboys beats yea it be some.good stuff there but not exactly classic hip-hop replay.value type stuff so the mid label is pretty accurate...there's lack of soul in those beats

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[Consigliere]

Thats the thing Nas ain’t trolling. The man said himself multiple times that this is all inspired music he’s making. Hit Boy has been able to sonically unlock something within Nas that no producer ever has.

Hit Boy is his new Salaam Remi. Halfway kidding. Nas is doing what’s best for Nas. I don’t have a problem with it. They should actually be considered a group at this point.

So many ‘older’ rappers in the later part of their careers would have been better served linking up with one producer and making solid projects for their fans. Instead a lot of those guys blew their budgets chasing radio play and trends and still didn’t get anything to add value to their catalogues.

And then you have guys that just don’t put out music at all or when they do they completely cheap out on beats and effort.