Here my reasoning for NaS>>>camel
Esco got the goat album in Illmatic.
The most creative LP in IWW.
The most creative song in I gave you power.
The best verse debut to the masses on live at the BBQ.
The best guest appearence with verbal intercourse.
The best LP in the 90's,00's,and 10's Illmatic,Stillmatic,Life is Good.
Greatest diss song ever with ether. Won the biggest battle in history over jayz.
His non album cuts such as the lost tapes and other songs are better than most artist albums.
Plus we see him grow as a person from each album from the chip tooth kid in the qb PJ's to a father of two. Not only has he put his high points on wax but the lows as well. From failed relationships,divorce,losing friends to jail and death,passing of his mother,problems he had with his dad and brother,problems about his daughter,taxes,and so on. We cab all relate to many of those things. And no two NaS albums sound the same because of his growth as an artist and a person..
I can also add that he grew up in a legendary place (qb) with a great legacy, he was there since the cassette tape era era and still there, he made featurings with almost all the great rapper and challenged his skills with them. He had enough versatility to make songs with Keri Hilson, then Killa Priest, then Blitz, then Joss Stone, Damian Marley to Korn, to Beastie and on and on...
The ton of his voice on the mic places him above the rest kinda like when Michael was singing with his brothers, you clearly see the difference, he just
sound nice even with simple rhymes
He also have a style of rap that became unique, from multisyllable to rap with words effortless that don't even rhyme most of the time
He's just unpredictable with his rhymes, he's litteraly one of the few cats where I expect new references in each verse. Like when he comes with phrases like
"Begin like a violin, end like Leviathan"
"I’m as live as hive full of predators
Twenty thousands different species of bees
Some half poisonous sting, some just pollinating their leafs
It's just like rap, some will buzz some will attack, compromising their own life in fact"
"
She Queen of Nzinga
Winnie Mandela, Ida B. Wells
So why can't you tell? Why can't you tell?"
"Private planes landed out in Teterboro, weed I twirl
Once even gave me a phobia
That I be in a spot trapped like Madame Zenobia's
With this kid eyein' my Rolly, y'all"
I'm like where does he comes with that
Everything about him his legendary, from the way he came out into the game, from the way he got produced by the best with their best beats, to him being mentored by Large Pro which was mentored by Paul C, and signed on a legendary label.
Oh and one of the most important thing, he NEVER lost touch with the streets, no matter what even on LIG he kept telling ghetto stories, talking about legendary street cats from his hood, and not just referencing popular figures or fictional characters, I still feel the street era in his slang and rap, thing that Jay lost a long time ago, kinda like Eminem lost that I don't give a fukk attitude and trashy humour that we all used to like. Nas never lost his street flava. And I can relate more because the thing that get me the most with him, it's his ability to take us back to his memory lane, and greater days, Wheres' the love or Back When are the best example of that.
