The Importance Of Nas’ “Untitled” And How It Was Way Ahead Of Its Time

[Yoda]

Yeah I remember playing the fukk out of this back in 2008.
The content, the lyricism, the production. Classic.
This and killer Mike's 08 project were in heavy rotation back then. This is how you do militant music correctly.

Not that kendrick j Cole one foot in one foot out shyt.

 

[Soundbwoy]

That and The nikka Tape with Green

 

[Sinister]

I always appreciated this album.

Threads like these upset me.

 

[NV-ME]

my best friend told me that was his fav nas album. still not mine (iww), but i immediately gave it a spin and this is an incredible, grown man album.

 

[Trace]

I always had this underneath Illmatic, It Was Written, Lost Tapes and Stillmatic. It should be up there with his classic work imo

 

[boskey]

Fried Chicken

 

[Mike the Executioner]

The album is damn near perfect. Nas is always on point lyrically, but I feel like he nailed the concept of this album better than he did on Hip Hop is Dead. Untitled definitely felt more like a complete project with a story behind it.

The production was also some of the most interesting Nas has ever gotten. There was a whole variety of beatmakers here, so you had Nas rapping over different kinds of beats but the album still had a unified sound. Songs like "Sly Fox," "Testify," "Slave and the Master," "Louis Farrakhan" and "Y'all My nikkas" all sound like nothing Nas has made before or after.

"Queens Get the Money" set it off beautifully. I had to catch the flow at first because it threw me off, but that song is fantastic. I was like when he said "I'm Huey P. in Louis V at the eulogy throwing Molotovs for Emmett" and had to rewind the whole thing.

The radio songs ("Make the World Go Round," "Hero") don't even feel like radio songs because of how hard Nas was going on both of them. The third verse of "Hero" is underrated as hell and was like a mission statement for the album.

The tracks from The Lost Tapes II ("Who Are You," "Queens Wolf") could easily be added to the original album without feeling out of place.

This is arguably Nas' most underappreciated album.

 

[Rhyme 4 Rhyme]

This was shyt then and still is. Start of the 10 year slump that he's still stuck in.

 

[BiggWebb79]

Only crackers and sambos hate this album

 

[Tribal Outkast]

That album was

 

[Cladyclad]

6/10

 

[Tres Leches]

Better than hip hop is dead to me

 

[KillKenny]

Untitled-Distant Relatives-Life is Dead run was amazing, so late in his career Nad was so dope... Best to do that imo
Untitled one of my fav, including the Tape

 

[Wild self]

Only crackers and sambos hate this album

Then there is a lot of sambos and CACs on The Booth, and in real life.

 

[Take It In Blood]

Closest thing Nas ever dropped to Dead Prez Let's Get Free


But not quite as potent as that LP tho