"UNTITLED" once again shows why Nas is a Jedi Master

[Big Mel]

Listened to this album semi recently. It's aged horribly. I even liked it when it dropped but I will probably never play this album again in my life.

 

[Big Mark]

Yea I know this..I was just naming the dope tracks on the El Dorado Black Project...but that re-release idea sounds dope as fukk..

I wish all NaS albums would get the re-release treatment, like Ice Cubes early albums got with unreleased and son detract cuts from the related sessions.

 

[spliz]

Listened to this album semi recently. It's aged horribly. I even liked it when it dropped but I will probably never play this album again in my life.

Now its an official Nas thread..lol..

 

[Big Mel]

Now its an official Nas thread..lol..

LOL. It's true though. I was arguing with @Yoda on here about some wack Nas music and i told him i liked 'Sly Fox'* accidentally ( i meant to say i liked the other Dead Prez song), he called out my bad taste and that caused me to have to listen to the album trying to find the song i initially meant to say i liked.


album sounded bad.



* my god that song sucks

 

[spliz]

LOL. It's true though. I was arguing with @Yoda on here about some wack Nas music and i told him i liked 'Sly Fox'* accidentally ( i meant to say i liked the other Dead Prez song), he called out my bad taste and that caused me to have to listen to the album trying to find the song i initially meant to say i liked.


album sounded bad.



* my god that song sucks

I like how u took a shot at Nas wit the Dead Prez mention...u a funny nikka..lol..

 

[Big Mel]

I like how u took a shot at Nas wit the Dead Prez mention...u a funny nikka..lol..

i mean the songs they produced. i like the song about Farrakhan. that beat is crazy. but i do think Nas had helpers with the bars. I also think Ghost & Jay Z have had helpers with the bars.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Thread title is horrible and only added ammo for the people who say Nas stans are nerds

If Kanye was rapping over those same beats people would call it "classic miniimalist vintage post-hip hop avante garde boom bap influenced future new wave" and he would be hailed as a genius who was moving the culture forward

Except we got Nas stans now saying the album was ahead of its time on some forer effect shyt, prophesying the state of hip-hop and AA affairs as if this shyt wasn't directly in view not only at the time but since we were shipped to this godforsaken piece of shyt country in the first place.

Nas could say that's gonna rain at least once in the next five years and his stans would be like when it rained five days after him saying so and start talking about how the clouds took the form of Tlaloc and come running out the crib like

 

[spliz]

i mean the songs they produced. i like the song about Farrakhan. that beat is crazy. but i do think Nas had helpers with the bars. I also think Ghost & Jay Z have had helpers with the bars.

Nah..one thing about Nas tho is he was never afraid to get input, ideas or advice from whos in the studio...

 

[Foxmulder]

Except we got Nas stans now saying the album was ahead of its time on some forer effect shyt, prophesying the state of hip-hop and AA affairs as if this shyt wasn't directly in view not only at the time but since we were shipped to this godforsaken piece of shyt country in the first place.

Nas could say that's gonna rain at least once in the next five years and his stans would be like when it rained five days after him saying so and start talking about how the clouds took the form of Tlaloc and come running out the crib like

These gifs man

 

[BiggWebb79]

Its interesting you compare it to what you were thinking in college cause I remember a lot of my friends loved it for that reason. Here's the thing: Its an album that's sonically unambitious and thats where it has its faults but the message and the guy carrying is good enough to ignore that depending on one's preference as a Hip Hop fan (Although I think it has a far a more consistent sound at least than HHID which was up and down with the beats, but still not concentrated like Life is Good which despite you saying in other posts you wasnt feeling either was his most focused and consistent sounding album since the Stillmatic-Lost Tapes-God Son era and if people are honest since even Street's Disciple which I think was better than his first 2 Def Jam albums)

The thing is for a lot of fans of Hip Hop, having a message they care about is more compelling than the structure of an album. Granted that's a very basic and somewhat outdated viewpoint in a post Kanye world where you should be able to have both, but this is why guys like K'naan, Kweli and Mos Def still have a fanbase or why people liked the Distant Relatives album despite also having a very basic and safe message. Or hell why Dead Prez is beloved and Let's Get Free is considered a classic despite the fact that at the time of its released it actually got some rough reviews for it (fitting then that they did the bulk of this Nas album) Again the fact that he had a lot of concept records that he applied to these somewhat known conscious subject matter probably helped it a lot (Fried Chicken, Project Roach, Sly Fox). and for the most part there was more organic sounds than glossy ones on the album (Mostly the Remi , Toomp and Jay Electronica tracks as opposed to the Mark Baston, Stargate, Polow, Cool and Dre and sadly Dead Prez ones)

But this is what I mean by it being his most polarizing album truly: You said its his most boring, others have said its his most deep, compelling and refreshing and it all boils to to the fact that this was probably the closest he came to making a full on conscious album. It brought out an aspect of Nas that some of his fans really love and some of this fan's really hater as a preacher


I'd be curious especially since all the things that have happened this year if he would consider doing a sequel to Untitled. Working with No ID in recent years and having Anthony Saleh give him a young person's vote of confidence I think has helped in tremendously in the 2010's to be sharp as a rapper and focused as a person. Although his recent Post-LIG appearances arent as lyrically monstrous as his 2011-2013 run of appearances, I think having his sights on Mass Appeal after the next album finally have him loosen up to not make commercial records so it wouldn't have a We make The World Go Round

 

[BiggWebb79]

Except we got Nas stans now saying the album was ahead of its time on some forer effect shyt, prophesying the state of hip-hop and AA affairs as if this shyt wasn't directly in view not only at the time but since we were shipped to this godforsaken piece of shyt country in the first place.

Nas could say that's gonna rain at least once in the next five years and his stans would be like when it rained five days after him saying so and start talking about how the clouds took the form of Tlaloc and come running out the crib like

 

[No1]

But this is what I mean by it being his most polarizing album truly: You said its his most boring, others have said its his most deep, compelling and refreshing and it all boils to to the fact that this was probably the closest he came to making a full on conscious album. It brought out an aspect of Nas that some of his fans really love and some of this fan's really hater as a preacher

The thing is, I do not hate anything in rap music if it is done well. Y'all My nikkas and Black President were done well. A song like "What Goes Around" was done well, etc. But the curve is much tougher when you are making a song with a "message." A lot of J. Cole's worst habits are from the Nas of this era, and I like Cole a lot. This album is the reason I never bought Distant Relatives.

LIG to me, is overstated because it is a return to form for Nas to a degree but it still lacks the Nas of Stillmatic, a lot of God's Son, Lost Tapes and parts of SD. For example, Lupe Fiasco put out "The Cool" my freshman year of college and no one was bored by that.

 

[Apollo Creed]

 

[boskey]

Except we got Nas stans now saying the album was ahead of its time on some forer effect shyt, prophesying the state of hip-hop and AA affairs as if this shyt wasn't directly in view not only at the time but since we were shipped to this godforsaken piece of shyt country in the first place.

Nas could say that's gonna rain at least once in the next five years and his stans would be like when it rained five days after him saying so and start talking about how the clouds took the form of Tlaloc and come running out the crib like

Go quote somebody else. I already said in this thread that Nas was clearly influenced by Ice Cube 16 years earlier. Relevant is relevant. I don't see anyone claiming that Nas was a psychic. And what does this shyt you posted have to do with the beats on this album? This is just generic hate. Go take a bath man...

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Listened to this album semi recently. It's aged horribly. I even liked it when it dropped but I will probably never play this album again in my life.

Sure breh breh

U been a hater, don't buy that shyt.