Who got more mid in his catalog? Jay or Nas

[yesiambowling]

Nas: 22 projects since 1994; 6 of them 6/10 or less.

Jay-Z: 19 projects since 1996; 6 of them 6/10 or less.

Seems pretty even to me.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Definitely Nas.

One of my favorite MC's of all-time, but after I Am, my guy has at least 9-10 albums that I pretty much pretend never happened, and never listen to. The drop in quality was wild, compared to the early classics, like Illmatic and It Was Written. I honestly listen to his unreleased sh*t, more than the later albums.

With Jay, his catalogue was weird, because he would have some of his best sh*t on albums that had some of his wackest sh*t. But he only has maybe one or two albums that I think were wack overall and don’t even bother checking for anymore (Kingdom Come and Magna Carta Holy Grail). Nas was dropping sh*t that had people confused. So there's a whole period of his career that I just act like never existed because I was so disappointed in what he was making.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I wasn't feeling nothing he did after "Life Is Good"

but shout out to you stans that be blasting "Jarreau of rap" in the whip

 

[JQ Legend]

Relistened to Hov whole discography a few years back without skipping. BP2, KC, BP3 and MCHG are a straight up chore to sit through. Cynical, soulless, pandering ass albums Nastradamus and Nasir way easier to sit through than those.

Vol. 1 through Dynasty all basically I Am... status. High level rapping for the most part, some great tracks, some very good ones, but about half the songs got some combination of weak hooks and beats that aged poorly. But same Hovengers that hold I Am against Nas will tell you shyt like Vol. 1 and Dynasty are classics

I think I Am Vol 1 and Dynasty are all classics

Kingdom Come a classic to me too and Nastradamus was a great album fukk what y’all tombout

I got my own BP2 I put together of tracks I think it shoulda been and had that been the album it woulda been up there with Hov best albums

BP3 was classic or close

Oh and BOBW was a classic too
I still gotta hear LIG, I been bullshyttin

esco aint drop an album in 08
you might be thinking of untitled in 09

Untitled was 08

I personally enjoyed Nas recent 6 album run especially KD1 but I think if he woulda taken those last 5 albums and just made 2 great albums out of them with the best tracks and maybe release a LT3 later with some of the rest they might be held in higher regard

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Jay and that includes those R Kelly collab CDs

Best of Both Worlds
Unfinished Business
Linkin Park project
MAGA Carter
Kingdom Come
BP2
BP3
Everything is Love
4:44

lotta duds

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Definitely Nas.

One of my favorite MC's of all-time, but after I Am, my guy has at least 9-10 albums that I pretty much pretend never happened, and never listen to. The drop in quality was wild, compared to the early classics, like Illmatic and It Was Written. I honestly listen to his unreleased sh*t, more than the later albums.

With Jay, his catalogue was weird, because he would have some of his best sh*t on albums that had some of his wackest sh*t. But he only has maybe one or two albums that I think were wack overall and don’t even bother checking for anymore (Kingdom Come and Magna Carta Holy Grail). Nas was dropping sh*t that had people confused. So there's a whole period of his career that I just act like never existed because I was so disappointed in what he was making.

Stillmatic
God's Son
Lost Tapes
Distant Relatives
Life is Good
The entire Hit-Boy run

You don't fukk with any of those albums? Because the way you put it, Nas was having an Eminem-style decline. And Jay has a lot of questionable music in his catalog if we're being fair.

 

[darryl]

Y'all really show y'all age on here constantly bringing up these old washed up azz rappers

 

[Awesome Wells]

Stillmatic
God's Son
Lost Tapes
Distant Relatives
Life is Good
The entire Hit-Boy run

You don't fukk with any of those albums? Because the way you put it, Nas was having an Eminem-style decline. And Jay has a lot of questionable music in his catalog if we're being fair.

After Nastradamus, I honestly only f*ck with the first Magic, where I bang the WHOLE album.

Lost Tapes doesn't count for me, because we all had those songs in the 90's, lol. I'll take a Nas loosie here and there from the later projects, and throw it on my Nas homemade playlist. Like "Nazareth Savage" from Street's Disciple. But that's a quick example, double album, and I only liked 2 songs on it. It's been the way with Nas's albums since 1999, for me. Too inconsistent.

Now, his sh*t from '93-'99. That's ALL day, for me. But it got too shaky after that.

Jay has some weak sh*t too, in there. But definitely not as much as Nas. Some of Jay's wackest sh*t ever, is right next to his best sh*t ever on some of his albums, lol. It's weird, but Jay was way more consistent though.