Who got more mid in his catalog? Jay or Nas

[Awesome Wells]

Nastradamus is too uneven and in-cohesive for me to listen straight through. I usually only listen to Life We Chose, Project Windows, and Last Words from that album.

Funny thing is, after the retail I Am, I didn't have that much of a problem with Nastradamus, when it dropped.

I hated the singles, but the rest of the album worked for me, back then. That was actually the last Nas album I copped excited with high expectations, lol. But I still play a lot of joints off that. Just had on 'Some of Us Have Angels" a couple days ago.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Definitely the camel

 

[semicko82]

Funny thing is, after the retail I Am, I didn't have that much of a problem with Nastradamus, when it dropped.

I hated the singles, but the rest of the album worked for me, back then. That was actually the last Nas album I copped excited with high expectations, lol. But I still play a lot of joints off that. Just had on 'Some of Us Have Angels" a couple days ago.

Another thing is Nastradamus came out during a strong 4th quarter of 1999.

Dr Dre's 2001 was released the week before.

Then in the next couple of weeks we got DMX, Juvenile, Jay-Z, Q-Tip, Sisqo all dropping during that period

Nastradamus kinda got lost in the shuffle

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Honesty the only Nas albums I’ve never really felt were Nasir and Street’s Disciple. I was have to revisit ‘I Am…’. Jay’s catalog there, there’s a LOT I vividly remember not liking in real time and now. Magna Carta Holy Grail going Samsung platinum What a garbage album.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Another thing is Nastradamus came out during a strong 4th quarter of 1999.

Dr Dre's 2001 was released the week before.

Then in the next couple of weeks we got DMX, Juvenile, Jay-Z, Q-Tip, Sisqo all dropping during that period

Nastradamus kinda got lost in the shuffle

True.

That's when I started burning my own CD's, so I just took the songs I liked off Nastradamus and made one of my homemade "Best of Nas" joints, lol. A lot of dope sh*t was coming out, so like you said, those albums kinda had my attention more than Nastradamus. I was playing the LOX album, Jay, Dre and DMX's albums a lot, at the time.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Nah, I agree.

After '99, he said he was depressed and had a lot of personal sh*t going on with family. So I think his approach changed from what most of us liked in his music in the 90's. There was a lot of experimenting. Which is cool, but for me, it was so different from what I was going crazy for with his music before, that I started being disappointed with a lot of the projects. Definitely hit or miss, like you said.

Magic was dope, to me, because it sounded like Nas in '98. But it was also only 9 tracks. So that worked because I think Hit-Boy is wack, lol. But I think being such a huge Nas fan in the 90's had my standard mad high, so when he started slipping a little, I wouldn't anticipate the albums like I used to.

I never realized Nas was talking about you when he made "Loco-Motive."

I also think Nas was getting tired of the industry politics and just wanted to do his own thing. He didn't respect a lot of people in the business and didn't want to cater to them, so he started making certain decisions out of spite. Not that he didn't want to make a song with his dad, but that's one of the last songs you pick as a single, so I understand your perspective. Not to mention he was married to Kelis and she might have had an influence on his musical choices. I know one of the things that inspired Untitled was him and Kelis getting into it with those racist cops in Miami.

I would have rather Nas explored what he can do with his music and challenged himself than boxed himself into what people wanted from him. Maybe to some, it doesn't make sense that he rapped as a woman or a gumshoe detective or a cockroach, but nothing was off the table for him back then.

 

[904]

When it comes to their bottom albums, I never listen to Nastradamus

I'm probably one of the few that didn't like Distant Relatives either. Magic 2 was really meh


People actually count Unfinished Business?? I never listen to that shyt and I never listen to Volume 2 on my own time save for A Week Ago which is a top 10 Jay track for me.. I actually like BP3 and will even throw on MHCG once in blue

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Thread is devious tricknology by the K-Bot collective to have people tearing down Jay and Nas’ catalogue in an attempt to place Kendrick above them

We must expel the filthy k-bot from this site, they are a plague and a cancer

 

[L $ C]

this was fire though....

 

[L $ C]

When it comes to their bottom albums, I never listen to Nastradamus

I'm probably one of the few that didn't like Distant Relatives either. Magic 2 was really meh


People actually count Unfinished Business?? I never listen to that shyt and I never listen to Volume 2 on my own time save for A Week Ago which is a top 10 Jay track for me.. I actually like BP3 and will even throw on MHCG once in blue

DR is a near classic to me. greta album

 

[L $ C]

Not sure Jay has had a good album after black album tbh

AG is a near classic. 444 is GREAT

 

[L $ C]

This track was on the Jay album widely considered his best

understand the hate but always enjoyed this track....hollywood or anything on KC are actual trash tracks

 

[L $ C]

Stop nikka.

This is revisionist.


Art Barr

you just typing but its not really facts at all lol. slow down