Who got more mid in his catalog? Jay or Nas
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They both have a fair share of mid in their archives imo, it’s a toss up. I think Nas has higher highs though, artistically. Their careers have been so long that they can afford the peaks and valleys and peaks again, the mid is kinda inevitable when you been here 30 years consistently.
Remove illmatic and Reasonable doubt
Who has the most revered albums between the two? Im not talking sales. Im talking people saying this one of the best albums ever
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Damn you Jim Jones. 
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threads about a millennium old beef.
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threads about a millennium old beef.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
I guess you using this.
for your jay electronica denial plausibility stan stance?
Y'all predictable as that thang.
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Art Barr
I would say stalemate 
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Nas had some mudane shyt when he decided to do that album with Ye and the bland under the radar Lost Tapes 2.
Hov on the other hand
. Everything after Blueprint 3 was a crying shame.
.Nas had some mudane shyt when he decided to do that album with Ye and the bland under the radar Lost Tapes 2.
Hov on the other hand
. Everything after Blueprint 3 was a crying shame.It’s subjective, but
IWW
Stillmatic
Lost Tapes
Life Is Good or KD3
Vs
Blueprint
The Black Album
American Gangster
Vol 2 or Dynasty
Nas other “Great” albums are better than Jigga’s imo. Idk about reverence and acclaim, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re higher there too though.
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Nastradamus
Street’s Disciple
HHID
That Kanye album
vs
Magna Carter
Volume 3
Kingdom Come
Blueprint 2
Jigga’s mid is more mid than Nas mid too. Again, imo, lol. I try to be honest, for what’s it worth, y’all be biased and fan-y af. If Jigga shhit was better to me I’d just say it,
, still got Esco above him.It ain’t tho, Nas >>>> Jigga.
You put lost tapes and KD3. Only nas fans talk about those albums.It’s subjective, but
IWW
Stillmatic
Lost Tapes
Life Is Good or KD3
Vs
Blueprint
The Black Album
American Gangster
Vol 2 or Dynasty
Nas other “Great” albums are better than Jigga’s imo. Idk about reverence and acclaim, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re higher there too though.
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Nastradamus
Street’s Disciple
HHID
That Kanye album
vs
Magna Carter
Volume 3
Kingdom Come
Blueprint 2
Jigga’s mid is more mid than Nas mid too. Again, imo, lol. I try to be honest, for what’s it worth, y’all be biased and fan-y af. If Jigga shhit was better to me I’d just say it,
It ain’t tho, Nas >>>> Jigga.
You just made my point after your edit lol
And you forgot 444
BruhManFromTheFifthFlo
Veteran
Nas. nikka dropped Illmatic and decided to point a microphone at his toilet while he took a shyt and recorded it for his other albums
I think if you were to check general rankings of Nas albums, on any hip hop site/platform, you’d see Lost Tapes on there high up champ.
4:44 cool, I see it gets panned a lot but I actually liked it,
. That ain’t “great” tho if that’s what you’re insinuating, stop.
Nas has the worst double album SD
Worst solo album Nasir
No one else cares champ
Worst solo album Nasir
Nobody brings up lost tapes but yall nas stansI think if you were to check general ranking of Nas albums, anywhere, you’d see Lost Tapes on there high up champ.
4:44 cool, I see it gets panned a lot but I actually liked it,
No one else cares champ
We can actually get to the bottom of this…lol, doesn’t have to be a back and forth spat of opinions. What credible, reputable hip hop sites/platforms are there? I’m sure they have album rankings and breakdowns and all that. I think you’d be hard pressed to find one regarding Nas’ catalog that doesn’t have “Lost Tapes” in the Top 5. It’s arguably Top 3 but that may just be my fandom, admittedly.
The Lost Tapes was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalizedrating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 81, based on 12 reviews.[41]
Reviewing for Entertainment Weekly in September 2002, Craig Seymour said Nas' "gritty, yet hopeful, reflections make Lost Tapes a real find."[8] Rolling Stone critic Jon Caramanica hailed it as "the real Stillmatic", writing that it "displays Nas' gifts for tightly stitched narrative and stunningly precise detail."[13] In The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabindeemed it a masterpiece whose assorted tracks cohere as well as any of Nas' official studio albums while reaffirming his reputation as "rap music's poet laureate of urban despair".
In its 2007 issue, XXL included The Lost Tapes in its list of "classic" albums to be given the publication's maximum "XXL" rating.[48]In 2012, Complex included The Lost Tapes in their list of "25 Rap Albums From the Past Decade That Deserve Classic Status".[49]
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I been on forums/internet and around enough people on this earth to see only Nas fans mention lost tapes. I wont even entertain KD3 lol
Nas's career didn't get revived by a beef. Boost? Yes. If Stillmatic's only good song was "Ether", Nas would've been done. God's Son is arguably better than Stillmatic. Just lacked the impact.
Even LL's runs got boosts from beefs.
GOAT, 10, and DEFinition are not great albums. You could even throw Phenomenon in their. Those albums are nowhere near the top of his catalog.