who still listening to Distant Relatives? (appreciation)

[The Ruler 09]

Patience is my favorite! A lot of truth was said on that song.

True, rare truths.

 

[The Ruler 09]

Album is a fukking classic. Many ignorant heard positive black messages and immediately became disinterested. Those who actually sat and listened to this would have been rewarded with a sonic masterpiece. Easily my favorite Hiphop/Reggae collaboration album.

Props.

 

[Billy Ocean]

Distant Relatives is one of those gems that dropped over the last few years that NEEDS to be revisited often. Great album.

 

[The Ruler 09]

Distant Relatives is one of those gems that dropped over the last few years that NEEDS to be revisited often. Great album.

True. It was an important album. Highly underrated and unappreciated. It's one of my favorite albums, people disregard it currently cause it's a latter day release but it was profound in every sense.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Just relistened to this masterpiece and only one gif could describe my face as i begain to enjoy the sounds of "Friends" and "Patience"



Such a great fukking album. Friends is especially important for alot of nikkas in here. LISTEN TO THE WORDS nikkaS..

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

not since the day it leaked.. you nas stans try so hard to keep this album remembered.. only on here do people remember it exists

 

[The Ruler 09]

Just relistened to this masterpiece and only one gif could describe my face as i begain to enjoy the sounds of "Friends" and "Patience"



Such a great fukking album. Friends is especially important for alot of nikkas in here. LISTEN TO THE WORDS nikkaS..

Yes,. Friends, Leaders too. So much substance.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Nassir Code of Ethics

Real men we have a code of ethics
No question
No jealousies
No feminine tendencies
We expecting
No gossip
No phony logic
No counting your homey pocket
Spare no expense for legal defense
If your homey locked up
No keeping tabs
On who was the last who looked out
Selfishness
That's a character flaw
No holding out
Yo what happened to the honor
You're dealing with
Sensitive Primadonna drama
Teflon love
For my dudes who solid

 

[The Ruler 09]

Nassir Code of Ethics

Ill lyrics, I'mma keep it real. At first I thought Damien was the star of the album and even outshined Nas, and many of my people thought that too. As time went by I appreciated how great Nas was on the album too. I would love them to do another project together like this.

 

[The Ruler 09]

It's almost like they created a genre of music with this release.... Musically, conceptually, stylistically innovative. Much respect for this project.. Brought together the son of BOB MARLEY who is a great artist in his own right and one of Hip Hop's great, and metaphorically the son of Rakim together. Hip Hop and Reggae always been close, but this was such a great and official union with doing it for a whole album. So dope.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Most people who dislike the album just don't realize how incredibily difficult a project like this was to pull off. I mean, you have the son of probably one of the greatest muscicians to ever live (Bob Marley), combined with an MC that is essentially regarded as still the best lyricist rapping going on 15-20 years now. Each with their own respective fan bases, collaborating to make an album that melds the two genre's into one harmonious production that the respective fan bases of each artists could enjoy.

And they made is so effortlessly it seems...

The live show they put on when this album came out was one of the greatest concerts i had ever been too!

 

[The Ruler 09]

It's almost like they created a genre of music with this release.... Musically, conceptually, stylistically innovative. Much respect for this project.. Brought together the son of BOB MARLEY who is a great artist in his own right and one of Hip Hop's great, and metaphorically the son of Rakim together. Hip Hop and Reggae always been close, but this was such a great and official union with doing it for a whole album. So dope.

What's also ill historically is that KRS-One is Nas's mentor in many senses and it was like a continuation and expansion of KRS-One's work, as he worked with Stephen Marley YEARS ago.

 

[The Ruler 09]

Most people who dislike the album just don't realize how incredibily difficult a project like this was to pull off. I mean, you have the son of probably one of the greatest artists to ever live in music, combined with an MC is is essentially regarded as still the best lyricist rapping going on 15-20 years now, each with their own respective fan bases, collaborating to make an album that melds the two genre's into one harmonius production that the respective fan bases of each artists could enjoy.

And they made is so effortlessly it seems...

The live show they put on when this album came out was one of the greatest concerts i had ever been too!

I never got to see the show, but even what I watched of them they looked incredible and epic.

 

[Danie84]

Haven't listen to it in awhile, but when I do I always feel righteous

They appeal to the conscious
The Paramount
The Cesar, the monsters
The grandiose, the matters
The hell on earth pompous
Ellsworth Bumpy Johnsons
The Harlemites the Garveyites
Black as the credit card we swipe

...and the rest of this verse is just as lethal

 

[Professor Polo]

I worked out to this for the first time last night. Don't know why I didn't before, there's some inspiring stuff on there.

One thing that does bug me is Nas's verse on "Strong Will Continue"--and I'm a borderline Nas Stan--where he's whining about child support, alimony, and sleeping with football player's wives. That verse was so out of place.

I loved that verse