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DMGAINGREEN

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I never bought into the narrative that this album was trash like that , Nas just suffers from the gift & curse of being held to a higher standard , if anybody else released that album it would have been considered a 3.5 mic album .
I skimmed it over the weekend putting together a playlist.

It's incredible how bad this and I Am are.

They sound even worse today.
 

tuckgod

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I never bought into the narrative that this album was trash like that , Nas just suffers from the gift & curse of being held to a higher standard , if anybody else released that album it would have been considered a 3.5 mic album .

I never bought into a narrative either.

I was hype for this album to drop even though I thought I Am was sub par.

I thought it was trash on 1st listen, then tried to make myself like it over time but couldn't.

Talking to other folks confirmed my belief.

I've never met one person in real life who liked this album.
 

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Had some real blind spots but man the good stuff was decent.

Project Windows
Come Get Me
Last Words
Family
 

prophecypro

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I kinda feel though had I am come out as a double album, no bootleg, with the Lost Tapes stuff and no need to make Nastradamus, it would still get criticised. There's no way to know for sure how the final product would have been cause there's a lot of bootleg versions but I kinda feel like people would still complain about not enough Primo, no Pete Rock, the double album bloat and the tracks sounding like they were taken from different albums.
 

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I like about 3 somgs, Life we chose, nastradamus, project windows.

I listen to the title track almost everyday.

Ron Isley on Project Windows:ohlawd:
 

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Aint no convincing anybody that that album isnt bad :ld:

Even tho its actually not that bad & better than the average highly regarded punchline rappers best album "cough" "cough" jadakiss or fab but whatever:francis:

I actually bump that album more than anything after gods son but thats just me:yeshrug:
 
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It wasnt as bad as ppl say but for nas standards it was too too popish but i still liked aleast a handful of the tracks.
 

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I remember distinctly catching the bus to head to Best Buy to buy it :ehh:

Disc was on the side of the street before I even made it back home :lolbron:
 

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album is trash

was trash when it dropped

still trash today

too much save a hoe goin on in here lol

yea it has a track or two thats decent

shyt "come get me" is my fav track on there and easily the best song on the album

besides that not much there really "project windows" was ruined for me as i heard/had the original before hearing the album version and the original is so much better

having lived through the rollout and release of the album people were like yea nas is over when he dropped that shyt lol

to be fair people liked the cover of the album lol

also "you owe me" did get a lot of rotation

crazy thing about that song is its SO out of place on that album


but really 3.5 mics?

mind you 3 mics = "good worth checkin out"

3.5 = "dope"

2 mics = "needs help"

1 mic = wack

now to me 2 mics is REALLY fitting based on people on some "it had some gems"
my ratings

a cord

i need to see this generosity towards other artists albums that were bad
 
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