nas has been doing just fine as is,once he starts dropping mixtapes and freestyles he'll over saturate himself,and then we start to compare the mixtape to the album,the freestyles to actual songs,then he finds himself in a loop where he is just chasing his own tale trying to make something better than the freestyle he wrote.and keep it 100,rarely is the album better than the mixtape for any artist.imagine eminem with a mixtape,jay z with a mixtape,some mufukkas is beyond that,and nas is in that catergory.