Cause you in your mid 40's now, of course you was old enough in the 90's
Chuck D: Nas single handledly dominated a HIPHOP era with consistency
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The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
I mostly agree with this. If I were to give scores, it would be something like:
Illmatic - 5/5
IWW - 4/5
I Am - 3.5/5
Nastradamus - 2.5/5
Stillmatic - 4/5
God's Son - 3.5
Like I said, the quality oscillated.
Which albums weren’t good in your opinion?
AZTG
OG
The issue with rating Nas albums, and this goes for all the greats, is that they always have to compete with their own albums. Nas always has to compete with the greateat rap album of all time and then its like yo why isnt every album you drop the greatest album ever?
I say that to say, its hard to rate Nas albums cause a 3.5 album from Nas would be a 4.5 for anyone else. This goes for other greats, including Jay Z.
Kind of like how Bron can do amazing things in season 17, but since we seen it for 17 years, we dont get amazed by it and rather focus on Giannis doing amazing thing for a 2nd season.
Greats get judged unfairly.
I say that to say, its hard to rate Nas albums cause a 3.5 album from Nas would be a 4.5 for anyone else. This goes for other greats, including Jay Z.
Kind of like how Bron can do amazing things in season 17, but since we seen it for 17 years, we dont get amazed by it and rather focus on Giannis doing amazing thing for a 2nd season.
Greats get judged unfairly.
AZTG
OG
I got these as
Illmatic - 5/5
IWW - 5/5
I Am - 4/5
Nastradamus - 2.5/5
Stillmatic - 5/5
God's Son - 3.5
Your opinion is your opinion and it aint wrong but I think generally peoples ratings are closer to mine.
If anybody else dropped Nastradamus and Street's Disciple...
The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
I didn't care for Nastradamus, and you didn't include it, but Street's Disciple was a bloated mess.
That said, I didn't say he had a bunch of albums that aren't good. I said the quality oscillated. That's pretty much exactly what you see with my scoring. The quality started close to perfect moved downward to subpar and then climbed back up.
The hardcore Nas fans may have ratings closer to yours, but the average Hip Hop fan is not rating IWW or Stillmatic as 5s. Stop it.
God_Body
Check yourself, what percentage is you?
Nah
Illmatic - 5/5
IWW - 5/5
I Am - 3.5/5
Nastradamus - 3.5/5 (Life We Chose, Nastradamus, Project Windows, Come Get Me, Shoot Em Up, Family, God Love Us, New World, You Owe Me. That's 9 great/good songs out of 13.)
Stillmatic - 4.5/5 (Take off tracks 11-13, would've been 5/5)
God's Son - 4.5/5 (Yall niggas bugging)
Lost Tapes - 5/5
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God_Body
Check yourself, what percentage is you?
And Streets Disciple was 444, 15 years early.
"Son's backward flows, they say mine is very scary
Smell fear like a canine that finds buried babies
And all of y'all wear that same aroma
How to blow on your eighth LP, I'll show ya"
"You're wack nigga, face it
In the history of the game, you have no placement
Liquor and weed just massacred their mind, or thee celebrity
Or they couldn't change with time, so now they run they mouth"
"But when the sun go south, them comes come out
My cavalry woulda been threw ten in your skin
Casualty you don't want to be, don't want it with me
Straight savage"
"Son's backward flows, they say mine is very scary
Smell fear like a canine that finds buried babies
And all of y'all wear that same aroma
How to blow on your eighth LP, I'll show ya"
"You're wack nigga, face it
In the history of the game, you have no placement
Liquor and weed just massacred their mind, or thee celebrity
Or they couldn't change with time, so now they run they mouth"
"But when the sun go south, them comes come out
My cavalry woulda been threw ten in your skin
Casualty you don't want to be, don't want it with me
Straight savage"
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AZTG
OG
It Was Written is accepted as hip hop classic and stillmatic got 5 mics when it dropped and is considered a hip hop classic.
You might have to do your history a bit and go read fan and critic reviews fam. You clearly wrong with how people rated them two albums.
The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
There's a movement that says Donald Trump is the greatest president ever. Just because some people band together to say some bizarre shit doesn't make it true or reasonable.
Like I said, everything you're saying maybe true for hardcore Nas fans or people with a strong NY bias, but the average Hip Hop fan is not giving those albums 5s. And if they are then 5s don't mean anything anymore because neither of those albums are perfect or near it, and this is coming from someone who likes both albums very much.
Like I said, everything you're saying maybe true for hardcore Nas fans or people with a strong NY bias, but the average Hip Hop fan is not giving those albums 5s. And if they are then 5s don't mean anything anymore because neither of those albums are perfect or near it, and this is coming from someone who likes both albums very much.
ImaInfluenza
Who do you think you are? I am
Alot of that perception is from the fact that during his run NY was still the main Hub hiphop. Nas put out alot of bullshit that niggaz swept under the rug as only "rap enthusiast" and "street niggaz" can get it.
Still a top 10 goat tho
Still a top 10 goat tho
AZTG
OG
This makes no sense bruh. The average hip hop fan doesnt listen to shit that came out 5 years before their time.
These albums are considered classics by most. Even on the polls on this site.
Qawshun
ChiefNem
Hmmm 3 great joints back to back
A slip up
2 more great back to back joints then lost tapes
Etc there been more good quality than not
A slip up
2 more great back to back joints then lost tapes
Etc there been more good quality than not
Qawshun
ChiefNem
I can respect that.
