Video Nas Says He Wants Rappers From His Era To Start Dropping Albums "I Don't Wanna Hear No Trends, I Want To Hear Art"!
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The kids aren’t gonna check for it anyway so might as well.
Some people just don't have the work ethic to make albums.
As you guys know, I'm a recording artist. Over the past 5 years or so I've been writing rhymes and making albums. It takes me about a month to write 50 verses. In the time it takes to write 50 verses I pick beats, some of the beats I make myself, other beats I find on Facebook groups or Youtube from unknown producers, and sometimes I use classic instrumentals that everybody will recognize. In the time it takes to write 50 verses, I pick out beats and then I figure out which rhymes will go with which beats.
It takes about 6 weeks to make an album with 22 songs (22 represents Victory because V is the 22nd letter). I currently have 25 albums with 22 tracks each. I have hundreds of songs.
My point is that some people just don't have the work ethic to write rhymes every day and record music. Sometimes you hear an artist say, "I'm working on an EP" which is ridiculous to me. I can write an EP in 2 days and record it and mix it down in a day.
However, when I was younger I couldn't write rhymes. From the time I was a teenager until my late 30s I probably wrote 1 or 2 rhymes. Some people just can't do it. Some people just can't get a pen and pad and write 50 rhymes. I know what it's like, I had writer's block when I was younger. I know what it's like to not be able to write rhymes.
2Pac was in a space where he could just grab a pen and write a song in 15 minutes. Some people just can't do it.
A lot of the older artists that Nas is speaking of probably just can't write rhymes. I recall hearing a rumor that Rakim has writers block and can't write rhymes. That's why you always see him performing his classics but he never releases new material. KRS One is the opposite, he drops an album every year.
As you guys know, I'm a recording artist. Over the past 5 years or so I've been writing rhymes and making albums. It takes me about a month to write 50 verses. In the time it takes to write 50 verses I pick beats, some of the beats I make myself, other beats I find on Facebook groups or Youtube from unknown producers, and sometimes I use classic instrumentals that everybody will recognize. In the time it takes to write 50 verses, I pick out beats and then I figure out which rhymes will go with which beats.
It takes about 6 weeks to make an album with 22 songs (22 represents Victory because V is the 22nd letter). I currently have 25 albums with 22 tracks each. I have hundreds of songs.
My point is that some people just don't have the work ethic to write rhymes every day and record music. Sometimes you hear an artist say, "I'm working on an EP" which is ridiculous to me. I can write an EP in 2 days and record it and mix it down in a day.
However, when I was younger I couldn't write rhymes. From the time I was a teenager until my late 30s I probably wrote 1 or 2 rhymes. Some people just can't do it. Some people just can't get a pen and pad and write 50 rhymes. I know what it's like, I had writer's block when I was younger. I know what it's like to not be able to write rhymes.
2Pac was in a space where he could just grab a pen and write a song in 15 minutes. Some people just can't do it.
A lot of the older artists that Nas is speaking of probably just can't write rhymes. I recall hearing a rumor that Rakim has writers block and can't write rhymes. That's why you always see him performing his classics but he never releases new material. KRS One is the opposite, he drops an album every year.
Disanthrope
Inconvenient truth + Necessary evil
I could go for a fab album
grYmes
The price of a brick goin up…
Nas is right tho, trying to appeal to the masses nowadays is a lost cause. There’s clearly a fan base of older heads out there. Rock and Roll acts go decades appealing to their bases and still make music and sell out tours. There’s definitely a lane for this shit.
Hov would probably wanna crawl into a hole if he sold 20K in his first week.
He'll do a bundle deal with McDonald's before that happens. Every Big Mac sold counts as an album sale.
Elzo69Renaissance
These scars are the only real proof they could not
Fab ain’t from Nas generation …:: he s a IG thot now so I wouldn’t worry bout him
Elzo69Renaissance
These scars are the only real proof they could not
Pride comes before the fall off
Elzo69Renaissance
These scars are the only real proof they could not
Luckily Nas has no shame anymore from taking Ls for 30 years
Elzo69Renaissance
These scars are the only real proof they could not
NoHe never fell off tho
Matter he is “ retired”
nAs LoZt!1!1
Qawshun
ChiefNem
Ehh that's just lazy imo. In my experience writers block comes from lack of inspiration.
And if that's the case it's time to try something new. I'll go over unfinished verses, listen to new artist, go through some r&b joints rap to those. You can shake off writers block.
Not to mention these guys ain't working a 9 to 5. How hard is it to write while you sit around doing nothing ??? Hell half of them could just drop unreleased material. Build a buzz.
Jay gotta have at least 3 albums sitting. If anything getting back in the game should be seen as a new challenge
illestni99ainne
I Crop Dusted Ya Moms
Wish Redman would finally drop Muddy Waters 2. Wouldn't mind a Blackout 3. Cee-Lo but an actual rap album
AZTG
OG
Its never talked about but hearing Tragedy Khadafis(Intelligent Hoodlum in those days) influence in a young Nas is always crazy.
Nas always gives credit Kool G and Rakim for influencing him, but to me he sounds like Tragedys copy.
Im glad Nas developed into his own and had his own style by the time Illmatic dropped. But early Nas owes alot to Tragedy imo