What Happened To Nas after Illmatic?
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Nastrodamous
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he dropped more dope music.
Just_myles
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This is a troll thread right? What do you really want to say OP?
That Nas became too White after Illmatic.
Edit: Some folks love to name drop Illmatic, might not be the case here, but it doesn't start and end with that one album.
Dreams-Visions
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What happened? He made It Was Written, which was fucking amazing top to bottom and went on to have a wonderful career with many highlights including one of my all-time favorite Hip-Hop songs of all time, One Mic.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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he fucked jayz
MrToughPants
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Ultra shit beat.
TickleMeElbow
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One Mic still gives me goosebumps.
That's why Ghostface needs to start a company where he picks beats for rappers. He's one of the few people who consistently has great production on every album.
Just_myles
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LJ11 said:
That's ridiculous. He did The firm collab and everyone lost their mind like he fell off(he didn't). People lost their mind when Jay did a bar about Nas having 1 hot album in a 10 year average.
Lame.
CountBlack
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+2billion
Blackthorn
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Do I dare to admit that despite loving hip-hop more than any other human creation I just... don't really like Nas.
I've tried, so many times. I'd never say he's bad, by any stretch. His lyrics are great, and I recognise his influence, but I think it's his delivery that stops me from being excited by him.
He raps at a very regular pace, you can scrub through a song and it's the same steady rhythm throughout. I'm fine listening to his tracks mixed in on a playlist, but I can never make it through listening to an entire album without feeling, honestly, bored.
I start listening like, "Hey, this is good, maybe I do like Nas!"
"Still good, hope he changes it up though."
"Huh, sounds a lot like the last track."
"...Yeah, I'm done."
Man, this must be when confessing to a priest feels like. Forgive me, Gaf.
I've tried, so many times. I'd never say he's bad, by any stretch. His lyrics are great, and I recognise his influence, but I think it's his delivery that stops me from being excited by him.
He raps at a very regular pace, you can scrub through a song and it's the same steady rhythm throughout. I'm fine listening to his tracks mixed in on a playlist, but I can never make it through listening to an entire album without feeling, honestly, bored.
I start listening like, "Hey, this is good, maybe I do like Nas!"
"Still good, hope he changes it up though."
"Huh, sounds a lot like the last track."
"...Yeah, I'm done."
Man, this must be when confessing to a priest feels like. Forgive me, Gaf.
mysocksarepink
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It was written > illmatic
There's nothing wrong with not being a fan of someone.
close to the edge
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Vaguely related, I love this Nas interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdqakgt3Nks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdqakgt3Nks
Blackthorn
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Yeah, I know, but when there's it's super influential artist I always have that irritating feeling that I'm just missing something. It's also not uncommon for me to revisit an artist I didn't like and end up loving them, so Nas has become someone I keep trying to come back to.
I was poking fun at a recent thread the OP made about Socialism being too White. Shit posting on my part, but I couldn't help it.
Nas has put out quality stuff, I'm with you.
DontBeThatGuy
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There's a ton of good stuff after Illmatic, starting with uh, IT WAS WRITTEN.
Just_myles
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LJ11 said:
I know.
SoulClap said:
Agreed.. lyrically.. it's Nas but, his ear for a good beat that isn't the alchemist or primo have been pretty lousy. If OP said that, OP would have had a better argument if there was even one to begin with.
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IrishNinja
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how did he "carry" when he's only done a handful of songs? granted, i think Nas is Like...is some of his dopest shit, but we never got that all preem/nas album we were teased a while back, tragically
and as a Guru fan, i dug Jazmatazz
honestly, after Streets Disciple stuff kinda blurred for me - i know there were tracks on it, but more lows than highs i recall
literally no one thinks this
well, big ghostface swears takeover > ether but he's a diehard jigga stan
ehhh Ghost is top 5 dead or alive but i don't always think his beats are as on point as they could be, for the body of producers lining up to fuck with him...you're right that he's more consistent than nas' choices though.
true, and some of that was in full effect by nastradamus/owe me back etc, then the oochie wallie era which was decisively a low, i thought. stillmatic was his best shit in years, i'm still thankful jay took those shots & reignited dude
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Professor Beef
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One that definitely comes to mind for me is Spec Ops: The Line. To me this game came out of nowhere and became one of my favorites last gen. I probably beat it in about two sittings and it was something I was constantly thinking about in between play sessions and when I finished. Watching the characters just deteriorate mentally was fascinating and I really enjoyed the game play as well, as I know a lot of people found that to be just average. It was one of my favorites last gen and is still a game I thoroughly recommend to people.
As far as I am concerned, most 90s hip hop artists started off with a bang and then fell off mainly because they were so damn hungry for success and were coming out of ghettos or extreme poverty. For Wu Tang, Nas, Biggie, and to a certain extent Tupac and Dre, they were all products of their environment and as they accrued more success, they became distanced from it and lost the unrelenting drive that made them successful in the first place.
Pinko Marx
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OP doesn't even know about The Lost Tapes. This thread is dead.
+1
It is Written is another album that can be argued for top 10 best Rap albums easily on top of several other great albums. Yes, he has had a few misses, but I can't think of a single rapper whose legitimately had a better career.
RobotChant
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Illmatic is one of the greatest albums ever. Period.
None of his albums after are in the same league.
None of his albums after are in the same league.
IrishNinja
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mobb deep fans these days are the worst
except nearly every artist you named made a fantastic (if not better, in some ways) album than their first, if you stuck with them
Coreda
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Tupac only got better and the drive stronger imo, kind of the opposite of the example you're giving here.
Dicktatorship
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Also, bumping Lost Tapes right now and it's pretty good. Not Illmatic good, but still pretty good.
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