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confused/annoyed? lol. while his rapping stays the same, the beats on his albums just get worse and worse. god's son is better imhoimiohohiomhnohomo because there are some listenable beats scattered throughout, acoustic ballad w/ pac notwithstanding.

― amon (amon), Monday, 25 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah confused 'cause as I say, his rapping is still consistently excellent & it's not like his themes are any more tired & overused than anybody else's, annoyed 'cause of the predictable kill-the-father impulse that seems to cause people to post one-line dismissals instead of the more informative critique you give after you're provoked

― Jaufre Rudel (Jaufre Rudel), Monday, 25 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

kinda surprised it even came out on time. maybe just cuz the bossman is on it. maybe jay greenlighted "who killed it" to guarantee it wouldn't overshadow the ceo's latest.

― amon (amon), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Tuomas I dig it too & am confused/annoyed by haters but if you think this is better than Illmatic you are koo-koo

I've said this several times on previous Nas threads, but I don't really dig the jazzy beats of the Illmatic era (some of them are simply too mellow for me), and I prefer the sentimental, preachy Nas of today to the detached Nas of that era. I do think Illmatic is a good LP, but personally I rate God's Son and Stillmatic and this latest one above it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

And I can't really understand the people who say Nas's beats have gotten worse and worse. I think all of his last four albums have had pretty solid beats. Yeah, there's nothing revolutionary there, but I think it's always been the case that he has beats that back up whatever he's saying rather than stealing the show for him. Nas has reached such an elder statesman status that he doesn't really need to impress the kids anymore, so he can use beats that are not flashy but have an earthy, timeless quality to them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f382/f38267iw4m1.jpg

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

Can't see the point of sampling "In-A-Da-Gadda-Widda" or whatever it's called on two consecutive LPs though

― miranda lambo (dealwithit.gif), Thursday, 22 December 2011 06:16 (twelve years ago) link

Finnish rappers can be divided into underground and mainstream. Underground rappers rap about suburbs, drugs, politics, life, problems with authorities and so on. Mainstream rappers rap about partying, women and cars.

― monomaniatee (t. silaviver), Thursday, 22 December 2011 07:20 (twelve years ago) link

What does that have to with Nas?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 22 December 2011 07:22 (twelve years ago) link

THE WHIRLWIND OF BEEF I INHALE IT

― jacques lu cunt (furnace mane), Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link

^^^ crucial post

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link

i'll listen to this some time.

― deej (deej), Saturday, 23 December 2006 11:13 (5 years ago)

any news on this?

― The Larry Sandbox Show (sic), Thursday, 22 December 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

not a good album

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Friday, 23 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

but did you listen to it?

― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 23 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

yes

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Friday, 23 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

well, most of it

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Friday, 23 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

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