Reacting to "Stillmatic" by Nas

Obviously just my opinion, but u really shouldn’t just jump to Kd trilogy. His next album God’s Son was really very good and there is more personal stuff on there like Dance, If Heaven was s mile away, u Can just check the cover which gives a hint. Untitled (The N Word) is more political and really underrated to me its a great fucking sounding album Distant Relatives u would for sure love im Pretty sure it would Fall into ur style

Bob now that you’re doing more classics please get round to Capital Punishment by Big Pun, an absolute must

If you like the lyrical content of the first half of stillmatic you’ll enjoy the lost tapes. Great lyrics.

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Classic album for sure. It's his old man and the sea moment.

Alright Bob it's Testuo and Youth time lol

Streets disciple is vastly over hated

CANT WAIT for kings disease

Just a little info on rewind. Nas was not saying “leave it” in the way you’re thinking. He was saying leave your message. That was the beginning of the story, they went thru with the plans, at the beginning, ole buddy was shot lol

Yes Bob! Were back! I knew subscribing monthly for years would eventually pay off again haha

Bob..I feel like I'm kind of one of the old head perspectives on here lol. First of all I'll say this..the one point I don't remember you hitting is Nas' mom was diagnosed with cancer and ended up passing away the following year. So he really felt extra offended by the sneak attacks when he essentially put his career on pause to care for her. Also, Rewind is what inspired the song off J Cole's album, and "One MIc" inspired "Man at the Garden." I speak for most Nas fans I think when we appreciate your reactions but ultimately if you can, DO NOT skip Lost Tapes. That might seem like a compilation but trust me, it's not. It's arguably the most comprehensive work Nas has put out about life in that moment and just a classic to me. KD series is a great foray into present Nas, so if you want to go in that direction I won't stop you, but go for LT1 first.

Nas's "One Mic" was released almost a year before Eminem's "Lose Yourself"

On "Rewind", Nas says "Nas, leave it" on his answering machine as opposed to saying"Leave a message". The whole story was meant to showcase his ability to tell a story backwards from end to beginning so when you got grossed out when Nas "vomited" Vodka back into his glass, he obviously really just took a sip. I don't think violence was in the forefront of this idea. The initial response to "Rewind" since its release has always been focused on the backwards storytelling rather than it associating Nas the artist with the violence that took place on the track anymore than associating James Gandolfini with his character or films that show interesting ways and camera angles showing a bullet travel before entering someone.

I think I speak for a lot of Nas fans when I say you shouldn't skip over Nas' Life Is Good album.

Appreciated the life talk toward the end, Bob... Right there with you, down to work stuff having been weird, but Nas' words were indeed true: "Stay strong, we'll get through it y'all".... Anyway, this was great, I usually listen to Stillmatic up to "The Flyest" and then the back half gets pretty uneven for me (a good example of what I Am and Nastradamus sound like actually), but your fresh ears helped uncover especially "Rule" from that dust I've been putting on it

Just FYI there are lot of great Nas albums before Kings disease. The thing with Nas is that he has so much music so there is so much to react to. Like Lost Tapes, God's Son, Distant Relatives and Life is Good (Cant say enough how good this one is) are all albums that are highly regarded that came out before the KD Trilogy. Though with such an discography you can jump around a little IMO. If you want to do the KD Trilogy before some of other ones it also works. And this is not mentioning HHID and Untitled which are super underrated. IDK maybe if you do this for another 10 years we will get all the Nas albums lol

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Nas will always be my 🐐. The LeBron of the rap game. No one has been as consistently good as him for as long as him 👑

The Lost Tapes and God's Son are amazing albums too, worth hearing before King's Disease trilogy.

BTW in ether the lyrics are wrong. It's "think you the king you know you not" at least that's what I always heard

Halfway through and it's so fun, this is a big new notch on your Nas belt Bob!! Thoughts so far: 1) I love "U're Da Man" and a third verse would have been nice, but at least we have "Last Real N---- Alive" on his next album God's Son (2002) which fleshes out the context he's talking about. I'll say if "Ether" was a knockout punch on Jay, songs like "U're Da Man" and "Last Real N---- Alive" were the lasting bodyblows that really cemented victory because they gave such insight to Nas' mentality in his response to the attempted assassination on his career 2) At the end of "Rewind" I think you got caught up and misinterpreted his answering machine message "Yo this is Nas, leave it" as if he was replying to the voice message, but oh well since we got some interesting thoughts from it and thanks for the book tip :) 3) Never thought about that "One Mic" and "Lose Yourself" connection before, but I heard it when you mentioned it... Anyway, this got long, back to the reaction

Holy cow I was so bored at work. Thank you brother Carter 4 next???

need the direct link please bob

you got direct play link?

ty bobert 🫡

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