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1) street dreams
2) just another day in the projects
3) affirmative action
4) money is my bitch
5) purple
6) what goes around
7) u gotta love it
8) my niggas
9) on the real
10) revolutionary warfare

― William Wiggins, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

What? No "Made You Look"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

no! there are even ten more songs i would choose before it. don't let that stop you from putting it on your list, though.

― William Wiggins, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

X - Illmatic. I've never liked another Nas song since.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

That's completely insanity.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

there's an irony to decrying insanity on a Nas thread.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

was he diagnosed with some mental illness i wasnt aware of?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

not diagnosed, but I've detected symptoms in numerous songs and videos.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

but I'll use the word "eccentric" rather than "fucking insane" if you'd prefer

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

NY State of Mind
Live at the BBQ (Main Source)
Halftime
I Gave You Power
The World Is Yours
Made You Look
Nas is Like
Fast Life (Kool G Rap)
It Ain't Hard To Tell
Verbal Intercourse (Raekwon)

(three of these are guest appearances, but they are also some of my favorite verses ever in rap so I figured what the heck)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

Well it's plain nuts to say that the last good Nas song was 1994. Maybe none of the albums have been as good, but if you don't think he's recorded any SONGS worth listening to then you are either insane or you just plain don't care.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

just missed the cut: Drunk by Myself, Got Ur Self A..., Life's A Bitch, If I Ruled the World

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

while I agree that he's done good stuff since, didn't Jay-Z make the same claim Badlee's making?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

Jay-Z was talking about albums though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

xpost

Jay said two of them shits were "doo", and two were "eh" I think. so I think two at least are mediocre in Jay's book (so they'd have to have some good songs on them), but still a one hot album every ten year average....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

And anyways Stillmatic and The Lost Tapes and God's Son have all came out since Jay-Z made fun of Nas for his "one hot album every ten years" thing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

1) NY State of Mind
2) The Message
3) It Ain't Hard To Tell
4) 2nd Childhood
5) Halftime
6) The World Is Yours
7) Shootouts
8) One Time 4 Your Mind
9) I Gave You Power
10) Nas Is Like

He's a legendary rapper but I'm inclined to agree that he says some of the stupidest shit I've ever heard in interviews and has been inclined to choose some of weakest beats in history (around I Am and Nastradamus)

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah any nas pox that doesnt include "nas is like" at least is faulty (sorry w.w.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

i wanted to like God's Son a lot more than I did, only really like about 4-5 songs of it....Lost Tapes is great though.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm shocked no one's mentioned "Phone Tap" actually.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

wasn't he saying "two of them shits were due"? like, if you put out stuff for ten years you're going to eventually get it right a couple times.

― William Wiggins, Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah any nas pox that doesnt include "nas is like" at least is faulty (sorry w.w.)

Although I get a perverse enjoyment out of WW's Nas POX because it doesn't include anything from Illmatic!! (f--- the canon for real)

wasn't he saying "two of them shits were due"?

Hm... that never occured to me! It's a more complex reading of the lyric....I always just thought he meant poop.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

my favorites that haven't been mentioned: "One Mic" and "One Love".

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah, what happened to "one love"? That's like POXing Jigga without "regrets".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Nas Is Like" is easily the worst thing Nas has ever recorded.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hey Dom, you ever hear Nastradamus? Also, elaborate.

I would POX Jigga without "Regrets", for sure. "One Love" has never resonated with me like it has with, well, everyone else.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

Illmatic

+ Made U Look, 2nd Childhood, Nas Is Like, The Message, NY State of Mind pt. 2

― djdee2005, Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Nas Is Like" is easily the worst thing Nas has ever recorded

um...Braveheart Party?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Nas Is Like" is easily the worst thing Nas has ever recorded

hahaha what the fuck!?

― djdee2005, Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm not insane and I do care - Nasty Nas was one of the best rappers of all-time. Still is actually. Unfortunately these guys who called themselves Nastradamus (haha) and God's Son (HAHAHA) kidnapped him and locked him in a basement and we haven't heard from him in ten years. Nasty Nas had this soft, wise tone to his voice. I'm thinking of "One Love" and "It Ain't Hard To Tell" right now. He's never sounded like that again. These other guys are just trying to take Nas' identity and make it "harder". Its time for people to stop blaming beats for Nas' decline. He's ruined his fair share of good beats over the years too. Damn, at one time, I thought Nas was the greatest to ever pick up a mic. So I'm not hatin' just to be hatin'.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

8 years pass...

New album is SO good.

― mr.raffles, Friday, 7 September 2012 04:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

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