you might even call him... nasty nas.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
Gastradamus
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
haha
― Spottie, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdmtQDSZS5I
― niels, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
I've no doubt that prof. New has good intentions and I'm sure she's brilliant, but I often feel a weirdly reductive poetics is applied in rap analysis, where the text is treated as an allegory to be decoded 1:1 through understanding of slang
it gives a pretty closed interpretation, it misses the complexity of rap lyrics, and perhaps there's something faux-naif about treating lines like "wisdom be leaking out my grapefruit" as if they were difficult to understand
it's something I believe was also very prevalent in early rock criticism where endless hours were wasted "deciphering" Dylan lyrics and the like
― niels, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 09:45 (six years ago) link
"...and that's one the ways your 'pen is extreme'... now, what does it mean to 'dominate break loops.' that--that's the beat, right? so, explain that. ... it occurs to me that to say you 'dominate break loops' is also a way of saying there's this underlying... formal... given...."
― dylannn, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
"'giving mics menstrual cycles'... are those cycles in any way metaphorically related to the loops?"
― dylannn, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
I'm playing Breath of the Wild and every time I see one, I think "she opened up her ass like a
http://orcz.com/images/thumb/2/2d/BreathoftheWildHyruleBassStats.jpg/400px-BreathoftheWildHyruleBassStats.jpg"
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
#LostTapes2 Did Nas just snap on this verse pic.twitter.com/BeuEVAmnxH— I Am Who I Am🇿🇦 (@ManamelaKmm) July 19, 2019
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 July 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
Nas be like lemme stick this Heineken bottle in ur pussy bitch wait ew cross your legs queen read a book— 🤮ghoul🤮 (@greenSLLIME) July 19, 2019
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 07:51 (four years ago) link
the duality of man
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 08:33 (four years ago) link
lol
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
I never understood the hate for Nastradamus. he has like 3-4 albums that are not as good... the title track alone keeps it from being his "nadir" as the p4k review of Lost Tapes 2 says
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
ahead of the curve on the "Africa" revival
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
new album is good
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
but is it gross
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
is there a Fetus 2?
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
what is... King's Disease II ??? :O
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
Gout II
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
Gouter and Grosser
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
Nas is like sick :(
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
I had blocked this from my memory:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFhOw677QpI
(the hilarious Toto-sampling "New World" from Nastradamus)
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
And to not be a completely negative guy, here's a Nas song I love without reservation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htISO_yapc4
("No One Else in the Room" with Maxwell from Street's Disciple)
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:16 (two years ago) link