I have a hard time seeing why Nas is so great.

[idoitforhiphop10]

Your hip hop pass has been revoked my friend.

 

[b@squ1@t redux]

nas is a great cure for insomnia

he's actually been medically prescribed

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

Nasir got bars his catalog is weak as fucc but son got bars

 

[idoitforhiphop10]

double post

 

[The_Man]

maybe i was haisty with the bars comment but i stand by the boring one, I cant bring myself to play his album no more

 

[DarthRozay]

You like Eminem. Hip-hop ain't for you.

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

Life is good is kinda wacc to me too+this forum has an abundance of nasir dickriders so they overrate everything duke does

Niggas be tryna big up that wacc ass distant relatives album that album garbage

 

[The_Man]

Lol em would kill Nas on a track

 

[DarthRozay]

Life is good is kinda wacc to me too+this forum has an abundance of nasir dickriders so they overrate everything duke does

Niggas be tryna big up that wacc ass distant relatives album that album garbage

Tell me who you think is a good rapper then Tommy. Who is in your top 5 DOA?

 

[Billy_Poncho]

Favorite Nas verse

 

[The_Man]

Daughters is boring too, I remember first hearing it on the IC and everybody was goin crazy for it, the guys rapping about how his daughter posted condoms on twitter and you all act like hes solving world hunger.

 

[alphajjc]

No hate i like the guy just find most of his new shit boring, but the real reason I made this thread is because I want to know whats so great about Nas as a lyricist, I just find it hard to understand most of the things he raps, people on here say Nas is killing it but im finding it hard to see how.

For example i was just browsing the lif is good thread and somebody ask if somebody would post afew bars from the album and someone posted this..

"write in my little vignettes, sipping moet

bitch when you vision me, you vision the best

when i was young the called me olu's son

now he's nas father, i was the good seed

he was the wise gardener"

"when you're too hood to be in the hollywood circles

and you're too rich to be in the hood that birthed you

and you become better than the legends

you thought were the greastest

and out grow the women you thought you would stay with

life becomes clearer when you wipe down your mirrior"

To which somebody replied..

"oh shit Nas going in"

What are these people seeing that im not? can somebody explain this shit because I feel like im missing the big picture.

Gwen Paltrow would slap you in the mouth for saying something like this

 

[a_list]

dont c y but thats you.....lol....

 

[usmarin3]

Nas is one of the goat but that Raewkon shit that he does like he did on Nasty is wack. Where he just list off a bunch of shit fast without rhyming and flow off beat. Ghostface is the only nigga who can pull that off.

 

[blackamerica]

Freedom or jail/ clips inserted/ a baby being born/ same time a man is murdered the beginning & end/ As far as rap go/ I think its only right I explain/ my plateau and also what defines my name

Nas is GOAT. GTFOH

 

[The_Man]

^^Nas is like is a classic to me im mostly talkin about his new shit

 

[SecondChanceBro]

If you ever had any higher education or are just an intellectual you will appreciate Nas's music. As far as Em killing Nas on a track that is really subjective. Nas is going to spit some shit I lived so I would feel that more, Em is going to spit some dope shit I can not relate to therefore, I would go with Nas.

 

[idoitforhiphop10]

^^Nas is like is a classic to me im mostly talkin about his new shit

Nas now is still better than like 95% of these rappers out here now.

 

[The_Man]

I got kicked out of school at 15 and dont read much, maybe im too stupid to see this amazing shit on life is good.

 

[alphajjc]

^^Nas is like is a classic to me im mostly talkin about his new shit

honestly speaking in all seriousness I was not that impressed with "Life Is Good" .

I'm gonna catch heat for saying that but just telling how I felt.

As always the lyricism was great; Nas being extremely lyrical on a record is just a given....its like the sky being blue or Chris Brown spazzing on people on Twitter. It's bound to happen.

The problem was that I wasn't really connecting with the songs like I was on his past albums.