NAS "Life Is Good" (Official discussion thread) Release date 07/17/12

[buttuh_b]

I'm bout to make my wiz twerk on me to Summer on Smash brehs.

Life is good, Life is good! (Miguel voice)

 

[buttuh_b]

Damn that young man performed Shoot Em Up?? He never performed that when I saw him.

Smh @ 120k. I knew I didn't wanna overestimate it but 150k sounded reasonable. Hope this jawn goes gold eventually.

 

[qawshun]

Come on don't act like jay couldn't have laced this lp

 

[ocelot]

Ever sin

 

[buttuh_b]

Tracks like Queens Story and World's an Addiction sound like they could be from a movie score b. That World's an Addiction shit kinda reminds me of the movie Requiem for a Dream for some reason. Shit gets my heart beating.

Loco-motive makes you feel like you actually in the projects and shit. This whole shit is crazy.

No other rapper can take you places with their words like Nas.

 

[FyHunnit]

I'm not ready to say Life is Good is a "classic" like everybody else.

 

[alphajjc]

That Geek review on street-poetry & HipHop means nothing.

His review makes me appreciate the album even more when I see that his kind doesn't relate and wants to over intellecualize iit to the degree he did.

I been had it on repeat and will continue to do so while HipHop heads give it praise and Geeks fail to appreciate it.

I agreed with him on certain reviews for other albums, but I have to say for this Nas album he overanalyzed way too damn much.

Even though I am being kind of a tough critic myself and not giving it that "classic" label that many people are......there is no way this record was a "strong 3 to a 4" as this geek reviewer said. That's just blasphemy

 

[buttuh_b]

Rofl. A 3/10 is like 1.5 mics in the Source. If that's the case I wanna know what new rap albums he's feeling.

 

[DarthRozay]

Hopefully Nas' #'s are higher than predicted, like Frank Ocean's. Last week they were saying he was projected for 110-120k but ended up selling 131k.

What size is the shirt that came in the bundle? Did anyone of you that pre-ordered get a signed notebook?

 

[deathrowzorrow]

I love Nas and everything but he flopped with the sales but the album is dope.. thats what matters

 

[alphajjc]

warning........shady team has returned once again

 

[jono]

Wow. This album is really the most mature Nas record and its kinda different w/ the upbeat tracks like The Don & Summer On Smash, he doesn't do a lot of those.

He switched flows a lot too. He spit some adult life bars on here, he kinda did a lot with the relationship stuff but it was balanced. He didn't really go political or militant but that's cool because he dedicated Untitled to that subject.

I give it a solid 4.

On the Nas-cale:

That's above Nastradamus and Untitled and on par with Streets Disciple and slightly below Hip-Hop Is Dead.

Great album though.

 

[deathrowzorrow]

 

[King Lee]

Summer on Smash, Miguel & Swizzy came through

 

[deathrowzorrow]

 

[buttuh_b]

If this only sells 120k will Nas ever get a budget again?

 

[deathrowzorrow]

 

[deathrowzorrow]

 

[Garv*]

Nas bout to light up that women weave lol

 

[deathrowzorrow]