Nas is a hero

[Mashed Potatoes]

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.4997/title.nas-f-keri-hilson-hero

I am really pumped for the album now.

First video, http://www.hiphopmusic.com/2008/06/nas_be_a_******_too_lyrics_vid.html

The slave and the master, http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.4886/title.nas-n-i-g-g-e-r-the-slave-the-master

Timeline, http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.5009/title.nas-timeline

Note: These tracks are all off of "The ****** Tape" we'll see what does and does not make the final cut.

[NewMarketSean]

I dunno. I need to hear the album but I am very skeptical. I like that he is trying to call attention to the N-word with the title of the album, but his last album was supposed to "save" hip hop and was pretty lame.

Matter of fact the last good album he made was "It Was Written".

I really hope he gets back to using some of the producers that put him on the map in the first place. Like Pete Rock and DJ Premiere.

[KingCrim]

Matter of fact the last good album he made was "It Was Written".

Stillmatic and Street's Disciple weren't that bad. That whole I am/Nastradamus era was pretty horrible.

I don't know, I'm waiting for people to go back to MC'ing. Just flexing like MF DOOM does, though I'm getting kind of tired of him. Well, not him, but the hype machine that surrounds him.

[NewMarketSean]

Stillmatic and Street's Disciple weren't that bad. That whole I am/Nastradamus era was pretty horrible.

I don't know, I'm waiting for people to go back to MC'ing. Just flexing like MF DOOM does, though I'm getting kind of tired of him. Well, not him, but the hype machine that surrounds him.

You mean "apple bottom jeans! Boots with the fur (with the fur)! She had the whole club looking at her!" isn't MC'ing? LOL

I appreciate that Nas notices that hip-hop is dead and all, but he hasn't enlisted a decent producer to help him resurrect it since It was Written.

[Mashed Potatoes]

You mean "apple bottom jeans! Boots with the fur (with the fur)! She had the whole club looking at her!" isn't MC'ing? LOL

I appreciate that Nas notices that hip-hop is dead and all, but he hasn't enlisted a decent producer to help him resurrect it since It was Written.

Wow you couldn't be more wrong. I know you have a general beef with hip hop because it's different from what it used to be, what you liked, but at least do a little research before you write blatant falsehoods.

Off his last album Hip Hop is Dead, Nas worked with Dr. Dre, Kanye West, will.i.am, and Scott Storch. For the upcoming album so far I know he's working with No I.D., Cool and Dre, Mark Ronson, and Dead Prez.

The truth is hip hop isn't dead. If anything the mainstream crap has produced a new class of lyricists who define themselves in contrast to radio garbage. Cunninlynguists, Joell Ortiz, Sha Stimuli, Nappy Roots, Reks, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots, Crooked I, Royce da 5'9. I could go on and on but if you don't like these guys you don't really like hip hop.

[KingCrim]

The truth is hip hop isn't dead. If anything the mainstream crap has produced a new class of lyricists who define themselves in contrast to radio garbage. Cunninlynguists, Joell Ortiz, Sha Stimuli, Nappy Roots, Reks, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots, Crooked I, Royce da 5'9. I could go on and on but if you don't like these guys you don't really like hip hop.

The Roots, Nappy Roots, and Royce da 5'9 are all as old as Nas.

I like Lupe, he cracks me up, if you read his influences, you'd never know how he got to be good at rhyming.

I dunno, I'm into c-rayz walz, cannibal ox, MF DOOM, and Lupe these days. Haven't paid much attention recently.

[NewMarketSean]

Wow you couldn't be more wrong. I know you have a general beef with hip hop because it's different from what it used to be, what you liked, but at least do a little research before you write blatant falsehoods.

Off his last album Hip Hop is Dead, Nas worked with Dr. Dre, Kanye West, will.i.am, and Scott Storch. For the upcoming album so far I know he's working with No I.D., Cool and Dre, Mark Ronson, and Dead Prez.

And outside of maybe Dr. Dre (in his heydey) I don't consider any of them to be good rap producers.


The truth is hip hop isn't dead. If anything the mainstream crap has produced a new class of lyricists who define themselves in contrast to radio garbage. Cunninlynguists, Joell Ortiz, Sha Stimuli, Nappy Roots, Reks, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots, Crooked I, Royce da 5'9. I could go on and on but if you don't like these guys you don't really like hip hop.

If Nas wants to get back to "hip-hop" he has to go back to what worked back when it was great.

It's like saying that the Orioles should go back to the Oriole Way and have it be something completely different than what it originally was.