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Quote from: eazye on May 16, 2010, 04:56:07 AMI was the first person in line when It came to hating on I Am...But a lot has changed since those days because I took the time to peep the album the way how Nas intended it to be heard in the first place (as a double disc) and it was quite a solid effort, much better than the released version.On top of that, I recently came across some perfectly executed blends (and I usually hate blends) of the I Am accapelas (from the retail version of the album) mixed with some 45 King and Godfather Don instrumentals.The songs have a completely different vibe and the album flows really well.So yeah, what brings the released version of I Am down are half the beats on there and the fact that it was heavily bootlegged back in the day which prevented it from being released in its true formwouldnt mind hearing this?
I was the first person in line when It came to hating on I Am...But a lot has changed since those days because I took the time to peep the album the way how Nas intended it to be heard in the first place (as a double disc) and it was quite a solid effort, much better than the released version.On top of that, I recently came across some perfectly executed blends (and I usually hate blends) of the I Am accapelas (from the retail version of the album) mixed with some 45 King and Godfather Don instrumentals.The songs have a completely different vibe and the album flows really well.So yeah, what brings the released version of I Am down are half the beats on there and the fact that it was heavily bootlegged back in the day which prevented it from being released in its true form
1. NY State of Mind pt. 2 feat. Perquisite and Benjamin Herman2. Hate Me Now feat. Odetta3. Favor for a Favor feat. Odetta4. We Will Survive feat. The Roots5. Ghetto Prisoners feat. Skipless6. You Won't See Me Tonight feat. Dela7. I Wanna Talk To You feat. Odetta8. Nature's Shine feat. Thomas Sliffing9. Dr. Knockboots feat. Odetta10. Life is What You Make it feat. Odetta11. Big Things feat. The Roots12. Nas is Like feat. J Rawls13. Kissing feat. J Dilla14. Money is my Bitch feat. Perquisite and Benjamin Herman15. Undying Love feat. Arts the Beatdoctor
Quote from: Long Beach Iz Active on May 15, 2010, 07:47:24 AMQuote from: BASED GOD on May 14, 2010, 05:18:50 PMQuote from: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on May 13, 2010, 04:27:56 PMThis is whack.... Some of the songs are way too long. I thought one song was the last on the album cuz it was so long and I still had like 4 joints to go after it.Knaan was the standout on all the tracks he was on.Album did start out strong, about just after the half way mark I felt like fast forwarding tracks.Some god-aweful hooks on here, even for Reggae.Lil Wayne feature was funny, I tryed to find a reason but I couldn't hate on him, held it down on a type of beat I've never seen him do before...Nas lyrics were dope, flow was str8, should release the pellas and have fans make their own remix projects...Beats were average, nothing pushing the limits of a true Hip-Hop/Reggae fusion though..Felt like Damian was just adding background vocals for Nas, didn't really stand out to me.. (Note: I don't listen to Reggae)I do like the concept and ideas on this album, just weren't able to pull it off imo, to make it above standards.I won't be listening to this after a week.dude you are on point here. a lot of ppl who dont listen to reggae (but like to pretend that they have knowledge) are saying this album is great and i think its based on pure novelty of nas doing a record with a reggae artist. this album is very poor and i know in a month or two no-one is going to care. this happens with every nas album, hell even on 'untitled' i was super hyped for like a week and then i never listened to it again. so now we've come to the root of your thoughts, you think Nas is wack, so why are you wasting your time listening to this album to begin with?why would i be super hyped for an album from someone i think is wack? i never said that. infact if u read what i said you would see that i like some of nas albums, im just able to jump off his dick for a second and admit half his albums suck.
Quote from: BASED GOD on May 14, 2010, 05:18:50 PMQuote from: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on May 13, 2010, 04:27:56 PMThis is whack.... Some of the songs are way too long. I thought one song was the last on the album cuz it was so long and I still had like 4 joints to go after it.Knaan was the standout on all the tracks he was on.Album did start out strong, about just after the half way mark I felt like fast forwarding tracks.Some god-aweful hooks on here, even for Reggae.Lil Wayne feature was funny, I tryed to find a reason but I couldn't hate on him, held it down on a type of beat I've never seen him do before...Nas lyrics were dope, flow was str8, should release the pellas and have fans make their own remix projects...Beats were average, nothing pushing the limits of a true Hip-Hop/Reggae fusion though..Felt like Damian was just adding background vocals for Nas, didn't really stand out to me.. (Note: I don't listen to Reggae)I do like the concept and ideas on this album, just weren't able to pull it off imo, to make it above standards.I won't be listening to this after a week.dude you are on point here. a lot of ppl who dont listen to reggae (but like to pretend that they have knowledge) are saying this album is great and i think its based on pure novelty of nas doing a record with a reggae artist. this album is very poor and i know in a month or two no-one is going to care. this happens with every nas album, hell even on 'untitled' i was super hyped for like a week and then i never listened to it again. so now we've come to the root of your thoughts, you think Nas is wack, so why are you wasting your time listening to this album to begin with?
Quote from: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on May 13, 2010, 04:27:56 PMThis is whack.... Some of the songs are way too long. I thought one song was the last on the album cuz it was so long and I still had like 4 joints to go after it.Knaan was the standout on all the tracks he was on.Album did start out strong, about just after the half way mark I felt like fast forwarding tracks.Some god-aweful hooks on here, even for Reggae.Lil Wayne feature was funny, I tryed to find a reason but I couldn't hate on him, held it down on a type of beat I've never seen him do before...Nas lyrics were dope, flow was str8, should release the pellas and have fans make their own remix projects...Beats were average, nothing pushing the limits of a true Hip-Hop/Reggae fusion though..Felt like Damian was just adding background vocals for Nas, didn't really stand out to me.. (Note: I don't listen to Reggae)I do like the concept and ideas on this album, just weren't able to pull it off imo, to make it above standards.I won't be listening to this after a week.dude you are on point here. a lot of ppl who dont listen to reggae (but like to pretend that they have knowledge) are saying this album is great and i think its based on pure novelty of nas doing a record with a reggae artist. this album is very poor and i know in a month or two no-one is going to care. this happens with every nas album, hell even on 'untitled' i was super hyped for like a week and then i never listened to it again.
This is whack.... Some of the songs are way too long. I thought one song was the last on the album cuz it was so long and I still had like 4 joints to go after it.Knaan was the standout on all the tracks he was on.Album did start out strong, about just after the half way mark I felt like fast forwarding tracks.Some god-aweful hooks on here, even for Reggae.Lil Wayne feature was funny, I tryed to find a reason but I couldn't hate on him, held it down on a type of beat I've never seen him do before...Nas lyrics were dope, flow was str8, should release the pellas and have fans make their own remix projects...Beats were average, nothing pushing the limits of a true Hip-Hop/Reggae fusion though..Felt like Damian was just adding background vocals for Nas, didn't really stand out to me.. (Note: I don't listen to Reggae)I do like the concept and ideas on this album, just weren't able to pull it off imo, to make it above standards.I won't be listening to this after a week.
Quote from: eazye on May 16, 2010, 04:56:07 AMI was the first person in line when It came to hating on I Am...But a lot has changed since those days because I took the time to peep the album the way how Nas intended it to be heard in the first place (as a double disc) and it was quite a solid effort, much better than the released version.On top of that, I recently came across some perfectly executed blends (and I usually hate blends) of the I Am accapelas (from the retail version of the album) mixed with some 45 King and Godfather Don instrumentals.The songs have a completely different vibe and the album flows really well.So yeah, what brings the released version of I Am down are half the beats on there and the fact that it was heavily bootlegged back in the day which prevented it from being released in its true formIs this supposed to be an excuse for the way the album came out? Just because a producer remixed the album, doesn't change the fact the album Nas put out was wack because you can do that for any album. And I'm not sure changing the beats make that big a difference when some of the song concepts were wack to begin with. It could only change Dr. Knockboot into a slightly less wack song.
Quote from: BASED GOD on May 15, 2010, 08:21:26 AMQuote from: Long Beach Iz Active on May 15, 2010, 07:47:24 AMQuote from: BASED GOD on May 14, 2010, 05:18:50 PMQuote from: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on May 13, 2010, 04:27:56 PMThis is whack.... Some of the songs are way too long. I thought one song was the last on the album cuz it was so long and I still had like 4 joints to go after it.Knaan was the standout on all the tracks he was on.Album did start out strong, about just after the half way mark I felt like fast forwarding tracks.Some god-aweful hooks on here, even for Reggae.Lil Wayne feature was funny, I tryed to find a reason but I couldn't hate on him, held it down on a type of beat I've never seen him do before...Nas lyrics were dope, flow was str8, should release the pellas and have fans make their own remix projects...Beats were average, nothing pushing the limits of a true Hip-Hop/Reggae fusion though..Felt like Damian was just adding background vocals for Nas, didn't really stand out to me.. (Note: I don't listen to Reggae)I do like the concept and ideas on this album, just weren't able to pull it off imo, to make it above standards.I won't be listening to this after a week.dude you are on point here. a lot of ppl who dont listen to reggae (but like to pretend that they have knowledge) are saying this album is great and i think its based on pure novelty of nas doing a record with a reggae artist. this album is very poor and i know in a month or two no-one is going to care. this happens with every nas album, hell even on 'untitled' i was super hyped for like a week and then i never listened to it again. so now we've come to the root of your thoughts, you think Nas is wack, so why are you wasting your time listening to this album to begin with?why would i be super hyped for an album from someone i think is wack? i never said that. infact if u read what i said you would see that i like some of nas albums, im just able to jump off his dick for a second and admit half his albums suck. obviously you need radio friendly song on an album to keep your attentionsad
Quote from: Leggy Hendrix on May 16, 2010, 05:43:42 AMQuote from: eazye on May 16, 2010, 04:56:07 AMI was the first person in line when It came to hating on I Am...But a lot has changed since those days because I took the time to peep the album the way how Nas intended it to be heard in the first place (as a double disc) and it was quite a solid effort, much better than the released version.On top of that, I recently came across some perfectly executed blends (and I usually hate blends) of the I Am accapelas (from the retail version of the album) mixed with some 45 King and Godfather Don instrumentals.The songs have a completely different vibe and the album flows really well.So yeah, what brings the released version of I Am down are half the beats on there and the fact that it was heavily bootlegged back in the day which prevented it from being released in its true formwouldnt mind hearing this? http://philaflava.blogspot.com/2008/12/nas-i-am-blends-godfather-don-vs-45.html
I think Nas has one of the best discographies of any hip-hop artist. He kind of had that "first album is a classic" curse but he managed to shake it and stay relevant and that's not an easy thing to do. Nastradamous was clearly not a great album but he did put out about seven months after releasing "I Am". I don't get the hate for "I Am". It's not as good as Illmatic or Stillmatic but it's a personal favorite of mine. Catatlog-wise, there is only a handful of people who could give Nas a run for his money.
Quote from: Long Beach Iz Active on May 16, 2010, 12:05:03 PMQuote from: BASED GOD on May 15, 2010, 08:21:26 AMQuote from: Long Beach Iz Active on May 15, 2010, 07:47:24 AMQuote from: BASED GOD on May 14, 2010, 05:18:50 PMQuote from: The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES on May 13, 2010, 04:27:56 PMThis is whack.... Some of the songs are way too long. I thought one song was the last on the album cuz it was so long and I still had like 4 joints to go after it.Knaan was the standout on all the tracks he was on.Album did start out strong, about just after the half way mark I felt like fast forwarding tracks.Some god-aweful hooks on here, even for Reggae.Lil Wayne feature was funny, I tryed to find a reason but I couldn't hate on him, held it down on a type of beat I've never seen him do before...Nas lyrics were dope, flow was str8, should release the pellas and have fans make their own remix projects...Beats were average, nothing pushing the limits of a true Hip-Hop/Reggae fusion though..Felt like Damian was just adding background vocals for Nas, didn't really stand out to me.. (Note: I don't listen to Reggae)I do like the concept and ideas on this album, just weren't able to pull it off imo, to make it above standards.I won't be listening to this after a week.dude you are on point here. a lot of ppl who dont listen to reggae (but like to pretend that they have knowledge) are saying this album is great and i think its based on pure novelty of nas doing a record with a reggae artist. this album is very poor and i know in a month or two no-one is going to care. this happens with every nas album, hell even on 'untitled' i was super hyped for like a week and then i never listened to it again. so now we've come to the root of your thoughts, you think Nas is wack, so why are you wasting your time listening to this album to begin with?why would i be super hyped for an album from someone i think is wack? i never said that. infact if u read what i said you would see that i like some of nas albums, im just able to jump off his dick for a second and admit half his albums suck. obviously you need radio friendly song on an album to keep your attentionsadsee now youre just saying words. this post makes no sense at all. "obviously" i need a radio friendly song like 'hero' to enjoy an album.... oh wait....
My problem with I Am is that it contains some of the worst songs Nas has made. The only difference between it and Nastradamus are the contributions Primo made. I think people overrate the album solely based off of Nas is Like, and to a lesser extent NY State of Mind part 2, while ignoring the horrible joints on there.
I Am is overrated (just because it got 4.5 in the Source, everyone jumps on the bandwagoon). Great album, no doubt, but not even close to his best work. Obviously, Illmatic is the best Nas album. It Was Written (2nd). Street's Disciple (most underrated in his catalogue). Untitled/Nigger Album is up there, too. Lost Tapes, can't forget that jewel..