5 months later, let's have a discussion about Nas' Untitled.

sohi 23

sohi 23

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What are y'all opinions about this joint?
I just want to grasp what people think about this album and why.


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1. Queens Get the Money
2. You Can't Stop us Now feat. Eban Thomas of the Stylistics and The Last Poets
3. Breathe
4. Make the World Go Around feat. Chris Brown and the Game
5. Hero feat. Kiri Hilson
6. America
7. Sly Fox
8. Testify
9. N.I.*.*.E.R.(The Slave and the Master)
10. Untitled
11. Fried Chicken feat. Busta Rhymes
12. Project Roach feat. The Last Poets
13. Y'all My ____
14. We're Not Alone feat. Mykel
15. Black President

This has been on constant spin for months now.
I swear to God, from top to bottom this album is a masterpiece.
In today's day and age, Nas went so far to the left with this joint.
Dude touches on so many different subject in America.
If you don't know who or what he's talking about sometimes, I encourage you to do research on it, it makes the music that much better.
No skips, every song has a meaning.
People may complain about the beats, but IMO it fits the music like a glove.
Nas went IN on this joint, I would place it in his top 3, with Illmatic and Stillmatic, I think that highly of it.



P.S. If you copped the album. The last page on the booklet is sick... check it out if you haven't already.


Thoughts?
 
I dont listen to it much anymore, but its a good album.
I really like the stance he took with this album.
 
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I dont listen to it much anymore, but its a good album.
I really like the stance he took with this album.
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I knew it! Even Jay fans can't deny the brilliance of this album!

I listen to it constantly, but it's more of a chill out, stare at the sunset type album you know? It's still the most important and most thoroughrelease of 08 tho'.
 
This is the type of album that I have to listen to all the way through.

If a song off this album comes up on shuffle, it's hard to get into it and then move on to another completely unrelated track.
I have to listen to the entire album.
 
best album to come out in a very long time. You Cant Stop Us Now is amazing
I love y'all; pyramids to cotton fields
to Wrigley Fields

Code: 
Can't be stopped..Yo, on Dateline, the other night they showed hate crimesGave a blood time 'cause he fought with his canineBestiality, Humane SocietyGo to China, see how they dine, see what they eatBetter yet ask PETA, whoever; which animal makes suede?If not for suede, would you have survived the Dark Ages?Cannibal ways of the ancient CaucasiansStare you like you're steak tartar, pinot noirDavid Star on the chain of Sammy DavisHe helped pave the way for Southern Crankers and them Harlem ShakersNow we gettin our papers, they try to censor the wordsand stop our money comin, but you can't escape us - haters
i love this album. front to back.
Nas is the best.
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That dude NYOIL is a clown.

I remember that lynced song
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He just seems like the type of dude he's mad at the world for the wrong reasons, but I don't really want to discuss that dude.
 
Great album. I like the stance he took with it too. He covered different areas of the topic on most of the songs.

You can only really listen to the WHOLE album front to back though. The lacking beats/no standout tracks make it hard to listen to one song individually.
 
I still don't understand how the world slept on "The Slave & The Master"...perfect in every sense.

"We trust no black leaders, use the stove to heat us..." > alot of stuff released in 08, 07, 06...etc
 
excellent album, like someone else said i love his stance and they direction he went with it. I really want to just zone to this album at least one timethrough when i get back from school.
 
I'll just run through some quotables:

- "Hero" 3rd verse
This universal apartheid
I'm hog-tied, the corporate side
Blocking y'all from going to stores and buying it
First L.A. and Doug Morris was riding wit it
But Newsweek article startled big wigs
They said, Nas, why is he trying it?
My lawyers only see the Billboard charts as winning
Forgetting - Nas the only true rebel since the beginning
Still in musical prison, in jail for the flow
Try telling Bob Dylan, Bruce, or Billy Joel
They can't sing what's in their soul
So untitled it is
I never change nothin'
But people remember this
If Nas can't say it, think about these talented kids
With new ideas being told what they can and can't spit
I can't sit and watch it
So, !%*@, I'ma drop it
Like it or not
You ain't gotta cop it
I'm a hustler in the studio
Cups of Don Julio
No matter what the CD called
I'm unbeatable, y'all
Lets go!

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"America", 2nd verse:
Assassinations
Diplomatic relations
Killed indigenous people
Built a new nation
Involuntary labor
Took a knife split a woman naval
Took her premature baby
Let her man see you rape her
If I could travel to the 1700's
I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite
Through your covenant
Love to sit in on the Senate
And tell the whole government
Y'all don't treat women fair
She read about herself in the bible
Believing she the reason sin is here
You played her, with an apron
Like bring me my dinner, dear
She the @$+*%@ here
Ain't we in the free world
Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the double-R casually
Bugging how I made it out the hood, dazzle me
How far we really from third world savagery
When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be
- The entire "Queens Get the $$$" song
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- The final verse on "We're not Alone"
My pimp strut was invented when they whipped us
Now we diddy-bop just to show you that our strength's up
Just when @+%%$# about to see they cut
Global warming about to burn us up
@+%%$# never really seen paper in this world
American blacks the teenager of this world
Give us twenty more years to grow up
Already geniuses; what I mean is this
I used to worship a certain Queens police murderer
'Til I read the words of Ivan van Sertima
He inserted something in me
That made me feel worthier
Now I spit revolution
I'm his hood interpreter

All for now
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I liked it a lot. I agree that it is an album that you have to listen to straight through.

N.I.-.-.E.R is officially one of my favorite Nas tracks.

Nas went IN on this joint, I would place it in his top 3, with Illmatic and Stillmatic, I think that highly of it.
Really? I think his other albums are too strong for me to put it in my top three Nas albums, at least right now.

I met him on the day it released and got my copy signed.

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That's sick
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But I swear, I think that higly of this album.

Illmatic
Stillmatic
Untitled
The Lost Tapes
It Was Written
God's Son
I Am...
Hip Hop is Dead
Street's Desciple
Nastradamus

I think HHID should be higher though, I think I may put it above I Am... idk
His catalog is amazing
 
^put The Lost Tapes a head of Untitled, and that's pretty much how i rank his catalogue too.

IWW and Untitled are pretty much a tie for me, Untitled is undoubtedly the better piece of work from an album standpoint but IWW has a few of Nassir's bestsongs on it.
 
I think HHID should be higher though, I think I may put it above I Am... idk

No question about it.

Here's my list:
I honestly think that HHID is his third best effort.

Illmatic
It Was Written
Hip Hop Is Dead
Stillmatic
God's Son
Untitled
Street's Disciple
I Am...
Nastradamus

I'm on the fence when it comes to ranking SD and I Am...

Nastradamus is the only weak album IMO.

I think it's real close between Untitled and God's Son. I'm on the fence when it comes to these albums as well.

God's Son is my favorite Nas album so I'll put it slightly ahead of Untitled for now.

I'll just have to give it time.
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I've always liked GS.
IMO, it's his most complete and personal album.

Probably my fav. Nas album.

I gotta disagree with you about it being better than Stillmatic though.
Stillmatic Intro, One Mic, 2nd Childhood, Destroy and Rebuild, Ether, Smokin, You're the Man, Rewind. Plus it was basically the resurection of Nas.
No way HHiD is better than it IMO.
 
I see where you're coming from. I've yet to meet anyone who has agreed with me about it.
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And I forgot to mention how "We're Not Alone" is also one of my favorite Nas tracks. I love that track.
 
Originally Posted by SoHi 23

I've always liked GS.
IMO, it's his most complete and personal album.

Probably my fav. Nas album.
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Same here, fam.

God's Son isn't his best album of work, but his most personal and my favorite from Nas.

I loved it back when I bought it, and it gave me a whole different perspective when one of my close family members passed away...
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His catalog is ridiculous.
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Untitled > HHID, but not top 3 though...maybe #5, #6 on my list. Still a great album...lots of dope tracks.
 
Yea this album was real good. Nas wrote some real %$!$. Some deep %$!$. Its coo to listen to the whole cd straight through. I listen to it at least a coupletimes a week lately.
 
Originally Posted by SoHi 23

This is the type of album that I have to listen to all the way through.

If a song off this album comes up on shuffle, it's hard to get into it and then move on to another completely unrelated track.
I have to listen to the entire album.
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Same. Album is one of his most focused pieces of work in a long time.
 
I really thought Hero was a GREAT track. I dont listen to REg radio, but why it didnt get much play is beyond me.
 
You guys are crazy... it's a good album but nowhere near the levels of it was written or lost tapes...

Here's my rankings:

1. Illmatic
2. It Was Written
3. The Lost Tapes
4. Stillmatic
5. Untitled
6. I Am...
7. God's Son
8. Hip-Hop Is Dead
9. Street's Disciple
10. Nastradamus
 
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