While Nas' current artistic direction differs greatly from his most successful work, it has ensured that he remains one of the most respected and acclaimed contemporary rappers. Since the success of Stillmatic, Nas continues to maintain a high profile within the hip hop community, and has pursued a decidedly progressive and personal aesthetic. Nevertheless, the LP Stillmatic is often credited for restoring Nas' credibility among fans. Furthermore, Nas' increased commercial success was accompanied by stylistic changes that fostered accusations of "selling out". In the years following the release of Illmatic, Nas pursued a more commercial direction, which resulted in wider success but decreased artistic credibility among critics and hip-hop purists. Nas was also a part of hip hop supergroup The Firm, which released one album.
He married R&B singer Kelis in 2005, they have one son together, and she filed for divorce on the 29th of April 2009. Illmatic was a critically acclaimed bestseller and is widely considered one of the greatest rap albums of all time. By the time he released his landmark solo debut album Illmatic in 1994, Jones was known as Nas. According to the Nasty Songfacts, as a teenager rapper, Nasir first went by the nickname Kid Wave before adopting his more commonly known alias of Nasty Nas. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was raised in the infamous Queensbridge housing projects in Queensbridge, New York. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, more commonly known as Nas (formerly Nasty Nas and Escobar), born Septemin Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, is a prominent American MC. A secondary release in execution and intent, this is recommendable only to serious fans with a justifiably insatiable curiosity for what the artist creates. Boldest and busiest of all is "Jarreau of Rap (Skatt Attack)," Nas' valiant attempt at matching the vocal calisthenics of the featured (sampled) Al Jarreau. Nas elsewhere offers some lyrical lapses, none lower than the verse in which when he proclaims "I respect you - my love's limitless" just after an aggressive demand for post-climax silence and physical distance. The Kanye West-produced "You Mean the World to Me," originating from the Hip Hop Is Dead sessions, is a kind of cautionary relationship narrative with a hypnotic Leroy Hutson loop, and eclipses most of the West-produced Nasir. A wriggling feel-good backdrop from DJ Dahi and DJ Khalil ideally supports "War Against Love," where Nas is in top resist-and-uplift mode. RZA characteristically mutates a reggae version of a Stax-related composition to eerie effect on "Highly Favored," fostering Nas' imaginative likening of himself to a legendary pianist who can "still hit the right keys" in a sandstorm while injured and without vision. A few of the cuts push the MC into deep and inspired concentration. Production-wise alone, it's a freeze-dried buffet, with only three of the mostly prominent, dozen-plus beatmakers credited on two tracks. That's a period of 13 years, so this sequel is expectedly far more scattered than the comparatively narrow-scoped first volume. Issued in 2019, The Lost Tapes II functions instead as an excavation of the Def Jam era, which has yielded the number one albums Hip Hop Is Dead, Nas, and Life Is Good, and the Top Ten entry Nasir. The project seemed even less likely as the rapper forged ahead with two discs of new material, Street's Disciple, and moved to Def Jam. Columbia, Nas' label at the time, wasn't accommodating. Nas planned to release The Lost Tapes II in 2003, a year following the first volume of circulated outtakes and leaked tracks dating back to the latter part of the previous decade.
The Lost Tapes 2 compiles selected unreleased tracks from Nas’ last four albums that he has released – Hip-Hop is Dead (2006), Untitled (2008), Life is Good (2012), and his most recent Nasir (2018). 2xLP Hip Hop Rap LP First Time on Vinyl - Hip-hop icon Nas – esteemed for a quarter-century as one of the undisputed greatest MC’s of all time – fulfills a long-standing promise to himself and his loyal fans with the release of The Lost Tapes 2 via Mass Appeal / Def Jam Recordings.
0 kommentar(er)
