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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
For a long time I said he needed a color man. A Flava Flav.
90% of my appreciation for Nas is Illmatic. The mixes on that album are really cool. I do get where you’re coming from. Not interested in opening up a hip hop war right now but a lot of the time when I check out the hip hop you recommend I feel like there’s too much Nas in it actually. I think a lot of the hip hop you like is really influenced by Nas but that doesn’t mean you have to like him yourself (or even that I’m right)
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Ja his influence runs through a lot of what I enjoy. I'm probably just attracted to the more modern production.
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I totally understand all of that. He had more punch on later albums, but was also much less interesting as an MC and going for songs he was hoping would get on the radio. But Illmatic is definitely pretty dry and undynamic in a lot of ways, but his flow is crack on that album. It's got a rhythm that circumvents a need for more sonically diverse sounds by virtue of its less showy but totally well-crafted flow. I can absolutely see why some might see it as boring but it's low key engaging as **** in a way that very very few MC's can match. At the very least you have to admit that not many but an MC on Nas' level could have released an album like Illmatic that was as good as Illmatic.