Dive in below, and let us know how it measures up to that impossible Illmatic standard. In the meantime we’ve got this new Nas to savor and/or skewer. Teyana Taylor’s project wraps things up next week - unless Kanye decides to extend it with that rumored Ty Dolla $ign album or who knows what else. Pusha-T’s Daytona kicked things off ahead of Memorial Day weekend, followed by two Kanye albums in the subsequent weeks: his own Ye and the Kid Cudi collaboration Kids See Ghosts.
Nasir album review series#
NASIR is the fourth in a series of seven-track releases produced by Kanye West at his Wyoming hideaway, being released weekly throughout late spring and early summer. Now, almost 24 hours after it was scheduled to go online, NASIR is finally here for public consumption, replete with features from Kanye, The-Dream, and 070 Shake. Sonically, there's plenty to enjoy about 'Nasir', but the weak rhymes and eccentric concepts ultimately mark it out as a disappointment. Nas debuted the project last night at a listening party in Queens. The album's very title could attest to West's respect for Nas as a hip hop legend and unusually, he doesn't attempt to seize the limelight, at least overtly. In those 10 years, Nas released two albums: 2012’s Life Is Good, a mature and reflective grown-man divorce album that I remember thinking was pretty good, and Nasir, a sloppy and rushed and. That said, the album is only 26 minutes long, so there’s not really enough room to complain all that much. It’s also the first since Nas’ ex-wife Kelis came out with allegations of “ a lot of physical and mental abuse” during their marriage to quote Kanye, yikes. NASIR is his 11th album and first since 2012’s Life Is Good.
Here we are on the fourth straight week of Thursday night launch parties and delayed (in this case super-delayed) Friday drops, this time beholding the latest from Mr. How’s Yeezy Season treatin’ y’all? Exhausted? Exhilarated? Ready for this parade of seven-track albums to be over, or perhaps to continue indefinitely?
0 kommentar(er)
