Posted by jazz74:

Posted by bigbeast:

I swear them videos look like modern day minstrel shows

funny as hell but so true. groups like the ying yang twins are setting blacks back to the amos and andy days.

Posted by jazz74:

Posted by EnySpree:

Posted by jazz74:

Posted by bigbeast:

I swear them videos look like modern day minstrel shows

funny as hell but so true. groups like the ying yang twins are setting blacks back to the amos and andy days.

You guys said what I thought about saying,lol. Which means I agree.

As far as outcast, and geto boys, those guys were always original and true with substance and creativity. Great groups.

Nas definately has out together some creative stuff throughout the years but he has put out more bull**** at times that made me stop buying his stuff. I thought it was written was a good album. After it was written, he fell off in my eyes until came out with stillmatic and the albums after. To me the guy is confused and I really don't want to hear it. I love it when he uses his skill to paint pictures of struggle or just to show his skill but the dude does too many wanna be thug songs and contradics himself too much. He also seems to have gimic all the time. He wants to teach'then he wants to be a womanizer, then he wants to talk peace and then gun man the next. To me nas always had the power to change the rap game. To me he hasn't. He himself with the power of his name can just blow the top off. I hate to compare but jay-z is the head of def jam. Not saying nas can't do it but I'm saying nas has power within his words to do more and have a bigger impact with the music. Jay-z has a lot of power now in the music industry. Dude 50 cent has more power than nas. In short, rakim could move a crowd, I believe nas could have moved a planet. You just can't take nas serious.

well, eny, there were many rappers who contradict themselves, namely tupac and krs one. but we can't say that they are bad rappers. i know you did not say that about nas and i agree that nas had the power to be an "owner" instead of "player" but he has made undeniably quality stuff. yeah, he had garbage but not many people can say that they have been in the game as long as him and put out 100% quality stuff.

I was just about to say the same thing about Pac and KRS-one. What human isn't contradictory. Has Nas put out some weak material? Of course. But it has to be expected to have some slippage during a 12 yr career. Look at the garbage KRS has been putting out over the past 8 yrs.

You say after It was written, Nas out out 2 garbage albums. Well, even on those so called garbage albums, he managed to record classic songs. I Am "Undying love, We will survive, Ghetto prisoners," Nastradamus "Project windows, Life we chose, last words."

The fact that you say Nas could move planets proves my theory that after Illmatic, people put Nas on such a high level, that regardless of what Nas did after Illmatic, it would not be enough.