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He sounds so much better here than he did on NASIR. Nas’ flow on the first verse is smooth as hell too. I really love the percussion on this track. I was so relieved when I heard this shit man. No Bad Energy ended up being fantastic though. I still think it’s a good song, but it’s probably the second worst intro he’s ever done. I also loved the intro on NASIR the first time I heard it, but that’s not really true anymore. That wasn’t the case for Nastradamus though. One thing I’ve always loved about Nas is that the first song on each album is almost always fire. With all that said, I’ll go ahead and start talking about what I ended up thinking… As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure the highest praise I saw for it was pretty much just “well, it’s better than NASIR…” So yeah I was expecting this album to be good, but I certainly didn’t think it’d be anywhere near his best work unfortunately. I don’t think I saw a single person say that this was a really great album. Then the album finally came out, and I saw a lot of mixed reactions. Twitter was tearing Nas to shreds for that song, and I was an active member of that mob.

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I’ll save my full thoughts on that song for later on in this review, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I didn’t care for it. Eventually he dropped the lead single, and my heart sunk. He has some of the best producers ever on this album, and the most common criticism of Nas has always been his beats, so I thought maybe he would finally get his shit together and get some boiling hot fiya to spit over. Seeing that shit was like a dream come true. My excitement was eventually reignited when he released the production credits. He has fucking Run the Jewels and Fashawn on his label why the hell aren’t they on this project? To be fair, this is a compilation of songs that didn’t make it onto his full length albums, so they were probably completed before he even came into contact with the aforementioned artists. Seriously, was I supposed to be excited about a Swizz Beatz feature? Fuck that. He might as well have not even listed them at all though because I sure as hell didn’t give a shit about a goddamn RaVaughn feature. The features were pretty uh… Well, they aren’t bad I guess. It’s a sequel to one of his best projects, so obviously it was gonna be fire, right? Then, he eventually released the tracklist, which kinda put a damper on my anticipation. When this project was first announced, I was super excited. Anyway, I’m kinda wasting my time talking about that project right now.

There are just some tracks that are mediocre. I don’t think there are any songs on it that are actually bad. As disappointing as it was, I really don’t get people who say it was complete trash. I know I sound really critical of it right now, but I think it’s a good project overall. I don’t even like the album as much as I initially did. I don’t know what the fuck Nas was doing though. That beat on the last track is fucking awesome. I think the beats are pretty good for the most part. The saddest thing about it is the fact that it had more to do with Nas’ lazy rapping than Kanye West’s production. Instead, it ended up being his weakest album since Hip Hop Is Dead. It should’ve been Nas’ best album since Illmatic. I actually have no idea how they fumbled that one. On paper, a 7 track album by one of the greatest rappers of all time completely produced by one of the greatest producers of all time sounds like a no brainer. I think it’s a good album, but it’s definitely nowhere near as good as it should’ve been. I even get why people were disappointed by NASIR. I obviously understand why people call it trash though. I just wouldn’t describe it as “bad” personally. It’s easily Nas’ worst project, and very mediocre. I’m one of the few people that actually liked NASIR, and I don’t even think Nastradamus is that bad. However, if someone was going to argue that I was a stan of anyone, it’d most likely be Nas. I don’t think anyone could ever call me a stan of any artist. This album was released on July 19th this year.