I'm telling you right now, Nas probably has his best opponent yet gunning for him.....

[WRATH]

3 and a half songs in

Yeah this shits tough. I cant listen to this type of rap casually anymore but i appreciate this.

Lol, just let it play through the mask off beat

Yeah this tough let me stop.

[uh-oh]

Originally Posted by Bags

Lastly the other off putting portion of ur comment was that royce strength lies only in lyrical prowess which is just ..... I mean it's really fucking stupid?

that really is all he has going for him though

his flows are dope, but alot of that has to do with "the lyricism" and or how he writes and structures his shit which goes in the "lyrical prowess" column in my book

but yea i want to like royce he just makes shit music. premier can't even help him.

if he didn't corn it up i could get behind him more.

i respect his pen. beyond that who gives a shit

[WRATH]

Damn it see thats what i mean. He is missing here and there. If its not a universal truth or close to it i cannot bump condone it.

Maybe hes pandering to his audience. If thats the case whatever but still i cannot draw energy from this music. If i wanted cutthroat freestyles in this fashion id pick some eminem freestyles.
But hes active so i cant totally hate.

Nah yeah he is off thats not cool. Thats part of it man you gotta be on beat he doesnt hesitate to sacrifice the vibe for a punchline.

Haha, im torn because when hes on hes on.

Alright ima stop for real.

[WRATH]

I had another response explaining that was still my review and not a response to uh oh, and a few more songs reviewed but it got erased. Main point was is his inconsistency and his almost unwillingness to fix it because on paper its solid. If its off here and there fuck it. I remember having this problem with him back in the day thats why i stopped following him originally.

[Ghost1]

lyrical prowess is not the same as mic presence

you could never spit his bars off his pad the way he does uh oh....that's why his flow doesn't fall into the lyricism category



the rest of the past handful of comments from both you guys tho id tend to agree with

he do be on some corny shit sometimes.......but man other times he just be in the MATRIX like everything he sayin is tuff and I look at the track timer and he been going off for like 4min straight like wtf!?! just going OFF.

as far as him riding the beat I feel like hes on WAY more then hes off.....it is noticeable when hes off tho....and frustrating


but as far as rather just knock some em ? man I feel like this is the best version and least corniest em product you going to get.

but yea ultimately its a niche taste for fans of the craft.......but hes doing more than displaying writing talent


as far as the actual topic tho......nas not really a song maker either? not for me.....but again I suppose that's subjective never really loved nas. he gets play but not a personal fav.

[Geno]

Lol. R.i.p. nasir jones

Except i dou t its gonna happen. You rly think nas would step to this? Hell nah. Hes been basically doing nothing for way to long and royce is in his fucking prhyme if you ask me. Idk. Maybe not. But did he ever step out of his prhyme.?

Nas would be a fo to even take this on in the slightest. Its genious for royce tho... Destroyinf a mainstream legend the right way would definitely shove his fan base i to outerspace as lo g as he demolishes shit. Which he will. I can only hope this would happen.. But rly i know ita not going to

[Finnydot]

Royce doesn't write anymore, btw. He's been doing the Jay-z thing where they're technically freestyles but rehearsed if that makes sense. And his "off beat" lines are never really off beat per se since he often will bring back the same scheme and rock it for a couple bars to make it make sense. That's one thing I've noticed about Big Sean as well. Even when he sounds off beat, he's not, because he carries it a few more bars to clean it up. I actually respect that because you take a risk and make it pay off. That's some next level type shit, not a detriment.

[WRATH]

Nah new wayne is next level and big sean is off a microscopic amount. I could have got over royce being off sometimes if the content was strong but he had a reddit line that made me question his manhood. Hes a little unpredictable with schemes yeah he saves it here and there but what i think is frustrating is that he had enough good lines to make flawless tracks. Instead he powered through on some ultimate rhymer shit, which would have been okay, if he was never off. I lost the rhyme more then a handful of times. I will give royce consistency over em but thats why em doesn't drop all the time he has to work out the kinks. Not new em tho new em halfway sounds like this thats why i cant listen to him either.

Nas would be an idiot to battle this type of rapper anyways best he should do is a passing jab. He need to worry about his cd keeping up with 4:44 anyways ive been worried about him ever since that came out rt.

[Finnydot]

Nas ain't gotta worry about shit. His spot been solidified since his first album. It's just a pride thing to defend his spot now, he ain't never gonna lose it. Dudes put out way more garbage albums than anyone I know of and still gets his spot for Illmatic. Stillmatic and God's Son are just icing on his proverbial cake. Everything else he's done is garbage but it doesn't detract from his legend at all.

[WRATH]

Hip hop is dead and life is good are dope. I am and it was written had its moments.

Am i the only one who thinks stillmatic better then illmatic? Or are you not supposed to rate it like that?

[Geno]

Originally Posted by Infinity Tha rellik

Royce doesn't write anymore, btw. He's been doing the Jay-z thing where they're technically freestyles but rehearsed if that makes sense. And his "off beat" lines are never really off beat per se since he often will bring back the same scheme and rock it for a couple bars to make it make sense. That's one thing I've noticed about Big Sean as well. Even when he sounds off beat, he's not, because he carries it a few more bars to clean it up. I actually respect that because you take a risk and make it pay off. That's some next level type shit, not a detriment.

I do this as well.

[Geno]

Originally Posted by Infinity Tha rellik

Nas ain't gotta worry about shit. His spot been solidified since his first album. It's just a pride thing to defend his spot now, he ain't never gonna lose it. Dudes put out way more garbage albums than anyone I know of and still gets his spot for Illmatic. Stillmatic and God's Son are just icing on his proverbial cake. Everything else he's done is garbage but it doesn't detract from his legend at all.

It was written and i am are both sick to me.
His first 3.. Then he started getting sketch with that nastradamus shit

[Geno]

Having said that..
Death is certain is a god album imo. Which i could listen to just as much as anything in nas catergory. As well as bar exam 1 and 2. 3 and 4 are also dope but more flexing shit. Whereas he couldve dropped BE 1 and 2 as albums imo

[sral]

yo where do i find this BE4 though?

[WRATH]

Only thing im mad about is he had enough good lines to make flawless tracks. Too much filler

[PancakeBrah]

That quapdruple post of no avy negative rep posters was a lot to scroll through but I managed not to read a word.

[WRATH]

Clout level denied

Originally Posted by sraL

yo where do i find this BE4 though?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...-gLn56urRkU9kg

[ill nik-A]

Nas been boring for years.. his fast paced shit is dope. That slow it down preach shit garbo

Do you like his song What goes around?