![]() Easily the weakest of Kanye West’s stretch of releases at the time, even with its tidy length, it found a tired rapper treading water and even delving into tiring stances, such as his anti-vax bars. To be fair, there have been recent stumbles, chief among them - and essential to his resulting resurgence alongside Hit-Boy - was Nasir. People can mock: despite spraying “Ether” he’d ultimately sign under Jay, his supposed lack of an ear for beats, his relative inability to write a club song, amidst it all, Nas has - unlike plenty of rap legends - grown along with us. ![]() Since his debut graced ears in 1994, in truth, the man has only had one out and out dud (that’d be Nastradamus, folks). This analysis belies a frankly nearly uniformly solid to strong discography. Onetime foe Jay-Z said it himself: “That shit was so ahead, I thought we were all dead.” When you start on a high that high, conventional wisdom has gone, there’s nowhere to go but down.
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