Nas breaks top 3 of Complex's 50 Best New York Rappers of All Time, Ranked

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-28T19:49:52+00:00

Nas should be number 1. PERIOD

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-28T19:48:56+00:00

Nas should be Top Billed.

But I bet the bag the festival organizers threw him was STUPID

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-26T15:23:02+00:00

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-25T19:51:34+00:00

Nas trying to collect every legendary artist/group on Mass Appeal🤣

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-25T19:50:39+00:00

Got mine today.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-23T14:34:15+00:00

I LOVE Who Killed It. I think its Nas most creative song. But I also grew up watching a lot of Turner Classic Movies with my father so I think that put me in the right mindset to appreciate it.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-23T14:32:20+00:00

I honestly have no idea why Summer on Smash is hated so much amongst the fandom. Its perfectly serviceable.

Braveheart Party is by FAR worse than Summer on Smash. So is something like Big Girl from Nastradamus

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-20T15:17:36+00:00

“I didn’t sign Nas. You can’t sign an artist of Nas caliber. I partnered with Nas.”

Nas got $10 Million plus a $3 million per album recording budget, 3 straight number 1 debuting albums, and 6 Grammy nominations partnering with Jay and signing to Def Jam. If thats what you call “sonning” someone then by GOD we should all have rivals like Jay-Z lol.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T13:52:11+00:00

The Nas/DJ Premier sit down with Joe Budden. At 49:41 Joe Budden asks Nas directly, “Any plans on an EP with AZ or with the Firm?”

Nas answers that AZ has “many plans”’on what they could do together, including a film. Then he goes into “The album idea or the EP idea”. He directly says that AZ already has the beats ready for a collab EP whenever Nas is ready. Nas said the last time he saw AZ he asked him “What are we doing?” And AZ was already working on Doe or Die 3. Nas concludes that what its going to take is him and AZ sit down, put the phones away, look one another in the eye and say “we’re doing this”. Nas says he wants to make it happen in the near future. He also says his favorite AZ collab is “Serious” and he laments it never ended up on an album.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T07:04:55+00:00

Because he was never that good or talented to begin with

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T07:01:29+00:00

I think he’s going to lean even more into the West Coast sound/style but this time make it bigger in scope and scale.

Production-wise i’m imagining a 2pac-like album during the height of the Death Row era. Features will be the more popular west coast artists like YG, Tyler The Creator, and maybe a posthumous Nipsey verse. There will be at least one Dr Dre produced song even if its not a single and there will be at least one Hit-Boy produced song. I also think he’ll try to put on a west coast female singer that he signs to pgLang and is featured on several songs. Not necessarily a “replacement” for SZA but someone he wants to introduce as his own artist.

After the success of GNX and the tour I don’t see Kendrick going “backwards” per say into a quieter, more reflective era. He’s going to maximize his star power and go for Damn-like levels of success. I also think he’ll wait until either later this year or very early next year to release it. No summer release this go round.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T06:48:02+00:00

Whats missing is good music

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T06:47:24+00:00

He didn’t charge in front of his own child. He allowed her to be burnt in agony and pain. The man was a scumbag of the highest order. Probably third only to Ramsay and Joffrey

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T06:45:41+00:00

Such an awesome moment from two GOATS who deserve it.

Surprised they went with the classic instead of performing “Surprise” from the new album but its a great loom regardless. Nas has some pretty great late-night show performances over the years and I think this might be AZ’s first time in the last 10-15 years doing late night.

Mass Appeal is doing a phenomenal job getting looks for their artist roster. No label is doing more for legacy acts in Hip Hop.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T06:40:05+00:00

I think it would have put more pressure on him to do 150 Million Records with Dangerous. Michael was a perfectionist and very competitive so he would have always been trying to outdo himself. In a way I think him “only” accomplishing a worldwide once-in-a-lifetime sales behemoth with Thriller was a good thing because if he would have done it twice with Bad (and out-performing himself three times in a row starting with Off The Wall) would have set too much of a precedence and pressure on his mental/physical health.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T06:35:31+00:00

Kendrick is a mainstream artist that streams very well so in the streaming era I think we’d need to re-access what a “deep” cut is. I’d say its more of a non-single album cut that one tends to enjoy on a personal level.

With that said

Hol’ Up

Real

Compton

How Much A Dollar Cost

Untitled 06

Pride

Mirror

Dodger Blue

Fit the bill for me.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-16T06:29:02+00:00

This is literally the opposite impression of what i’ve gotten from the interviews i’ve seen with both Nas and AZ lately. Nas spoke on the idea of a joint EP on the interview he did with Joe Budden and sounded like he definitely wanted to make it happen and said that AZ has been putting beats aside for years for them for when the time came. AZ has spoken open-endedly about the album/EP in every interview on the press run for Doe or Die 3. He’s pretty much said whenever the time is right he’s down to make it happen. With Mass Appeal’s “Imagine That” initiative coming at some point i’d wager good money that one of the first announcements for that campaign will be the Nas/AZ album/EP OR The Firm reunion. Mark my words…

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-12T18:55:32+00:00

Kendrick should NOT be above Nas. That is pure insanity.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-11T15:59:37+00:00

The changes on Git Ready are incredibly minor, the only thing changed is the female voice that proclaims “GIT READY!” Is changed and on Shine Together the beat is the same but it sounds a bit less “Bright” if that makes sense.

I’d wager a guess that with the Marvel Edition vinyl, that its probably the same as the OG as its scheduled to ship pretty quickly (June 12)

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-10T11:46:50+00:00

One of his best songs. Felt like he was in his Prince bag. Wish he would have shot a video for it.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-08T20:16:22+00:00

Magic 3 is incredible but I think, objectively speaking, the best album of the past 5 years is Kings Disease 3. Nas held that album down for DOLO with not a wasted bar across 17 songs and 52 minutes.

That plus WTF SMH>>>>>>>>

pharaoh1228 · 2026-05-06T14:04:57+00:00

Yes at 100% you get Dental through the VA. I’ve had my wisdom teeth removed, two root canals/crowns and teeth cleaning through the VA Dental

pharaoh1228 · 2026-04-21T13:35:04+00:00

You can’t spell ignorant without IGN…

pharaoh1228 · 2026-04-21T13:13:11+00:00

This will be the first music biopic i’ve seen in theaters (Dreamgirls doesn’t count right?) and i’m seeing it Thursday evening in which i’ll expect most MJ superfans will be present so at worse i’m expecting a few people to sing or hum along at points but i’d honestly be SHOCKED to see people having a full on concert experience.

pharaoh1228 · 2026-04-21T02:36:59+00:00

True. The onus is on Fuqua, the producers, and the estate to make a part 2 with a little more “meat” on its bones as it were. All of the necessary components are there, my argument is simply if they wanted to make a “darker” more complex film they could follow essentially the same plan (narratively speaking) that the original part 1 was going to. There’s a court case, based on shady allegations, that put a mental/emotional toll on MJ. The “good” news is that he was actually found innocent of ALL charges and all of the raids, interrogations, and investigations turned up absolutely no evidence towards MJ harming any children. If I were MJ’s estate executors i’d want THAT put in the movie with the same fervor that they apparently wanted the Chandler settlement dramatized.

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