🎯🎯🎯💯💯💯

It’s incredible. Should be a platinum album, but whatever.

@@Maal7432 in my Gods honest opinion, I’ve never loved a Nas album as much as KD3. I was born in 1992, so I didn’t hear illmatic, it was written, I am, and Nastradamus until like 2001, 2002 riding in the Corolla with my older brother. Plus my parents wouldnt allow us to listen to explicit music. Fast forward, my fandom for Nas just grew and grew as time went on, always been a fan from as far back as I can remember .

@@i_am_gohan9232 kd 3 is absolutely amazing

It's devastatingly underrated. I've listened to it almost everyday since it dropped.

Yep exactly.

False narratives lol. “They thought I’d make another Illmatic , but it’s always forward I’m moving”

Sick of these self proclaimed experts. Wasnt even there in the 90’s

Facts upon facts

Fuck these people he wasn't trying to recreate Illmatic he is moving forward from that time in his life onward and upward as the saying goes

I named my son after NAS the goat

Love all of Nas' discography! Stillmatic, Life Is Good, It Was Written, and especially the Lost Tapes are some of the best hip-hop albums I've ever heard. Street's Disciple is criminally underrated too, incredible album.

@@latenightoats I love streets disciple as well

Exactly people act like I am and Nastodamus wasn't bumping

Did they say Michael ,this is not off the wall. Did they ask prince to make purple rain again .They hold the god to unrealistic standards…GOAT

Lol

That's surface meaning of the album

​@@muleyamwiinga3988Well give us the deeper meaning my guy!

The GOAT of what? I know you’re not talking about Hip-Hop?

@@yo3rdtier128 actually it's quite a universally accepted popular opinion to call Nas a Goat 🐐 in hip hop and that's just an objective fact whether you personally like him or not.

​@@yo3rdtier128 What else would he be talking about?

@@yo3rdtier128 i am talking about hiphop lol now dont tell me that Nas isn’t the goat 😂

2Pac Is The GOAT Dead Or Alive, Right Now Alive The GOAT Is 50 Cent, It's not easy for Nas

It's one of my all-time favourites, and I have all his albums

jay-z is still petty to this day

Yes me too.bthis album is a modern classic

KD2 had strong features. Lauryn Hill's verse was great. I respect both body's of work.

@koolkai4299 That was the exception of that album. Epmd ,eminem, a boogie,not so much

@@ericwilliams6153 Eminem out rapped Nas on KD2 I didn't expect it at this stage in Eminem's career, but the track was good regardless. Also the singer Mario was featured on KD3 Nas just didn't list him lol. There is literally nothing wrong with having features when they are good. The features on KD2 were perfectly fine, but KD3 is a superior body of work from top to bottom. Each KD album got better due to growing chemistry between Nas and Hit-Boy.

​@@koolkai4299I disagree, I thought Eminem's verse was very corny, and his voice doesn't fit the track at all, of course he's still technically brilliant but, he's really not saying anything worth hearing aside from a few lines here and there, imo. Besides, Nas was clearly trying to give Em the spotlight by giving him a verse that was pretty much double in length to his own

I agree. Unbelievable from start to finish!!

Yup.. Magic & KD3 to me

@@mr.getitdone6543 dont get me wrong KD3 is a classic, but Magic was a masterpiece, cant fault it at all

@helpoj nah I feel you.. Magic is a masterpiece! ✨️

bro this is literally what i think about his albums haha. the more I age the more I understand Nas' albums. They are timeless records.

Extremely dope order.. My order is quite similar. I have Stillmatic & God's Son & Life Is Good good before KD2

Honestly I think Magic 1 and KD2 are the only TOP TIER recent nas albums (not including LiG). Magic 2 needs to sit for a second, and KD3 just feels repetitive if i'm being honest

@@ddl3718 how is KD3 repetitive ??

He passed illmatic with the album after Illmatic. Illmatic was just the initial introduction his bars have always been the best

Thank you! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Exactly Biggie had commercial songs. Nas had commercial songs . We knew those were just to sell the album. The actual albums still had pure hip hop and street material on it. And it was well received. Some people didn’t like the radio songs and tried to change the narrative

Everybody loved The Message with the Scarface sample. I Gave You Power blew us away. Take It In Blood was next level. Affirmative Actions was blasting from all the cars. The Set Up and Suspect stayed on repeat. Live Nigga Rap was another Mobb Deep & Nas classic. Shootouts was a vivid street story. We (the people) loved IWW. Tbh Street Dreams & If I Ruled The World was well received too. The Fugees and Bone Thugs owned the summer of 96 and Nas was right amongst all that and only a small group of Illmatic purist had a problem. The larger populace enjoyed that era.

Wrong IWW was hated when it released because it was doing the whole mafioso gimmick which was oversaturated at the time and was considered a step back from illmatic

@@CMJ_96 IWW was only hated by hip hop purist who didn’t like what hip hop was evolving into. IWW sold 2.5, minus Street Dreams and If I Ruled The World the album was still elite. I never came across anybody that said otherwise until magazines started those narratives

He did every track.

if illmatic didn't came out, none of the faces u see now want exist

Agreed

Well said and the bars on Illmatic are elementary compared to all his other albums

Kendrick doesn’t have enough albums to compete lol.

@@BusyB1993 Why are pitting two All-Time Greats against one another?

@@koolkai4299 because he said Kendrick can’t hang with Nas , Kendrick was never on that level to even be compared to Nas that’s my point. He pit them together not me.

​@@BusyB1993 You specifically said Kendrick doesn't have "enough albums" Quality over Quantity. Kendrick takes his time to perfectly craft his albums, and is regarded as the Greatest Rap Artist of his generation. He is the first Hip Hop artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for DAMN, Good Kid Maad City is the longest charting debut album on the Billboard 200 in HISTORY having spent 10 years that has never been done before. Kendrick just set the record for the largest grossing Hip Hop tour surpassing legends like Kanye West, and Jay-Z who toured together, and his own Peer Drake who is the most popular and streamed artist in the world who toured with Travis Scott. Kendrick accomplished his feat solo. To Pimp of Butterfly is archived in Harvard's Library alongside The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and The Low End Theory. Kendrick curated The Black Panther Soundtrack. Nas never did that. Kendrick has never compromised his artistic integrity and made a song like "Oochie Wally". We Gon Be Alright was played and continued to be played at BLM Protests. Kendrick has talked about a myriad of topics in his music ranging from gender politics, institutionalized racism, black on black crime, religion, political commentary, alcholism, depression, generational curses, therapy, and more. On MMATBS he gave people what they needed not want Pharrell called the music "medicine" most don't like taking medicine, and Nas never created a Heart Part 5 that was powerful. Kendrick openly shows vulnerability in his music which his listerners relate to and addresses his flaws as a human being. Kendrick has great technical rap ability, creativity, versatiity, all while being ACCESSIBLE to the masses something a rapper like Lupe fiasco no longer does. He is respected by Hip Hop legends, Ice Cube, Jay-Z, Andre 3000 Eminem, Dr. Dre, Kanye West, and Nas himself who said Kendrick was the rapper who left him "suspended in air" on KD3. He didn't say that about any other rapper. And Kendrick has influenced an entire generation and even artist before his as Kanye West stated when Kendrick released his poem to 2Pac in album form To Pimp a Butterfly much like Nas is viewed as "the savior" to his generation Kendrick is viewed in the same light to his. I love Nas to death, and 2Pac & Nas were my Mike and Kobe, but to say he can't "hang" with Nas is false when he has surpassed him. And Billboard ranking Nas the 3rd best based on their "criteria" isn't bad when deep down Nas fanbase was expecting much low and they know they were shocked he was ranked Top 3. Have a blessed day.

@Koolkai4299 You forget to mention that Illmatic is archived in that library as well as Nas having a fellowship program for hip hop in Harvard, Nas has also been interviewed by multiple Harvard professor's to discuss his work personally.. Sure, Kendrick curated the black panther soundtrack but, let's be realistic, only about half of that album is good. You can sit here and name all the things Kendrick has done that Nas hasn't but, I could do the opposite just as easily. Kendrick has never made an album close to the influence Illmatic holds, Kendrick has never made a conceptual song on the level of Fetus or I gave you power or even Rewind.. to me this is a moot point, for the amount of things Kendrick has done that Nas hasn't you can bring up just as many for the opposite side. Lmao, Kendricks never compromised his artistic integrity? I guess it's just my imagination that he made that trash ass song with Rihanna then and HUMBLE, LMAO. That song is great as a party song or whatever but, completely trash lyrics all the way through. Nas has touched on every single one of those topics in his songs as well so, I fail to see what point you're trying to make with that. Kendrick has not surpassed Nas, there's nothing you can say to prove that objectively, just based from your own opinion.

Because Nas the only one competing against himself.

Me too🎯💯💯.. now Magic 2 is coming out tonight, at midnight Eastern Standard time.. I have low expectations for this one.. because it can't get no better than Magic and KD3 😂😂😅 or can it? 🤔🤔🤔 nah, I doubt it

Loved that album

Yall my Ni**as 🔥🔥🔥

His writing got better on It Was Written and he evolved as an artist however, there are a few skippable tracks on It Was Written. It Was Written is the "Fan Favorite" Nas album, while illmatic is considered the most "impactful" that's how I differentiate them.

Life Is Good!