3/1/2023 0 Comments Nas nastradamus album zip![]() ![]() There are bad songs on Nastradamus, but fewer than acknowledged. Writing for Rolling Stone, Kevin Powell said Nas had “gone from being a leader of the new school to being a follower.” He closed his review with the assertion that the album “offers little in the way of prophecy, and even less for the next chapter in hip-hop.” Other critics found the album to be simply ordinary, but, of course, there were also unfavorable reviews. “Amid inner-city symphonics, blaxploitation wahwah guitars, soul vocalizing, and Toto samples, Nas raps tales of betrayal, paranoia, honor, and redemption that would give Scarface pause.” “On his second album of 1999, Nastradamus, this gangsta griot balances apocalyptic boho poetry and roughneck gun talk with a sniper’s precision and a philosopher’s depth,” Matt Diehl wrote for Entertainment Weekly, which graded the album A. In fact, it wasn’t even universally-panned-the reception was mixed. Nastradamus isn’t a good album for an artist of Nas’ caliber and is definitely the weakest link in his catalog, but it isn’t the universally-panned abomination that most make it out to be. As the millennium turned and Nas neared 30, he would begin to sort through his thoughts and fashion a new voice as one of hip-hop’s elder statesmen.The short, difficult-to-accept answer, is no. Success had brought Nas into contact with more of the world, and his new experiences were crowding his mind with new concepts, descriptions, and messages. The beats are limpid and glossy, and even when Nas’ lyricism is cunning, he has begun to veer off his self-made path and mirror the styles of his peers - specifically Jay-Z and DMX. On Illmatic and It Was Written, Nas triumphed by describing his neighborhood’s smallest elements - a street corner, or the backseat of a car - with exacting detail, but the majority of songs here find him obsessing about large-scale themes such as modern technology (“The New World”), the nature of heaven (“Some of Us Have Angels”), and above all, the newfound wealth that seems to have stolen some of his self-identity (“Life We Chose,” “You Owe Me”). ![]() Nastradamus is invested with an aura of pre-millennial tension, and it begins and ends with two pretentious spoken-word pieces about the instability of modern civilization. ![]()
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