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HipHopChiq1
anyway.. I would like to add a slighly controversial album -Nas' Untitled
when he announced that he was going to name the album NIGGER.. I actually got excited..that word is the most infamous expletive in the history of the English language. Who better than Nas to infuse some knowledge into a language that the street dudes/dope boys could understand while entertaining and teaching the masses? That would have been great had it been Nas' agenda. Actually , that is Hiphopchiq1's perception of what Nas' album concept was. Nas never was able to clearly articulate the trajectory for this album. While he was promoting the album, I started to get mad, actually angry. In his interviews his arguements seemed disjointed and inarticulate. And to add insult to injury, the label sonned Nas' and renamed the album..I was officially done. I refused to buy or even listen to that album until last year. When I finaly listened to it, I loved it.Had he really been about his business ,it could've really been something. It could've prompted a real discussion about the current state of affairs in the Black community.
The problem was in the homework.Cats big and small in the game,get by on what works for them..voice,attitude,production,collabs,etc.But when the topics get heavy,they get swallowed up under waves of indecision because of the inability to articulate and demonstrate what they are trying to lay down.Could he have pulled it off?Of course he could have under the proper diggin'.Not for records..but for knowledge.For a project like that it was up to him to embellish the struggle itself.Immerse himself in the knowledge.Talk to the people that was there.
He should have ran a youtube segment with him interviewing people from the 50s and 60s, to people who lived in apartheid for about five or ten days b4 the album released.Remember sometime ago when he laced us with a cut about Rakim?It was supposed to be a thank you to a mentor type of thing, but he didn't even have Rakim's permission and put Rakim's info all out there.Which of course Rakim did not appreciate.
I always thought Nas was one of the greatest emcees to ever touch a mic.Definitely one of the best lyrical wise.
Definitely underappreciated..but look what could have been.An album..calling itself the N word..Could have blown up for all the right reasons.
