Since I unabashedly said that my entire discography was better than Cole World, it behooves me to look at his second album, 2013’s Born Sinner. Why? Well, you can’t just say that your entire lo-fi rap collection is better than someone’s first mainstream album and not look at their discography, right? Plus, you know, I find […]
Read moreNas – "Who Killed It" in Retrospect (Or "The One Where Nas Loses")
Ok, so if you’ve checked out my post on Thee Arteest, you’ll know that today, I spoke on the “Nas Lost” phenomenon. Now, I’d like to take it a step further and dissect a song that several bloggers/critics/people in general, including my Baltimore Hip-Hop Blogger brethren Al Shipley consider to be one of Nas’s worst […]
Read more"Let Nas Down" and the Absent Father
Editor’s Note: I’d like to apologize if this comes off as rambling in some points. I just wanted to speak on several issues.Now, I love hip-hop, and respect its “forefathers” and whatnot. So, this isn’t meant to be slanderous. But, “Let Nas Down” has got to be one of the saddest sappiest most-butthurt saddest songs in recent hip-hop […]
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