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>I love the generation-solidarity moment and its made >me gravitate to J.Cole personally (if not musically) > >But yikes- > >Hearing the songs back to back is pretty embarrassing: > >Nas is so much better than J.Cole that it almost >made me wince hearing it. And Nas' verse is probably a >throwaway that he spent 5 minutes preparing
That's what happens when you put Nas, who many consider one of the top three rappers of all time, on a record with a cat who just released his second album. Not saying that young Nas wouldn't have bodied him too lol, but this isn't a situation where I was looking to compare who is better and who is worse because I don't think the situation calls for that.
>Cole, on the other hand, put mad love and time into his >song >And Cole is supposed to be one of the more "lyrical" of >the young generation, and he has 1/500th Nas' talent.
While Nas' verse was better, I don't think that J. Cole looks bad here. I thought the original "Let Nas Down" was a superb display of storytelling from a technical standpoint, and vulnerability in the case of intangibles. But still, a lot of his fans aren't going to tell you these are Cole's best rhymes. Plus, we don't know if Cole would've written his verses differently had he known Nas was actually going to hop on the song.
That said, I don't think it backfired. I thought Cole expressed himself clearly and made a song great enough to move Nas to respond. Nas was better, but that's par for the course when you have a top 3/GOAT candidate taking over your beat without you knowing lol
>NOT HATING, I like Cole...but its weird > >People who complain that old rappers won't go away: > >This is the reason. They are better, more relevant rappers, >in their 40s, than young rappers are, in their primes
You didn't come across as hating at all. I don't think Cole is in his prime - at least I don't want to think he is. But I agree, RE: the complaints that the older rappers won't go away. When those greats are still making great music, they have no reason to. I'm not sure what primes we've seen with these younger cats though, I'm still thinking many of them will continue to grow. ----
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