"God's Son is 15 years old today." Wed Dec-13-17 12:42 PM by Brew
A solid effort in Nas' catalogue. Not his best by a long shot, but I have personal nostalgia for it because of his tributes to his mom after her death, as I lost my mom just 2 years prior to this album coming out. Beyond that connection, there's some great regular old hip-hop moments too. "Last Real N**** Alive" is such a dope bookend to Nas' portion of the Jay beef. "I was Scarface, Jay was Manolo / it hurt me when I had to kill him, and his whole squad for dolo .." ooooooooooooooooooooh boy.
Great opener w/"Get Down" produced by Nas himself ! The two Alchemist joints, then "Thugz Mansion" ... I loved "Warrior Song" at the time, wonder if I'll have the same feelings now. "Made You Look" is kind of a timeless classic at this point. Etc.
Anyway we old as fuck man. Add on with your thoughts on this album, favorite tracks, gripes, ranking within Nas' discog, etc.
1. "A pretty good first half. A mostly "meh" to bad second" In response to Reply # 0
I like everything through and including "Zone Out." "Hey Nas" and "I Can" are okay. But after "Book of Rhymes," the album takes a nose dive in quality.
I will say "Made You Look" may be Nas' best single ever, and "Get Down" is a top 10 to 15 Nas track.
2. "Yea there's def a lull in the second half but I love ..." In response to Reply # 1
"Dance" and the aforementioned "Warrior Song". But agree the first half is far stronger.
>I like everything through and including "Zone Out." "Hey Nas" >and "I Can" are okay. But after "Book of Rhymes," the album >takes a nose dive in quality.
I can't get down w/"Zone Out" haha that beat is just butt.
>I will say "Made You Look" may be Nas' best single ever, and >"Get Down" is a top 10 to 15 Nas track.
Yea I'd have to agree re: "Made You Look," that shit carried over to the mainstream, is still alive today (the beat, at least, is played in arenas all over the country, all the time) but is simultaneously hard as hell.
3. "I roll with you for the most part. " In response to Reply # 1
Up to and including Zone out, I'm rolling. Hey Nas is cool, I Can is ok, Book of Rhymes is dope. After that song I go straight to Dance and Heaven, I love those songs.
7. "I liked it for what it was " In response to Reply # 6
I thought it was dope that Nas made a record that was all over radio that actually had positive content. That was rare at the time. Also appreciated the Slick Rick style delivery and vibe. Kind of a modern “Hey Young World” type of joint.
10. "Oh wow I forgot about the bonus tracks." In response to Reply # 9
I got this album early cause a girl I was fucking was doing an internship with Sony, so she got a bunch of albums weeks before their release date. So I have the "bonus disk" of this album as well as Xzibit's "Man vs. Machine". Still got those somewhere.
Anyway I forgot about this album's bonuses until just now, I remember they were really good.
15. "Was Nas making fun of Jay on the inside cover?" In response to Reply # 0
I think it was this album where he had pictures similar to the ones Jay took for the Blueprint? I bumped the shit out of this album, and I actually like the second half a lot. Made You Look is a classic.
“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”
16. "Zone Out is one of those good bad records" In response to Reply # 0
the lyrics are way stupid and the beat is some ol "my first MPC" type shit but the shots fired @ Cam and Jay make it work it's some meet me outside levels of shit talking
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