2. "I really liked 'Time'" In response to Reply # 0
This album underwhelmed on first impression. I kinda gave up after 'White Russian'. I'm generally not a huge fan of his themed albums. I'm good with just one Droog joint a year I think(even though I really liked both 'Tha Yod Fahim' and 'Time' this year).
5. ""Cosmonaut" is def my favorite track on the album" In response to Reply # 3
a few bars later:
And real ones, they feel us This for all the guys tryna do donuts 'fore they die like J Dilla
>Lol. > >I get the initial hate but I don’t mind droog man. *shrug*
I "get" the initial hate, in that I understand people's argument, but I really don't "get" it in a sense that aside from his voice being similar (which he can't control) he raps nothing like Nas.
6. "he pretended to be Nas though" In response to Reply # 5 Wed Dec-08-21 04:01 PM by Stadiq
Look, I'll admit white rappers have a higher hill to climb to convince me.
Its not impossible. I'm a huge El-p fan....but due has always been himself.
This dude caught a buzz off pretending to be an alter ego. If it wasn't for that, we wouldn't know this dude. He'd be a Soundcloud page with 1200 listeners.
I just...I can't. There's rules. And they should apply to everyone.
It doesn't help that I am never impressed by his guest spots that I am forced to hear.
And he is a straight up sensitive dweeb on Twitter.
Most importantly? Bottom line if Droog wasn't white he would not be getting this attention. He would never have been forgiven for pretending. Ask anyone from the Realest to Guerilla Blak to whoever that dude was that sounded like Jay.
White dudes get away with gimmicks and I don't get it. Eminem's shock raps are a gimmick. They got a pass. Droog caught the net's attention on the "is it nas?" gimmick. Gets a pass.
7. "He didn't pretend to be anything" In response to Reply # 6 Wed Dec-08-21 04:24 PM by Oak27
He posted music essentially anonymously given he had no prior work and people on the internet speculated it was Nas using an alter-ego. At no point did Droog lean into it and "pretend" to be Nas.
The reason he blew up initially from Soundcloud was an article written for Mass Appeal, a media company Nas was a part of lol
edit: Can't argue the sensitive dweeb on Twitter part, and he certainly has lots of dumb lines that would aged bad if they were rapped in the 90s, but are just flat out ignorant and dated in 2014+
9. "this never happened. his voice is deeper than Nas'" In response to Reply # 6
the web went crazy over a minor similarity, but that aside he's still around because he's vastly improved at rapping and making music over the past few years. Tha God Fahim (who ironically sounds a bit like Cormega to me) brought new energy to his career
10. "RE: this never happened. his voice is deeper than Nas'" In response to Reply # 9
The guy that sounded like Jay-Z was Black Haze.
I definitely don't believe that he was trying to sound like Nas. That is like saying that Action Bronson was trying to purposely sound like Ghostface. Their voices were just similar.
And I never saw any kind of communication from Droog pretending to be Nas. Most of it came from people speculating that Nas was releasing material under a different name, and people that it was dope, but then they later found out that the speculation was wrong. There was a lack o information on Droog, not misinformation on his part.
I liken it to Sault who isn't out there, they are just letting their music do the talking and speak for itself.
14. "RE: this never happened. his voice is deeper than Nas'" In response to Reply # 10
>The guy that sounded like Jay-Z was Black Haze.
Also NOE from Jim Jones' ByrdGang and Dame Dash & Black Keys' BLAK ROC album sounded very much like Jay. He was dope, but the similarity really held him back from getting very far.
17. "for the first time i heard the similarity last night" In response to Reply # 16
i had my 2021 playlist on shuffle while driving. i had the navigation so dont have track info. blue hawaiian came on and i instantly recognized it was droog. im vibing while paying attention to the hectic traffic. as the verse is ending i notice the song again and im like wait who is this? is this a track from the new nas album???? when i stopped i checked and saw it was droog lol
he usually sounds like a much simpler mf doom to me.
i enjoyed this new album and i have enjoyed most of his albums since i started listening to him in like 2017 or 2018. i havent gone back to check his early work and i missed when he was being compared to nas.
11. "strategically coy for sure " In response to Reply # 6
they on your head but the way i remember it he let that rumor live a lil longer then he had to.
tru said his voice is deeper lol. his buns dont got no seeds! golden ARCS! lol im dyin. them niggas definitely sound/rap similar. that was the whole point of the hubbub. letting a rumor simmer for a buzz aint really that wild though imo. he got some cool bars over some cool beats here and there, not much else im putting on it.
If you are getting publicity and interest in the music, I can't hate Droog from letting the train go. It would be stupid from a business perspective to stop the publicity if it isn't hurting Nas. People will eventually find out.
4. "It's grown on me a lot" In response to Reply # 0 Wed Dec-08-21 02:44 PM by mrhood75
I'm a big fan of "Time." And I like "Tha YOD Fahim" a lot. This one didn't really grab me at first, but I've enjoyed it more on further listens.
It does seem more like an EP than a fully realized album. Which is a little weird, because he's said he's been working on this one since like 2017. But, hey, it's the fourth project that he's been a part of this year, and there's a good amount of dope shit on there.
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