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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
also i think you missed the point of why i mentioned Game, its because he is irrelevant so his references of Nas are somewhat an anachronism
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You're right, I did miss that point. That was not made clear at all by the way you said it. Never would have guessed that that was your point without your saying so.
But I get it. Not that I actually think Game is irrelevant. He's "past his prime" in the simplest sense of the phrase, but he's dropping albums that are getting decent reviews and inspiring a lot of sideline, old fart hip-hop fans (like us!) to talk about him at length. So he may not be Drake, but I think he's actually
relevant than Nas currently is.
Thing about Nas is that... great as he is (and he is a great mc, truly) it's not Nas the mc who changed the face of hip hop. It's Illmatic. The album was a force of nature... it took a while for it to rub off on people, but when it did it left a mark. Nas himself has always struggled to recapture that fire, and his ego and intellect have been at war for decades, preventing him from achieving creative consistency in his albums. Nas isn't a legend in the way Pac and BIG are... you were very right about that bit... BUT Illmatic is a more important album than anything either of those dudes released. And you know I'm not hating on either of them when I say that. Pac and Big are legends, legendary voices, still inspiring the fuck out of people. With Nas, Illmatic is the legend. Nas is the poor guy tasked with living his entire life in that album's shadow.
Am I making sense? Hope I'm not sounding like a dickass again (I just heard the phrases "dickass" and "shitass" the other day and they're so fucking dumb, but I love them!).