Stillmatic

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共15首歌曲

艺人: Nas
语种: 英语
厂牌: Ill Will
发行时间: 2001年12月18日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by John Bush

Back on the hardcore block and with plenty to prove after two years without a record under his own name, Nas designed Stillmatic as a response: to the rap cognoscenti who thought he'd become a relic, and most of all to Jay-Z, the East Coast kingpin who wounded his pride and largely replaced him as the best rapper in hip-hop. The saga started back in the summer of 2001 with the mixtape &Stillmatic,& Nas' answer track to an on-stage dis by Jay-Z. A few months after Jay-Z countered with the devastating &Takeover,& Nas dropped the comeback single &Ether& and the full album Stillmatic; tellingly, Jay-Z had already released his response to &Ether& (titled &Super Ugly&) before Stillmatic even came out. Dropping many of the mainstream hooks and featured performers in order to focus his rapping, Nas proves he's still a world-class rhymer, but he does sound out of touch in the process of defending his honor. &Ether& relies on a deep-throat vocal repeating the phrase, &F*ck Jay-Z,& while &You're da Man& hits the heights of arrogance with a looped vocal sample repeating the title over and over. &Destroy & Rebuild& is a solid defense of his Queensbridge home, and &Got Ur Self A...& is an outstanding track, the best here, complete with chant-along chorus. Despite the many highlights, a few of these tracks (most were produced by either Large Professor or Nas himself) just end up weighing him down: &Smokin',& one of the worst, is an odd G-funk track that would've sounded dated years before its release. Stillmatic certainly isn't as commercial as past Nas output, but it places him squarely behind the times. Facts are facts: He's not the best rapper in the business anymore.

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