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Jul 19, 2019The Lost Tapes II sounds like an artist rediscovering his love for hip hop in the most joyous and satisfying way.
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Jul 22, 2019Gems are few and far between on The Lost Tapes 2. Nasir Jones mostly sounds uninspired and distracted throughout the 16 tracks, which begs the question: why even release these previously hidden records to begin with?
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Jul 29, 2019He can clearly still spit elite bars, at more or less the same rate he could over twenty years ago. “The Lost Tapes 2” may be marketed as a sequel, but it’s a selection of largely forgettable album cuts that didn’t make Nas’ last few albums.
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Jul 23, 2019The Lost Tapes II, is a grab bag of loose tracks from this era, four very different album sessions, and naturally it’s a messy display of the many sides of Nas – storyteller, street life narrator, conscious MC, rap showboat, true-school historian, emo diarist – at both his most essential and least essential.
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Jul 24, 2019For much of the record, Nas sounds like he’s trying too hard.
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Jul 29, 2019A secondary release in execution and intent, this is recommendable only to serious fans with a justifiably insatiable curiosity for what the artist creates.
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Jul 23, 2019For the most part, this album, with its Avatar references (‘Lost Freestyle’) and hilariously bad Kim Jong Un punchlines (from ‘Tanasia’: “Chillin, we’re starting to think about children / And bringing them in the world with Kim Jong Illin'”), just sounds dated and like something Nas didn’t need to release.
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Positive: 59 out of 74
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Mixed: 4 out of 74
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Negative: 11 out of 74
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Jul 25, 2019
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Jul 23, 2019Best work since Stillmatic. It's an album you gotta take your time to digest. Not for an impatient generation, it's one for those with "knowledge".
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Jul 21, 2019