Nastradamus [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Nas

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000031XCY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (232 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,022 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Prediction

2. Life We Chose

3. Nastradamus

4. Some Of Us Have Angels

5. Project Windows (featuring Ron Isley)

6. Come Get Me

7. Shoot 'em Up

8. Last Words

9. Family (featuring Mobb Deep)

10. God Love Us

11. Quiet Niggas (featuring Bravehearts)

12. Big Girl

13. New World

14. You Owe Me (featuring Ginuwine)

15. Outcome

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Some artists take years between CDs, and some just keep spitting them out. Put Nasir Jones in the latter category, as his fourth album is his second of 1999. Judging by the title and the semi-apocalyptic tone of many of the tracks, Nas has millennium tension and then some, but his fears and prophecies are all stuck in the same old--and by now played out--ghetto melodramas that have become the leitmotif of hip-hop. Nearly every track concerns the life on the streets, the Game, the 'hood, the mayhem and murder, and Nas's muse and old stomping grounds, the QB Projects. Not that Nas doesn't have something to offer on any of the above topics. You can, through the often clumsy production, hear fiery glimpses of the young child-poet who burst on the scene in 1994 and was instantly heralded as the successor to Rakim. But as one might expect from a disc that arrives seven months after its predecessor, Nastradamus seems half thought out, with Nas conflicted between glorifying the thug life and trying desperately to issue a cautionary tale. As always, the best cut is when Nas joins forces with DJ Premier, who may be incapable of a bad beat. "Come Get Me" is the nearly perfect marriage of voice and rhythms, and like the equally solid "Some of Us Have Angels" (produced by Dame Grease), shows why Nas--even with his shortcomings and missteps--can never be slept on. Now if he would just take a break and find new inspiration. --Amy Linden

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It hurts to hear., October 12, 2000

By	"thegreatgrizant" (Eindhoven, Netherlands) - See all my reviews

Positive: Nas is a great rapper who usually has pretty tight lyrics. There were some pretty good tracks on his last attempt: I am. There are 5 tracks on this record that I find worthy of listening to. "Quiet Ni**as" is my favorite track cause it's something I agree with Nas about. A few songs have good rapping but nothing else.

Negative: Beats sometimes lacking. Choruses seriously lacking. "Life We Chose" sounds like Nas isn't quite with the beat. "Nastradamus" is so "Made-For-MTV" that's it hurts. It surprises me how pretty good rappers continue to try to attract Backstreet Boy fans by "selling out". The track "Big Girl" is so bad/comical it could be on Adam Sandler's next CD. The beat for "New World" is another comical experience for the true hip-hop fan. I heard he made this 7 months after "I am". He should have waited a little longer. The bad by far outweighs the good on this album and Nas has older albums that top this with only the intro.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Who is this... Nas or some COMMERCIALISED G?, December 10, 1999

By	Hip Hop Lover (New York) - See all my reviews

Basically, Nas ain't street. This is a brother who would RATHER RAP about dollars, cars, girls and watches than his roots and NY State of Mind. Illmatic, which has never left my CD Player since 94', was just amazing. Words can't express how good it was. I definately say GO AND BUY Illmatic and LEAVE THIS POOR EXCUSE FOR A CD TO COLLECT DUST IN SOMEONE ELSE'S ROOM.

Peace.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nas worst CD but He still delivers quality lyrics, January 8, 2006

By	Terrell D. "901Hustler" (Memphis, TN (M-Town)) - See all my reviews

Ok. It is Nas worst cd, but he still has some hits on dis joint. I look at some reviews and wonder if some of those people even heard this cd? I see it like this, every mc who puts out solo efforts is gonna have a cd that doesn't stack up to his or her other albums(Eminem:Encore,Jay-Z:Blueprint 2 to name a few).In Nas case I still think this cd is acceptable. I think its those people who judged this album based it on one song;the song he did with ginuwine. I didn't really like that song but as soon as I heard the rest of tha album I got over it. At least all his albums are different in their own right so I can't knock him for tryin somethin new, besides he came back super hard with stillmatic and shut everybody up. Yes its his worst cd but compared to other mc's "flop" albums he still gets it done.