Nas

The Lost Tapes

Dope-- but mp3 bootlegging has shown it could've been better

Review Score:

(8/10)
It's hard to rate this album-- It's chocked full of classic Nas tracks from "Doo Rags" to the older "Poppa Was A Player" and "Fetus," which makes it essentially his best album (if you wanna call it an album) since Illmatic. Still, I can't help but feel like there was more great material that didn't see the light of day here (a Vol. 2 maybe?). When it comes down to it, excellent unreleased Nas joints like "Rise And Fall," "Sometimes I Wonder," "Among Kings," "Blackness" ect. still remain unreleased. These tracks could've easily fit on the album here, especially in the place of "No Idea's Original" and "Everybody's Crazy," both of which were released already on the special edition version of Stillmatic, and also are the only two sub-par tracks here. Don't get me wrong, this album is great-- I'm just spoiled and have heard everything that could've been here-- and the absence of some of it is disappointing.

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