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NAS - Hip Hop Is Dead
| HipHopDX | | The title Hip Hop Is Dead probably takes one extreme or the other with most of you. Either you say ‘yeah no shit it’s been dead for a decade,’ or you went on a tirade about how hip-hop hasn’t lost a step, you just need to look in the right places. The reality probably falls somewhere in between the two, as there is certainly plenty of great hip-hop on the independent scene and still some available from major labels these days. But for Nasir Jones, an impressionable teenager during the early golden era and a cornerstone of the latter golden years who probably doesn’t stay up the MF DOOM’s and Brother Ali’s of the world, it’s pretty justifiable for him to toe tag the genre of which he has seen the apex....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | Leave it to Nas, the audacious savior who wears his contradictions on his sleeve, to name a hip-hop album Hip-Hop is Dead. Like its creator, Nas's eighth all-new LP is constantly at odds with itself. It's focused but messy, ambitiously stuck in the past, simulaneously Nas's greatest failure and most uneven triumph. Though he seems destined to fall into the same mistakes over and over, there are plenty of firsts on Jay-Z's Def Jam's Nas record, not the least of which is that fated collaboration. Almost equally anticipated, Kanye West finally lends his beats to a Nas LP, and the results are inspired, particularly on "Let There Be Light," which would have made a great closer....full text |
| | AllHipHop.com | | Due to the current trend of proclaiming Hip-Hop's demise, Nas' eighth album Hip Hop Is Dead (Def Jam), is pretty timely. If anything, the controversial title could make it a critical component to the success and ongoing longevity of true Hip-Hop music-if it's any good. Nas' impeccable delivery, and ability to manipulate verse while addressing predicaments relevant to rap music is present throughout the solid 16-track album....full text |
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