The result was a bland, forgettable album that not even a DJ Premier beat could save. The original plan was to have Nastradamus as part of a double album, called I Am… The Autobiography, but heavy bootlegging led to Nas rushing out a new release under a different title. The single, lowest point of Nas’ legendary 30-year career. Nastradamusīest songs on the album: “Project Windows”, “Come Get Me” Join our community of over 100,000 monthly hip hop heads and sign up to our newsletter. So, in honour of the great Queensbridge rhyme-slinger, we’re going to rank every Nas album ever released, from Illmatic to Nastradamus, Nasir to King’s Disease III from worst to best. In the past two years, Nas has dropped, not one, but three great albums, and in the process, destroyed any notion of his inconsistency and knack for rapping over bad production.

When we’re talking about rapper catalogues, there are very few names that can stack up against Nasir Jones.Įver since his groundbreaking 1994 debut, Illmatic, the legendary New York rapper has experienced plenty of ups and downs in his career he’s copped a lot of hate and been compared endlessly to Jay-Z, but he’s always come back and proven the doubters wrong. Fifteen solo albums, three compilation projects, two collaboration albums seven of which have gone platinum, five number one debuts.

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