We're willing to bet if Nas had never made Nastradamus, Jay-Z would have never had the balls to diss him on “Takeover.” It's just too bad Nas couldn't have predicted this album would suck-and live as an ugly stain on his track record-before he put it out. From the piss-poor beat selection to the scatter-brained concepts to the obvious commercial attempts to straight up terrible rhyming, Nastradamus was Nas at his worst. Although the Fugees previous album, Blunted on Reality proved to be critically and commercially unsuccessful, Chris Schwartz, the head of Ruffhouse Records. What can we say about this album that hasn't already been said in the past? Nastradamus is the epitome of what a rap album fail is. However, the wheels fell off when he dropped his fourth album, Nastradamus.
could be blamed on a notorious leak which forced Nas' to reformat the album on the fly. By 1999, some of Nas' reverence in rap circles had wavered but no matter-the shortcomings of his third album I Am. In 1996, Nas did the impossible-he actually made a worthy sequel to his landmark debut, It Was Written. The follow-up to Blunted on Reality, the Fugees’ moderately successful 1994 debut album, The Scorewith its visionary mix of hip-hop, soul, reggae, audacious sampling and cinematic aural texturesbecame an indomitable force in pop music and culture, a landmark of hip-hop and a. In 1994, Nas released one of the most revered rap albums in the genre's history, Illmatic. BAD BEATS HARDCORE FAIL OUT OF STEP LAZY LYRICS
