Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "NAS - MAGIC 2"

Episode Date: July 20, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticIn this segment of Notorious Mass Effect, Analytic Dreamz discusses the recent news that Nas has unveiled the artwork for his upcoming album, Magic 2. Dreamz talks about the album's cover art, its release date, and what he expects from the project. He also shares his thoughts on Nas's recent career resurgence and what it means for the future of hip-hop.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Right after Sean Carter announcing his new book museum called The Book of Hove that opened on July 14th at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City, the exhibit to celebrate Jay-Z's life and career. It features over 100 artifacts from his personal collection. Not more than five days after, Esco came out himself, aka. Nas, and revealed that his new album, a. magic two, is set to release July 21st, 2023. Now, I may not think anything of this beef between Nas and Jay-Z, but it's gotten to a point where

we obviously notice how the release dates are very similar with Jay-Z accomplishments and with Nas' accomplishments. Like now, they are going out their way to spar

one another with who can have the longest longevity. I guess that makes sense. Well, who can have the longest longevity, longest career? Basically, with Jay-Z with Nas, every time one of the other drops anything, music, like I just said, a museum, a movie, TV show, it's just whatever. The other one has to follow it up with some type of announcement of his own. It's almost a very iconic back and that I don't think we've ever seen in hip hop as far as how long is ran. I mean, of course we have 50-send jar rule.

We have as far as long-standing beefs. I can't really think of any other ones. The game is somebody. I know the game beef was somebody for a long time. But anyways, basically, Jay-Z and Nas is like the epitome of hip-hop beef as far as them now being in a friendly zone. So nothing physical or violence is going to happen. but it's still artistically a very noticeable beef as every single time j z does something gnaz does something i mean i remember when naz and hip boy was putting out king's disease

and if you look if you look up the release date j z will put out a verse an album like i remember when naz put out something and then j z put out his verse for uh for god did like it was just it was just instant. It was kind of crazy. Obviously, it isn't instant. It's like the next week or a day or two. Like, they give a little bit of time, but you know what they're doing. The following something else, the following up was something of their own every single time. There's Nas and Jay-Z Beef is a sight to behold. And I don't know why they're doing it, but I'm not mad at it because Nause is one of my favorite rappers of all time. Like, as far as artistically and being able to rap.

I think he's in the top 10 best rappers of all time. I don't think that's anything like crazy to say. And some people may be like, top 10, why is he down number three? And he's not number three for me. But so he's in my top 10. But I do believe the longevity and the way that he's been respected throughout his career, not changing or altering to weird marketing tactics just to sell an album or a single, I think this is the type of run that I envision Drake having, which is why I hold

Nas to such a high regard when it comes to music-wise, because Jay-Z fans would be lying to you and to themselves, as they told you musically, Jay-Z has had a better career than Nas as far as longevity. Nas is given us King's disease 1, 2, 3, magic, 2, all in the past 3 to 4 years.

No disrespect to Jay-Z, but he's only given us 4-4-4. So, when I'm looking at the longevity of Nas and the amount, is really the quantity

that I'm intrigued on because the way he's able to uphold his quality while also given us immense quantity with features albums, projects

is really a sight to behold because if you're a fan of an artist you never want to see that point where they fall off. And for Nas, he's been, when did Nas start? Okay, now I got to look at

when Nas started rapping because this is just ridiculous. Like this man has been in this game for way too long to be still rapping like this. This man released his debut album, I'matic,

in 1994, which of course is considered one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. So from 1994 to 2023, this man is still consistently giving us bodies of work. If that's not dedication to the craft, I don't know what it is. Because a lot of other artists in Nause's position would not even have to, or not even want to put out this level of, uh, of, uh, product like that he's compensated for rapping they would have been retired

not saying that Jay Z did that but there's a lot of other artists that started in the 19 oh that started in the 90s that are not rapping to this day and for Nas

to be going over and over again with every single album single it's just really is it's almost like a LeBron-esque type run it's like I can't believe he's continuing and still holding the quality threshold it would be different if he was still to drop which we know some old hairs like this if they were still to drop and it just wasn't connecting and everybody was saying it was trash but naz even with king's disease somebody some people was like

oh it's like his best album obviously it's not elmatic but you know it's like one of his best albums and then with magic everybody's like well i like that better than king's disease so it's always like he's not even battling the the falling off factor he's battling himself they're like comparing him to himself. That's why I was saying that with me being a huge fan of Drake, I would hope he has a run like this, where he keeps putting out projects for us and they keep being held in a regard that is like better than most,

most, if not every other rapper. So anyways, I say how that to say. Nause is releasing a new album titled Magic 2, July 20th. Well, technically July 21st, because you know it's Friday. But the reveal was shared with Hidboy, of course, and it confirms that...

Let me see. Oh, he also confirmed that 50 Cent would be featured on the album, which is a huge deal. 50 Cent was the last time he put out music. So, nods having 50 Cent on the album would be pretty crazy.

It will mark the first time that 50 Cent would, appear on an album since he was on who you rap and too hot, both of those songs on 50s, 2002 mixtape. Guess who's back? Interesting. Um, so I think that's the biggest thing. Yeah, so 50 Cent being a feature on the album, I mean, that itself should, uh, sell the album. Because obviously, now he's going to do like crazy Taylor Swift numbers, but he's going to do like respectable numbers. I would say like around 60 to 70,000. Maybe that's way too low. Because I know it's Kings disease.

How much the King's Disease sell? Kings Disease 3 back in 2022, 29,000 first week. Well, I may have been too high with that one. So that's tough. So I would say around 30 to 40,000 first week for Magic 2 as far as first week sales. I think Nause is one of those,

well, his fans is always going to listen. So he's always going to have that core fan base. and even if the new age people don't listen to Nas, he's still going to have his fans from a long time ago that's going to give his records a spin. And so I think that 30 to 40,000 first week isn't out of the realm for Nas to accomplish. So, I don't know, I can't wait.

The way I'm thinking about it, though, that 50 cent thing is throwing me off because I swear he was on, like, I swear if 50 Cent had a, a feature before that. I know he did the whole Pop Smoke album. So he like, A&R that or it was like the producer or whatever.

But if I go to 50 Cent, I'm pretty sure he was on like, let me see if I can find it. So basically, 50 Cent, because wasn't he on a song with Pup Smoke? Yeah, the Woo. Okay. And that came out on like, what?

I was like, hold up. That was. So in 2020, 50 Cent actually was also featured on shoot for the stars with Pop Smoke because I was like, I'm pretty sure 50 Cent definitely had a verse before then. But what else?

So yeah, that was basically it. That's all I wanted to look out. I don't know if 50 Cent had a song before that though. And it's so interesting with 50 Cent because the way he transitioned from music to the Hollywood industry kind of, it was like Jay-Z-esque. I was looking for other songs that he may have had,

but I think that's it. So yeah, I think Pop Smoke may be the last time he was actually on the track. So, well, she probably had all the residuals for that track. But anyways, click my link to my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about Nas putting out Magic 2? And what do you think about Jay-Z and Nas is back and forth? Every time one person drops something, the other one has to follow it up with something.

Like, what do you think about that? And if you're a fan of either one of these artists, who do you think has had to better career music wise over time