Street's Disciple
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Street's Disciple
Street's Disciple is the seventh studio album by American rapper Nas, released as a double album on November 30, 2004 by Columbia Records. Named after one of his lyrics from "Live at the Barbeque" by Main Source, the album's cover art was digitally created using photos of Nas to create an adaptation of The Last Supper. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Considering Nas' one-hot-album-every-10-year average, he's due for another great record. The sprawling, two-disc Street's Disciple isn't it, but it's a step in the right direction, as well in a new direction: If the Nas of Illmatic was trying to get out of the ghetto, the Nas of Street's Disciple is trying to get the ghetto out of the ghetto-- and find a decent babysitter.
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Hiphop DX
But at the end of the day, I listen to a Nas album for Nas. For his part, he gives yet another incredible performance here; lyrically and stylistically. If he would have put quality control over keeping up with the Jones‘s, we’d have his best album since Illmatic.
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Slant Magazine
I might fall into the latter group, but I’m more interested in how Nas uses the design of the double album and its eager-to-please two acts to mask the vague sense that, despite his still vivid lyrical imagery (“Was only scared of them STDs, syphilis, VD and herpes, Daffy Duck-lookin’ bitch burnt me”), he still hasn’t settled on a direction.
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Genius
Just like most double albums, this album got lots of filler and mediocre songs. It isn’t a terrible album, but definitely one of Nas worst. It got some great songs, but too many average ones to be considered great.
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Rolling Stone
The well-worn beats ensure the album is good even as they prevent it from being great. But Disciple is the rare instance of hip-hop old and wise enough to look backward without forgetting what it was like to look ahead with awe and wonder.
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BBC
With star producers DJ Premier and Dr Dre missing, Streets Disciple may not be the sit-up-and-pay-attention album that God's Son was. But it does deliver Nas trademark package of multi-various flows, arresting narrative and hookless, lyric-focussed rhymes. No one's going to be complaining.
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Pop Matters
Only tomorrow knows if future generations will fully interpret his prophecies and until then, Nas will always be a disciple for the streets, the Afro-centric Asian, half-man/half-amazing.
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XXL
Enter Street's Disciple, Nas sprawling, sometimes brilliant, sometimes indulgent, double disc he released on Nov. 30, 2004.
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AV Club
Street's Disciple isn't too big on economy or cohesion, but its passion and intensity are hard to deny.
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Entertainment
In fairness, however, the best moments on Street's Disciple show that the New Yorker's self-belief isn't entirely misplaced. Nas isn't as musically adventurous as some of his rivals but he choose his lyrical targets carefully (police brutality, the Bush family, celebrity Uncle Toms) and his venomous raps almost always end up hitting the mark.
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Sputnik Music
Street’s Disciple isn’t what most people were expecting when they heard ‘Thief’s Theme’ with Salaam Remi’s magnificent sampling of Iron Butterfly. This track although recycling some of his Illmatic lyrics, is one of the best on the album but also shows Nas clinging to the past and trying to relive his glory days which, after listening to this album, seem like a distant memory.
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Prefix Mag
he’s got every reason to be cocky: The best studio emcee alive has just released the best commercial hip-hop record of the year.
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