Nas – Nasir

Don’t know what other complain about, it’s not an outstanding pressing but an absolutely fine one with no complaints for me.

Completely agree on previous comments. Great album but what a horrible pressing. Do they really want us to give up on LP and listen only streaming stuff? Then they can continue. Otherwise again that's a brilliant album. It will be recognized later at some point.

I love this album but the pressing isn't very good, sound is really muted...

im in the minority for really enjoying this album. Simple Things is one of my all time favorite songs. just really awesome production on this album. anti-vax bar sucked but other than that a pretty enjoyable album. kanye's mixing is usually very difficult to put on wax. mike dean mixes very loud. this is just a very bad vinyl pressing. please avoid. weird choice to put in a gatefold too. just very a depressing pressing.

Good album, but the vinyl sounds like a mid-2000s 12" rap single. Think a bad inner-groove type of distortion but throughout the whole LP. Just a shoddy mastering of songs that were mixed questionably to begin with...

Some different versions of tracks on the vinyl press vs. streaming (I happened to notice additional Puff Daddy vocals on "Not For Radio").

I think this album was unfairly buried in the Kanye/Wyoming blitz, but this is one of the best from that endeavor and one of Nas's best, IMHO. Unpopular opinion, I know, but the beats here are incredible and Nas sounds invigorated.

As far as mastering and sound quality, Kanye's attention-to-detail is completely gone and his recording process is now done on laptops and portable (cheaper) equipment, done in a rushed fashion, one-take or scratch vocals used, distortion and flaws intact on purpose. The soul is still there, though, on tracks like "Bonjour", "Adam and Eve", "Cops Shot The Kid", etc. This record really deserves another shot and ought to be evaluated on its own -- there is buried treasure here.

7 Tracks in a gatefold while others are in regular covers like NAStradamus or I am.., etc.. Anyway I'm no Nas fan .Gave away my Illmatic CD cause itwasn't my sound somehow. Maybe I should'vbe kept it..

Yeah avoid this pressing, it is horrible, wait till there is a repress.

Incredibyl how bad the master as well as the cutting of this record are.. I hoped so much to have some nice versions of those songs after the digital release was just unacceptable overcompressed and full of digital distortion.. but apparently they took the same master to cut on wax but didn't even prepare it for a real vinyl cut. ss-sounds are incredibly loud and just destructing all the rest of the music. Unbelievable how this can happen with such a huge release..