{"id":4064,"date":"2021-12-31T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T22:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:59:24","slug":"nas-the-mc-rattles-off-bars-with-the-ease-of-a-magician-waving-a-wand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"Nas &#8211; The MC Rattles Off Bars With The Ease Of A Magician Waving A Wand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While recording Magic, the late-December follow-up to August 2021\u2019s King\u2019s Disease II, the MC once known as Nasty Nas was clearly in the zone. \u201cI told n***as I was in rare form on the last album,\u201d he says on \u201c40-16 Building.\u201d \u201cI ain\u2019t playing out here. It\u2019s not a game.\u201d What that means for Magic, then, is Nas sounding as comfortable in the booth as ever, rattling off observations about how ill he still is (\u201cSpeechless,\u201d \u201cMeet Joe Black\u201d), the perils of street life (\u201cUgly\u201d), and, in one instance, the snatch-and-grab retail robberies that have been making headlines as of late (\u201cDedicated\u201d). Nas delivered Magic on Christmas Eve as a kind of nine-track stocking stuffer fans could enjoy over their holiday break, should they be so lucky to have one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4065\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4065\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nas.jpg 700w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nas-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nas-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Stream #1 On Streamapse Top Pick &#8220;Magic&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And those that didn\u2019t? Let them be motivated to grind by the impossibly smooth \u201cWu for the Children,\u201d or the A$AP Rocky collaboration \u201cWave Gods,\u201d which plays out like a backstage cipher between the two NYC style giants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ticketstream.streamapse.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4043\" src=\"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Michael-Jackson2Banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1894\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Michael-Jackson2Banner.jpg 1894w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Michael-Jackson2Banner-300x121.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Michael-Jackson2Banner-1024x413.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Michael-Jackson2Banner-768x310.jpg 768w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Michael-Jackson2Banner-1536x620.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Michael-Jackson2Banner-1568x632.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1894px) 100vw, 1894px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While recording Magic, the late-December follow-up to August 2021\u2019s King\u2019s Disease II, the MC once known as Nasty Nas was clearly in the zone. \u201cI told n***as I was in rare form on the last album,\u201d he says on \u201c40-16 Building.\u201d \u201cI ain\u2019t playing out here. It\u2019s not a game.\u201d What that means for Magic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[736,737,738],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-magician","tag-rattles","tag-waving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}