Nas's lyricism and flow will always, without fail, confirm him as one of the best emcees to ever grace hip-hop. Nas's beat selection is so erratic, it will always make it hard to come to a consensus on his post-Illmatic work (exception: nobody likes Nastradamus). On Stillmatic, he's fired up and motivated, laying down some of the best songs of his career ("One Mic," "Got Urself A...," "Rewind," "Ether"), but elsewhere, the productions are boring ("Smokin,'" "The Flyest"). At 14 songs, it's among the tightest things he's done since Illmatic, but it still could stand to lose a few songs to achieve true classic status.
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