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Nas - QB Finest

Constant | Vancouver, BC Canada | 04/08/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"The concept behind Nas "QB Finest" (2000) was a good one. Combine some of Queensbridge established MCs and represent Queensbridge. After a lame Jungle & Wiz intro, Nas, Capone, Mobb Deep, Tragedy Khadafi, Nature, MC Shan, Marley Marl, Cormega & Millennium Thug do a remake track with "Da Bridge 2001" backed by a forgettable beat. Two average tracks follow then Nas provides a standout track on solo with "Find Your Wealth", rhyming and providing his own chorus backed by a solid beat. Jungle, Cormega & Poet rep their hood on "Straight Outta Q.B.". The albums single's follows, as the Bravehearts provide "Oochie Walley", this track is abysmal, simply horrible and I have no clue as to how anyone would think of this as single quality. CNN & Iman Thug then drop an ignorant track with "Our Way". Advocating driving drunk and Nore dissing Jordan (But Buying his shoes) make this one skip material (even for a CNN fan). Nature rhymes over a boring beat on "Fire", and Prodigy rhymes are lackluster on "Power Rap" (Freestyle Interlude). Nas collaborations with Pop on "Street Glory" and Prodigy with "Self Conscience" are on point. The Infamous Mobb provide the albums best banger with the grimy "Die 4". Nas, Bravehearts & Millennium Thug put some heart on "Kids In Da PJ's" a track for kids growing up poor in the ghetto. Nas & Millenium Thug then deliver the albums closer with the stellar "Teenage Thug". Production on this release is not impressive. Very few of the albums beats are beyond average. The main issue I have with this release is I don't feel like the MC's gave it their all. Maybe most of them were to busy focusing on their solo albums and saving their quality material for those. Nas is one of my favorite MC's I felt his own rhyming contributions were on point, this project though could have been handled a lot better. 2.5."

Classic Queensbridge compilation put out by Nas

G$ | B-More, MD | 06/13/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Nas putting this out with a lot of QB artists (some of whom he was feuding with at the time) took some ba!!$ and for some reason a lot of people hate on this like they did "The Firm" (another great album). Don't expect to be getting a Nas album with this (he is on 7 of the 16 songs but only has 1 solo. Some of the finest rappers from QB make appearance on this and not many were left out (3 of the 4 members of Screwball and a few from Tragedy's 25 II Life crew most notably). Of the 16 songs, all are good, great or a classic (actually has 3 and a good amount that are close). Production is great (it lacks on a few tracks) LES does 7, Havoc & Infinite Arkatecz each do 2, ALCHemist, Scott Storch, EZ Elpee, Al West and Plain Truth all do 1 track. Make sure you get the version that has "Da Bridge 2001" on it, not all of them do. A must have album for QB rap fans, as is the "41st Side" compilation album.



#2 - 9.5 (Nas, Capone, Mobb Deep, Cormega, MC Shan, Nature, Cormega, Tragedy Khadafi, Millenium Thug (NaShawn) -- good beat Nas gets on Memphis Bleek on this one)

#3 - 9 (Havoc, Big Noyd, Shante -- great beat)

#4 - 8.5 (Nas, Ruc)

#5 - 9 (Nas)

#6 - 9.5 (Cormega, Jungle of the Braveheats, and Poet of Screwball who kicks a great verse -- good sample beat)

#7 - 8 (Braveheats (Horse, Jungle, Wiz -- I liked it before it got WAY overplayed)

#8 - 10 (CLASSIC -- Capone, Noreaga, Iman Thug -- great beat and hook -- they all kick fire verses)

#9 - 8 (Nature)

#10 - 9 (Prodigy)

#11 - 8.5 (Nas, Pop {Blitz})

#12 - 9 (Littles, Craig G, Lord Black, Chaos)

#13 - 9.5 (Mr. Challish -- great beat)

#14 - 10 (CLASSIC deep song with Prodigy & Nas)

#15 - 10 (Classic gangsta song by Infamous Mobb (Ty Knitty, GOD Pt. 3, Twin Gambino)

#16 - 8.5 (Nas, Millenium Thug (Nashawn)& Horse & Wiz of Braveheats)

#17 - 8 (Nas & Millenium Thug (Nashawn)



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