There's something in his aura that makes us want to hear Nas push himself to the limit — and on recent projects like 'Magic,' he's giving longtime fans what they've been asking for
Nas spent years fighting the notion that he peaked on his first album — a fate not yet plausible during the Eighties, when the culture was so giddy for representation that fans often embraced so-called novelty records. Slick Rick didn’t so much peak on his 1988 debut as languish in jail for half a decade on an attempted second-degree murder charge.
He’s at his best when his work ethic is balanced by his signature splendidly crafted couplets. Some of his best projects, like 2001’sfind him effortlessly splitting the difference between marquee star and street-corner griot. (On the contrary, Nas’s Achilles heel is the intermittent laziness that has plagued projects like
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