Nas & Hit-Boy - King's Disease III | Album Review 

I love KD I and KD II and thought Magic was super incredible but KD III the real gem. Might be seriously the best rap album within the past 10 years. It's funny how Jay Z believes he's the God emcee but will never drop this much heat within the next 2-3 years. I still have a feeling that Nas might surprise us with one last album at the end very end of 2022.

@@jrmarshall120 I prefer Nas but no need to shade Jay, he's a great too. I do think he aint as connected with the communtiy like he used to be, but he can still rap his ass off

@@yvngyagami , I hear you I just don’t like how Jay subliminal shade Nas all the time. Posting a photo of your Grammys when Nas dropping an album is uncalled for. Jay does sneak shit all the time.

Indeed💯💯💯

Blame DJGLAD for it 😃

4 albums in 3 years☝🏿..

@@akinchinnery1167 in 2 years.. KD1 was 2020.. KD2 & Magic both was 2021.. KD3 2022

@@mr.getitdone6543 2020+2021+2022? Or are you saying its been 2 years since 2020

@@wallcity318 I think their math was just off haha

@@wallcity318 Im saying it's just like a child's birthday..its impossible for a child born in 2020 to be a 3 year old in the year 2022 smh So just like anniversaries & birthdays, the albums are counted the same, for example: KD1 released August 21, 2020.. so 1 year from that would be August 21,2021..Then, 2 years from the album's birth would be August 21, 2022.. And just like a child's age, KD1 turned 24 months(2 years old) on August 21 2022... So today, would mean KD1 is only 27 months old smh...3 years(36 months) would be on August 21, 2023, which isn't here yet KD2's birth/release date, was on August 6th, 2021.. Meaning, 1 year(12 months) from that would be on August 6, 2022 ...2 years(24 months) would be August 6, 2023, which isn't here yet either Magic album was released 4 months later than KD2 on December 24, 2021.. So December 24, 2022 would be its 1 year anniversary/birth...clearly Magic isn't a 1 year old yet

I honestly think this is what Nas really needed a producer like hit boy. Over the last two years Nas have done some of his best work that I heard from him for quite awhile. This new album is pure perfection with mixture of magic and the last two king disease albums. Hit boy and Nas really hitting their groove and their collaborations is bordering on gang starr levels.

BINGO

That's the best song Nas made in last 15 years imo. I'm not saying that this Kings Disease shit is wack, they're brilliant albums and beat BUT that "Nas album done" is a different level. Shit was legendary

@@mrhussain9008 Yeah that was fire along with Echo.

Nas album done was a perfect song still good back to play that

😂😂

Any one album from this run, washes 21! 21 is my favorite rapper after Cole from this era, but he’s not in any conversation with Nas

Absolutely not, you're just hating. These albums are great, not better than some of 21s best stuff tho

@@mihirb8090 lol I’m a fan of 21 and yes it definitely is better than 21s work.

@@TwoH.Q 3 songs will do that alone

Why you have jigga profile pic!? 😆

@@casteltheghettomonk4392 can’t I like both😂

@@SP2Crazy you from USA bro ?

The Hit-Boy Era was something special

Facts! Can't be denied anymore. Catalog's too deep at this point

In hip hop, I can't make a strong argument against this music wise.

Facts. I don’t even know how people can formulate an argument for Jay or anybody at this point over Nas. But for those who still think Jay is the GOAT, I’m very interested in that argument. I haven’t heard a classic Jay album since American Gangster. This Nas run just made 444 look very overrated in hindsight. Ijs

@@TheRealLeonardWashington Jay's last classic album was Blueprint 3 tbh.

@@ALexander-ue3kj y’all throw the word classic around way too loosely. Especially when it comes to Jay. And even Nas fans to a degree are guilty of this as well. BP3 is not a classic. For me that might just be his 2nd or 3rd worst album. Just say it’s a classic for you don’t try to sale me on it

I just listen to Cheat Codes to see, KD3 #1 AOTY Nas is on Fire

Totally agree. Currently, my rank is: - KD III - The Forever Story - It's Almost Dry - Cheat Codes - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Having a Kendrick album at no. 5 tells you just how great this year has been for albums.

@@lovememoremeticulous4378 💯🔥....black thought my guy tho

@@jamaaldavis7907 Good Artist I like Cheat Codes went back to it to see if it’s Still AOTY for me ummmmm KD3 surpassed it Nas is just better.

@@lovememoremeticulous4378 k

Nas is one of the most celebrated rappers ever wtf are you talking about lolol

@@mihirb8090 Will let's celebrate him some more

He earned it before the KD series but this def solidified it

This is the best comment

Dope!

It's between that and KD2 for me

@@brandonayong5823 kd 3 the best...n magic 2nd

KD is too special for me. Car#85🔥🔥

@@colinedelman6392 kd overall is the best of the 3

100% agree a top five Nas album and I'm a day one Nas fan since Halftime, Live at the BBQ and Back to the Grill Again. I have to admit I was fronting on Hit Boy a little because of his heavy and obvious (to some) use of Output Arcade on KD 1 but this was just beat mastery. He was just as much a star of this album as Nas.

Agreed 100%.

Hit Boy is so fucking overrated, his drum sounds are always so WEAK. The snares never hit proper. Nas did his thing tho.

Definitely not a top 5 Nas album, but it might be the best in the KD series

@@mistahmst it is. It might be number 5, but top 5. I’ll say it’s on par with It was written.

Once he dropped the train wreck with ye, he was prob fed up with forcing a project out just because

@@Noirlore I’m with you there.

Jayz took the recipes from life is good to make 444

@@humblebragger500 facts

Absolutely. I would prefer a Nas no. ID to a Nas premier project

Thank you for this comment bro! I wanted him to do with NO I.D what he did with Hitboy… I think LIG is better than everything him and Hitboy have done imo…

​@@bruceleroy2335I think KD3 is neck and neck with LIG. It clears everything else. Magic is close too.

Facts

That rhyme scheme nas had in the first few bars of the song was flames

Thats a faccttt i bring it back. Like god damn this shit is fucking firee!!!!

I got nervous cause Nas says "KD3 go harder than all of em" on here and I was like "Okaaay, we'll see cause ain't nothin beating Magic 😬"..... He beat Magic 😂

I agree man. I loved the hell out of KD2 but KD3 blows it out of the water to me.

I prefer Magic but it's really close

@@TalentedKamarty kd 3 blows magic out the water

Slow down now don’t forget Eric B and Rakim young fella

Ridiculous !

Why not be a fan of both of them?

Why can't be a fan of both..

at this point you should appreciate both

Being a 'jay' fan makes you a loser, be a hiphop fan dummy

Respect...a lot of Jay fans will not admit that

So you had jay z that far ahead of nas . Jigga is basically retired and nas Is still active and making good music and he just now passed him

It was really never any comp to me. Jay was just always more mainstream that’s it.

Nah with this run, so late in his career, he solidifed himself as the undisputed GOAT

Nah bro, Nas been better.😂

It was just that Nas had a dry spell between 2012 and the Nasir album (2018). Even as a big big Nas fan, I would say it's close between them, and that Jay might even be better than Nas Overall. But now? Come one man. Now, Nas is the Greatest of All Time. There is no doubt anymore. And Jay is still top 3-5

Jay has been mid though

@@muleyamwiinga3988 u aren't in tune with his music.

@@ALexander-ue3kj I was the biggest Jay fan but Kingdom, Blueprint 3 and Watch the Throne were so mid it was hard for me to stay loyal..

@@muleyamwiinga3988 Kingdom Come was trash but BP3 & WTT were successful, solid albums but continue

@@muleyamwiinga3988 foh

They gave it to the gay boy with loafers smh

Replace Untitled with Lost Tapes for me 🙏

@@traplover6357 it’s a compilation. That’s why I can’t consider it. But if that original I Am Nastradamus double album came out as is before the leaks. That album would’ve been insane.

@@traplover6357 💯💯 2002 lost tps..🔥🔥🔥

I love Hood2Hood

@@YagirlLia22 I C U 😎

Would love to hear that🔥🔥🔥🔥

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-29e-dC7J-JM.html One could only dream 🥲

Same here Classic

I must agree

YES

I finally got the disc, it's something about those physical copies that still excites me. This & Magic r neck n neck

Jay did it with features... Nas done it with entire projects... its not nearly the same.

@@Mic-100 What was 444? And managing to get messages out thru features is still impressive

@@Steven-uk2fz it depends on how you want to measure what's impressive. Again, Nas is doing it with 6 straight projects from 2018 to current... and if u call features from jumping on drake, bey, ye, push, and Khalid impressive then that's cool too. We just amazed by different things.. and 444 was in 2017.. its 2023 homie...