Nas - King's Disease ALBUM REVIEW 

Can't believe Nav went from three NOT GOODs to a 7. Awesome comeback

I'm glad he's releasing more music in addition to his "7" EP featuring Panini and Old Town Road

I saw Anthony in a best buy and his wallet was leather please spread this information before i'm silenced

This guy really fell off after Old Town Road, such a shame.

Still can't believe he's sitting down during these reviews

I can’t believe people thought you were standing all these years.

It just makes me so happy to see Nas succeeding after people thought he fell off.

Everyone said Nas would be a one hit wonder after Old Town Road. This album proved them wrong.

It's remarkable that Nas has been around for 30 years and still consistently releases good music people are excited to hear. Life is Good was fantastic and King's Disease was also really solid too. I am glad he's finally just ditching what old heads want from him in terms of direction and growing with his music.

2020 scores: 0/10: 1 - [ Green Day - Father of All ] 1/10: 1 - [ Sam Hunt - Southside ] 2/10: 0 3/10: 6 4/10: 13 5/10: 26 6/10: 15 7/10: 33 8/10: 32 9/10: 5 - Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter - Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell - Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? - Blu & Exile - Miles ' Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2 EP 10/10: 0 [NOT GOOD/10]: 6 - [ Justin Bieber - Changes ] - [ Lil Baby - My Turn] - [ Joyner Lucas - ADHD ] - [ Danzig Sings Elvis ] - [ Nav's Good Intentions & Brown Boy 2 ] - [ G-Eazy's Everything's Strange Here ] - [ Glass Animals - Dreamland ] IT'S GOOD/10 (from fantano channel): 5 - [ Disclosure - Ecstasy ] - [ Haru Nemuri - Lovetheism ] - [ Dirty Projectors - Windows Open Ep ] - [ Dirty Projectors - Flight Tower ] - [ Jockstrap - Wicked City ] EP review: 2 - [ Little Simz - Drop 6 ] - [ RMR - Drug Dealing Is a Lost Art ] Classics: 5 - [ Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope ] - [ Talk Talk - Laughing Stock ] - [ Converge - Jane Doe ] - [ My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade ] - [ Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury ] Custom scores: 2 - [ Gunna - Wunna ] -Ω/10 - [ Trapt - Shadow Work ] -😤/10 Second take: 1 - [ Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ] - 6/10 "Controversial": 19 - [ Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By ] =============> 5/10 - [ Tame Impala - The Slow Rush ] ==================> 6/10 - [ Grimes - Miss Anthropocene ] ===================> 4/10 - [ Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake ] =====================> 4/10 - [ Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer] ===============> 5/10 - [ Childish Gambino - 3.15.20 ]====================> 4/10 - [ Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud ] ====================> 4/10 - [ Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters ] =============> 7/10 - [ Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris ] =================> 6/10 - [ Dance Gavin Dances Afterburner] ================> 4/10 - [ Future - High Off Life ] =========================> 3/10 - [ Yung Lean - Starz ] ============================> 5/10 - [ Khruangbin - Mordechai ] =======================> 3/10 - [ Hum - Inlet ] =================================> 5/10 - [ MIKE - Weight of the World ] ====================> 4/10 - [ Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald ] =====================> 3/10 - [ Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today ] ===========> 6/10 - [ Glass Animals' Dreamland ] ====================> NOT GOOD - [ Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death ] ================> 4/10 Cal cameos: 24 - Green Day - Father of All - Drake - Dark Lane Demo Tapes - Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open - Umbra Vitae - Shadow of Life - Nav's Good Intentions & Brown Boy 2 - Ka - Descendants of Cain - Future - High Off Life - Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now - Gunna - Wunna - The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form - Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B - KSI - Dissimulation - Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM - Lady Gaga - Chromatica - Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists - Run the Jewels - RTJ4 - Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi - Lil Yachty - Lil Boat 3 - Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour - Baauer - Planet's Mad - HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III - Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? - G-Eazy's Everything's Strange Here - Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways - Logic - No Pressure This is the 156th review of 2020

I really enjoyed King's Disease.

It’s a decent 8 for me. One of the best hip hop records of the year.

The score isn't spaced well Melon, I'm disappointed

Anthony, white knighting Doja Cat by attacking Nas for 12 minutes and 37 seconds is not a review

Giving this project a 7/10 due to Nas not specifying what disease the “King” had wasn’t very professional of you Melon 😡

Excuse me ma’am, not to be disrespectful or rude but could you please take post down. That is my sister who was killed by a metra train. And it this post is very disrespectful. Idk who you are or if you even know her but I need you to take this down please.

By the way he breathed at the beginning I could tell it was gonna be a 7

Man I was really worried he was gonna give this a bad rating

Nas “I don’t have any rap in my playlist” Also Nas’s Spotify playlist: Backseat Freestyle m.A.A.d city A.D.H.D Money Trees Rigamortous HiiiPower Hands On The Wheel Man of The Year Collard Greens Ima Boss Dreams and Nightmares (Half of Biggie’s and Pac’s catalogue) (Almost the entire “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”).

Melon, singing the lyrics from “Moo” and calling Nas a boomer is not a review

Wait, Big Sean dropped a corny verse?? Blasphemy, cannot be true.

Nas finally getting the 7 he deserved with his “7” EP last year!

2020: exists Fantano: I’m feeling a light to decent 7

honestly one of my favorite rap albums this year

Jay Z freestyling his next album the night this dropped

Just listened to the Zane Lowe interview. And he said why he said no rap in my playlist was ‘cause it was incredibly hard to make a playlist of rap songs. That they didn’t flow. Not because he doesn’t listen to rap. So there’s that.

GRAMMY WINNER!!! shoutout to Nas, one of the greatest to ever do it

Can't believe he's actually slav squatting during his reviews

And now this won a Grammy lol

How did I know Melon would have a problem with “the stupidest part of Africa invented algebra” line?! 😂

*I guess Nas is so ill that he’s calling his illness the king’s disease.*

Good review, but I really think you need to move on. Biggie Smalls died 27 years ago, you don't have to keep having a 90 second moment of silence for him

you gave "The King's Disease" a 7 because you support the crumbling of capitalism under the Coronavirus pandemic

This man been giving out them 7s out a lot lately😂

Damn didn't expect Nas' first ever grammy to be *this*, especially over Alfredo. Both are 🔥 albums tho, so I'm happy for the man. Well overdue.

This was the most seven-y 7 review ever. He wasn’t blown away, but he clearly enjoyed and respected it.

Nas finally won a grammy

4:02 wow i never thought I'd ever see melon mispronounce a word.

Can’t wait for djvlad to complain about the beats on this album.

Finding out that Fantano is sitting during these reviews broke me.

That African algebra line cut him deep.😂😂😂😂

This shit is a solid 8. No songs are a miss. Everything hits. The beats the bars 🔥. Rap album of the year easily.

Don Toliver’s hook on Replace Me Issa vibe

I just noticed Anthony is really light-skinned for a former African Tribesman.

Whose here after Nas dropped king disease II 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥👑👑🐐

That intro was the most un-WAP thing I've ever seen.

Ok Anthony... I know you like Nas but you didnt need to shout: "GAY-Z GOT ETHERED" for the whole vid smh

You’re contradicting yourself Anthony. Nas says unapologetically black, the opposite of Doja Cat, then you go on about how Doja is insecure about herself. *THAT’S THE POINT*

This felt like a 8/10. Nas was able to do his thing on this one and Hit Boy orchestrated this album so well for Nas. The features came through. Only criticisms was shorten tracks (27 summers) and a few ideas weren't as fleshed out. All in all, very nice addition to his discography.

This album might go down as Nas‘s version of Jay Z’s 4:44

You would give him at least a 7 if he was black, Melon

Asking Anthony to review MM...FOOD until he does day 23

This album was actually great. Nas is showing these kids why he’s the king.

Melon makes his thumbnails so confusing that not only can you not guess the score but you don't can't tell if he's even discussing music at all. It looks more like he's losing his sanity day by day

King's Disease 2 please 😎😎

Definitely disagree with the rating, the album was a strong 8 to me, his best album production wise & had unique features

When your first album is a classic, it’s hard to keep up with that level of excellence

I bet he'd give popcaan a 7 as well. 7s popping off this year

“Maybe that’s a symptom of kings disease” Ayo leave the bars to Nas fantano 🤣

i actually love your commentary! even when it is harsh it fuels people to do better. thank you for doing the world a service and making music better!1!1!

I think you've approached his lyrics a bit sensitively. E.g. he doesn't refer to Doja Cat as ANTI-black, just not unapologetically black. E.g.2 His reference to Africa is actually indicating how would we perceive Africa growing up if knew history beyond slavery and colonization. Rappers, including Nas, have said far more extreme and provocative things. Strange to find offense in these high level subtle lyrics. Perhaps this is once instance where your race gives you a blind spot.

I got a Baygon Mosquito Spray commercial before the video played

You only gave this a 7 cause you thought it was a 7.

Amazing review! Unsubbed.

These comments just got so bad lmao, literally can't find a single funny joke.

Anthony Fantano the type of dude that pronounces "divisive" as "divisive"

Always been a great fan of your videos! It's great to see you still doing your thing!

Anthony I’ve always loved your videos!! Just wondering if you have like a public Spotify or SoundCloud playlist? If not you should that would be dope!

The Lost Tapes was pretty good imo

Freshest album cover I've seen in a while

Solid review. I’d agree that there are perhaps some lulls in the middle part of the album and there’s definitely a fire in Nas’ belly that we haven’t gotten from him in some time. This is his best work since Life is good

Damn nas has been on his grind for a while

Didn’t even mention spicy which slapped

ART BLAKEY (and digable planets...)

Cause you are not a king if you can't come out a thing That you got yourself in, claiming nobody helping.. Favorite quote. Helped me self improve fr

Melon I liked your new intro of you covering your face in black paint.

Is this the guy from Rodeo's feature? I like his album! Wondering why he's not in 2020 xxl freshman though 🤔

I think petty can be allowed when there are still Americans who don’t know Egypt is in Africa.

bro do you understand the code. The street metaphors.. "buy you diamonds while i have a heart of Gold" simply means "i get you flashy things when i know you can benefit more from my big heart or instead of showing you my true love i get you bling.

curious as to which Nas albums you think are better than this one (aside from the obvious 1), although only out a few days this is one of the only albums of recent years that has actually gripped me and i've played through at least 4 times already. (having been bored with Nasir and not even bothered with lost tapes 2) For me this eclipsed God's Son, I am, it was written, Life is good... so what's left???

8.5 for me but I respect it

In before the recycled jokes.

Needledrop used to freak me out (Cause I didn't get a review when I sent my album in - hope to one day) but this is a very good review. I like how analytical and passionate Anthony is. Very detail orientated.

That's very exciting to hear! Adding this to my playlist for today. Thanks for the review!

nas came back strong and showed he can still put out dope music

That intro scared me I had my headphones at max

What are the albums on the shelf?

Hope im not ignorant here, but is there any correlation between the cover of the yellow album behind him and the cover of common’s be? Was common inspired by that one? Maybe im too young, too european or too dumb to know lol

Loved the King's Disease album. Everyone make sure to go check out the Ultra Black music video.

I think you might have misinterpreted the "no rap on my playlists" bar, he wasn't really making a point, or trying to act superior. He was just writing a rhyme, and one thing he's known for is listening mostly to genres like soul and rnb, which he takes inspiration from.

You are very well spoken my friend , made it fun to watch!! Keep up the good content

Some jazz messengers in the background .... nice

Nas defn has one of the best discographys in rap at this point

Hyped to see what he says about KD2, huge step up imo. The fact that he got Lauryn Hill on it is amazing

Art Blakey! Anyone else wish Fantano would review the albums on the right more than the left?

You’ve been generous with your reviews lately

What you expect from a dude that gave Life Is Good a 4.

I did Nas see that coming.

What are the albums in the back?

I think melon has glitter in his mustache