![]() ![]() Writing for Rolling Stone, Kevin Powell said Nas had “gone from being a leader of the new school to being a follower.” He closed his review with the assertion that the album “offers little in the way of prophecy, and even less for the next chapter in hip-hop.” Other critics found the album to be simply ordinary, but, of course, there were also unfavorable reviews. “Amid inner-city symphonics, blaxploitation wahwah guitars, soul vocalizing, and Toto samples, Nas raps tales of betrayal, paranoia, honor, and redemption that would give Scarface pause.” “On his second album of 1999, Nastradamus, this gangsta griot balances apocalyptic boho poetry and roughneck gun talk with a sniper’s precision and a philosopher’s depth,” Matt Diehl wrote for Entertainment Weekly, which graded the album A. In fact, it wasn’t even universally-panned-the reception was mixed. Nastradamus isn’t a good album for an artist of Nas’ caliber and is definitely the weakest link in his catalog, but it isn’t the universally-panned abomination that most make it out to be. The short, difficult-to-accept answer, is no.
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