This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Whenever New York rapper Nas drops an album, critics fall over themselves to proclaim it his best work since his acclaimed 1994 debut Illmatic.
Doubtless his new CD Street’s Disciple — a sprawling two-disc set of minimalist grooves and thoughtful freestyle rhymes divided between the personal and the political — will generate the same hyperbolic comparisons. Thing is, this time, they might not be out of line.
