Is Nas finished?
 

i think he needs he should just decide if he will become a socially conscious (sp?) artist like Common, Mos Def or stay hood happy like he was in Still/Illmatic

Why can't he do both?

he has been doing both for the past two or three albums. personally, i don't like how artist try to put out different views like that. one track they are talking about keeping positive and the next track is putting the boot in the back of the neck of your fellow man

The man raps about his life and his view's on society and politics. As he gets older and the world changes around him he is going to rap about these changes. How can you expect Nas to drop an album that is completely positive or negative? I can see where you are coming from, in that you feel he contradicts himself (making a positive and then extremely negative track), but not everything in the man's life is positive, all of his life experiences have been positive, and not everything in today's society is positive. You have to understand that his fanbase is not solely children either, Nas is viewed as one of the old-school rappers, and by trying to recreate the sound and feel of the early 90's he's one of the few rappers left that has not sold out and gone commercial. Street's disciple drops in a month and a week, should be fire.

the fist album is among the finest things in hip hop--among the finest only because dr octagon is in the world of commidities as well. i have not been a fan of nas-with-producers after that, however.

btw his father is olu dara, a great (and criminally under-rated) trumpet player. check him out.

nas has a collabo with his father on his upcoming album called "bridging the gap" just speaking on nas's roots. Olu Dara was also featured on the nas and az classic collabo "life's a bitch" playing his trumpet.

nowhere near finsished. his next album looks to be a banger. hopefully itll be more like stillmatic and less like gods son