nas probably did this to inflate his discography before he sells his masters like other legacy artist,bands

made no sense for it to be two different series tbh. i would say the difference is track length and features but the third one in each series breaks that trend...

Good point

And to answer @op question, Ima need a couple years to sit with the projects.

KD3>Magic 3>KD2>Magic>KD>Magic 2

I never heard the 3s tbh but I don’t think it’s offensive to say the albums aren’t really distinguishable from one another

The Magics just seem like more quickly compiled and meant to be lil nuggets of what they worked on, but if all things were held equal, I don’t think the actual music on the album seems wildly different from one another

That being said, it’s largely good music so

The Eminem and Lauryn Hill songs on KD2 made waves on the internet for obvious reasons. I think the Lauryn one was even used for a nba transition song

KD2
Magic
Magic 3
KD3
KD 1
Magic 2

Yeah that song was fire don't remember what the Eminem one sounds like tho

KD2
Magic 3
Magic
KD1
KD3
Magic 2

I’ll admit that I have to go back and listen to the last 3 some more before I can confirm

Why does the standard street rapper drop projects constantly...I used to think the difference was that Magic was showing he could bring the old Nas back & Hit can play a more grimy boom bap bag. & KD was modern Nas trying to fit in now....but that's not that true the more iterations the projects got the more it got muddy

Theorizing Magic 3 was originally KD4, but given Magic 2’s reception Nas & Hit wanted to put out something for people to be satisfied with quality music

Better idea, someone make a greatest hits from them

What else

I feel like the thing that made Nas Nas before this run was that every album was almost an entirely different persona crafted them. I think if anyone else just made 6 really good projects, they really wouldn’t care if there’s not an overall thematic difference between them…but that’s the standard Nas lives by